skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best, recent example I have is Nick Fuentes. I'd only read from journo pieces making vague accusations (referencing other journo pieces) that he's a white nationalist, or seen clips of him trolling CPAC, so I've always been curious what he's actually about.

Seeing a mainstream interview with Louis Theroux and debate livestream with Destiny quickly outs him as a white nationalist with an incoherent worldview.

If the only way to hear his ideas, directly from his mouth, are on his platform in a dark corner of the internet you're only going to get his one-sided propaganda.
Great analogy. Poetical. Actually your first version (before editing) was more poetical but I understand that many of us may be too biased to find it funny: "king-funded javascript charlatans attempting to transmute lead into gold."
In a lot of ways, the extreme wealthy providing that better life deprives the majority of providing their kids a better life. The state could fund things that meaningfully improve the lives of many kids at the expensive of generational wealth transfer for a few. Conceivably, the kids of extreme wealthy would still have been given a massive leg up — it’s just that they would have to contribute (or eat a tax, realistically they’re still probably able to do nothing in many cases).

Also it’s entirely possible to set a floor before a tax kicks in to allow some token transfer of wealth, but yeah there’s a huge difference between a moderate transfer of wealth like a (average) home and rebasing millions and millions of asset wealth, a fleet of homes, etc.
Because everything smaller than an int is usually promoted to int. int is the 'word' in C that things are calculated in. Even character constants are ints, all enum constants are ints, the default type was int when default types were still a thing.
Strongly agree with you. A lot of the big problems, such as climate change, are things we stumbled upon as we advance as a society/economy/civilization.

You cannot expect some random individual (say for example an exec at Shell) to take it upon himself to save the world. He would not be allowed to, if he tried.

This feeling of uneasiness that we are feeling is because social and political technology has not advanced enough to keep pace with the rapid advancement of our economy.
> Samsung did not 'lose' anything.

Well there is DLP: "Data Loss Prevention is the practice of detecting and preventing data breaches, exfiltration, or unwanted destruction of sensitive data."
Companies hate regulation but they love to give plenty of reasons why regulation is needed.
I don’t know how we’re still retreating to “private companies can do what they want” in the free speech debate on HN. It’s clear that those who want Kiwi Farms gone are resorting to illegal means such as DDoSing to get what they want. A very small number of companies like Cloudflare can effectively defend against this. In this position they act as utilities, a category of private businesses that is held to strict standards of free speech. Sadly the law has not caught up to this reality.

In their market position, Cloudflare has the power of a small government. In American capitalist society in particular, there’s increasingly no daylight between large corporations and the government. If the big companies say you can’t speak, what good is the right?

What Cloudflare appears to have done is cave to a Twitter mob in violation of their own stated principles and common sense. This has irreparably harmed not only Cloudflare’s reputation, but the prospects for free and open speech on the Internet.
The history of man is famines. Mass starvation deaths. We live in an era of unprecedented abundance. For now. The next famine will happen and like every long delayed event will be much worse than the last one thanks to collective loss of planning for now to weather it during the long summer of plenty. The alternative is famine has been solved forever…this seems very unlikely.
Wasn’t QE introduced to deal with the last round of this? I think the real problem has been the way wealth has been concentrating since the 1980s — the thing all of this has in common from the dotcom bubble on has been wealthy people sitting on huge piles of cash but looking for high return “investments” rather than building real businesses. The first real estate bubble was fueled in part by the large sovereign oil funds looking to recoup their losses from the dotcom bubble, and that’s the same source as much of Uber’s funding.

A carbon tax would help with that one in particular but it’s seemed for a while that we just need more pure taxation on passive returns & wealth to discourage accumulation on that scale. The economy just doesn’t work efficiently with a handful of people making so many decisions, especially when they mostly weren’t capable of making that much money with their own skills.
I feel that the App Store is really a monopoly since the Play Store is something else (it uses your personal data to sell ads, something I want to stay far away from).

Also, competition law seems to be way too simple. We should have at least 10 similar-sized competitors in this field, yet we are stuck with this duopoly.
Show HN: I built a url builder library for JavaScript
A couple of days ago on a Whatsapp group chat with couple of my friends, we were talking about urls, http methods etc when I realized that sometime in the past I had experienced issues building urls so I just created this to satisfy that itch plus it seemed like a cool side project.
All suggestions are incredibly welcome
Ok.. But where are the nazis again? This is about DDoS protection and a site that certain people don't like having it.
> It's basic paradox of tolerance stuff.

I don't think you've actually read what Popper said about the paradox of tolerance. For your education:

> If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.—In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise.
Absolutely. And at the end of the page, you will see the exact DM's I am referencing between null and near. What exactly do you think I'm leaving out? How null insensitively and defensively perpetuated the idea that the suicide was faked?

