skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s neotenisation of animals features..especially domesticated animals. Cats are an exception..dogs have eyebrows..cats don’t!..they didn’t have to evolve to look like our young.

We are often protective towards faces that look like our young. It’s hard coded for most creatures. Big eyes, flat side profile and reduction in size of the skulls. Tugging human heart strings means they don’t have to compete for food resources. Domesticated animals also exhibit this with behaviour as well as physical features. Cats..for example.. can be rather aloof ..until they need you. They are absolutely affectionate fur balls.

We don’t play hide and seek..and fetch with adults but we do with children and our pets. They become child substitutes and satisfies a very primal caregiving instinct in humans who may not be able to express it with other humans.

Also..this is why psychopaths start early with torturing and killing animals. It’s an early warning sign to lock these people up and throw the keys away.
Starving people in their apartment buildings to prevent a collapse of the hospital system? The solution is worse than the problem. I'd rather be free in a city with no hospitals at all, than be imprisoned and starved in my own home for my 'protection.'
The statement "I do work for JuliaComputing" (which I predicted solely based on your writing style, generic to all JuliaComputing payees) fully explains the nature of your comments and arguments.
Regarding your argument: Counting GitHub repositories is the silliest way of gauging a language growth or decline. The C++ language has nearly 7000 C++11 repositories, only 1600 C++14, far fewer C++20 repositories. According to your flawed logic, C++ is now on life support. A thorough knowledge of a topic is essential before commenting on it or criticizing it as an expert in a public forum. Learn about the minor and major standard releases.
It was enabled by default when I made an account (~1 year ago)
Also the warm spot on the sofa :)

My dog does this too, and it's endearing.
In theory[1] you can run a mail server on your home computer, but even then you must depend on the centralized domain name system to host your MX record, so I would say it's more "federated" than decentralized.

[1] In practice, spam mitigation measures will make it very difficult to get other mail servers to trust your home IP address.
Or just `unchecked`. It is similarly short but holds a similar meaning. Of course `unchecked_by_the_compiler` would be more accurate.
No, I didn’t reduce the scope to affirmative action. That’s one particular case where people are explicitly racist, know that they are being racist, but do it anyway and justify it with entirely Machiavellian ideological language.
> Without those, without unsafe, shared borrow references would be true immutable borrow

Rust devs have thought about implementing "true immutable" before and found it to be problematic. It would come in quite handy for mostly anything related to FP or referential transparency/purity, but these things turn out to be very hard to reconcile with the "systems" orientation of Rust. Perhaps the answer will reside in some expanded notion of "equality" of values and objects, which might allow for trivial variation while verifying that the code you write respects the same notion of "equality".
As an android user I've never seen this before -- this seems way better than email+tag@gmail.com
GitHub uses it to associate signed commits with your user. Not sure why they can't just verify the GPG key on your account though. I think it is fair to say to them the more personal data you share the better.
> But in actual intellectual discourse

Well, where is that? I live my life surrounded by "discredited" ideas with much popularity and power. I don't know shit about intellectual discourse, can it get the police to stop killing my friends? Can it get a doctor for my impoverished mother in law?

If not then I'm afraid I must oppose some ideas in ways other than ignoring them.
> Why not just use Evil, the VIM emulation layer.

To cite Xah [1]:

"xah-fly-keys.el is a modal editing mode for emacs, like vi, but the design of key/command choice is based on command frequency statistics and ease-of-key score. Most frequently used commands have most easy keys."

I can confirm, that the amount of work on the hands is extremely reduced with xah-fly-keys vs. vanilla emacs (depending on where you put the command mode switch), though I have no experience with evil or vi to compare against.

[1] http://xahlee.info/emacs/misc/ergoemacs_vi_mode.html
Tell HN: Outline.com is offline, domain for sale
Outline.com was a website readability / paywall bypass site. It's been modestly popular for years among HN users, including myself.

The domain now redirects to a seller site: https://outline.com
"Reinfections had 90% lower odds of resulting in hospitalization or death than primary infections. Four reinfections were severe enough to lead to acute care hospitalization. None led to hospitalization in an ICU, and none ended in death."

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmc2108120

It was literally the first hit on google. And it's well known that infection is much more protective than vaccination (although riskier).
A 2020 LifeHacker post describes its basic use and mechanic: https://lifehacker.com/use-this-site-to-read-and-annotate-ar...

It's apparently been down for a month or so. The domain is now being listed for sale.

Internet Archive's final active capture was on 27 February 2022: https://web.archive.org/web/20220227091525/https://outline.c...

Present result when attemtping domain: https://archive.ph/LYN9z
> There is an order of magnitude more firing and suppression of left wing voices at college.

Unless we're including religious colleges, this seems hyperbolic.

