skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HN London Meetup #2 - 7th December 2022
We have strong labour laws because of unions
And probably at least pre-diabetic.

The form of sugar in fruit isn’t quite as bad as some, and all the fiber helps it be absorbed more slowly but there is still a lot of it many.

An apple has a much sugar as 6oz of Coke. Lots of nutrients too, but 23g of sugar is… a lot.
You are more correct. Looking at google trends the term has been steadily rising in interest since about 2016.

I always find it interesting when people insist on a specific date for something's peak popularity, but they never say where they get that info from.

This meme was so 2013, or that was so 2004. Like why do you care so much about this one specific topic that you memorized the specific year that it's popularity was at it's peak?
So now we will get catastrophic articles about meat trying to sell plant-based meat as alternative.

This "we have problem, so consume this..." pattern in all kind topics is obvious "divide and conquer". Especially when politics come in.

I'm curious when anti-plant-meaters will became enemies of the planet.
Your comment is obviously (to me) someone who hasn't explored any other diet except meat eating (feel free to dispute). There are many people thriving on a vegan diet.
Water and pesticide usage is way more problematic than land usage.
From Reddit,

> Originally, TBC submitted an unsolicited proposal to build a tunnel for the county. This tunnel would cost $45 million (fixed). TBC pitched the idea, and the board was sold, but wanted to expand the project. They split it into 3 phases, the first of which would be environmental impact assessments and other project management tasks. This was awarded to another contractor (not TBC), who designed a system involving a 24 foot diameter tunnel, effectively shutting TBC out of bidding (TBC uses 12 ft diameter tunnels). It is this project, designed by another contractor and completely unrelated to the thing TBC proposed, that blew up to a $500 million estimate. Part of the contract was that this company who did the proposal would also oversee the engineering of the final project, which is something TBC presumably wasn't interested in so they didn't bid.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BoringCompany/comments/z75yc0/comme...
Some people do work like this. They wish to do violence and would prefer some company (for example, perhaps after witnessing a delightful soccer match in Belgium). Of course there are also many fulfilling & intimate friendships where people don't ask for help in hurting people.
I don't think sunk cost is the main reasons why CEOs are asking workers back.

Outside the usa working at least 3 days at the office is the norm.

It's yet to be seen what the long term consequences of the us swimming against the the tide would be
> part of it is refusing to acknowledge an action.

Algorithms are not great at acknowledging their actions, so I think
that's very much part of peoples' experience with big-tech. Examples
of an update breaking things, or an account getting deleted, and a
responsible person quickly admitting "yes we did that, and here's
why", are rare. The usual response is to deflect or stonewall. It's
practically on page one of the PR playbook.

> I'm not so sure syncing is a great example, either. Not like they
hide it

I think you are seeing this from the developers' viewpoint. There's
been plenty of examples where this stuff is on by default and users
have been unaware of it.

> explanation is mics everywhere listening to conversations, even
though I know it's not that! But is it?

It's that doubt which is the seed of soft, pervading anxiety, that
does the damage.
Matrix might become the best option, but as of now I seem to recall it having some rather serious issues, ranging from not handling metadata well to malicious homeservers possibly breaking the encryption of users on other homeservers

I might be misremembering though
#2 will be bigger and better! Thanks Tom + Jonas from Monzo for hosting us last time! :)
My ISP let me turn off CGNAT in my account settings (defaulted to on) and let me turn on IPv6 in my account settings (defaulted to off).
Yes, but if you have immutability and a garbage collector (and can afford to use some extra memory overhead), the borrow checker and lifetimes aren't really all that necessary to bother with.
Sites assuming that anyone browsing on mobile is just passively browsing, and hiding any of the features that make them easier to navigate on desktop.

For instance, so many wikis remove things like category boxes and navigation bars on mobile, making it a chore to browse different related articles. They also seem to like hiding stuff like 'recent changes' too, as if knowing what changed since your last visit is something only desktop users have the need for.

