skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We'd have strong personal content curation tools to avoid things

That's missing the point completely.

Editorial policy isn't in order to "avoid" offending readers.

It's to avoid the spreading of harmful misinformation and disinformation, so that antivaxxers and holocaust deniers and election deniers aren't given a platform to infect other Americans with their lies. It's necessarily done at the point of transmission, not the point of reception.

Yes we have free speech in this country, so nothing's preventing you from telling your friends all that garbage in person or in private communications. But because we have free speech, private platforms that host speech have the freedom to deny their private platform to those spreading harmful lies. Or whatever they want to deny.

Go outside and shout your lies on the street, that's protected. But to expect a company to amplify you across the internet? Forget about it.

Also regarding your coffee shop -- if a customer buys a coffee, sits down and removes their jacket and is wearing a swastika T-shirt, of course the owner can kick them out, and any morally decent owner should. It's a private coffee shop. The owner is under zero legal or moral obligation to tolerate offensive speech within it.

Privately owned spaces are not public forums with free speech protections. End of story.
> We're probably short of copper.

While copper water pipes still have a market, I don't think we can claim to be short of copper.
There are many reasons why that won't work for a lot of people:

What if friends who have a variety of opinions just want to be able to communicate with each other?

Or what if someone wants to hear all the facts without censorship? Maybe the Hunter Biden's laptop story was true, but you wouldn't hear that on Twitter. Maybe Trump was very wrong about Invermectin, but you wouldn't hear that on Truth Social.

What if someone believes that open debate is better for democracy than a few alternative echo chambers?
Sydney gets almost double the rain that Dublin gets.

http://www.weather-guide.com/Weather-Comparison/Dublin-Sydne...
> My past experience with Haskell web frameworks was that there weren't many packages for common things, and that when there were they took quite a bit of integration work to use nicely.

Congralulations, you read an email address out of a database! Commiserations, it was parsed into a LazyByteString and the rest of your stack demands a Text or a String or a CuneiformCodepointArray or whatever...
"Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age"
April 2000 by Michael A. Hiltzik
Publisher: Harper Business, ISBN:978-0-88730-989-2

See the description of the book here https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.5555/518513
It's wise to care about the climate. It's wise to investigate human behavior's effect on climate. It's also wise to question investigations, their results, and especially their conclusions.

I don't know what a downside to getting off fossil fuels would be but its not hard to imagine some. Take this article for example : https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2016-06-15/what-is-an-ic... I seriously doubt the scientific basis for the statement "The Earth is due for another ice age now but climate change makes it very unlikely" but it's one idea.
Green energy requires massive amounts of energy to produce. The more we electrify vehicles and the more green energy in the grid, the greener it becomes to produce green energy.

I agree we need more manufacturing outside of Asia/developing countries, but the solution is definitely not to maintain the status quo of dirty energy just because we can’t make green energy under 100% ideal circumstances
There are so many easily addressable fallacies in this that I am not sure if I need to bother.

> If someones sole and only option was to work for Uber: Is Uber the one at fault here?

Nobody really cares who’s fault it is. Of course Uber is going to attempt to pay as little as they can for labor under existing laws.

> If Uber didn't exist and person had zero options, would this be neutral, worse, or better compared to the former scenario?

So, you mean if there was unfulfilled demand for transportation and a duopoly who abused labor didn’t exist?

> It's not a fallacy because people have different moral standards about whether you should be employed at $7.25 or unemployed at $15.

However, the real economy does actually exist and it is not possible to sustain any sort of lifestyle at $7.25 an hour. $15 is not even sustainable currently. So, to rephrase the question, should people working full-time be able to afford living in a house without government assistance, or should they be able to afford an apartment?

> Personally I consider it my absolute right to mow lawns at $5/day if I choose to do it.

I don’t think that grocery stores or landlords care about your beliefs. If you’re satisfied living in a tent by the interstate or outside and abandoned building, or at your parents house, or have a family or partner who can support you, that’s great. Otherwise, I suppose you can afford Steel Reserve, eat at a homeless shelter and sleep in a tent by the sidewalk at $5 an hour. However, such lifestyles incur significant expense to taxpayers.

> I work or I starve. If I don't work, and I don't starve - someone else must be working.

I have had jobs where I hardly worked at all, yet I received about 10 times minimum wage. Who is supporting the people in such positions?
You have a choice:

1) Say "you're so dumb" and everyone flags you, so you have little impact on the conversation

2) Don't say "you're so dumb", and enough people will vouch for you that your comments are visible
Oil has almost nothing to do with reserve currency status. They use dollars because it is the reserve currency, not the other way around.
What's interesting is that severity of punishment has very little effect, while certainty of punishment has a large effect.
What Lovelace Did: From Bombelli to Bernoulli to Babbage
That’s an opinion piece like a blogpost
The use of music (all original scores but beautifully using classical music too) is amazing too.

https://www.abc.net.au/classic/read-and-watch/music-reads/fi...
Interesting how the FTC paints these companies as evil, yet the FTC owns the (lack of) rules they are operating in.

