skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
<<If you say yes, then...well there's no further discussion to have, and you scare me.

Heh. I too would love to live in such a binary word, where things are simply black or white and there are no shades of grey. I also love how you think this allows to bow out of the discussion. For the record, it does not and I challenge you to openly discuss it. Otherwise, and I am not using this phrase lightly here, you are an intellectual fraud pretending to engage in a good faith argument.

Now, the actual response to:

<< Should I be allowed to hold a rally and say "Someone needs to start lynching some $RACIAL_SLURs"?

Is that even a real question? Are you really drawing a line at name calling? This the hill you are willing to die on? I might be willing to accept some limits along the lines of the precedent that happens to include relatively conclusive standard of "immediate and present danger", but KKK members going through the streets shouting slogans using words you find offensive is absolutely something I am willing to defend, because I actually happen to believe in the founding document of this nation. Hell, I actually promised I will uphold it. I was not born into it and blessed with apathy. I voluntarily chose that path, because I happen to believe in ideals it espouses.

If you think I am the person to be scared of, I feel genuinely concerned for you. I would recommend less.. whatever it is that got you wound up.

Wait.

Are you arguing that "Someone needs to start lynching" equates to clear and present danger", because I am relatively certain a lot would depend on the context AND the resulting consequences? Like.. not to search very far, and to put things in perspective, to what extent did BLM protest rhetoric contributed to the resulting riots. Should we start locking them up?

I can give you that it is a close call, but nowhere near as clear you as you make it seem.

Either way, you may want to reconsider your argument a little. Those same rules are supposed to protect everyone. There is a reason for it.

Edit:

<< How far are you willing to take the notion of Freedom of Speech?

Notion. It is an idea enshrined in god damn law. It is a right. And it is one of the few things founders agreed upon. And it is the very first one.

You know what is a notion? Deconstructionism. There is a difference.

Notion.
Reminds me of "the hacker known as 4chan."
No one wants to see a Web 4 skin

Or something
I was similarly mostly bed ridden when I had an onset of chronic pain.

Turned out, being so sedentary allows your muscles to shrink / weaken, and vexingly after a certain point the only thing to do from being in even worse pain was to power through some light exercise. It worked in so far as it staged off pain from atrophy.

As for restless legs, may I assume that your sleep schedule is very out of whack? I found that taking melatonin in an effort to get some more sleep was guaranteed to give me restless legs. I didn't put those two together until my wife tried some as well and suffered the same thing.
they have been supply constrained, just like very other manufacturer for almost every model, EV or otherwise.

Further, the future market for affordable EVs is better represented by affordable ICE sales, as that is what they will be replacing.
Being reusable is strictly superior to being recyclable, so it doesn't matter that they aren't identical.

> You can't make tracing clay or vellum, for example.

That is fair.
WeChat for Anglosphere/the West could be a great innovation, to be fair.

WeChat in China, LINE in Japan, Gojek in Indonesia... A lot of those platforms are crazy profitable
I wish he doubled down on more examples, instead of drilling deep into just a few. Less certainty, more risk control.
I don't actually use Twitter, so I don't really have specific examples of huge Twitter accounts tweeting nasty things? I am just thinking of what's clearly considered normal among my peers. For example, here is a random thing I find if I Google "mean tweets about donald trump": https://twitter.com/dadsaysjokes/status/1062806755229474824?...

> What's the difference between Donald Trump and a worm? One of them is a slimy, loathsome creature incapable of complex thought; the other one actually shows up when it rains.

I'm claiming that most people would think that it's totally okay to say that about Donald Trump in public, even though it's an absurdly mean thing to say. (I am sure I could find similar jokes about Joe Biden, too.) I don't think that this would be deleted from Twitter if people reported it. But I also don't think it's really much different from what the Bee wrote. I think people would treat the Bee's article as different mainly if they think that being trans is a special category that is taboo to be cruel about.
> as living standards improve, the number of children per family starts to decline

Nice theory, but causality clearly goes in the opposite direction.
Half a year ago there would've been recruiters trying to swoop these guys. Imagine it, you're a jobless programmer, you hear about the Elon assimilation, you get a box, put some stuff in it, drive to the Twitter HQ, loiter around outside, and get a job offer.

