skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Caiero,
I love your about statment. I was disapointed that you have no listed comments yet. A quite interesting list of submissions though! As a side note, it would be nice if folks put contact info in their about section. I think it would allow for some fortuitous connections to be made.
>The logical fallacy is that just because one option is better than the alternatives, it does not follow that the option in question is good. The villain from Saw may let you choose how you will be murdered, but your having chosen to be stabbed instead of drowned doesn't absolve the killer of their culpability in your death.

Except that the victims in saw were unwittingly put in those situations. What's happening with gig workers is closer to something like the squid game, where the participants gave informed consent, and even had an opportunity to bail out later.
While I definitely agree climate change is a clear and present danger, how do you know that your migraines are weather related?

Sounds like a conflating of correlation and causation.
> you seem to believe that the government should be allowed to block speech by powerful corporations, what about speech by powerful and rich individuals?

It's like speed-limits. You can only drive so fast. Similarly we should limit how many dollars any single person can spend on manipulating public opinion.

With corporations I guess we should divide the amount they spend on political adds by the number of share-holders, and put a limit on that.
Question is, will the market be able to make 7-8% p.a. in the face of massive headwinds like QT and rising interest rates and rising inflation from the CRB index.
Yeah for sure. Reddit's hivemind is mostly based on automod bots and two or three mods manually scanning & banning everything. MeFi was open and a pleasing place to hang out and tease out new ideas. Then the politics hit and the open-and-friendly feedback loop turned into a recursive folding inwards into one political view, for owner, mods (except jessamyn who didn't get into it) and commenters.

It wasn't just an automod bot banning keywords or your comments getting shadowbanned. You could say what you wanted and the people (entire user base and owners) would figure out the best way to reinforce their recursive implosion and completely destroy you and whatever point you were trying to say. Kind of impressive in a mechanical sense, and you know, horrible to participate in.

Looks way better than that now.
The largeness of the model does add complexity, you can't really package it as part of the binary for example.

It's not the case that useful software was ever self contained. If you recall trying to do anything online in the early to mid nineties, you'll remember how complicated it was to use almost any website and how much manual fiddling and configuration was involved to get online.

Ignoring the internet, early games and graphical applications were a mess of settings and configuration. Even today you often have to tune graphics settings to get playable game performance on anything but top line hardware.
Any lazygit users that switched over to gitui? If so, what made you switch?
It's everything. The genes, the looks, the positive side effects from the good looks, all add up to micro and macro evolutionary benefits.
Maybe, maybe not, but there are other ways to sail upwind, such as the proa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proa .

When it comes to basic applications of fundamental machines (this is ultimately a use of leverage), humans have a way of figuring it out.
My best backup has always been having a buffer visiting the file I'm about to delete. I think that's saved my bacon once or twice, but honestly I have 0 paranoia about losing data. For whatever reason, I've never accidentally deleted .git and an important unpushed change at the same time. As a result I disable swap files and backup files in Emacs, and I haven't regretted it.

My biggest data loss incident was like 25 years ago when I ran "swapon" on /. Wouldn't recommend it. (And that will trash your Trash, probably.)
> Governments are an efficient market of sorts.

Is this a joke? You're wildly reaching with the definition of both 'efficient' and 'market' on this one.
The thing is that C is still the lingua franca abi, so there's still no need to rewrite in bulk, you can still just use the same C libraries in another language, and rust is particularly well suited to doing that in roughly the same ways C++ is.

What's getting harder and harder to see now is why, if you need to write new or rewrite now, you'd choose C++ over rust. In the long run that's a recipe for only the most gnarly old codebases being written in c++ and no one wanting to touch them.
The US DOE designed the most efficient wood stoves during Jimmy Carter's presidency (he was an engineer by training). Those are the same ones we use today. This isn't a recent thing. This includes cat converter wood stoves.

Strictly wood is NOT a carbon footprint because it's part of a short-term carbon cycle (in <100 years it's already back into trees).

Until recently I lived in the boonies and ONLY used wood for heating.

The biggest problem with wood: you have to constantly manage/regulate the fueling and heating - even the best stoves need to be refilled in 4-6 hours when the temperature is below 10C. Further, you only get this if you've aged (dried) the wood for 2 years first. Newly cut wood is 20-30% water and the heat of vaporization to steam radically reduces the heating value of the burned wood.
Which is why community sites, such as Livejournal before they sold out, or Dreamwidth, or even Medium or Substack, help.
> you can't require certain fields are set

There is a way, but it's cursed:

https://godbolt.org/z/fzc6WEz5e
s/y\ always/last\ three\ times\ it\
Yet GDPR is also what ruins the web browsing experience with all those idiotic cookies notices. Legislating technical details like that is never a good idea.
That's what's lovely about mathematics- in many ways it compresses very well, assuming the receiver is infinitely intelligent. How can Alice communicate all of math to Bob? Mail him some chalk and wait!
>It's intended to be a steelman

I think maybe you've misunderstood steelmanning. It's not about taking an argument to the absolute extreme, it's about constructing the most convincing and effective form of the argument.
No problem!

