skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Constitution uses "inalienable rights" for a reason. An individual (and c.f. Citizens United and Hobby Lobby, corporations) is accorded all rights not explicitly circumscribed by a higher form of federal government
This is an essay about what is largely a social media phenomenon. You can avoid the whole thing by just not participating. Seems like a waste of energy to even discuss vs just realizing that arguing publicly on a global scale is not a good use of your limited time on Earth.
> 6. Chat with us
We're in #locutus on Discord.

> 7. Stay up to date
Follow FreenetOrg on Twitter.

lol
Second that, I switched from

- Joplin (Nextcloud sync)

- org-mode (Nextcloud sync)

finally to Logseq (org format, not md) and Nextcloud sync. It feels like I found a solid note taking / life organising / knowledge management solution for me now.

As soon as mobile is working as well I am set for a long time.
We've seen several major incidents caused by mistakes in the past few years. It's only a matter of time before an actively malicious attack on BGP causes major damage.
I'd like to be able to run the compiler in interactive mode where it asks to apply the fix along with the diff.
I'm not saying it's a good idea to open it more than once at the same time, but nothing is preventing me from doing it, so I'm not sure what is meant by, "a file is a singleton"?
I actually think you can extract the benefits of practice from the religious baggage. That is how I live my life today.
Doesn't the word "storing" already mean temporal shifting?
I've been using yopmail for years to avoid spam, but the problem is that a lot of services have blocked yopmail and other disposable email addresses.

The nice thing with "hide my email" and Fastmails "masked addresses" is that the two services use a popular domain, so sites can't easily block it.
None whatsoever - they don't care.
Even China official admitted that the practice is unethical, maybe you are too eager to shill for them?

> China plans to implement a new national donation system which will allow the government to phase out next year the practice of removing organs from executed prisoners to be used in transplant operations.

China’s health ministry said yesterday that a new national organ donation system is being developed after officials said using organs from death-row prisoners was neither ethical nor sustainable. [0]

[0] - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2012/11/2/china-to-cut-jail-o...
While we're at it, I also would have preferred `&uniq` over `&mut`.
USPS is awesome. But there are other examples of extreme incompetence in Government from local to Federal. SSA, USCIS, DMV (state), etc.

So both sides cherry picking their favorite gov agencies does disservice to improving things and doubling down on what works, and criticizing what doesn't.
If you need just one, make just one. Why should the class enforce it?
*some rando claiming to be a parody on Twitter
The article quotes a very old capacity-factor for wind-energy (30%). Today it is 60-64%. https://www.ge.com/renewableenergy/wind-energy/offshore-wind...
Also read this report regarding new types of nuclear power (a summary is that these new versions is probably a waste of money): https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/2021-05/ucs-rpt-A...
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Did Buchanan claim that black people should not have equal rights? I'm not too familiar with his work.
I used Swype on release, then not for years, until picking it up again recently, when I found that I still loved the input method but made tons of errors. The lack of accuracy had me thinking I'd just gotten old and lost fine motor control -- I couldn't imagine that a single-function piece of software had gotten that much worse.

It's an interesting difference from other software: with almost anything else, there's a UI that helps evaluate whether the software degraded. Swype doesn't have any such contextual clue. I'd imagine this problem will pop up a lot in the future with various user-assist, AI-based tech.
> nowadays it is called growth hacking

Nowadays it’s called illegal. At least in the EU.
> It's not their prerogative to (in their view) waste time with people who are just going to argue and push in the other direction

I think this is a good point. An issue that coexists with this is that activist circles here in the 20x0s, of which I have been both a part and adjacent to, are in general not open to evaluating the truth value of their beliefs under any circumstances, not even around questions like "is this tactically/rhetorically an effective strategy?". There's also a related issue where basically their only tool for communicating across difference is opprobrium. You can see this laid out persuasively in this (uncommonly good) quilette article: https://quillette.com/2021/01/17/three-plane-rides-and-the-q...

What you're describing is an activist culture that has writ large given up on convincing people of their correctness, and functions instead via social coercion. And sure, there was a combative element to the civil rights movement - we're on the bus, you can't fucking ignore us - but it was coupled with cogence and reason. I'm pretty sure microaggressions exist, and also think they're a toxic framework for evaluating the world.
>I think it's possible with the right ui/incentives

I want that, but for the masses of tech-illiterate Average Joes out there, it's tough to compete against the sheer convenience of "tap next to trust big tech with all your private data and sync it all in the cloud" that you get when you unbox your iPhone/Android. And for most people their phone is their primary computing device now so their lives are tied to those ecosystems and we've been conditioned for over a decade now to just give our private data to the phones' ecosystems without asking questions because everting is so convenient and ignorance is bliss.