But nowadays the recruiters would probably also be scammers...
But the scale may just radically shrink under the new boss.
There's just no position someone says "only $24 billion" in a sane way
> He has objectively been victimized

He hasn't met the burden of proof for this claim.
Support your local computer part store, folks :)
One thing that’s missing is power consumption. Some drives have oddly higher power consumption, and that does add up with 24/7 and higher drive counts.
Trump will never entirely forgive people like Musk who left his advisory committee(s).
I‘ve been an Elon fanboy since pre-Falcon 1 times and all the time I could simply follow his first principles to the core, be it the switch to electric cars, flight control using a quorum cluster of non-space-rated processors or the viability of methane and stainless steel for Starship against all previous failures.

With Twitter, I‘ve lost that feeling and I don‘t know how it would be possible: Free speech, happy advertisers, satisfied governments globally, increasing or just persisting audience. There‘s just no way he will keep all those targets at the same time.
I don't know what web3 is going to be made of, but web4 will be made of sticks and stones
what in the fuck, literal assembly fu, amazing
I've got no problem with your characterization of Carlson, but do you honestly believe Blitzer is an objective arbiter of truth?

I don't, and I think this myth among so many in "news" media has done more to misinform people than any of the pundits who are honest about their biases. See also, Dan Rather and Brian Williams.
you've been captured by the spin. as a sibling comment points out, it was a joke from the get go, and everyone was is on it except for those who wanted it to be true.
Seen a number of similar comments recently, though none tend to mention looking at raw server log files and checking for bingbot et al actual requests to pages. Would be good to confirm the actual sighting of the bot especially due to the likes of Cloudflare operating in the middle of the request.
I kind of understand your perspective now. An award honoring women could be less appropriate for people who only transitioned later in their life, since they basically newcomers to being a woman. Though there are also awards that are for women, but for specific things, like flying the longest distance this year. Sport awards on the other hand can be problematic, because transgender women typically outperform women and by a lot.

This is a complicated issue I guess. One one hand it feels like maybe we don't need women-only awards, on the other hand women deserve a special recognition. I guess it should be up to the people giving the award. USA Today for example gave 12 people Women of the Year award in 2022, Dr. Rachel Levine was only one of them, she just kind of overshadowed everyone else because the controversy equals clicks.

> It keeps invading the communities and groups I'm a part of against my will

I don't know how it is for the lesbians, but for gay men you won't find an uncontested space, unless you go deeper into specific preferences. People are different, they want different things, like some people are into older people, bigger people, cross-dressing people, submissive people, more serious, less serious, not serious at all. There are millions of pet peeves, and the dating pool is about fighting your way through them. Nobody would notice an invasion by transgender men, just throw them on the pile. A lot of gay man are insecure, especially older people, nothing new there.
I guess it's different for lesbians, or maybe it's just your communities, I don't know.
I'd be more curious to see EV adoption superimposed on single/duplex housing vs multi-tenant housing (such as apartments.) I'd bet a lot of the recent adoption is in the former areas where people can install chargers.
> How are you going to be competitive with the cellular companies by selling something to what reflects a very small percentage of their customer base?

By only needing 5000 "towers".
So? That's beside the point we're talking about. If I can't hide content I don't want to see, what difference does it make what kind of content it is? How do you know the unwanted content I'm talking about wasn't hateful?
Impressive in the same way a person is impressed with a lottery winner.
Well, looking on the bright side the Russians and invaders in that part of the world have been doing this stuff for centuries. Their probable defeat in Ukraine may help bring it to an end.