People will always make what’s best for themselves within in their environment. If the FTC wants certain behaviors, they need to address it. If they fail to do that, it’s themselves they should blame.
Those were just kids games no? Monetizing something like that with the crazy fluctuations in prices seems incredibly problematic, kids can trade cards for sure, but when you tie money to every transaction it looks more like selling cigarettes to kids
> That's not the argument of peak oil. It's not about price or quantity of oil available in the planet. It's an argument about thermodynamics.

... that hasn't been the traditional argument behind peak oil, from its original adherents (checks notes) 70 years ago. The traditional theory is a pretty bare oil demand inevitably increases while fields run dry because we extract all the [usable] oil first--and one of the main points of the theory is to ask what you're going to do when you need oil and there is none left. It may be that newer adherents are arguing peak oil on the basis of energy-invested-on-energy-returned basis, but that's not the traditional argument for the theory.

While it is true that newer oil sources require more energy to extract, but that's not particularly relevant for a few reasons. For one, on current trends, it looks like demand for oil will peak well before economical supply of oil will be exhausted (which is the main point of the theory). But even being net-negative on energy production isn't necessarily a deal breaker, for there can well be cases where there's no realistic alternative to oil as an energy source due to its great energy density (see airplanes, for example).
The distinction the court is drawing isn’t about corporations versus non-corporations, but speech versus moderation.

You say moderation is about “editorial control” but that’s exactly the debate. Is Facebook moderation equivalent to the NYT deciding what to publish and not publish?

When someone reads a Facebook post, does anyone think that Facebook is the speaker? That legal fiction is attractive for various reasons, but I don’t think it’s such a slam dunk. I think there is a fair argument that Facebook is a pipe for someone else’s speech.
I may be biased since I have literally thousands of hours in pdx games, but honestly the games are only superficially complex, and they could really use additional complex8ty and meaningful mechanics.
Every now and then you hear about a leak at some company that was storing passwords in clear text. Thanks to password managers this only affects that one site, but it still makes me thankful for 2FA.
You seem not to understand what "reserves" actually means.

It does not exclude easily accessible material. It only excludes material not assessed yet because there has been no need to, as existing reserves will last more than long enough to perform further surveys.
There's no protection for free speech in the US only that the government can't make laws restricting it
A lot of your comments seem to be in the realm of "it doesn't matter what the law is, judges and juries will do what they want", which I partly agree with, but within the context of this debate we should assume that judges and juries will uphold the law. Otherwise, why are we debating the pros and cons of the law if nobody is going to uphold it?
If you speak with executives, you'll find that the explicit game is not the real game. In other words: if you find yourself being measured by the official measures, you are already losing.

It's easy to be cynical about this, but it's a universal truth, even outside of work life. Knowing the difference between the official game and the game actually being is part of being competent at whatever it is you're doing. Often, the real game is better, healthier and more productive than the two-dimensional rulebook you're given.
No, even if "climate change" was real.
Not sure what you're asking - within AWS or outside? You may be able to use external storage - there are hundreds of S3-compatible storage providers on the net, in addition to those offering filesystems, DB services, etc. Some of these are excellent, and avoid the downsides of the AWS services. (FWIW, all modern filesystems are databases, but most modern databases are crappy filesystems - we should be seeing much more convergence here than we are. But then I said that back in the 90's, too...)

But remember that AWS is designed to lock you in, especially for your data - that's why traffic in (or within AWS is free, but all outbound traffic is actually quite expensive. Transit charges alone can often be the deciding factor in avoiding AWS services.

Given that computers today are unimaginably more powerful than the largest computers of 2000 (a Raspberry Pi is roughly equivalent of a Cray or large mainframe then!), it's quite likely that you can actually do your work, run your company, etc. on resources that are far more affordable than our presently trendy morbidly obese software demands. Think about the info you really need - it's not usually all that large...
This is what I'm thinking; I've met a lot of uber drivers who work there because their kid entered high school and they want more flexibility in their schedule, or maybe they have a main job and like to do it to meet people/make some extra cash. The issue with Taxi's was that it was so regulated nobody was allowed to enter the market or otherwise innovate in it, and I feat that's what's going to happen to Uber and Lyft
There are no right answers.. My personal understanding is that any economic activity is directly proportional to energy spent and no of operations or movements... To explain with example.. Aws has many cloud services sql, ai, networking, etc... All of which can run on x86 arc.. All of x86 instruction set can be replaced as set of x86 MOV operations so only diff between different services is no of MOV instructions executed and how much energy it took to execute the operations... In conclusion you could say value = total no mov ops * energy consumed
If you're saying there's no evidence in terms of accounting audit for money going to addicts on Skid Row then, well, good luck with that bar of evidence.