While I did find this[1], which appears to support the idea that left-wing voices are more likely to get fired/kicked out of universities for their speech (though not by a magnitude), I have no idea how that study split up which speech was 'censored by right'/'censored by left', because when I tried to do so myself with the dataset[2], the results were closer to 55/45 (left-wing firing/right-wing firing) for 2015-2017, which was the years the study chose to focus on, but almost exactly 50/50 for the entire 2006-2020 dataset.

[1] https://www.niskanencenter.org/there-is-no-campus-free-speec...
[2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eeTHZQOh9faZ2P3C_O3s...
> Graham can't make the point that it's pervasive, because he won't provide any evidence to that effect

Yes he can. The reader can use their brain and think of examples themselves.
I'd work for a private company that paid me a cash salary equivalent to my expected salary + RSU comp, yes. But I'm not sure where I'd get that kind of salary.
Just installed it to play around. Really nice to have a purely offline app in this space.

What did surprise me is the unskippable 'splash screen' with the sponsor message before the app is usable (several seconds), this would really annoy me if there's no way to get rid of it.
So my Twitter, which does not claim to be a news source or post anything other than silly jokes, should also be disallowed because some journalists are too lazy to do their job?
Except these two things--single instance-ness of classes and private-ness of class fields--are not comparable things. There's no way to easily change a field from public to private without breaking an unbounded set of code. The Singleton pattern is similarly difficult to change the lifetime of an object without breaking code. But we can achieve the same, desired results of Singleton with Dependency Injection, which can change the lifetime of an object without breaking dependent code. We have no such alternative for field access modifiers.

Yes, these things are tools, and in some cases, better tools have been invented.
What is your practical proposal? What exactly should the United States do?
That's the point though. You won't find any example, because none of these services would ever want guarantee of 100% data safety. That's why I encourage to think about what services we blindly trust without having safety measures (email, photo/document storage, note taking) and make sure that we understand the impact of losing the data and how we can prevent it.

On the proactively constructive side (and although my system is not bulletproof either), everything I _create_ first is stored locally and then a copy is stored server side (note, sent email, photo etc). First safety measure is Syncthing (to replicate to other devices), second safety measure is backup (locally and remotely)

Complicated? Yes. Necessary? After reading ToS's, yes.
They're not mandated by Git, you can do:

git commit --author "moffkalast <>"
As I said before, "born in the wrong body" is actually not quite accurate, but it's used to approximate an explanation for people who aren't familiar with ideas like gender roles. Gender isn't a biological concept, it's a sociological one. Gender identity is whether you identify with the gender roles of male, or female, or neither. I didn't mean to imply that it being an "internal property" meant it was biological, as I've been trying to explain - it's psychosocial.

Edit: I think fundamentally, if you don't object to treating trans people decently like using their preferred pronouns and name, or getting surgery, I don't think it matters too much. I'm not an expert on the definitions by any means, my primary concern is opposing justifications to mistreat trans people, so if it's just a matter of terminology I guess my only suggestion is to read into what the relevant fields of study have to say if it's something you want clarity on.
Molten Salt has corrosion issues but they are nowhere near as extreme as people think they are.

There are different methods and approaches taken by different companies. Moltex Energy is going with a traditional long running reactor core and basically puts bits of stuff into the salt that will corrode instead of the reactor vessel.

Other companies like ThorCon or Terrestrial instead simply accept the corrosion and replace the core containment at a faster cycle.

The expensive part of a nuclear plant in a molten salt reactor is not actually to core vessel because unlike with a PWR its not an gigantic pressure vessel that need to contain water that is ready to burst out. The reactor is working at atmospheric pressure.

So in a PWR you have to deal with pressure, and also corrosion. In a MSR you got ride of the pressure (and thankfully the water).
The second one is quite obviously a joke.
Because that side simply has economic power.
>Lots of people post their (supposedly) factual war stories in the comments of The Daily WTF [...] //

I've always assumed they're apocryphal, ie based on the truth but considerably dramatised to be more "Daily WTF" material, somewhat like The Onion articles. Basically, if your best source is an internet comment in a joke-y forum, just like if your best source is "Rob from accounts said at the water-cooler", then some corroboration before you promulgate that information would be absolutely in order.
Point taken but policy reversal by a national government is a good deal more within the realms of possibility than a successful campaign to get the EU to do the same. Not likely at all in the UK at present but that could change if a faction within a national party decides to push anti-surveillance measures as a priority in some future general election. The difficulty is getting a consensus within the electorate to understand what's at stake.
Thanks!

The option was already enabled but not working, the w3m-img package fixed it... I was only expecting place holders and very surprised to see real images rendered, not sure how it's doing this since i'm using urxvt, which doesn't support images AFAIK... is this layered on top via xorg?
There’s no such thing as speeding, only dangerous driving. You shouldn’t be punished for ‘speeding’ if the road conditions allow it.
> Because, as smart as we compiler designers think we are, you, dear programmer, know your program better than we do.

