skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point was more that if there was really significant damage being done, then you’d be able to provide a better example than lightbulbs. For instance, a hurricane taking down a street light also destroys the bulb, and a whole lot more. Even if it’s true that lightbulbs burn out faster due to heat waves, it seems like it’d be hard to generate a lot of sympathy with a statement like “heatwaves are as bad as hurricanes because heatwaves cause light bulbs to burn out faster.”

Also, society generally designs things with the knowledge that light bulbs go bad, exposed metal rusts, etc. Unless a heatwave were to shorten the lifespan of things by an order of magnitude, it’s likely that a slightly shorter lifespan is within the designed limits of many things.
> I’m continually surprised that Facebook, Twitter, and the rest dont simply create a web interface for law enforcement that allows them to delete (or more likely make invisible) content they want to censor.

In the US, we have the First Amendment, which prohibits government censorship. Of course, the government still sometimes uses political pressure to censor things, but there's a need to keep a semblance of rule of law.
You're not the first havng a hard time wrapping their heads around this, but you'll get there ;)
would be nice to have somewhere to blow off steam but the internet is down to like four or five active sites now and none of them are fun
(KF wasn't either, mind)
The headline doesn't really quantify the problem.

Lots of things kill more Americans than hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods. Hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods can be quite destructive, but they don't really kill a lot of people in the grand scheme of things.
WAV is uncompressed. MP3 is highly compressed, but lossy. FLAC is compressed and lossless. If you wanted to store lots of master copies of audio, you could use WAV or you could reduce storage space by using FLAC instead.
And English.

clarification: those words are 100% exact synonyms. (Native speaker, of American at least.)
It was to expect after recent ES releases. However, dedicated vector search engines offer better performance and more advanced features. Qdrant https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant is written in Rust. Fast, stable, and super easy to deploy. (disclaimer. affiliated with the project).
As you likely know, the BA role can be very technical, depending on the solution/client -- wouldn't be surprised if there are a bunch among us.
Why are you defending KF so hard? Even in the thread on the Cloudflare issue itself I saw the N-word, transphobic and antisemitic slurs, and calls to doxx the CEO... and that was just the first page.
> I do find it distressing how the worst examples of my group are held up as typical of us, though.

I agree! Which is why I made the point about straight men also being gross and my point that people should be leery because we (queer people) are doing a bad job ejecting predators and holding them accountable, not because we're any worse. And that's not just about trans women: There's a large problem with some cis gay men sexualizing teenage boys, and I will absolutely throw hands over that, too.

Also, since you are not a predator, I assume you wouldn't want to be friends with predators and would not support groups with predators in them, so predatory trans women probably don't want to be friends with you bc you'd call their asses out. Predators seek out friends and spaces that allow them to prey on people. You not having predatory friends just says your circle is not a safe space for predators which is good.

There is also the uncomfortable fact that you may not know. A lot of abusers/predators act like good people outside of their abuse victims. Nobody in my communities would have known or suspected my parents were abusive, for example. Or how many people find out suddenly that their dad/grandpa/uncle are creeps.

I just point this out because a loooot of cis straight guys say the same thing to girls and women: "Well, none of MY friends sexually harrass/rape/assault people, so it can't be that common!" Except that it is.

I think there are a lot of variables that go into understanding these things, and that non-queer people who are suddenly thrust into it once their kids come out have no way to orient themselves, which is WHY we should be more diligent.
What are you talking about? I live in the US and private health care is garbage. My doctor's are picked by my job(in network). I have had my insurance company flat out refuse to cover tests my doctor recommended. Or force me to try cheaper options that my doctor doesn't think will work but I have no choice but to waste time. I pay a fortune every month for the privilege of paying 4500 a year. This is the best plan my job offers.

Before you say just find a new job. I'm tired of looking for a new job because the insurance started getting worse at a company.

It doesn't matter which doctor I see it won't change what insurance decides.

Fuck private healthcare.
No one is suggesting people become vegan. You keep constructing strawmen, and proposing things that will in fact dramatically increase the costs of meat and force the things you say you don’t want. It’s non-sensical.

“… while shifting to a vegetarian meal one day a week could save the equivalent of driving 1,160 miles.”

https://css.umich.edu/publications/factsheets/sustainability...
I wonder if we could have radio beacons for pedestrians, in addition to the current braking systems which use radio waves reflected from electronically passive pedestrians.

It might not even require GPS or anything complicated; just respond to car’s radar squawks, so that it can measure the distance and relative speed from the delay and Doppler shift. You’d need to use frequency that bounces around nicely, to “get around” other cars blocking the line of sight. We can’t do that with passive pedestrians, because we can’t tell the echo from pedestrian from the (also moving, like other cars) background. This could work more reliably and at much higher distances.