The diaphragm is the muscle that sits between your abdomen (belly button and surrounding area), and chest. Diaphragmatic breathing is when you breath with your abdomen, and not your chest; so you get horizontally bigger when you breath instead of vertically taller. Its how infants, toddlers and younger kids breath before the habits of sitting down shifts us to shallow breathing.

So, diaphragmatic breathing can be achieved by putting one hand on your chest and another on your belly and then breath so that only your stomach moves back and forth instead of your chest. Another advice I’ve been helped by is to not necessarily have the deepest breathe, just take your time with each inhale and exhale.

Once you try diaphragmatic breathing, try using a metronome and follow the 4/7/8 count a few times. And practice makes perfect!
Like most people here, I love the minimalist 90s UI and the lack of need to create an account. Unfortunately it's a ghost town of scammers now in my area. Craigslist really dropped the ball on policing their site and let competitors take over. Facebook is terrible, but the closed yard-sale groups really cut down the number of scammer responses.
You have to click a spam folder. You have to make a conscious effort to interact with the free speech being sent to you. Therefore it's not free
While this is good guidance for Emacs users, another, more shell-based tactic is to use the "-i" option for "rm" which requests a confirmation before deleting the file. Aliasing "rm" to "rm -i" in either .bashrc or .zshrc (depending on what shell you use) for interactive operations has saved me a countless number of times from regret.
An influential and astonishing mind. Reading him in my 20s really changed my relationship with language. I owe him a debt as he changed my professional life.

Yet nothing I've seen in the press has described his predation of women in the department. In fact I learned of it only later when speaking with female linguists.

I heard him speak once and could have gone and spoken with him but turned down the opportunity. I'm male, but why should I then be so lucky to be able to have an ordinary conversation with him?
From the HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html):

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
> I believe this is what's called a false dichotomy.

i'm interested in how this is false. if the person could have worked for higher wages before the gig economy, then surely they would not need to rely on the this economy to exist. but those who are unemployed or underemployed clearly see the flexibility as an acceptable compromise for either lack of better skills (and time/money needed to acquire them) or no work at all.

i think the people who can be taken advantage of are those who cannot improve their situation (health issues, mentally or physically impaired, undocumented immigrants, elderly who cannot easily learn new skills or commute to a farther work location), but this is not gig workers as a whole.

people have a habit of complaining that the skills they refuse to advance dont pay much (fast food workers, coal miners). it's always the employer not paying enough, not the fact that someone treats a cashier position as a career rather than a temp job. my parents delivered pizza when we moved to the US in 1991 with $500 to their name. needless to say, they didnt deliver pizza for long despite living in a motel with two kids to raise and nearly non-existent english.
I'm saying the bear was trained to dance, it didn't choose to dance.
Razor thinness is a self inflicted design constraint that nobody asked for.
The Reality Nervous System (2015)
Once a kiwi, always a kiwi!
>Also, this is a Texas law; if Facebook closed down all of their offices in Texas, presumably they could just ignore it, as then Texas wouldn't have jurisdiction over them?

AFAIK the law specifically forbids that kind of move, somehow ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is a great answer, and I think it would be relatively straightforward to create filters for potential bot/spammer accounts that used this strategy (ex: high comment frequency, using similar text patterns and engaging mostly in an unidirectional way) and make it available for users to enable it.
Well let's hope Autralia steps away from being a major coal producer
Why look at captions when you can look at the transcript?
Lismore,NSW would like a word.
You're correct that blaming the delivery apps is looking in the wrong place. If the government doesn't want people in precarious employment they should provide a social safety net. Then if the gig jobs were so bad, they would have no workers and would cease to exist. Otherwise, they must be ok.

> There are also enough gig economy companies that if one of them was especially bad then workers could easily switch to the competitor.

And if they're all the same since they all run the exact same business in the exact same markets?
It’s the same old “personhood” fiction for doing things in groups that’s been around since Dartmouth College vs Woodward, which is over 200 years at this point.

Corporations are also entitled to other rights that can be exercised by groups, like not having their property searched without a warrant or seized without just compensation, or their contracts broken. They are presumed innocent in court unless demonstrated guilty.

