skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Or alternatively, to make sure they have opportunities to acquire those skills.

I think it depends what level of interpersonal skills we're talking about. If we're talking about baseline interpersonal skills like "being polite" and "understanding the other person's position before disagreeing with it", then I agree it's appropriate to hold the less-powerful person responsible for acquiring those skills.

But some of the tips in this article are more advanced, next-level skills that can be difficult to develop. And even with these skills, there's no guarantee of success if the more-powerful person is too egotistical. A failure mode I've seen is that the less-powerful person is actually being polite and reasonable, but the more-powerful person's manager doesn't want to hold them accountable for their egotism, so the manager says the less-powerful person needs to work on their interpersonal skills instead. (Related: https://lethain.com/hard-to-work-with/)
It does when the block is for everyone, not just the people who asked to not see it.

Giving people option to filter out what they don't want to see is fine; but the moment when (aside from reporting illegal stuff) you block content for user B because user A asked, it quickly becomes picking a side and censoring the other side.
I have an old Lenovo X220 with removable battery. Unfortunately the mobile carriers shut down the whole US 3G network (or at least around here) with hardly anyone batting an eye, so now my old phones are effectively bricked. I grimaced and got a Moto phone with an integrated battery, but made sure that replacing it is not too hard. Replacement cells are not too expensive, and swapping packs is a matter of taking out a bunch of tiny little screws and putting them back in, but no messing around with insanely fiddly and breakable connectors like (some) iphones have.

I have played with the idea of 3d-printing a replacement back for some other phone, just to be able to use standard batteries (18650 or whatever) in it.
Swatting is illegal. If Kiwi Farms or its members are implicated in illegal activities then it should be handled through the legal system where due process is respected.
My personal view on this is that it’s because the soundtracks are so poorly modulated for volume that either the tv is way too loud when the action scenes/musical score happens and if you turn it down, you can’t hear when people are talking so people put their tv on a normal volume and turn cc on so they can read the 15% of the dialogue that is hard to track
>I associate CC with the one place I ever see them - at the laundromat

never watched anything in a foreign language? It's just familiarity, after a while you get used to reading and watching at the same time.
I do think humans are easy to fool but so far only in extremely constrained scenarios. E.g., limited to chat bots. But that’s not what I’m talking about here. To fool people in the manner that’s being discussed, robuts would need to fool people with buddy language and on a subconscious level. So much more of how we communicate is beyond reading words on a screen. Consider the uncanny valley that is still prevalent with deep fakes. Getting better for sure, but that’s still constrained to premise video. To be able to do that in person in real time is a much larger problem.

The other examples appear to me as magnifications of mental illness instead of generalizable scenarios, possibly including the Google employee when you consider his background.
They mix sound differently now as well. I can’t follow speech in many shows and movies because voice volume is low and the background crap is too high.

Ditto with excessive darkness.
Your phrasing is odd. 2FA devices do not support websites. Websites support 2FA options. The problem isn't 2FA devices, but services not supporting 2FA. U2F/FIDO are standard at this point and many tech-related services support them; certainly, effectively all 2FA devices support them.

2FA is redundant for unlocking physical devices. Access to the device itself is already a second factor.

The point of 2FA is that someone MUST physically take something from you to gain access, which greatly limits attack vectors. If you use 2FA properly, the only thing you need to worry about for account security is whether you still have your 2FA key on you.
> Is the energy that a solar panel generate in its life enough for its normal use, plus extracting the minerals that it's made of, plus push the panel, through the ocean all the way from China? or are we fooling ourselves using oil for all that?

This is such a thoroughly debunked line it's barely worth discussing.

Here's a sufficient proof.

The dirtiest cheapest coal is about $1-2/GJ at the mine front. A good brown coal power plant is about 50% efficient.

Current unsubsidized solar module cost (not whole project) for large scaleprojects is in the $0.2-0.3.

At 25% capacity factor a dollar of solar at $0.3 will produce 500MJ over 20 years and still be 80% productive.

Thus even if the only activity required to build a solar panel were burning brown coal as it comes out of the ground, it could not be profitable to burn more fossil fuels than the energy the panel released.
rust binaries are statically linked, that's the big difference. If you included all the libc code statically in most c programs they'd probably also be pretty big
Hot take: western apps stole the super app concept from Chinese companies specifically wechat.

Hot take2: The proliferation of video and streaming was driven by the Chinese. Who's language is much harder to type on a phone, their app stores this media was exploding and western apps started to copy without really knowing why it was popular.
The caption used has a bit of FOMO(fear of missing out) psychology involved because sometimes the actors mumble a bit or talk a little too fast during action scenes
Snapchat has had a Mountain View office for almost 5 years.
I just did a bike tour of Italy using this. It is absolutely fantastic and I've set up a monthly donation to them. Will be even happier when they get GPX imports working!
An email to the CEO (eric.vaughan@ignitetech.com)

Subject: FogBugz debacle. You fucked up!