Trying to get average consumers off the big-tech ecosystems at this point is like trying to unplug people from the matrix. It's nearly impossible, unless some new EU-style regulations break up these monopolies first so that third party alternatives can compete on feature parity.
There is a lot more that can be done besides lockdowns - we can have actually useful contact tracing and testing. There are tons of measures that can be implemented to reduce transmission. We're giving up on all of that.

Besides, viral infections are very damaging to the human body. An infection severe enough to knock you out for multiple days multiple times a year, on top of all the other disease we have, each time rolling the dice on long term side effects, is far worse than "work from home a couple of times a day".

If there is an only 5% rate of long term side effects (which is much less than it is at now), and you end up catching it twice a year, that means you're guaranteeing most people to suffer from long term side effects.

Not to mention, unless we're sending sick kids to school, parents will be in deep shit.

And on a personal preference level, I would much rather have a week or two of lockdown every year on average until we can develop a vaccine that can prevent reinfection and mutation or treatments and testing or w/e is needed to limit it, than to be guaranteed to get sick for a week or two at random times alone and risk severe long term effects every time.

Even the Chinese didn't have constant lockdowns. The majority of Chinese people didn't even see a single lockdown this year. If their government was competent enough to keep a basic surveillance testing regime the lockdown in Shanghai might have already been over.
Public policy, and the power stemming from it, is a social phenomenon.

Which isn't to say that Twitter is important to the United States' future, but also is to say that it's not unimportant.

Commons sway votes, which sway policy in a democracy.
Dendrite development is literally going faster than ever, with major releases every 2 weeks, and 0.8 out last Friday (https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite/releases), and 83% CS API compliance and 95% SS API. (Edit: see also the commit graph: https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite/graphs/contributors) The core team is depending on it to power the reference P2P matrix implementation as per https://arewep2pyet.com, plus we currently have dedicated funding for Dendrite, avoiding the team getting sidetracked by other stuff as they have been in the past.

Meanwhile Synapse is continuously getting more resource efficient too, with Fast Joins landing shortly - and Conduit looks to be making decent progress as well.

In other words, i think we’re about to enter a golden age of Matrix servers :)
But I am not an unknown person. If you know who I am and you’ve had an opportunity to see my preferred pronouns but choose to disregard those preferences you’ve misgendered me the same as if you’d referred to a transwomen as he.
That's inaccurate, because Rust still performs all the usual checks inside of unsafe blocks. The idea that unsafe blocks are "turning off" some aspect of the language is a persistent misconception, so it's best to pick a keyword that doesn't reinforce that.
Extremely pure fluorine-based gas is used as dry etchant to produce gas phase SiF4 during pattern etching.

Periodic table does not have many alternatives to fluorine :)

Waste can be dealt with, but society needs a good tariff system to prevent groups from bypassing costs…
ARM has been coming to desktop & workstation for a decade now, supposedly, but nothing ever materializes. We get dev kits with 4 year old phone chips that cost $400 (often double that) and up, and projects like AMD's arm chips ("seattle", "heirofalcon") never materialize.

the ARM ecosystem has remained decidedly botique. it's resisted consumerization, commodification.

there's less players than their used to be, but it still feels somewhere on the edge between believability (that making these chips & making them affordable is hard) and conspiracy (that everyone in the ARM market is actively trying to keep chips from being readily available for use).

the snapdragon tablet chips (8cx) are kind of ok. not great. they keep shipping the same chip & calling it a new generation, even though it's the same chip pretty much, which is farcical for something so power intense that cant even beat an old apple a13 chip.
Would you be able to provide a real example of that HellPortal thing? I'm not really following
Happy valley from Monty Python

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q_4Ny8aLTS0
The dark pattern websites damaged the web, EU just made it public.
They wrote it badly because everyone else does that too? I wonder if scientists will ever improve their illegibility problem. They work so hard to write in such a terrible way for no apparent reason.
I guess you can read in to their behaviour what you
will, but to us it feels like empathy

After 20 years of cat ownership spanning three cats, I felt sure that cats had a very specialized sort of intelligence: they're good at doing predator stuff, and they have also evolved to be good at manipulating humans in a generally benign/symbiotic sort of way.

I felt quite certain "empathy" wasn't part of this set of skills.

But something recently made me question it.

A few weeks ago I saw a video from the Russia/Ukraine war that made me visibly upset. I became distressed and said "no no no NO" and hastily pounded the keyboard to close the window and went into an adjacent room to sit down, actually crying a bit.

My cat became very alarmed and followed me into the other room, looking at my face, and urgently rubbing himself against me.

I'm very close to my animals and I try very hard not to anthropomorphize them. I think it's actually a big disservice to do this. I try very very hard to think about how they experience the world in their own unique ways with their unique, non-human minds.

But this felt utterly unmistakable. He saw that I was upset and comforted me.