The actual Citizens in question were getting together (uniting, if you will) to spend money and engage in overtly political speech in a tradition that goes back to Thomas Paine. They used a non-charitable not-for-profit corporation to make and to show a stupid movie about Hillary Clinton. They used a corporation because that’s what you’re supposed to use for things like this and the alternative is sending the money to one private person’s individual bank account and that’s got all sorts of problems. And the court found that was a valid way for the people who contributed to exercise their rights to free speech, because of course it is.
(c) If a social media platform fails to promptly comply with
a court order in an action brought under this section, the court
shall hold the social media platform in contempt and shall use all
lawful measures to secure immediate compliance with the order,
including daily penalties sufficient to secure immediate
compliance.

It does appear to allow for something akin to damages. Would an appeal preclude contempt charges?
Beauty and money are life's lubricants.
In my experience, beautiful people of both sexes are no more dumb than ugly people.
They basically need to put less effort into everything in life, so they don't need to know much.
The woman doesn't need to drive, the man does it for her, the man doesn't need to flirt or treat the woman well, they go after them, etc.

Occurs with other... social traits. All my bosses were children of a businessman, or a friend, a son of a friend of a businessman, family or higher social class. (Hence my theory about generalized mismanagement: it is because the manager is not prepared to manage, they are chosen based on some social characteristics)

These traits have more "social capital". It's basically impossible to beat one if he has more social capital than you, you may be a brilliant professional, but in the end, social capital is more important.
Yes, but it probably wouldn't be published. At least, not in modern times.

Historically letters to the editor were written anonymously or pseudonymously. They were essentially op-eds before newspapers had op-ed pages; think "Letter from a Connecticut Farmer", Silence Dogood, the Federalist Papers. During the 20th century, however, a strong tradition developed of only publishing letters written with real names. Addresses, too; the author's home town was usually included, and comic books usually printed complete addresses.
You checked the dislike count before reading the comment? That's almost a superpower of visual focus since they are next to each other

Edit -Didn't realize he meant video counts
Except not everyone in Canada requires chip and pin, and the parent comment made it sound like there are no other options with credit cards across the entire country.

Based on my experience both the United States and Canada are usually moving financial tech through different regions and social groups in phases and at different paces.

I'm trying to think of specific examples occurring nation wide and credit card technology just doesn't register. Maybe the removal of the Canadian penny, or paper dollar?
Firstly, that is _not_ what reductio ad Hitlerum means.

More importantly, it's not a fallacy. It's pretty well documented by now that what you get when you have a social network with very little moderation is, almost inevitably, a social network for Nazis:

https://www.newsweek.com/nazis-free-speech-hate-crime-jews-s...

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/05/voat-the-alt-right-r...

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/456415-founder-i-wish-...

Just because people like bringing up Nazis a little too often doesn't mean every reference to Nazis is fallacious. Sometimes, it really is about [neo-]Nazis.
Every Trick a Pro GeoGuessr Player Uses to Win (Ft. Rainbolt)
Treasury recommends exploring creation of a digital dollar
I use trash-cli which implements the freedesktop trash spec:

https://github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli
One easy way to generate some content for a blog, if you're a techie who participates actively in tech communities like, well, Quora or Reddit or FB or... or this place*... is to keep your comments.

If you put in some effort and write something a few paragraphs long, or that took some research, or where you realised you had knowledge other commenters didn't, copy-and-paste it into the blog.

It's kept mine going for years. I write for a living; I rarely have time or inclination to do more for free. So, repurposed anonymised comments it is. Keeps it active and I have a few readers.

-----

* _One night in Bangkok_ reference
I've been using my own little Go (subset / my own extensions) -> C++ compiler -- https://github.com/nikki93/gx -- and found it to be a fun way to add some guardrails and nicer syntax over C++ usage. You get Go's package system and the syntax analyzers / syntax highlighters etc. just work.
As a conservative who has completed graduate school, I can say from my own experience that higher education is a well-oiled indoctrination machine. Your apparent opinion that all conservative-leaning people are hateful idiots is pretty much exactly the rhetoric I expect from the people who pursue higher education who aren't quite as smart as they think they are, and subsequently don't question the things they're told.
The corresponding Swedish company is called Contura, headquartered in Markaryd, Småland, Sweden. Half an hour from where IKEA was founded, btw.

https://www.contura.eu/ (yeah, I know, that tld...)
>that's how you end up with 45,000 people in the US of A dying each year from lack of health care...COVID killed 380,000 Americans because they lacked health care

What's the methodology for calculating the amount of people dying from "lack of health care"?
OP isn't saying that #2 implies non-exploitation, OP is saying that they can't see how #2 implies exploitation. Non-exploitation is the null hypothesis, we assume it to be the case until proven otherwise.
I don't think that Redis qualifies as a large software system in the modern standard. In fact, it's popular because it's simple, small and understandable compared to its competitors which comprises of many millions of lines of code.
The real argument is that gig employers have found a way to skirt regulations protecting “real” employees. And that the people who suffer from this are primarily in an economic position such that they don’t have much of a choice but to accept those conditions.