… and it’s on you to fix it.
No idea what I’m talking about? Search Twitter for FogBugz - you’ll get it quick enough.

At some point in the past I had a trial for some product made by Fogcreek - we are talking 10 years back or so. The trial is long expired and forgotten about. Until today, that is, when I received an email purporting to charge $31 to my “prepaid account”.

I’ll remind you of a quote on your website:
> Our current customers are our only focus, and each should expect excellence from every aspect of IgniteTech. If at any time you believe we are falling short, the buck stops on my desk.

It’s on you to fix this, for everyone that got this, there are thousands of developers and business owners who got similar emails today. Perhaps your business model is intentionally to go invoice trolling, in which case my next email will be to the state AG. But I’m going to assume incompetence or inadvertence before malice and suggest that you address this quickly - perhaps on Twitter or a blog post.
A supermajority is not required to pass a bill. If the democrats really wanted to fix healthcare they could vote to lower the Medicare age to zero tomorrow.
I got the "invoice" as well.

They don't have any payment method for me, so I assume they will let the invoice sit for 90 days, then send it to collections.
A lot of movies have awful mastering and action scenes are ear-splittingly loud, while dialogue is quiet.
> Wyden, now a Senator, stated that he intended for Section 230 to be both "a sword and a shield" for Internet companies, the "sword" allowing them to remove content they deem inappropriate for their service, and the shield to help keep offensive content from their sites without liability. However, Wyden warned that because tech companies have not been willing to use the sword to remove content, they could be at risk of losing the shield.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230#Platform_neutralit...

Given that hate speech (the context of that quote) is very often political and/or protected free speech, I don't think one of the two authors of the bill agrees with how you're interpreting it.
Ha, as crazy as this sounds, it’s actually a viable option. I live in a downtown area that has these free antique trolleys. I could just hop on and take a loop.
I bet you own some toys you don't use, too.

A yacht and a luxury apartment ain't worth spit in the context of the global economy. Besides, they might be good investments.
https://answers.gethuman.com/Meetup-com/How-Do-I-Contact-Cus...
Most production are not made with the passable quality of reproduction that a sound bar provides in mind.

Mix are made for a THX compliant setup where the center speaker is responsible for over 50% of the dialog delivery. If you skimp on the center speaker quality and placement, the dialog mix gets muddy quite quickly.
Oof... ADL scares me, but I don't know which load(...) you're referring to. src/serialize.cpp has a single such function call, am I supposed to avoid using the name `load` or qualify it with the namespace path (perhaps I shouldn't have nested namespaces so deeply, but I don't want to change it now)? Everything seemed to compile and work fine the last time I touched this codebase.
Your post is a great example of analogies not being HN users strong point.
Why do so many kids need glasses now?
https://archive.ph/CVIZ6
Audio mixing has been absolutely terrible in so many productions that I started using subtitles a few years back and then I got used to them.

If I want to really focus on the movie I usually turn the subtitles off because sometimes the subtitles are ahead of the scene a bit and then it spoils some key moments slightly. HOWEVER, when I fail to understand a word and the subtitles are off I rewind, turn them back on, and just leave them that way. If audio mixing was consistent and good I would leave them off.
Quite a lot, seems like:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/187549/facebook-distribu...
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For the record, I’m not pushing for mandates. They will fail.

I’m just saying that n95 masks are highly effective at preventing the transmission of airborne illnesses such as COVID regardless of whether anyone else wears a mask, along with my observation that the West detests masks ie. I’m not recommending a solution. I’m lamenting the stupid and illogical behavior of people, even educated ones
C++ doesn't really have a "backend" like the JVM does; its ABI is already too weak to be used across shared libraries. So there's not as much need to mix a new language with existing C++.

Worse, because C++ libraries are gigantic header files, you have to support 100% of the language to use them.
Texas is setting itself up to be a huge regulatory counterweight to California.

1. We had the finance ruling related to fossil fuels.

2. We had the abortion ruling.

3. We now have this.

This is going to be a huge shift politically. California, given the size of its economy, has often been a defacto regulatory power across the US. Given California's energy issues and high debt levels, their influence may wane even further.

What I find even more fascinating is that Texas has a heavy libertarian bent coupled with cultural conservatism while California is the opposite. Neither, in my opinion, are bastions for freedom proper.

May you live in interesting times they say...
> Upon the expiration of the initial period, or at any time thereafter, APNIC shall consider a request by Cloudflare for a permanent allocation of these IPv4 addresses to Cloudflare. APNIC undertakes to refer any such request to the regional Address Policy Special Interest Group as a matter of a change to the current research use designation of these IPv4 addresses, and APNIC shall be bound to the outcomes of this policy group.