And he did this with no real prior data to work with. At least from me. I had never been visibly upset like that around him before.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So in your ideal world, all you have to do to avoid "deplatforming" is to find one other person who shares your viewpoint and form a group? Isn't that literally how it already is regardless of your "first principles"? Or am I misunderstanding?
Infection counts are irrelevant. What matters is that relatively few people will be killed by it because vaccination (even the shitty Chinese vax) and natural immunity have changed the equation. In my progressive west coast city, even front-line customer service workers like grocery store employees are abandoning their masks. Covid is becoming endemic, yet mostly harmless. Zero-covid is a delusion for totalitarians.
Eh. Global data doesn't really get abstracted. Abstractions over global data generally leak like a sieve.
The humorous musings are, despite the unlikelihood of collisions the author was pondering them for UUID (see backpack cubby analogy), this situation came up and then pondered what might have happened with a similarly unlikely collision -- byte identifiers between Roku and Pokemon. It's silly, it's in a humour forum.
As a simple C# (and previously VB.NET, sorry not sorry) wageslave, I've never understood the disdain towards singletons. A single static class that is referenced all over the place (or, alternatively, some huge state object): sure, don't do that.

But given a semi-decent dependency injection framework, and a choice of lifetimes like 'singleton' (only one per container), 'transient' (as many per container as required per type) and 'scoped' (as many per container as required for transactions), do I really need to feel bad about the first choice?

My app only has a single task scheduler: that's sort-of important, as otherwise there is just chaos. So that's a singleton. Maybe not the same singleton depending on whether I'm running a test or the actual production app, but a singleton nonetheless. So what, exactly, is the big issue with that?
My understanding, and I’m not a professional here, is that child development studies indicate that children develop a sense of gender identity by about age three. There’s a lot of debate about how this gets determined — whether it’s biological or cultural or both. This is, as you might imagine, very difficult to ethically experiment with. After this age it’s then also very difficult to change that gender identity, such that it’s legitimately easier to treat a sex/gender mixup by helping the person involved adjust their gender presentation to match their internal sense of their gender.

You’d be free to argue that this isn’t an inherent property, I suppose, given initial probable-fluidity. But since it seems to settle into being a largely fixed part of your psyche before the point you’re likely to have permanent memories, I’m inclined to view that as a meaningless difference.

It’s at about the same level as arguing whether sexuality is an inherent property, I think? It’s another of those “it might be hardcoded or it might be early-development cultural, but it’s basically impossible to change it so…” things.
Ask HN: What Happened to SolidCon?
Oreilly had a great conference called Solid.

For instance the 2015 edition had a marvelous set of talks. I'd love to fly over the pond and attend it, but I can't find many traces of it left online!
Just found two minor bugs in the "world" sample.

1: it doesn't detect the LMB release outside of the frame, although it keeps changing the visuals if I pressed it within the frame. If I release it outside of the frame, it will need a further press-release cycle to free the mouse pointer. It might be intentional but could be annoying sometimes.

2: the snow fall appears linked to the terrain position in a strange way: hard to describe in my non native English; if you move the terrain around while looking at the snow flakes you get it.
> Whereas dogs have been bred for utility, cats have been bred solely for appearance.

This strikes me as a dubious statement. Or perhaps I am reading more into it than is really there. Perhaps it was true a hundred or more years ago, but now it seems to me that dogs are overwhelmingly bred for appearance.
> If you want to plug it in and forget about it, eero is one of the best vendors for that kind of solution.

That has been our experience with a fleet of the original eeros and, for the past year or so, eero 6s. And that's in a relatively large urban home with many devices and lots of nearby networks. Our setup currently uses a wired backhaul, which helps with speed, but the wireless backhaul worked pretty well, too.

Also, for what it's worth, no hardware issues across the 8 or so eeros total (1st gen and 6) that we've had.
> For example, when someone calls a statement "x-ist," they're also implicitly saying that this is the end of the discussion.

I tried to recall the few times I called someone out on being sexist, racist or whatever, and it was never a discourse or a discussion: the majority were tasteless jokes in the presence of someone would have been affected (e.g. tasteless joke about how all women are $X in the presence of a women which very clearly was the polar opposite, or how all people with a certain enthnicity have a certain negative trait etc.

These people were not guilty of heresy they were insensitive assholes (when done on purpose) or at least ignorant.