Furthermore the KYM page is convenient for other uninformed readers, but it is obviously incomplete and not a primary source of information for me because I watched this entire episode unfold in real time.

This situation is highly nuanced. However, the KYM page gives fair treatment to the issue.
No Keffals said that destiny is a rapist

https://streamable.com/ti9rgx
seems normal: different mechanisms creating almost the same symptoms. a few different sources from googling protanopia vs deuteranopia:

> Why is protanopia like deuteranopia? Red and green colorblind deficiencies (deuteranopia and protanopia) are very similar, as these cones often overlap. Therefore, protanopia and deuteranopia can often eliminate the ability to see both red and green, showing the world in vibrant blues and yellows, as well as very similar browns, oranges, reds, and greens.

> People with deuteranomaly and protanomaly are often incorrectly diagnosed collectively as ‘red-green’ colour blind because both types generally have difficulty distinguishing between reds, greens, browns and oranges. They also commonly confuse different types of blue and purple hues and many other colour combinations.

> The answer is that dichromatic colorblindness is imitated by assuming two of the three types of receptors receive the same light input. In deuteranopia, for example, the assumption is that the neural receptors expecting medium (M) and long (L) wavelength light are both receiving signals from cones with long (L) pigments. This results in the yellow you noticed. Note also that deuteranopia and protanopia don’t result in exactly the same hue of yellow because of the difference between their peak sensitivities. In one case it is assumed all signals are coming from L pigments and in the other all from M pigments.
My experience wouldn't be representative - my rate is higher and I'm picky about the clients & projects I choose (I prefer quality over quantity and have long-running projects to take up all my downtime anyway).

What I meant to say is that given what's happening in my inbox, if you weren't picky about what work you take on, at the 500 mark you should still be able to fill up pretty much an entire year's worth of work by actually following up on all those emails.

> A lot of the negative stories I've been hearing seem to be about gigs only lasting a few months now instead of being 6/12 initially and maybe renewing like before

Agreed, though in my case I've always preferred short-term gigs so not really a problem in my book. I feel like if you need someone for 12+ months, it looks like an employee might be more appropriate.

> I think they typically do charge rates a bit higher than £500 though so maybe there's just less work available at that level or more competition for each gig.

Correct - I believe that in the current market, you can get a continuous stream of work at 500. Beyond that it gets tougher.
A refund does not make you a non paying customer. In the same way getting injured by a faulty product can't be resolved with "fully refunded, they're not our customer anymore".

Accepting payment makes some obligations more real. As a free user you accept whatever tos apple throws at you and that's it. As a paying customer you buy a service, with many protections that includes. (depending on your country)
It's funny that they want their kids to live?

Most of these people have families that they are trying to shelter.
I don’t know if you can compare the two.

The Kiwifarms owners should be in jail for inciting others to commit psychological harm on people while the Pornhub owners should be in jail for knowingly exploiting underage and non consenting women.

That’s two very different reasons. But I fully expect the libertarians of HN in full swing explaining to us how it’s the death of free speech and justifying the worst exploitative behaviours because freedom as libertarians like to do.
Worse than malware, eventually you'll get people dropping (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_Killer)s for the lulz.
That you have linked a propaganda state media, instead of an actual UN report :D

Srsly though, you clearly aren't dumber than an average journalist, so why not cut the middleman and read UN reports by yourself?

You'd be surprised how stuff gets rephrased to have completely different interpretation. Or, even better, gets omitted. E.g you won't see BBC reporting on UN report A/HRC/24/52/Add.1, much less under the headline "Britain may have committed crimes against humanity towards POC - UN"
Ultimately they understood it was the people, not the product that made money
Douglas Rushkoff concludes the article implying his clients might be on the cusp of realizing if anyone is in a position to slow, halt, and/or reverse the forces leading to The Event it is those clients asking him questions.
This helped and I finally generated something larger than 256x256 :D thanks
22,000 smart thermostats in Colorado locked over ‘energy emergency’
Where I work bigger projects have some dedicated devops people to set up infrastructure build common images the whole team uses and sit next to people working on their pipelines to help. Smaller projects its all developer driven because there is no overhead and no ine to synchronize infrastructure with.
Third question is wrong. It's implementation defined, because unsigned short might be the same rank as unsigned int in some implementations, in which case it remains unsigned when promotion occurs.
> I wonder what you will say when you will be forced to pay 90% tax on all of the inheritance.

Wouldn’t that be paid by the estate between the death of the deceased and the inheritor getting the assets?

> Want to keep your parents house? Pay 90% of it's value to the government or the government takes it.