Of course someone must have tested that already; I’d be grateful for a link :-)
I fail to see how you connected all of these points together. How did you get from "a private company chooses who they service" to "the government inserts itself between warring parties"? It really looks like you're pushing an agenda.
That’s only true if the team is working in the same sort of problems
Yes and no. Given a specific definition of "not impoverished", there is a threshold of energy availability below which energy is fundamentally limiting towards achieving that definition.

Above that though, there are other factors, and IMO, there are only two other fundamental ones: cognition (the capacity/time to perceive and manipulate the world by directing energy towards goals) and social capital (society allowing you to direct energy towards your goals, and/or supporting your goals through application of their energy and cognition).
Can't you engage the point in good faith? Of course intent matters! If you have a fleet of trucks and occasionally one of your drivers gets in an accident, that's way different than if you have a fleet going out there running people off the road.

I think you may have good point hiding in there (maybe "Facebook may not do it intentionally, but they've been so negligent that..."), but it's lost in the dripping sarcasm. The point you're replying to wasn't that ridiculous.
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It's just that some people are really interested in KF and hit f5 frequently to load more KF content. Problem?
Flac has Flac tags, how did Id3 get up in there?
Their onion address is still up.
Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap
One side of a disagreement getting to write the relevant Wikipedia page has some trade-offs. On the one hand, the dominant side can cast the argument however they want. On the other hand, they can't really make it look like a fair or dispassionate accounting.
That means someone isn't using the other playback or download method that pays more.
Insurance telephone systems are compatible with humans who do not know phonetic alphabets.
Yes, those that would rather subsidize fossil fuels than efficiency and cheap renewables. They're suprisingly prominent and running many major economies.
I think the general thinking is that due to the limited number of hours per day, if you can keep [bad thing] away from your child within your own house, then they will struggle to ever acquire enough of [bad thing] to do harm considering the fact that they spend:

24 hours - 8 hours sleeping - 6 hours at school - [time spent in house] = negligible time left for malfeasance
https://www.lalal.ai/blog/difference-between-audio-formats-m...
Uhh, in salt water???
Web devs don't have to update their tech stack. That's something they sign up for.

If your impression is that you should build with "Next.js/React, Tailwind and TypeScript" because you expect that they "will be state of the art at least for a while", then you risk being massively disappointed, because you're signing yourself up for the same thing.

The state of the art does not have a good record wrt longevity. Don't reach for a framework without first understanding the Web platform's primitives (ideally trying to do what you want that way first) and then figuring out what exactly the framework is actually supposed to do for you and why you're choosing it, besides that you just heard that's what lots of other people are doing. Lots of other people do lots of very dumb and counterproductive things.

> "[The Web] is software design on the scale of decades: every detail is intended to promote software longevity and independent evolution. Many of the constraints are directly opposed to short-term efficiency. Unfortunately, people are fairly good at short-term design, and usually awful at long-term design. Most don’t think they need to design past the current release."

<https://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypert...>
And what if the legal system do not protect (or punish) all equally?

There was no physical not psychological violence here. Only Ddos. Why is that bad? Do you have an inherent right to not be buried under request? protected from bots?
Asda only has it in 500ml and 1l containers. I couldn't be arsed walking to Tesco, and the nearest Morrisons or Sainsburys is a 20-minute drive away.

The dairy that delivers here does 500ml, 1l, and 2l, as does the one I bought milk from before I moved, and the one before I moved the time before that.
When CloudFlare suspended Nulls account, the only noted collateral damage was that a New Zealand based Neo-Nazi group named Action Zealandia were also knocked offline, if anyone was wondering what kind of customers his host was courting. Today the host goes by 1776 Solutions LLC, but it was originally incorporated with the much less subtle name Final Solutions LLC.
> The US is one of few countries on the planet where "freedom of speech" is a protected right

If you mean 1A, that only protects your speech from the government, not anyone else (and even then it's not an unabridged right since there are legal limits on what you can say.)
It's interesting to see posts simply pointing out the facts getting downvoted. Almost as if it's more important to pursue something out of ideological and emotional motivation, reality be damned.

Also, a very good demonstration of the plague rampaging through STEM circles. Driving blind might be fashionable, but it won't make a wall one is running into go away.
I just signed up for Spotify recently, and was completely flabbergasted to discover that an album that I've been listening to for over thirty years was rerecorded by the original artist, and the original album is now unobtainable. This rerecording is horrible, unlistenable, and I fear that this is the version that will be recognized in legacy because it is all that Spotify makes available.

No, Spotify as a business is not to blame here. But the concept of storing our media in a fashion which allows it to be erased or altered (e.g. in the cloud) has consequences.
I'm sure they do, but the shear amount of data surely must make it incredibly difficult to accurately detect.