They are maybe the last major invading nation. UK, France, Germany et al gave up on it a while back, and China only really seems interested in getting back Taiwan and a bit of the South China Sea.
> One simple trick, I think, is to avoid extensive use of pronouns.

I was taught this is a project management for engineers course I took when I was younger: never use language that is open to interpretation. In addition to your examples, I also see this happening in meetings when engineers say a non-sprint task will be "quick." How quick? A few minutes? A few weeks? A few quarters? As soon as we started clarifying these ambiguities we eliminated a lot of misunderstandings.
Bring back open standards like FOAF!! Mid-2000s internet vibe was the best.
Does an inkless laser-driven printer exist?
I'm having difficulty putting together a good search query for this: A printer that doesnt use toner, but instead maybe a laser to 'print' onto normal paper. A laser printer needs toner, and the ones without toner need thermally activated paper. Would a laser cutter work for this somehow if you regulate the power?
Suspect I had a mild case of this once. I had a period where I experimented with various ways of brewing. Once I made a cider from a sourdough starter, and drank a bottle of it very early in the process - maybe 3 days in. I think that somehow made a bunch of live yeast colonize my gut, because the day after I farted a ridiculous amount of times, like every few minutes. Didn't make me drunk or anything though. I had elevated farting for a while after, especially when eating carbs. I attribute it all to fermentation CO2 production. Situation gradually went back to normal.
Twitter’s already headed down the uncool social media curve like Facebook before it. There will be an exodus, but it would have happened either way.

Once the parents get on, it starts the decline. When the grandparents are there…

The “political” polarization is part of it. The older folks bring it with them. The majority flock to sites for information and escapism. The back and forth is just exhausting.

It’s clearer for geek sites. Slashdot died when it got corporate and the content went to crap. Digg was the same. Reddit’s in process except niches. It’ll be same here.

For everything there is a season.
To be honest, I'll have to take your word for it, because I don't know a single person you listed. Maybe they're from an older generation.

Seems like this was a real movement but isn't so relevant anymore, and now people are misusing the term. Now "hawkish" or "interventionist" is pretty close to the old meaning of neocon. I'm willing to accept it as a term for a historical movement, but if someone tells me X newly relevant person is a neocon, I'll basically discard that.
It's cumming back into cuntemporary verbiage.
You seem to have read noobermin as saying the opposite of what I read them as saying, because to my eyes the conversation looks like this:

<noobermin> X is Y
<baryphonic> You're absolutely right. X is totally not Y
> They have no special protection.

Yes they do. How often are journalists successfully sued for damaging stories that turned out to be untrue and unverified?

> You want to destroy free speech, then

It has never been ok to harm someone else with your speech. People lose careers, lives and more over unverified stories.

> Are you asserting it wasn't used by trolling white nationalists? Or do you mean that the intent was trolling, rather than something "sincere"? Or something else?

There is no assertion, it is fact. This story was made up by 4Chan to provoke the exact response they got... and then young folks started meming with the sign because of how ridiculous it is.

There are still folks, however, that truly believe there were troves of actual white supremist roaming the streets flashing "secret" symbols to each other and giggling... Come on, say it out loud and try not to laugh.
This is literally THE reason I don’t use twitter. Somehow my 2FA is associated with an old phone number and I’ve tried once or twice to fix but… bleh, at least let me read.
I assume due to Hyrum's Law. Any quirks/oddities in sqlite would become the de facto standard.
Generally we consider jokes to be cruel when they mock an affliction that someone didn’t choose to have. You can just about get away with making such jokes about the abstract idea of an affliction, but when you name someone directly it crosses a line.

Whether you think this particular example was cruel depends ultimately on whether you think it is targeting the individual’s gender dysphoria (the thing they didn’t choose to have), or whether it is targeting their claim to be something they objectively are not.