That doesn’t mean “any sub-utopic framework they have to participate in is immoral”, it just means this particular one is.
Cool demo but in the end they didn't even try to run it, and settled for a dinky todo list app instead.

I feel a bit lied to with the bait and switch. ^^
The logical model of Git doesn't store changesets or diffs at all. The logical structure of a commit is:

1. Some "human" metadata such as message, author, timestamps

2. An ordered list of parents (0 to infinity parents)

3. A complete directory tree of the repository at that version.

So when you reference a commit in Git you aren't referencing a diff/changeset. You are referencing an exact snapshot of the files in the repository at that time. This is sometimes obscured because to a human we often find it useful to see what changes a commit introduced. For example if you run `git show $commit` in the simple case where $commit has exactly one parent Git will compute a diff between $commit and its parent ($commit~1). However logically this diff isn't stored as part of the repository, it is computed on the fly from the snapshots of the two directory trees.

If you want to re-apply it to a different version of the repo (usually via `git cherry-pick`) Git basically does two steps:

1. Compute the diff between the commit and its parent.

2. Apply that diff to the target revision.

Of course this all gets more complicated in the case of merge commits (commits with >1 parent) but the model is similar.

(For performance reasons Git does use delta compression internally but that is just an optimization and doesn't really reflect the diffs that humans are interested in).
This analogy doesn't work. Social Media is not newspaper, they're a printing machine letting you publish your own newspaper. You can't just register with a newspaper and post opinions for free.

Social Media websites and platforms are acting as common carriers. They provide you an audience, without upfront cost.

If they discriminate against you for an opinion their 'experts' do not like, they should suffer the consequences for it because social media websites, let me publish my own newspaper.
No, because they can't actually do everything that Citizens United tried to do.

Here's a structure that I think would be fairly unobjectionable: Citizens United works collectively to raise funds for political causes. Once funds are raised, the money -- in its entirety, minus administrative and other overhead costs -- is distributed to all the employees of Citizens United itself. That money is taxed, as it should be. Then the employees are free to voluntarily choose to contribute that money -- up to individual contribution limits -- to whatever candidates they so choose.

The same should be the case if an ordinary corporation (one that doesn't exist for political purposes) wants to donate to political causes: they should be forced to distribute the sum total of that desired contribution as salary to employees, who could then choose to make (or not make) those contributions.

Obviously there are flaws to this plan, and it needs more scrutiny and fleshing out, but I think it is much more democracy-preserving and -- critically -- transparent than just allowing corporations to act as "people" and fund political campaigns directly, or via shadowy means.
If you want them to continue existing, contribute! https://organicmaps.app/support-us/
What's even funnier is that I've actually read a math textbook that quite literally did this exact thing.
100% agreed. It's noticeable and wonderful when there's enforced "No Self Promotion" clauses with conferences or talks. Improves the quality of questions and discussions immensely by giving space for people with real questions.
the ugly way is easier for the parser on some edge cases.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_vexing_parse

syntax "beauty" is just a matter of how used to it you are (excl brainfuck ofcourse). Admitting this, is quite a big present one can give to him/her self.
>Selling yourself into literal slavery comes to mind

You can still do this, it's called three hots and a cot. The police will direct you how to sign up.

If there are people desperate enough to go to prison to eat and have shelter, we should probably find a solution for those people within society. That likely means there is some point between what we currently offer and what prison offers where those people would be better off. Without those (shitty) jobs, you have a binary choice between good job or the streets.

Honestly, I think a lot of this comes back to housing policy and healthcare. You can't build boarding houses anymore. Zoning laws basically make it so you can be homeless or pay $1k / month (metro city). There's a lot of room in the middle there. The healthcare system is so bloated and broken that I do not think we will bring costs down, so the only solution there is state funded then using state leverage.

Setting a floor for voluntary agreements sounds very humane, but it also means that anyone who can't reach that floor is open to abuse. The same goes for immigrant labor. We don't clamp down on it because doing so sounds racist, but it creates a system where people can be easily exploited.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

I think moderation gets exponentially more difficult, the larger a community is.

There's probably something in the legislative history[0] as to why that particular number was chosen, but I keep getting 404s and certificate errors when I try to click on links to the remarks.

[0] https://capitol.texas.gov/billlookup/History.aspx?LegSess=87...
Hah! Good to finally know why they all (the vendors recordings)sound the same