My experience in the UK is the opposite problem exists in reality — the UK has inheritance tax, which my parents’ assets seem to have totally avoided, because my dad looked at the rules at made sure his assets were under the threshold by (1) giving my siblings and I a lot of gifts well before he died, and (2) turns out physical items such as the antiques (not many) and the stamp collection (how much!?!) is the kind of thing the government value (or valued past tense, IANAL) in aggregate as £1.

The cunning ploy of giving away money is, practically speaking, quite difficult to solve.
That has been tried and it results in wealth exodus.

France reversed that suicidal policy within one year.
Neat quiz. Reminds me that the absolute value of INT_MIN in C (and many other languages) is undefined, but will generally still return a negative value. This is a "gotcha" that a lot of people are unaware of.

> abs(-2147483648) = -2147483648
Has anyone designed a Hangul-like alphabet that supports IPA (or even just English) phonemes?
> It is difficult to motivate people (outside academia) to learn it and use it for something productive.

The main reason I suggest people learn Haskell:

"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing." – Alan Perlis

Just kidding, I have bills to pay, too. But my standard for whether it's worth learning another langage is quite a bit higher now.

I definitely felt that learning Haskell improved my non-Haskell programming by making me more conscious (and cautious) of the impacts of using state. And more aware in retrospect when that has been the cause of wasted days debugging.
This is why crypto will remain.
Real life bullying is complicated because you can hardly avoid it. Work or a school are real places you have to visit.

The same is not true for anything internet. When I was growing up as a teen the internet was just about to grow into the first e-commerce bubble around y2k. Not linking your real identity to online accounts was common sense and thought to people everywhere.

People seem to have forgotten this. The internet is not a real place. You enable yourself to be cyberbullied by sharing your identity. It can be entirely avoided, easily.
There's no evidence that Apple is refunding banned developer accounts, either for the yearly developer fee or for unpaid App Store sales.

In fact, a few of my indie developer friends have gotten their monthly App Store payments held up by Apple while Apple investigates so-called "unusual activity" (which turned out to be nothing).
Is there any meaningful difference between a heat pump and an air conditioner, other than the direction the heat is pumped in?

Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that an air conditioner is a type of heat pump?
That's a pure hydrogen-oxygen mix and with optimal ratio.
Oh come on, this is absurd. Anyone who has ever browsed kiwifarms knows that the site is in fact dedicated to doing such things.
KF is a shitty place full of shitty people and its members almost certainly violated the law. But they didn't do it on Kiwi Farms. You can't harass somebody by posting comments on your own website. If "conspiracy to harass" is a crime you could commit that, but I've read page after page without seeing that and I haven't seen any screenshots of it that weren't reported and removed either.
“They'll sell you a service to screen the speech of others and then pass it onto you or not, at their decision.”

The problem with your logic here is that you’re considering the voluntary filtering of messages by a party as being the same as stifling someone’s ability to say something. The filtered party can still say what they want but the intended recipient should always have the ability to ignore that if they so choose.

“CloudFlare's own terms of use for their Email Forwarding product is very clear that they will squelch your speech as well”

The difference between controlling what gets sent out by their email service is more a question of legal liability than free speech. They are not limiting anyone’s ability to give free speech within the confines of the law here.

To make a stronger argument maybe you need to create a stronger definition of free speech than what is defined by law to prove any violations on CF’s part.

In the case of KF, CF has only suspended them on what they could identify as undealt-with legal violations. This is fundamentally different from revoking services to silence unsavory takes.

I also imagine the doxxed information on the platform (KF) is removed after a time so attacking the whole platform at this point just seems like an effort to stifle a community with subjectively unpleasant ideologies.
There is a big push in Europe to replace gas central heating boilers with heat pumps, from before there were any problems with the supply of gas, I think the information available on them will improve quite quickly.

My brother has installed one for his house but I have not done yet.
What is this guy on about.
The entire article is just filled with pseudo conjecture and hate for some rich guys who want to build bunkers in the desert.

What is obvious is that this guy hates society and capitalism - so in that regard he stays true to form for marxists.
Checked out his wikipedia page and got none the wiser.
A problem arises when those private companies--especially in the aggregate--elect not to do business with you. At some level I suppose you don't need to do business with Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon... But most would find it difficult. Maybe add the one ISP you have available.
Europe’s Energy Crunch Squeezes World’s Largest Particle Collider
https://archive.ph/wip/CyShP
He does say on the first page: All other things being equal, assume GCC/LLVM x86/x64 implementation-defined behaviors. Are there any normal, modern machines where short and int are the same size? I think the last machine where that was true was the 8086.
Slightly ironic that it says you don't need variables, then in the example (and without comment) simulates one
Technology connections on YT has a fantastic video on heat pumps, how they work, their energy efficiency… highly recommended
Great essay. 12 years in (well, 24 if you count my HTML dabbling as a youngster), and it's already felt like forever. I can see myself programming for life, so this was inspiring for me.
At the same time these folks have all the incentives to provide false information instead.
Why are you assuming they are the same people?