Looks like Cloudflare are about to make a sizable "donation" to APNIC.
They clearly should have called the two first tools Dipherential and Diphusion
I think it’s this, if you want to have the volume at a level where conversations are understandable, the action scenes or other “high tension” moments are way too loud, and you spend your evening ride the volume control…
Pretty sure practice also improves that. Even lip reading is possible with enough practice. And for sure accents understanding improve pretty fast if you bend your mind to it. The danger there for me is if I am trying to get a new accent, I might start copying the accent or word choices a bit and embarrass myself. Humans are amazingly flexible in what we can do without thought, after a bit of practice.
Who decides which is the platform and which is the bubble? Seems like Twitter wants to define moderation policies (probably because they think that getting people to value Twitter means placing an some rules on the conversation). Who gets to say that they are a platform forced to carry all bubbles?
I wish there was a CC mode for “I’m not deaf, I just don’t catch the quiet mumbly dialog sometimes so give me captions only of the dialog.”

Bonus if it’s delayed by exactly 2 seconds, so that it doesn’t spoil jokes, and I can quickly reference it if I missed something someone said (helping me avoid fixating on the captions.)

Because it’s the CC descriptions of music swells and things like “[laughs] and “[crying]”, etc that are distracting for me, and not needed.

What’s worse, sometimes they ruin comedic timing by putting the punchline on the screen before the setup has finished (or logical equivalent of a punchline… comedy is often found in timing) and the captions ruin the timing.
Yeah I end up laughing too early. If I know it is going to be funny, I will move my eyes up to the faces.
Good time to mention the story "Manna – Two Views of Humanity’s Future"

https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

It essentially offers two different futures:

1. A dystopia view of the current trend of having more and more things automated

2. A utopian view

#1 is decidedly more Black Mirror and #2 is more Star Trek: Next Generation
Hi there fellow techie!
Phabricator works with patches, not branches. Kind of like how Linux kernel development works, except instead of attaching a patch file in an email and sending to a mailing list, the patch gets uploaded via a CLI tool (arc) and reviewed in a web interface.
So free speech = free access to a high volume of people?
C++ is not even close to being a legacy language. New C++ projects are started every single day.
Buy a sound system. I now have a 3.1 setup and can hear the dialogue. A dedicated center channel makes a huge difference. Its amazing.

Many AVRs can also adjust it so the dialogue is louder, but I haven't found a need.
In our house captions went on the same day our first baby came home from the hospital and haven't been turned off since. Captions let parents of small children enjoy entertainment without bothering kids who may be sensitive to noise.
Weight: 3D measurement

Height: 1D measurement

Better to use Waist circumference, since it's a 2D measurement, combined with one of the others if you want a linear scale. The Japanese fat tax uses waist measurement alone.
Not every operation. It's manual but easily automated. https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs-auto-snapshot
The lack of an /s tag strikes again...
Sadly `if constexpr (requires {})` was not implemented in MSVC until VS2022, which was not even released when I tried using it and backed out because it wouldn't build on MSVC, and is still a new and less-adopted compiler than 2019: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/requires-claus...
"Code of Conduct" is an unnecessarily formal way of saying "forum rules", but no-one would say a forum is better if you don't write a rules page.

(But the point of forum rules is to constrain the mods, not the users.)
If you're going to perform a bunch of floating point ops and are not using interval arithmetic to precisely bound the result (and perhaps constructive real arithmetic, if you want guarantees of tight-enough bounds), you'll need a numerical analysis class as well. Real analysis will teach you about the theory of how real numbers are defined, but computation and the need for approximate results throughout bring challenges of their own.
I think I could write a yelp clone in 3 weeks. The product is not the hard part. Getting people to use it is.
To be fair, video games are different to a lot of other types of software, in the sense that performance is absolutely critical but (certain types of) bugs can often be excused.

One could see why it's more important for a game dev to have a language that forces your mental models to more closely match what the hardware is actually doing, rather than using abstractions that make it less likely that you'll introduce bugs.
> Why does it have to be calculus?

It doesn't, but it has to be something. So the proposal isn't 'get rid of calculus' as much as 'replace it with X which will be better at achieving the outcomes we think are important'. Like the original article did with statistics, which is a decent proposal.

That being said if my civil engineer hadn't ever studied calculus I, personally, would prefer to find a different civil engineer. It makes sense to give the will-it-stay-up? job to someone unusually well educated and if they haven't studied those sort of mathematical basics it is pretty suspicious.
Actually, the first amendment applies to the government, not people at all. Most of the bill of rights work that way. They're not things given to people, but things the government is barred from doing. So there's really no legal analysis necessary, the bulk of the bill of rights is pretty easily read and understood by the average person as intended. How can you stand for your rights if you don't know what they are?