One might argue that there is no difference, if one believes that gender affirmation is the only treatment for gender dysphoria, and that everyone is obliged to participate in that treatment, and to do otherwise amounts to mockery of the unchosen affliction.

Personally I think it’s wrong to joke about people with schizophrenia, but equally wrong to tell them the voices in their head are real.
Are pantone colors just specific rgb(a) values, or is there some other stuff that makes them special, for printing or something? This has shades of the "Metallica copywriters G and F chords" thing, but I'm assuming there must be more to it?
Respectfully, I have not found that to be true. No one side has a monopoly on the lunatics or the level headed.

It's unfortunate ad hominems, logical fallacies, and the "mic drop one liner" get so much traction and amplification.

When I find myself making snap judgments about an issue, I dive in to the opposition, doggedly seek out the underpinning ideas, from academic or level headed folks.

It's helped strengthen my personal convictions on some matters and moderated my pre held notions.
Better UI for Microsoft Defender
He wrote in his Autobiography that propaganda was the primary reason to own a newspaper.
tough when they keep trying to sneak that in without changing the model number though
Can you become a great engineer if you are stuck on a middling team
can someone become a great engineer when there isn't impactful work to do? i can't decide if a great engineer finds impactful work ("digs it out") even in a barren landscape or great engineers fall into impactful work which they leverage to find more things that generate value. What is HN consensus on this? The context of this is, i work at a great company, with a highly skilled team but the work my team works on is of very limited impact; i've seen people join later than me who seem to have made much more impact because they landed on the right projects. I question if they have an unnatural capacity to seek out value or if it is hard to seek out value in a barren landscape.
This is fantastic performance art.
On front page now:

Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33374770

(504 points, 1149 comments)
terrible idea, HN moderates tone too much.
The 9.62% rate is for the six-month period, after that it's probably falling to 6+%, which is still better than anything else you'll find out there in terms of inflation-proofing cash. But it requires a five-year commitment, with a minimum of 12 months before you can pull your money out, but you'll lose the final three months of interest if you pull your money before five years. $10k per SSN with no household limit.

I believe today (28th) is last day to pull the trigger on this.

I Bonds make sense if you have a bunch of cash like an emergency day fund sitting in a savings account. In theory at these rates you can inflation-proof more than 10k by putting only 10k in. I think if you had a 20-30k emergency fund, I Bonds make a lot of sense. But if you have 20-30k sitting around for project work in the coming year (where you need access to the cash), it isn't really a good fit.
I honestly don’t understand the consistent (self) praise for HN comments. Perhaps the mods make valiant efforts to enforce some vague standard of decorum and it would be worse without that thankless work, but any topic that doesn’t lend itself to software industry anecdote sharing is filled with the same vacuous, uninformed polemic as any other generalist social media site, just with a thin veneer of politeness. And even that supposed politeness is missing if I happen to open the comments section at the wrong time (presumably before a mod could clean them up, but isn’t that enough of a sign it doesn’t scale particularly well?)
Your point isn't clear to me. As I see it, there is significantly less money to be made.
It’s a very energetic photon though
I’m confused. The write speeds are slower?
The Google default is that your photos get automatically uploaded. And then it's Bambi meets Godzilla.

Google's AI would do better to refuse to upload and notify the user that the photo may be CSAM - AND give the user an opportunity to reply to a human AND explain the appeal process.
The thing isn't so much that there are incidents of violence, but rather that there are ideas where violence is both logical and even moral.

Let's take Trump's election fraud claims for example; if you genuinely believe that the election was stolen then violence would be a very reasonable and even moral action in literal defence of democracy. I sure hope a lot of people would rise up if such an event would ever actually happen. Of course, Trump's claims are a load of utter nonsense, but my point is that people seem to genuinely believe it and that violence is a logical and moral result.