Another assumption: why do you think the people involved are the ones concerned with one-upping their neighbors? And one can both work to fix societal problems and prepare for a worst case scenario.
The phenomenon of children not knowing where their meat comes from is recent. For thousands of years, society was mostly agrarian. Children survived and were not traumatized. I suspect the downvotes you are seeing are due to people feeling like you are overstating your case, being somewhat dramatic, and a little off topic.
I am Amine. An introvert and an indie hacker. Let's get to know each other
Indie hackers are not only people coding 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

We have a lot of other things that we maybe don't speak about much or people just don't know.

So I would like to give a chance to people to get to know me.

You can Ask me Anything you want to know about me here and I will reply to all of you.

Hit reply and share fun stories about you too if you feel like it.

You can also ask me anonymously at https://ngl.link/theamineaouragh.

I will post screenshots of my answers to the anonymous questions on my Twitter at https://twitter.com/theamineaouragh
I like HeatGeek and once you start watching them, you’ll get plenty of other recommendations.

Here’s a reasonable get started video of his: https://youtu.be/D8pvXDk_KAA

I’d expect to get 15-20 years from a well-installed air-source heat pump. That’s not as long as an old, atmospheric boiler, but isn’t that much shorter than a modern modcon boiler in terms of what I’d expect.

Even if you got only 10 seasons, I think it would pencil out in most climates/electric prices, provided it can make all your heating load. (It was too questionable for my house, so I’ve had to pass for now, but will be plumbing the system to allow an easy addition of air-to-water to the primary loop.) Given that you’re 18 years without central heat, I’d expect you could get away with just a heat pump.
> I found how people are using heatpumps to heat the water at 40-55°C, that water can be used to warm the house.

This would only work for heating though and would have a significant latency (you have lots of thermal inertia in the system). Why not go with standard reversible A/C units which not only would also provide cooling capability but process the air locally so you don't have to wait for pipes/radiators to warm up before actually getting heat?
the only place that is going to be physically far from any fallout is going to be off-planet. Wind & rain go everywhere.
It sounds like something fancy but it’s common where I live. It’s usually hot all year round so it made sense to buy an air conditioner with a heat pump built in. Although it’s been a few years since we last turned it in because it’s never cold enough to justify the electricity usage given the always high prices here in Europe. So perhaps it doesn’t even work anymore :P
Do heat pumps still have a high enough efficiency at temperatures of over 150 degrees to justify the investment? I suppose the theoretical efficiency is still around 300% but I'm not sure how close heat pumps can get to the theoretical limits.
Individual prepping might be more common in the USA but Sweden has a big public bunker programme which is being expanded at present.
“At the beginning sure…”

Not even at the beginning. It’s laughable to intimate that a Crown monopoly and something exclusively owned by members of Parliament is anything but state-owned enterprise. The Company even struggled for the first half of the 17th century until Parliament pursued more heavy-handed mercantilism after the English Civil War.

The author writes: “one of the exemplars of administration that found success was the British East India Company. They ruled over an empire, created an empire in point of fact, and seemed to only be dislodged through the Queen’s velvet glove smacking them on the head, dissolving it in 1874 by government decree.”

This take is painfully revisionist. The Company was already suffering rot by the late 1700s culminating in the impeachment of Warren Hastings and later the revocation of its monopoly in 1813 (when Britain turned to more “liberal” economic policy). People like Adam Smith, Thomas Paine, and Edmund Burke throughly condemned a corrupt political system that kept this zombie entity alive.

For a more realistic overview, especially on the intimate links between government and the Company, I recommend Nick Robins’ The Corporation that Ruled the World and Priya Satia’s Empire of Guns.
> That only leaves libertarians but most of them are just conservatives too embarrassed to call themselves conservatives.

That's a ridiculous mischaracterization of libertarians.

As for defending porn, widespread availability of porn has been associated with reductions in all kinds of sexual assault. Furthermore, "the left" is a small portion of "liberals", and moderates who consider the legality of porn to have been decided long ago.
On x86 systems like 8086 short and int were the same size. And that appears to be a footnote they've added after being called out for being wrong. The question gives "implementation defined" as an option and in other questions seems to specify the ABI, and in some assumes it without saying again. Very inconsistent, they should fix their quiz really.

The last x86 processor I know of to have these sizes is 80286.