Anyway, here's the US 1st amendment:

>Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

I strongly recommend every American to at least read the bill of rights. It'll take you 5 minutes. Tangentially, you may notice while doing so that the TSA violates the 4th amendment millions of times a day.
You can’t have capitalism without exploitation. But I’m pessimistic on any sort of global awakening happening soon. Also, capitalism does some things well that have yet to be duplicated in other systems, so finding a viable replacement for capitalism will take trial and error.

I don’t honestly know how to answer your moral question though, i have similar thoughts.
I had to buy a 3.1 bar just to get a center channel. Basically one of us couldn't make out voices without it, and there were a couple movies/shows where it was just unwatchable. I'm not sure why things like Apple TV can't do a more credible job remixing the audio for 2 speakers.
Same, never had a problem with lazygit.
The exact fallacy that occurs (almost all the time) when you invoke Hitler is called poisoning the well (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_the_well). You are trying to make a position indefensible by associating it with an indefensible thing, without properly justifying the connection. In this case, it might also be a slippery slope fallacy.

The US has had unmoderated social networks, referred to as pubs, churches, clubs, and town squares, for the last few hundred years. Nazis never gained prominence in any of those fora. It is not a given that reducing the level of moderation leads to Nazis taking over. The truth is that Nazism is such a distasteful ideology that it pretty much never takes over the discourse in places where it is allowed. Rather, Nazis end up creating small hate groups in all sorts of fora, including the heavily-moderated ones (Facebook and Twitter) where they use euphemisms.

Here are a few other sources for you about Nazi communities on mainstream social networks:

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/neo-nazis-facebook...

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021/07/07/we-make-mista...

About the alternate platforms you cited:

I signed up for Gab in 2016 (internet drama voyeurism can be fun), and I got off in 2017. Neo-Nazis on Gab were about as prominent as neo-Nazis on Twitter: a few small neo-Nazi communities existed on both platforms. Gab had a lot of right-wing/pro-Trump users, and was also weirdly Christian, but there weren't many actual neo-Nazis. A platform for right-wingers isn't automatically a social network for Nazis.

The same is true of Voat, by the way. It was started when /r/fatpeoplehate and a bunch of racist subreddits were banned, and it attracted a ton of trolls and mean people, but very few actual Nazis. AFAIK /r/nazi migrated to Voat, so there were some Nazis there, but Voat was not a "social network for Nazis" by any means. Reddit still has many Nazi subreddits with far more users than Voat's Nazi groups at their peak.

I know that /pol/ on 8chan, at least, was full of Nazis and I think it was one of the biggest communities on 8chan. That was a social network for Nazis.

Gab and Voat (as well as other right-wing-focused social networks like Parler) ended up being the target of journalists and left-wing activists because there weren't many people they valued on those platforms, and a lot of people they wanted to hurt. They continue to largely ignore the presence of distasteful communities on Twitter and Facebook (see Jan 6 organizing as a good example of this - it was attributed to Parler, but most of it actually happened on Facebook and Twitter) and put other fora under a microscope to try to find Nazis - particularly if the forum has an overt right-wing bias. The presence of a small community of Nazis is then used to attack and take down the entire platform.

Nazis are on every platform in small, niche communities. They are surprisingly hard to ban. They don't take over platforms no matter how free their speech is. They are shitty people and their ideas are wrong, and everyone knows that.
To your edit: broadcast TV wasn’t under FCC jurisdiction because they paid to broadcast. The public over the air spectrum are considered to be owned by the government and licensed to the broadcast networks
Here I was wondering what a lambda expression implementing lisp would look like.

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Yeah that seems about right.
Fun exercise in Prolog too: https://www.codebymath.com/index.php/welcome/lesson/prolog-d....
Lisp is more expressive: I can write any program in LC but I'd much rather use Lisp.

Similarly someone could write C or JavaScript or Swift or Haskell in LC. Although I'd argue Lisp is a bit better as it's one of the first languages, one of the first to involve functional concepts like code-as-data, and itself is based on really simple concepts like LC.
Fun fact: The US Copyright Office wants to junk DMCA 512 protection for social media using this same logic.
One more vote for terrible audio mixes and one for actors who mumble their dialog.

Whenever I watch movies with my wife, we constantly have to fiddle with the remote control. The loud parts (including explosions and music) are too loud for her, so we have to turn the volume down during those parts, but the dialog is too quiet and mumbly for me to hear, so we turn the volume up during those parts. We now just keep the volume low and turn on subtitles--easy but shitty solution.

Sound engineers need to stop needlessly flexing all that dynamic range that modern tools give them, and just produce a watchable movie. Actors need to go do some stage acting and learn how to e n u n c i a t e and project their voices.
There is no doubt some paternalism at play here, without making a value judgement
So it’s only after you are a certain size that the government can take control over a private corporation? I thought conservatives were against “socialism”?