skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> selective coverage of human rights is propaganda

What absolute disingenuous horsehit to compare the murder of non-political 22-year-old woman with the murders of grown-ass journalists who have chosen a career that they are well aware comes with risks. Similarly, all three examples of political posts are unambiguously anti-violence, which makes the hypothetical comparison of cheerleading a war equally valueless.
Not true.

An index isn't free so you can impact the write performance, depending on the workload and usecases slower writes could have more of an impact than faster reads.

But even in a read heavy application it's possible that your databases query planner is "tricked" into using a specific index which can actually be slower than another (or even none) so you should always measure the impact that adding an index can have on your application.
AC is also used, in a sense, through every switching power supply. The phone you’re using that’s running on DC is actually taking the DC from battery, converting it to “AC” to buck it to the lower voltage, then rectifying it back to DC for the processors.

Wall outlet switchers are also the same. The incoming 120V AC is rectified and smoothed to 170V DC (240V AC goes to ~335V DC) before being chopped up back to AC to lower the voltage. After, it’s rectified and smoothed to the desired voltage. The USB outlet does that to 5V, your phone takes that down to 3.7V, then takes that battery voltage down even lower (1V or whatever)

Basically, AC is used everywhere DC is. People just don’t realize it. Everything runs on DC, but requires AC to change voltages.
I have no microphone attached to my computer, so I can't use your AI to order a t-shirt. What a weird sentence.
Same boat. Was so inspired and on board, even recently. I see what others say about him but it didn’t effect me, even as practically every colleague I know complained. I am no longer a supporter in my heart.
There aren't many reviews of these Mokose cams. How does the image quality compare to a mirrorless/DSLR in terms of white balance, color reproduction, etc.? It seems to compare favorably to the usual awful Logitech IQ.
I don't think that's quite true. The product state has exponential size so you'd also need some kind of tensor oracle that could manipulate an exponential quantity of information in linear time.
Quantum Computers are a great research field.
The physics and engineering problems are exciting.

It's a case for research money.
I wouldn't invest in it but billionaires could spend their money worse.
The simple sundial calculates the time based on Sun's position relative to Earth
Yes - though since much of the science that's performed there is focused on climate, it may be a worthwhile tradeoff. Much like the carbon invested to fly world leaders around - small relative to its global importance.
> If moderation isn’t silent then r/silence becomes “r/hey why has my comment been moderated, this is bullshit”. Same result as not moderating - The conversation about science gets diluted by the noise people lacking the basic skill level make.

That's a myth. Discourse tells me when my content is moderated. Plenty of forums have worked this way by default without being overwhelmed by spam.

The widespread use of secret removals is unique to the social media era. It may have even helped create today's social media monopolies.

There is another harmful effect. The more you secretly remove toxic users' commentary from view, the less signal they get that their views are not approved. In fact, removing them from view makes society worse off since you're also taking away agency from other users who could be preparing counter arguments. Then, when these two disconnected groups meet in the real world, there's a shouting match (or worse) because they never had to deal with those arguments before. What's more, extremists in otherwise upstanding groups won't realize they're being censored. They may, as a result, think they're of the same mind since their extreme viewpoints were not challenged (as they would be in the real world). By the time they act in the real world, they're far removed from reality.

Secretly removing commentary is different from just ignoring someone in the real world. IRL if you ignore someone, they know you've ignored them. Online if you "ignore" them by secretly removing their comments, they don't know they've been ignored, and thousands or millions of other users don't know that that line of argument even existed as a thought in someone else's mind. It's incomprehensible to them.

It's sad that hundreds of thousands of online moderators think they're helping society by secretly removing such commentary, while in doing so they may actually be creating the environment they seek to avoid. Everyone is trying to create pristine corners online, and it ends up covering the whole map. Meanwhile the real world goes down the drain. Many of us spend too much time using systems whose operations we aren't reviewing. Every day more people are becoming aware of the importance of transparency, and I think at this point the only question is when and to what degree it comes about.
I would be worried about users falling off seeing their notes have ~10% approval rate, but it doesn't seem to bother you at all. I wish I had smarter question to ask about it, but... how come?
At least an originally designed markdown falls back to HTML when it doesn’t directly support a particular feature. With Pandoc, markdown can fall back to LaTeX as well.
It's the same in the Spanish version.
So is it all just whining or is Rust prohibited for use in Russia and Iran?
I should really pick up his vids, they are worth their thumbs up in gold
Who is it deceiving? It sounds like the only people who get “tricked” are laypersons; professionals do not.
> When people tend to fix code they didn't write nor have the proper context on why the code was written like that, they tend to turn it into a mess

Try fixing your own code 3 months after you wrote it. You end up turning it into a mess too. To think code is something that stays in long term memory somehow is a flawed assumption. We should think of it as language, you say something to someone and a few hours later have 0 memory of how you phrased, the words you used and why you phrased it the way you did. Taking code so seriously ends up sucking the enjoyment out of programming and turns it into a boring office job that you clock in and out so just that you get a paycheck. Let's not create random rules that benefit no one in the long term.