I have seen him let the Whittaker family buy trolleys full of stuff from Walmart for their house. I have seen that prostitute (Angel maybe?) interviewed a second time after he paid for her rent and gave her money multiple times after the first video and it turned out she was just giving it to her pimp (and she doesn't refute any of this on camera).

So does he deserve total faith based trust, no, but it's easy to see enough of his videos where they are clearly benefiting from the funds and that's probably enough for many of us to say it's net positive.
Yes so change that then come back and make your argument. The 1st amendment can also be undone but I'm not making arguments as if that had happened
> Fun demo but who is this really for?

Would being able to create virtual devices like this be more useful for testing authentication flows, compared to having physical test devices?
Circa 2005 mplayer supported both “aalib” and “calib” output for black and Color ascii art respectively.
This is fantastic. Did you make this, cmdii? Why does it need to persist files locally? I thought that all that's necessary is the key. Is it for resident keys?

I'd like a virtual FIDO2 device where I have to type a password/passphrase when I launch it, and it derives a FIDO2 key from the passphrase. That way, I can have my 2FA device with me in my head, and still get all the anti-phishing benefits of WebAuthn.

Certainly, it's much easier for the passphrase to be stolen/keylogged, but it's a nice option to have.
They're very early in the space. Would recommend looping back with them on Monday in their Discord. Haven't seen that specific issues personally yet though.
I think mishearing a word causes an effect that feels something like a mental mispredict leading to a pipeline flush. There's definitely a delay to refill that pipeline.
The last 2 summers here in Sydney have been pretty much a writeoff due to the rain. And then before the double La Niña we had the bush fires of 2019 where the city had some of the worst air quality anywhere of the world. The (general shoddily built) houses just aren’t built for this weather - I’d say that more than half of my friends, family, and work colleagues have had to deal with mould in their apartments and houses.

A huge reason for living in Sydney is the quality of outdoor life, then combined with extensive lockdowns, insane housing prices, and an openly corrupt and overbearing state government, it’s not been a great place to live for a lot of the population in the last few years.
"Do you support raising your taxes by $X per year?"

This would be a biased question to ask, since the economic effect on a U.S. citizen couldn't be measured by the tax rate alone.
> A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld a Texas law that bars large social media companies from banning or censoring users based on "viewpoint," a setback for technology industry groups that say the measure would turn platforms into bastions of dangerous content

There are many reasons why those companies censor content and they usually have nothing to do with "viewpoints". If some partner demands I shut some content down, should I be forced to refuse and ruin that partnership? Let's not forget that public facing sections of social networks are just fronts for huge B2B operations.
2% of the value it had in 1970? I want to see your source for that.
If you're asking about California, we're about to start the rainy season.
Just because terms and conditions are similar doesn't mean there is collusion. Your claim is that this grouping of companies that isn't even well defined per the wiki article is taking actions as a unit
Ah, thanks! I didn't notice their Discord, I'll join right away.
One could look for more direct sources, but the summary is that energy payback happens in 1-4 years out of current 25 year "life". And that 25 years is typically a warranty to 80% of original capacity. Year 26 of operation is not a sudden drop.

https://www.solarmelon.com/faqs/solar-panels-use-energy-manu...
Sure: Enough support so that my life becomes sufficiently easier or more secure to be worth the cost.

I know that's a bit wishy-washy, but for example I think I could replace my memorized 1password password with something longer if I never had to enter it from memory, which would only be the case if I could use the Yubikey on all my devices.
C++ is like the English language. Extraordinarily popular, hard to learn, and full of weird cruft. You can write amazing things in it as well as terribly unsafe garbage.
master_me – a mastering plugin for live broadcasting
> You have been corrected on this point several times before.

You have repeatedly (across numerous HN threads) insisted that Concepts aren't just duck typing but that doesn't make it so.

> But Concepts can also implement named-property matching.

That's still just duck typing (and it's awkward to do properly). Contrast with the (eventually abandoned) C++ 0x Concepts, which actually has semantic weight to it. Concept Maps allow C++ 0x Concepts to have some sort of chance in a language that's already in widespread use, because you can adapt an existing type to the Concept using a Map.

But C++ 20 Concepts doesn't offer any of that, after about a decade it's just duck typing.
This seems like it could be substantially better than current systems.

It could be effectively a crowdsource / peer recommended model where you opt in to aspects of the bubbles. So my elderly parents could get some of the safety guidance mirroring mine (eg weeding out conspiracy thought or spam) but then also picking up aspects that mirror older peers (eg reflecting their more traditional tastes)

Right now there's a remarkable amount of undesirable content that gets through that ought to be easy to filter. On Twitter you see it a load with searches for regular terms that show up inappropriate content for the term, yet you don't want to set content filtering or it cuts things that are genuinely interesting but edgy!
Converse?
U.S. Safety Agency Warns People to Stop Buying Male-to-Male Extension Cords
They are doing it, just slowly and not worldwide yet.