And worse, being a platform for gamers, the conversation of real world criminals might be very difficult to differentiate from regular gamer talk. Just think how many groups are constantly chatting about GTA V. They're literally talking about the crimes they're committing (in the game world). Discord might actually be the perfect place for criminals to hide their conversations in plain sight.
Your argument looks like blatant self victimisation. Kiwi Farms is involved in the suicides and endangerement of multiple people. I really don't see the coherence in your arguments here.
Okay, but there is no "concentrated power". You are just as free as anyone else to host KF.
There is no shortage of Lisp compilers.

The new Racket compiler was derived from the Chez Scheme compiler.
there's never any proof of anything, tweets can be faked and even if they were real, are often deleted/removed. people could claim it used to say anything they want.
The point is the shilling as always
The problem with web3 is that the projects still rely on centralized indexes/distribution (OpenSea, Rarible, etc) for discoverability.

"We have had decentralised ownership and distribution of our own content since the early 90s. I own my own domain, but that doesn’t get me traffic. The question is in the networks that sort, filter and organise that, and those aren’t our tokens that we can move." – Benedict Evans [0]

web3 can't deliver on its promise of "freedom from the big platforms" as long as we're beholden to big platforms (Google, OpenSea, Twitter, YouTube, etc) for distribution/discoverability.

The web3 world still hasn't figured out how to decentralize discoverability.

0: https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1476285185557774337
So where exactly does the money go after Meta has paid the fine? To the Irish GDPR commission? Towards Irish public services? Into some commissioner's pockets?
I keep writing the same kind of thing for different companies for more money every year.

Started 50 years ago on an Altair 8800 in my bedroom. Now I do it in a docker shell on a virtual machine over a VPN on hardware in another state on contract. But it's the same damn code I'm writing.

And I keep thinking "This could certainly be automated, and I know how."

But do I do it? And end a whole subset of programming? Not a lot of motivation for me to do that.
Accidental complexity, essential complexity, and Kubernetes
You can use Hacker News RSS [0] and subscribe to a user's feed [1] via https://hnrss.org/user?id=USERNAME

[0]: https://hnrss.github.io/

[1]: https://hnrss.github.io/#user-feeds
KF has a responsibility to abide by the law. By extension, it has a responsibility to ensure its users do not use it to break the law. I support KF's right to exist, but not in this state.
I understand.

I'm growing my hair out and have started painted my nails and wearing dresses again, and the binders have gone back in a box. (I'm not trans but I like male clothing).

Likewise, I WANT to be out, especially since a lot of younger queer people are so very '!' when they see stable adult queer people, but unfortunately, the in-fighting means not only can I not trust the general populace to be chill, I can't trust my fellow queers not to throw me under the bus for being too 'privileged'. (Even though I'm poor and disabled, because all that matters is cis + white.)
True, but the potential must be possible given existing resources and political systems and not inhuman or utopian. EVs are possible and not utopian for the most part and so you are right. Although the energy crisis will heavily impact manufacture of EVs.

Another point: fertility drops massively in cities and this is an environmental concern as you need labour to transition industries at scale (e.g. nuclear plants, solar, wind, biomanufacture). Low birth rate dense cities are a recipe for disaster in terms of sufficient labour for a green transition.

The list of issues with the authors "I'm a misunderstood future hero" viewpoint goes on and on imo.
> Everything should be on the table, natural gas, fracking, nuclear.

That's a misinterpretation. Those are global numbers. Those people dying are dying primarily from exposure due to housing shortfalls, it's not an energy distribution problem. And it's absolutely not a problem due to (as you seem to imply) inappropriate regulation of fuels, which isn't happening anywhere anyway.

If you want to keep these people alive then cut a check to a global housing construction NGO. Letting GE build a reactor or BP dill a well does nothing.
> I think it's pretty doubtful to just attribute a suicide to some people who made fun of or harassed the deceased

Near literally said he was committing suicide due to the abuse from Kiwi Farms. If you're doubtful, it's because you're willfully ignorant.

https://twitter.com/near_koukai/status/1408986839743037448
Thanks, "Does not provide bus power" and upto 50 m (edit upto 100m). Sounds fantastic. Do you think you'd make wall ports out of them?

When searching for active cables, all I saw were 2m and providing 100 watts of power.
I was there and I cannot agree. I caution, in general, against mythologizing the past.

It was a wilder place, but so was the Wild West. Is Vegas less interesting than Tombstone?

I find it to be a different kind of interesting (and this one is far more convenient than what we had when it was AOL and BBSes).
> Cloudflare or any other privately owned company doesn't have an obligation to service everyone.