To become a better programmer is a choice people have to make for themselves not dictated by a manager who probably became one because of their mundane prior coding role.
Or, write the book and sell that. :)
Ok. Then it's probably that every time I looked at an extension it wanted access to any site.
> you shouldn't need credentials to demonstrate that you know something - the fact that you post something polite and useful should be enough to have your comment not be removed

The moderators of the subreddit obviously disagree. From the sides I would say it works for them.
The guiding principle of the free western world is that the government is not allowed to just murder a child because they refuse to wear a funny hat. Everyone from the most radical left to the furthest radical right should be able to agree with that principle, and if they don't, then I highly suggest everyone else tell them to fuck right off along with whatever despotic countries might take offence at this.

It's not politics, it's not propaganda, it's simply what is right in our common western world view.

Americans really need to get their heads out of their asses if they can get at each-others throats over this. None of you want your government to decide what sort of hats you wear, you all agree on this issue...
Many years of brainwash from the slave masters have convinced the slaves that they need to be ruled because they cannot govern themselves individually.
They started mandating that businesses charge for plastic bags where I live, and it made a huge difference from a culture that scarcely used reuseable bags/bins, to one that predominately uses them (at least anecdotally, I don't have stats). I sometimes think that obvious solutions seem harder than they actually are in reality.
Sounds just like winter in Russia to me. :^)

(Pretty much everywhere else I've been, too. Perhaps something's wrong with my lifestyle.)
Immutable Data Structures and why You want them (2018)
IMO the same goes for packages printing political messages on startup. You don't have a right to hijack the voices of your users to spread your agenda, no matter how righteous that agenda is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation seems like the envitable outcome of this system.
(RIP memristors. Those have similarly been on the cusp of revolutionizing everything for … I think over a decade now?)
Test2 is a Perl distribution that replaces a bunch of older test stuff. See https://metacpan.org/pod/Test2

But unlike TAP, it's fairly Perl-specific as opposed to just being an output format. I imagine you could adapt the ideas in it to Node but it'd be more complex than simply implement TAP in JS.

And yes, I think the idea of having different output formats makes sense. With Test2, the test _harness_ produces TAP from the underlying machine-readable format, rather than having the test code itself directly product TAP. The harness is a separate program that executes the tests.
Out of curiosity, has anyone started working on tools to sandbox applications and make them think they are on a "supported device"? Would this require a fake TPM module and would that module require a specific signed certificate? I ask because this reminds me of the old DeCSS [1] events. If a certificate is required, might there be a generalized way to intercept the call and trick the application?

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS#Jon_Lech_Johansen's_invo...
Edit: this interpretation is incorrect.

There are two conflicting positions espoused by this post: (1) that the Rust blog shouldn’t take any political stances at all, and (2) that the Rust blog correctly identified subjects of public interest and would be right to continue doing so if they broadened their scope to topics the author thinks are more important (like Assange).
> Are you seriously claiming that a person with 90 million followers with hundreds of thousands of retweets and countless replies didn't produce a lot of advertising revenue for Twitter?

I didn't claim anything. I asked for your sources. You are the one who made a claim. And now you're acting astounded that someone would dare question your claim.

Truth Social can't seem to become profitable [1]. So Trump's ability to produce (or drive away) advertising revenue is certainly open to being questioned.

> For exact figures you might ask Elon himself.

Elon didn't make the claim. You did.

> If so, I resign

If you can't back up your claims with a source, then yes, it's right of you to resign.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DWAC?p=DWAC&.tsrc=fin-srch
"Brainwashed"
- Someone you don't agree with on the internet.
would have been smart if you bought it for a good deal.
What about my crypto-currency? Imagine a quantum computer could crash all them crypto-markets and bring about an economic collapse.
India has terrains and fronts, and enemies where such equipment will prove valuable.
> Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important.