Copilot, however, begs to differ.
More Victim's of Communism funded drama, "during executions" is a funny way of saying "after execution" just because they didn't verify brain death. PRC didn't establish formal transplant system until recently - using organs from executed was most viable interim solution. And largely insufficient in terms of supply/demand. It was still hard AF to get execution organ until ban, much easier to pay some rural villagers for spare kidney or buy from illegal harvesters murdering innocents in ASEAN.
This has been going on for a while. GitHub has been programmatically scraped by multiple companies that feed into databases that feed into other databases.

Lots of companies are scraping data and lots of companies are buying, aggregating, and selling data to each other.
I'm curious as to what the purpose is of making a network client AGPL? I don't quite understand how the author wants this license to apply to this software.
Should we also remove the fiction section from libraries?
:) "Locutus" also means "speaker" in Latin.

Not sure we're going to stick with the name "Locutus" when we launch, so for now it's just a working title for the project.
Big +1 and thank you for reminding me to try making a Hy implementation.
Yes, using anylisp as an anything templating engine. I love this stuff.

It's not as ideal, but you can even get away with this in Python using comprehensions and functions. Any language with nested data structure literals will do. Really, any expression language.

Here's a Python version: https://github.com/dgoffredo/dgoffredo.github.io/blob/master...

and a Javascript version: https://github.com/dgoffredo/llama/blob/master/llama/xml.js

...and as others have said, Scheme has "sxml," which I use here: https://github.com/dgoffredo/xsd-gc
On the other hand, you can spot Andreessen, Haidt, and Lehmann as his reviewers (and similar personalities on previous articles) and have a pretty good idea what views he's actually talking about.
So every daily note saved will have this saved over and over? Doesn't seem very elegant
I think the last point you make is a big one, and partially used to justify the Chinese industry behavior. Basically China is late to the game and if they follow Western rules they will be perpetually behind, partially because such rules are obviously designed to preserve wealth.

That being said, there is still plenty of legit innovation coming from China and Chinese founders/contributors: ant framework for react, vue, tiktok.

I don’t think it’s a coincidence a lot of the innovation is in the software sector, especially ML, which has less incumbent IP protections.
My feelings on the above are likely contingent of the nuances of implementation. Do downvotes ultimately censor posts? Are votes equal weight? Etc.

From a higher level, I'd grant that (a) platforms have a fundamental right to try to realize their vision, which may include promoting and demoting various types of content & (b) spam and astroturfing is a constant reality in any social platform (and users are better served by less of both).

So I think there are justifiable reasons for censoring, or at least decreasing visibility. I've been on forums long enough and have too low an opinion of the average internet denizen to think otherwise. :-)

Hence, to me, the emphasis on ad vs post hoc restraint.

If I allow you to make speech, and then, on the basis of that piece of speech and NOT on your identity as its speaker, decrease its virality in a way that's still fair (e.g. yank it from feed promotion but still allow direct linking) and then (in rare cases) absolutely censor it, that feels fair. To me.

If I proactively identify you, godelski, as someone likely to say *ist things and consequently ban you or pre-censor everything you post, irregardless of the individual pieces of content, that does not feel fair. To me.

As well, and I should have punched this more in my comment, as emphasizing "individual." Which is to say "1 human person, 1 share of public speech rights."

IMHO, if free speech is a right that flows from our existence as sentient beings then it's difficult to get from there to "you deserve more / less free speech than I do."

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And finally, because I know I'll get this response eventually, yes, I know playing whack-a-mole with bad actors on a public platform is a nigh impossible task. I've done it. Maybe actually impossible.

Tough.

Uber skirted labor laws in pursuit of profit. Social media platforms are doing the exact same in terms of nuanced moderation in pursuit of profit. "It's difficult" or "It costs a lot to employ and train the headcount required to do it" isn't an acceptable defense, and we shouldn't accept it.
That’s ridiculous because we don’t have the ability to censor the entire internet to police what websites call themselves “news”. If your solution to this is to police the word “news”, it’s dead on arrival.

People claim they are engineers/doctors/lawyers on the internet all of the time and there is no repercussion. We are only able to actually police those terms when it comes to actual business transactions.
UUIDs can be assumed unique because we are relying on luck, not the other way around. The cubby example is actually a pretty good example of why the luck is on your side to the point you should never worry about it. The SHA1 collision not as much.
No, if you're not calling yourself news then there's no false advertising going on.
Yeah, just use throwaway emails everywhere.

Though I'd say people will assume you're poor at "online presence" or something before assuming you don't want to be contacted.
Much harder to come up with that list a couple years ago, nice calls. I don't have the risk appetite required for potential 10x upside - I have a few kids and my wife doesn't have an income.