That's mostly true legally, but also irrelevant. We also have a right to criticize them for anything.

> They are not violating their free speech

They aren't violating the First Amendment, which is the legal concept. But what they are doing is corporate censorship, which is of course against the idea of allowing free expression.
It's interesting to observe this moral panic pattern repeat itself in so many areas of debate. I wonder if this is an immutable part of living in a society, or just an externality of the media's business model.
Your original post is now flagged/dead (seems hard to justify), so I'll respond here:

How do you make a judgment that some 12 yo kid is more at risk from having to wait for HRT approval due to not being able to find a sympathetic medical professional, vs the risk from being highly suggestible, unable to sensibly judge that HRT is the right solution and consequently causing permanent change to their bodies (including possible loss of fertility, and a number of other side-effects around blood clotting etc.) as they progress through puberty?
Undermining the whole concept of "science".

Perhaps with some justification, perhaps not. But if replication is impossible because of "irreducible complexity" (seems to be the argument?) then why bother with science at all?

Things are not that bad. But in some fields other approaches may be more productive.

For example clinical medicine may have more to contribute than scientific medicine. Psychological studies in particular are notorious for being impossible to replicate. Does not mean we should give up on psychology. It does not have to be science to be useful
Lossless compression to around 60% of WAV size. Also more widespread support for tags than with WAV. So even if you don’t particularly care about the space savings, converting to FLAC could still be beneficial.
It works great in our codebase; it uses the current text in the file from above your cursor as reference.
So if you're creating a new file, it isn't always perfect, but once it catches on to your style it's seamless.
In 1800, almost everyone was destitute by current standards, even prosperous merchants.

If you measure wealth by dollars or iPhone access, this tautologically true but it's not a good measure of how life was. A wealthy person had enough food, access to leisure, a large house with luxurious possessions and probably servants. Sure, health care might have been bad and they might have died of various epidemics. Their lives would have been far more appealing than the life of, say, someone working 60 hours per week in a factory (who has some health care but risks on the job injury and is worn down by the stress and routine - even if their cheap Android would have worth a trillion dollar in 1800).
Telegram doesn't encrypt any more than Discord: through https. Telegram offers a 1:1 e2e encryption option, but few use it, because it does not propagate to other devices.
How is the government involved in the decision made by a private company? I fail to see the point you're trying to make here. Also, I seriously doubt that Keffals is influencing the entire "government" (what country are we even talking about). Also, "attacking TOR"? Do you know by any chance how TOR works?
This. Every vaccination-is-dangerous paper I've seen suffers from this flaw. They always seriously downplay the risk of actually getting the infection, especially the risk of getting it for the first time.
It's New Jersey, home of organized criminals who can't make it in New York City.
Because it encourages recruits to cheat and hide things from leadership (instead of the only the adversary), and increases the risk of death.

In the military, one of the values is supposed to be integrity. The value of integrity isn't just idealistic: it's pragmatically important to military strategy to avoid committing war crimes, as it lessens public support for the military action among the citizenry. The public can then vote out the administration, where a future one can scale back the war effort. As evidence this is a value, the Navy SEALs in particular says [0]: "Uncompromising integrity is my standard. My character and honor are steadfast. My word is my bond."

On the health risk to recruits, from the NYTimes article : "It is hard to say what role performance-enhancing drugs played in one death when there are so many other complicating factors, said Dr. Matthew Fedoruk, the chief science officer of the United States Anti-Doping Agency. Even so, he said, the chemicals some sailors are relying on can interfere with the function of the heart, liver and other critical organs that are already under incredible stress from the brutal training.

"If enough people in a community are doping, he said, it spreads risk even to those who are clean, as the level of competition rises and more people are pushed to exhaustion and injury.

"“It makes it that much harder for the people doing the right thing to shine,” he said."

The military can either allow performance-enhancing drugs for all and provide adequate medical monitoring to avoid unnecessary deaths, or enforce the rules as written and test for it. Unnecessary deaths are in no one's interests within the country.

[0] https://www.nsw.navy.mil/NSW/SEAL-Ethos/
For many applications it is enough. For others, such as placing a UDS in a user's home directory or temp folder, it may not be. Often times you don't know ahead of time what the path may be.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/21/giving-u...
This sentiment towards not just discord, but the entire internet, is becoming increasingly common for a reason. I regret my time spent on the internet more and more with each passing day, and I've heard similar sentiments pop up like a shepard's tone in the dad's group I'm in.

Every parent wants their kids lives to be better than theirs were, for our parents, that meant things like not smoking and making sure your kids go to college. For the current generation, it's making sure they don't turn into dopamine addicts chasing an endless stream of outage and temporary group acknowledgement.