Want to see peak WhatsApp? Check out the version of WhatsApp in India.
Every way to secure green energy requires some use of dirty energy.

So the only choice is between dirty forever, and dirty decreasing. If the latter, the faster it decreases, the less dirty energy you use on the transition.
You can do File, Save As in the Microsoft products as well. There's no significant difference.
I have now actually read the article. It seems that no sailors were harmed in it.

I really don't buy this article's premise.

Even a vessel with run only sails can plot a course by working out which bit of land is affecting the patch of sea they are traversing. In the areas where land doesn't have a direct effect, you get to play the usual lottery with wind and weather. Even when the wind is against them, they should be able to manage slightly better than a "abeam close reach" so go slightly against the wind.

"Modern mariners can tack against the wind by setting the sails at sharp angles. That wasn’t feasible 2,400 years ago because sails were fixed then."

No they were not "fixed" at all - look at the picture of the replica - it is running close hauled. The sail is tied off fore and aft and not at right angles to travel. The article literally contradicts itself with photo evidence. If you look really closely at the modern yacht with a Bermuda rig - it's sails are luffing!
It seems like you're trying to turn someone's objection to a weak argument into a weak argument itself by referring to it as an example of a "meme". I'm not sure I need to say anything else to be honest.
Agreed. Data privacy and security is so important, especially on mobile since it's our wallet, camera, etc that we need the system to help with permissions, data management etc. It is redundant to have a browser layer AND an operating system layer manage these separately.
We don't have to do that though.

Instead, we live in a democracy, and if these social media companies don't like it then they can move to a different country.

These laws are legal, according to the court system.

You are the one who is going to have to find a different country if you don't like them.

The big companies lost. Deal with it.
I played every AA game as well, with the exception of finishing AAI2. The second case was such a slog with an unsatisfying payoff, but I'll have to try it again some time. I loved AAI1.
The fact that there's a claimed generational gap here speaks more to the values of the generations re: passive vs active entertainment. I could also ask: "Why do all these 60-Somethings have the TV on as background noise while doing other tasks?"

To me it seems closed-caption usage is correlated with actually paying attention to television consumption.

People who have their TV on at all hours, as background entertainment to support their lifestyle, tend to not use CC. Why should they? The words literally don't matter, it's just an aesthetic.

People who actually desire an immersive experience, who deliberately pay attention to the shows they watch, tend to care about CC since it complements the audio & visual nicely. I don't have any evidence for this but I'd wager that plot synthesis and comprehension of television shows is greatly improved by CC. Or maybe it's that people who use CC tend to value and perform better at synthesis and comprehension? Regardless of causality, CC seems related to an individual's desire for more active entertainment.
> This is what the "modules" feature in C++20 addresses.

This is the perennial "If you only used modern C++, you'd be fine."

Sorry. People have been repeating this for 15 years, and it hasn't gotten any more true.

For example, C++ still doesn't have a useful string type--everybody rolls their own. How do you interoperate when 2 different C++ libraries can't even agree on something as basic as what a "string" is? The existence of "header-only" libraries and the contortions they go through is a tacit admission that compiling and linking C++ is still a disaster. C++ still doesn't have a stable, documented ABI--so everybody defaults to C (thus throwing away any theoretical usefulness C++ might have). Embedded shuts down 90+% of C++ beyond "C with classes" because they can't use exceptions and can't allocate memory dynamically. The preprocessor is a brain parasite that has grown with C/C++ and can't be removed anymore without killing the host. etc.

In fact, I would argue the lack of stable ABI is the only thing propping C++ up. Because the C++ ABI is so shitty, you have to make the top-level code C++ which then calls into the other libraries and subsystems which actually have useful, stable and documented ABIs and interfaces.

If C++ had an ABI that didn't suck, you could invert that, drive the C++ from the better language, and everybody would relegate C++ to increasingly tinier libraries until they could excise the remaining code and throw it into the trash.

I feel for the people who put in their entire lifetime trying to "improve" C++. However, it's time to admit that C++ can't be fixed and move on.

How amazing would it be to have people like Stroustrup and Sutter being paid to work on a language that doesn't start with unfixable suckage?
> No 2fa device has sufficient support that it could be used to unlock the lockscreen of any of my devices either.

Remember, 2fa is your second factor. It’s right there in the acronym. It is there to protect against a bad actor stealing your password.

By definition, a second factor won’t improve the ergonomics of logging in.
Tig combined with this vim plugin is big part of my workflow: https://github.com/iberianpig/tig-explorer.vim