In an honest discussion with someone about e.g. the differences between men and women, I never called someone a sexist, just because their ideas were outdated and flawed as long as it actually was an discussion. The thing is, that more often than not the goal of people spouting such things is not getting to the bottom of things, but validating their own opinion. This is of course out of insecurity, which is why calling someone sexist is not a good way to respond in such an situation. Better is to ask them what they mean and have them explain it to you. And if they realize themselves they are sounding a bit odd, you can just tell them this is not your experience.
> In making this argument, you should clarify that you think it's important to not limit "freedom of speech" to its legal definition

More specifically, to shrink “free speech” smaller than it's legal definition, and erase both part of what is legally protected and the fundamental premise of the legal protection, in that you want it prohibit private exercise of free speech rights essential to forcing ideas to complete in the marketplace of ideas by compelling private actors to actively participate in relaying speech that they find repugnant.
Yep, I used to use Mailinator, sometimes others, but they eventually end up blocked in Marketing-hungry websites.

Even myname+random@gmail.com and similar can get blocked from registration on some websites now.

The difference here is the power of iCloud. Services can't afford to block it.

This is similar to Domain Fronting [1]. Maybe we should call this email fronting?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_fronting
Yeah, this is anecdotal of course but I was double vaxxed + boosted by last October, and I got covid for the first time in late December 2021, and the second time early April 2022. The first time was extremely mild (no real symptoms beyond the sniffles) and the second time was like getting the flu (fever, sore throat, persistent cough and lots of mucus).
I’m more speaking to people using Jira who hate it but are encountering the “there’s no good enough alternative” argument. I’m glad the Linear crowd is speaking up; I had never heard of it, but whatever alternatives are available, I hope people start using them more, because Jira is just some of the most frustrating software we have to use these days, and there’s no good reason task management should be this bad.
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Most of the leading comments are justified with an implicit tautology: “passenger rail is needed so badly because passenger rail”.

This suggests a belief that typical Americans are dumbasses for preferring other forms of transportation, so they need elites to force them into what’s best for them.

The American rail system is focusing on what rail does best: haul heavy freight. When you emphasize passenger rail use, you’ve switched to an inefficient use of rail to appease hardliners.
I use this feature extensively.

My only wish is that it were easier to send an outgoing email via a Hide My Email address (rather than only being about to reply once the other party has sent the first message).
Jon Goodwin's Cone [0] language had a nice idea of calling it "trust", as in, "Compiler, trust me, I know what I'm doing"

[0] https://cone.jondgoodwin.com/coneref/reftrust.html
You're falling for, and perpetuating, left-wing propaganda.

The bill doesn't prohibit "saying gay".

The bill prohibits discussing sexual orientation. Straight and gay alike. Personally I think that at those ages basically all discussion of sex should be off limits (except strictly in a biological sense "this is where you pee" or "naked boys look like this drawing and naked girls like that drawing").

Also your argument is a nasty bait-and-switch. Your original comment was about "limiting freedom of speech of teachers is bad" but then you switched to "of course we should limit freedom of speech for teachers, but not in this specific case".
Huge fan of this, started using it for practically every signup. I've already had the opportunity to shitcan an alias because it obviously got dumped to some advertisement list.

Now I just need to work on untangling 15 years of other services from my main account.
Most services I have used actually did require 2fa on authentication relevant changes post login. That's why I mentioned this slight protection.

I'll grant the threat model is of marginal relevance.
>What you're describing is an activist culture that has writ large given up on convincing people of their correctness, and functions instead via social coercion.

No, not at all and I'm very confused as to how you managed to connect those dots. I'm describing a culture where people make their activism an immutable part of their identity because it's all they know and they have no reason to pursue outside perspectives; if you're in a marginalized group it can be very easy to end up in a situation where there's nobody to look out for you besides yourself. This is not a new happening in any way shape or form, from my knowledge it's been this way for as long as there's been free societies that allowed protesting. This is what the civil rights movement was built on. It just doesn't happen if there isn't an outside condition to allow activism and protesting in the first place.

Can there toxic social pressure in activist spaces? Absolutely, but that can be present in any social group where there are leaders and followers. That also isn't new in any way at all. I take it you haven't spend much time on social media in the last decade or so?
Global energy production in 2019 across all sectors was ~18TW. Excess radiative forcing from anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions was ~560TW.

So we have room to ~20x our energy consumption before we start having to worry about climate change from direct heating, so long as we draw down the excess CO2 we've emitted.

Wind doesn't contribute to that total, as it's harvesting energy already in the system. Solar mostly doesn't contribute to that total, but it does increase surface albedo.
That phrase is from the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution.

The way the Constitution works is that the Federal government only has those powers it is granted, which are limited by items such as the First Amendment, which does not generally restrict individuals (including corporations--there is no "cf" here; corporations are simply people, though they are not 'natural persons", where that distinction matters).
A place where autocorrect might be considered is in REPLs. Out of habit I still regularly write "print 'a'" in the Python REPL although I've been using Python 3 for a while. You get:

SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print("a")?

Well yes... obviously... so please just print it.
I'm arguing that platforms (aka groups aka corporations) deserve fewer free speech rights than human individuals.