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I attended a private meeting of landowners that border Yellowstone on one side -- many small moments that could be described.. however, it is easy to say that almost every person in that meeting was distinctly territorial ..

those landowners (mostly) prefer to keep things exactly as they are now, not "your big plan from the city" .. however (mostly) they are there in that location due to personal history and (mostly) think and talk in terms of "stewardship of the lands" and some even claim personal relationships with some of the more prominent creatures that cross their lands. Short version is - most will say that they know far better than you what the wildlife wants in order to thrive, if it is scientifically true or not. Secondly they (mostly) will actively tell urban environmentalists to keep their "opinion" to themselves, and there is the door. Is this surprising among people who managed to own and live on land like that, in the 21st century ?

ps- almost no one in the meeting spent the majority of the calendar year on their lands, that I could tell. Also construction of any kind is rarely done as far as I know.. time between changes is certainly measured in years.. even in California, a registered private forest landowner must file and wait for years to make small changes to structures, or other serious landscaping.

pps- elaborating on "those landowners (mostly) prefer to keep things exactly as they are now" .. they are in a social and legal system right now, and for decades, that approaches changes with huge barriers.. personal objection merges with legal prevention and finance limitation.. You think they have a few hundred FAANG shares to cash out to make some change? no, money is on different paths there and half that I could tell, were pretty limited with the cash flow. The point is, it is personal will PLUS personal finance limitation PLUS legal oversight PLUS decades-learned behavior

ppps- each attendee was/is deeply aware of the natural world there. Thinking a lot more about this now, I suspect that the meeting I was in, many years ago, in California, was a direct component of this 'Yellowstone to Yukon' plan, though I have no details.
Yeah, they could buy Twitter :-)
The USSR never claimed to have “achieved communism”. I know there are Marxists who claim that the USSR wasn’t even properly socialist, but this sort of doctrinal bickering doesn’t make any historical difference until it reaches somewhere outside the realm of fringe radical movements and academic ivory towers. And even then, the power dynamics of the differing groups of adherents matter a lot more than the doctrinal nitpicking, just as with any other sectarian dispute.

Arguing about whether the Soviets were “true” Marxists is like arguing about whether the Roman Catholic Church is the “true” “catholic and apostolic church” of the Nicene Creed; at some point everyone who isn’t a theologian taking a break from the equally important “angels dancing on the head of a pin” problem just uses the word “Catholic” to refer to the biggest and most powerful institution that insists on calling itself that.

But, even setting all that aside, all you’ve proven is that finding common ground between two disagreeing viewpoints is insufficient. If you had to find a point of agreement between the US, USSR, and whatever disgruntled Trotskyites you could find, you’d address that point of disagreement as well.
I use the Epson Moverio (1280x720 stereo):

comfortable reading is around the dozen lines of text.

Surely this tells you that you would go in the opposite direction of the desired one. They are excellent for other applications - as a memex-while-moving, for example. They do not replace a station.
> If you are, then personally I think it is really bad form for the other team members to be speaking in a foreign language when the native English speaker is present.

It depends, if it is in a meeting, they should use a common language that everyone understands (English). However, if they are just talking to each other in the office WITHOUT talking to you, they can use whatever language that is comfortable to them. You are not part of the conversation.

I think the problem here only is that why the person in a FAANG company cannot communicate in English when needed.
Related to this, for anyone not fully up to date on recent C# features there is also the CallerArgumentExpression [1], [2] feature introduced in C# 10. While it is not a pretty printer for an expression, it does allow the full expression passed from the call site as an argument value to be captured and used within the method. This can be useful for custom assert extensions.

For example:

public void CheckIsTrue(bool value, [CallerArgumentExpression("value")] string? expression = null)
{
if (!value)
{
Debug.WriteLine($"Failed: '{expression}'");
}
}

So if you call like this: CheckIsTrue(foo != bar && baz == true), when the value is false it prints "Failed: 'foo != bar && baz == true'".

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-ref...
[2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-ref...
> doesn't make them evil

The author doesn’t say evil. He says Elon’s lost, broken, unhelpful, wasteful, shameful and spiteful. None of that is as reductive as evil.
I need to hear a restatement of 3) that doesn't rely on the word "equal" or "egalitarian" without defining them in the context of the argument you're making.

What does it mean to say that everyone is or isn't "equal?" Are you trying to say that people are distinct (i.e. there is more than one person)? Are you trying to say that people aren't the same height, and there are others insisting that they are? What are you saying?