This is what worries me. That there's the occasional nutjob or conflict that gets out of hand: yeah, that's "normal". But these kind of ideas ... I'd say not so much. That we haven't seen more violence leads me to suspect many "election deniers" don't actually believe Trump's claims as strongly as they say they do.
That’s right. The checksum shouldn’t be provided by the site. I’m producing the checksum myself after reviewing the install scripts manually. Once I produce the checksum I can keep relying on it. The install scripts don’t tend to change very often.
It says $279 for the one you linked.
Significantly less money to be made, and even more significantly less cost per square mile of coverage. Especially when a lot of that coverage range for towers can't do tens of megabits per second.

So, it can be competitive.
Yeah, I remember seeing my first 20 MB hard drive in a computer magazine advertisement. That fantastic piece of kit cost something like $2000.

Definitely way, way out of the price range of a hobbyist kid like me, who was still using 5.25" floppies[1] and later upgraded to the 3.5" floppies when I got an Amiga.

Also, a bit earlier but still around the same time (it's kind of all a big blur to me now) was the age of machines like the Timex Sinclair, which only had either 16k or 48k of RAM.

So when those 20 MB drives rolled around, they were a massive amount of storage in those days.

I also remember when the first MP3s were released.. they were each something like 3 MB in size, and took forever to download over my modem connection. These were also the days of ASCII porn... sorry about the digression... but, yeah, that's what the stone age was like..

[1] - a bit of trivia about 5.25" floppies: we used to use hole punchers to cut a hole in the side of the disk in order to be able to write to it. Covering this hole with some tape would physically prevent the disk being written to. You could buy disks with a notch already professionally cut in the side for you, but IIRC it was cheaper to buy them without and cut the hole out with a hole puncher yourself. That's why you'll see some disks with a square notch in the side (that's the one professionally cut) and some with a semicircular hole (that's the one done with a hole puncher, by a hobbyist).
Hmm, why don't you wait until they let state legislatures throw out elections to be so sure?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1491:_New_Revelations_of_the_A...

An excellent book if this ancient America is interesting to you.
Structural qualia: a solution to the hard problem of consciousness
How about Prince, rarely called formerly any longer.
States can, and do, maintain the power to maintain or close public roads. In fact, they do so daily at border checkpoints, and do so locally in cases like local natural disaster risk (e.g. hurricane or wildfire evacuation).
The notable difference is that one insult is criticizing behavior, while the other is criticizing the person for their core identity (and no, I don't count political affiliation as being central to identity).

From my perspective it's OK to criticize Trump (or Biden) for their policies and conduct, but I don't think people should fat-shame Trump, for example, or make fun of Biden's occasional stutter.

The issue isn't that people are being mean, it's that they're trying to ostracize people for aspects of their being that are out of their control. That's why, generally, trying to cast someone out for being of a certain race, gender, or sexual orientation are considered unacceptable, but criticizing their political opinions or corrupt or otherwise slimy behavior are fair game.
My prediction is he ends up growing twitter into a fairly bland chat/communications app/social network, and the focus on global political and social debates slowly weans over time.

So far Musk's brought back a very high profile antisemite (Ye) and a bunch of others took the hint to return to Twitter. I'm pretty sure bland isn't the right word.

https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Racist-tweets-quickl...

"Elon now controls twitter. Unleash the racial slurs. K---S AND N-----S," said
one account, using slurs for Jews and Black people. "I can freely express how
much I hate n-----s . . . now, thank you elon," another said.

…

Some of the Twitter influx was organized on other platforms, including the pro-Trump
forum TheDonald, where its top posts Friday morning showed tweets celebrating lies
about Trump's 2020 election loss and memes criticizing transgender people under the
headline "When you can't get banned on Twitter anymore."

My prediction is Musk flails about, burns a pile of money, and decimates any goodwill his associated companies (e.g. SpaceX, Tesla, Starlink) currently have.
"These are opinion pieces."

That refer to facts such as throwing out the voting rights act, and the decision on gerrymandering? Maybe try reading the opinion pieces??