But I don't think 2-3x is necessarily out of the question...
In a world where activists launch shitstorms against you on twitter if they don't like something you do or say, there much reason to never go public with your real name.

Its not even about what you do, worse, its what they believe you did. And this is a factor you cannot possibly control.
You can create a key specifically for GitHub and use your no-reply address on the key. That is what I do.
> I (and anybody I know) are really not ok when somebody says “evolution does not end at neck”.

Given how often Claire Lehmann and her coterie show up as a reviewer of his essays and their Twitter interactions with Graham, it's easy to figure out he's talking about exactly such a statement.
And now even more startups will do it. However, as others have pointed out, GitHub offers a way to anonymize your email address.
How does it work in the Netherlands? They do such an awesome job I can’t believe it. I think it is semi privatized. But I don’t know the details.
Some people will believe everything they read, and they are friends with people who will believe everything they heard from a friend.
Unfortunately, evernote is interesting example of very strange behavior - when they become in troubles with slow backend written on C#, they switched to C++.

To be honest, I cannot say anything about e-note client quality, I have not used it at all (I try to use opensource self-hosting alternatives), but such solutions on backend side, look very odd for me, and not look trustworthy.

Returning to your case, at adequate services, should be possibility to backup your documents yourself, or service should have incremental backups.

So, in such circumstances I will first figure out, if it is possible to make backup myself (and will do backup; and will plan backup frequency based on value of day work for me - for most valued - daily or even few times per day; for less valued - weekly).
If self backup impossible, I will ask tech support to return to previous state on server side.

For alternatives, as I know, e-note is best for its cost per client, I think anything else will be more expensive (unfortunately, self hosted FOSS solutions are more expensive, even considering, I trust them much more).
There is SimpleLogin[0] and Mozilla Private Relay[1] as more generic options. I've never tried them as I struggle to figure out how trustworthy they are. At the end of the day, emails are essentially proxied by these products.

[0] https://simplelogin.io

[1] https://relay.firefox.com/
I don’t think I understand. Police everywhere report on misdemeanour, and reporting itself is perhaps police forces’ main job.
That's exactly the same as a specific non-singleton object instance. Processes have handles that represent open files.

The filesystem tree on an unix OS is a better example but that was also been identified as a mistake and there have been attempts to rectify it (namespaces)
Intel is coming out with gpus.
I feel like the feedback from karma is not really good.

Anything matching the opinion of some echo-chamber can get hundreds of points (be it purely factual, opinion or even being devoid of content). Mildly unpopular opinions, aka "hot takes", the cathartic stuff, can also garner a lot more upvotes. However, curious civil discussion or sourced posts clarifying something non-controversial won't get much attention at all. Because it's boring. Maybe that's alright, though.

The only part where I see karma working as feedback is in possible flame wars. Anything controversial will get lots of downvotes. So it accidentally work as a deterrent I guess.
I'm not convinced. Should we use command messages like rpc calls? No. But the category of command message makes sense. A command might fail. Only events are saved to the log. I think the separation of commands into ephemeral requests that may or may not result in new events on the log is a very reasonable distinction.
It seems to me like this is just arguing that react is not purely functional. That doesn't disagree with what the other poster is saying which is that react is moving towards a more functional style.
Zero-sum profit certainly requires taking from someone else to succeed. This doesn't make it immoral as such but it creates malevolent incentives.
I object to the idea that it's Machiavellian, but I do disagree with affirmative action. I think it's well-meaning but a really ineffective and misled concept. I think demographic outreach is a better approach. Affirmative action tries to solve a systemic problem at the hiring pool, which is stupid.

You still haven't given any other examples though. Like, I get your concerns and I'm trying to have a genuine conversation but I can't discuss pure vagueries. I think liberals misunderstand and misapply critical theory as much as conservatives misunderstand and decry it, so I can certainly agree that some in-world implementations of it are bad.
There are waterproof phones with easily replaceable batteries.

My Samsung Galaxy S5 is waterproof and I can replace the battery without tools in seconds.

I would like a more modern phone with the same features.
The Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, also achieved by the same party, put them at such an artificially low point it was impossible not to spring back impressively eventually.
I see where you're coming from. I just think that if we have to resort to civil institutions beyond courts to enforce something, it's not really a "right". It's some other kind of good or value. So maybe my definition of "right" is too narrow or legalistic--but it is ofc widespread.
What I don’t understand is the nuance between freedom of speech in public spaces versus privately owned spaces. If the US government had a public social network, then people would have the right to shout ZYX. It is not the same on Facebook or TikTok right? Those are privately owned spaces. That would be like you coming into my property to shout XYS and I could remove you from my land. Am I understanding this correctly?
Sense of humor is replaced by sensitivity-derived outrage.
The first law is to never surpass the master
“My use case for satire is obvious but yours is not”
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I was a union carpenter before I went back to school.