The first two are very clear.
I love using Unquote[0] in F# for similar reasons; it uses F#'s code quotations. Assuming the variables have been defined with the values you state, the assertion is written as:

test <@ width > 0 && x + width < screenWidth @>

And part of the output is:

width > 0 && x + width < screenWidth
500 > 0 && x + width < screenWidth
true && x + width < screenWidth
true && 1500 + 500 < 1920
true && 2000 < 1920
true && false
false

[0]: https://github.com/SwensenSoftware/unquote
> Because people have specific interests they want to pursue and engage with other enthusiasts, without being inundated with other crap.

i suspect this is exactly what the comment you're replying to means.

i too have a problem with how many times i read people crying out "echo chamber" repeatedly as if this is always a bad thing.

i mean, when i have a party, i don't invite assholes.

when we go to bars, we don't invite spazzy people.

i don't invite people who think its oppressive if they're asked to have common courtesy.

i dont invite abusive people who have the social skills of a tantrum throwing 3 year old.

they just ruin the time for everyone. by many of these people's definitions, this is an echo-chamber.

we exist in the real world. i can have parties with friends and discussions with friends, this doesn't mean im somehow _never_ exposed to different ideas--no one ever shuts up about their ideas. not wanting to be around people we find weird is absolutely normal.

at the end of the day, if a website or party or bar is full of shitty behaving people, ill just go to a different space where people behave with basic social skills. thats not weird. thats not an echo chamber.

every bar or club in the world has different expectations of behaviors, its not evil of them, its not nefarious, its not scandalous of them. its just the culture the owners are curating. that isn't some scary echo-chamber. its a completely normal thing that happens _all_over_the_place_ in the real world.

but oddly theres a weird segment of people who are trying to convince me if someone is just constantly rude or spazzy, and im like "yo, this dudes kinda weird" that everyone should always have to be around them. thats just strange and not the norm in the physical real world. its really odd from the foundations.

edit to add: a perfect example of curation is this site that we all spend a decent amount of time on. dang curates the discussion. its not an echo chamber by any rational definition of the term. the site owners and mods have curated the patrons, the environment, the overall tone of the site--and from an end-users perspective, it works very well. its fun. its an enjoyable experience.
In what sense does a startup message “hijack the voice of the user”? I don’t think anybody who uses a computer genuinely believes that the startup splash for a program expresses an opinion held by the end user; it’s not like Linux’s penguin splash communicates a private mental state about chubby penguins on my part.
> They agree the word means “the system of government and economics currently being practiced in the Soviet Union and affiliated countries”

No, neither had that definition for the word "communism" and as I said, it's beside the point, which you seemed to have missed even if that were true.
And dollars times pounds is similarly a unit of covariance
I am aware of the security implications. But these are implementation details. I still believe the essence of what I'm saying is true.
I've had a Django app running for 3+ years (stick to an LTS release) and it requires a very occasional security update (months in-between) but generally it's a 5 minute change to update the version, run the test suite and then push to prod
I was just thinking about this analogy to parallel computation. It works well enough, and gives a better intuition than a list of things a QC can and cannot do, as long as they can understand that these aren't regular computers and so reading the result has some restrictions which is why it only provide exponential speedup on some problems.
The people that can fix it are busy auditing twitter
Violent elections... well this is deeply disturbing for the US.
Hey Emacs, where did I take that photo?
Err that seems like an unreasonable (and child-like) simplification of the world.

Microsoft has done many terrible things. Most companies of that size have. But they have also done a ton of good things. It’s impossible to take a group of tens of thousands of humans and not find rampant examples of both good and terrible things.

Sometimes one outweighs the other and that may sound like where you are but there is a wide gap between doing evil and saving lives, and most of us live somewhere in that gap.
Since when is it acceptable to trick laypeople, especially when laypeople are buying products with the false advertising (cpus...)?
You are talking about validation not types.
That's not a conflation, that is using the word "actual" correctly.

Amusingly, the one thing that the word "actual" does not permit is leading the conversation to that "extremely interesting question": the word "actual" forces an interlocutor to consider only those contexts in which the thing in question is a real, existing thing. "Actual" is a no-hypotheticals-or-philosophical-ponderings zone =)

In this case, that real thing would be modern maths notations. So this is kind of artificial nitpicking: English is not a zero-context language, you are still required and expected to understand the context words are used in based on understanding that they wouldn't make a lot of sense in other -even related- contexts.

Of course, if I'd been glib and said this:

> So... can I write, and see, maths?

Then the insinuation that maths and programming are mutually exclusive concepts should definitely lead to a philosophical discussion.
They also note that a lot of developed countries plastic trash ends up in countries with less tight controls. So reducing that export of plastic should help. Finally, just because someone else does something bad doesn’t justify doing it yourself and compounding the problem.
I remember using Postmasters (PM2E) for router serial connectivity, good times.
With their wide sole and hybrid design, the T-Rail irons are targeted towards golfers looking to improve their game, and for players on the lower end of the swing speed spectrum who are in need of extra launch to help increase carry and distance. By bringing the same technology used in the top end of the hybrid set into the irons you get an easy-to-hit set from top to bottom that also help create more consistent distance gaps between clubs.
Maple is pretty close, better in some areas worse in others.
Clojure for Java Programmers (2012)