And god help you if you want to actually contribute to many sites on mobile. That seems to be a complete afterthought for anything without a mobile app (and arguably a lot of those that do have one).
No. Because only if they _could_ conceive that they were wrong, would you be gaslighting them. You have to succeed at making them doubt themselves for it to be gaslighting.
Most countries require SIM card registration nowadays.

https://www.phonetravelwiz.com/phone-travel-options/sim-card...

> Of the 245 countries/territories with territory-bound mobile operators, 185 countries have SIM card registration laws. 13 will collect biometrics (fingerprints, but some will take a face scan too). 51 countries have no registration requirements.

Which by itself is questionable.
Because Da Vinci is well known for his writings.
Am okay with advertisers going to Facebook (or any other platforms really) where they can curate their own little garden of cute posts and snowflake engagements.

Edit: To answer your added question. In an ideal world there is no good reason to allow hate speech on SM platforms.

But free speech does not equate to hate speech. And there is no legal distinction for the term (hate speech) as far as US law is concerned [0]. The term however can be defined and in different ways according to many other countries' laws.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
JoinPeertube gets a redesign, PeerTube v5 on its way
PeerTube is a decentralized and federated alternative to YouTube. The goal of PeerTube is not to replace YouTube but to offer a viable alternative using the strength of ActivityPub and WebTorrent protocols.

Being built on ActivityPub means PeerTube is able to be part of a bigger social network, the Fediverse (the Federated Universe). On the other hand, WebTorrents and related technologies help PeerTube to solve the issue of money, inbound with all streaming platform : With PeerTube, you don't need to have a lot of bandwidth available on your server to host a PeerTube instances because all users (which didn't disable the feature) watching a video on PeerTube will be able to share this same video to other viewers.

If you are curious about PeerTube, I can't recommend you enough to check the official website to learn more about the project. If after that you want to try tu use PeerTube as a content creator, you can try to find an instance available there to register or host yourself your own PeerTube instance on your own server.

The development of PeerTube is actually sponsored by Framasoft, a french non-for-profit popular educational organization, a group of friends convinced that an emancipating digital world is possible, convinced that it will arise through actual actions on real world and online with and for you!

Framasoft is also involved in the development of Mobilizon, a decentralized and federated alternative to Facebook Events.

If you want to contribute to PeerTube, feel free to:

report bugs and give your feedback on Github (https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/) or on our forums (https://framacolibri.org/c/peertube/38)

submit your brillant ideas on our Feedback platform (https://ideas.joinpeertube.org/)

Help to translate the software, following the contributing guide (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/contribute-getting-started?id=translate)

Make a donation to help to pay bills inbound in the development of PeerTube. (https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/)
It returns null when it fails to do its task for some reason. It is not unreasonable for the condition for that failure to be complex enough or change over time so it doesn't make sense to spell it out in the interface contract.
A simple board to test USB cables
psychological manipulation of a person usually over an extended period of time that causes the victim to question the validity of their own thoughts, perception of reality, or memories and typically leads to confusion, loss of confidence and self-esteem, uncertainty of one's emotional or mental stability, and a dependency on the perpetrator

Weird thoughts I've been having; for social harmony it's much more important to share a perception of reality, than it is for any individual to have an accurate perception of reality. Attempting to find an objective truth that conflicts with a shared vision of reality isn't something brave or admirable, it's weird and disruptive. Polite society will cast you out.

I think this is hard wired to us. We want to be told what reality is by people or groups with clout, people who are cool and have prestige, and we're hard-wired to just believe it.

I think this is why most people outside the overton window feel inherently unpleasant. To most normal, well adjusted people, threatening to tear down the social fabric of our shared reality is just plain disgusting.

(Not to say that every (or even many!) people outside that window have an accurate perception of reality - but the veracity is almost irrelevant - what's abhorrent to us is that they're trying to destroy it in the first place. That's the real crime.)
Also, in case you're working in Typescript with a massive JSON and no types: https://quicktype.io/typescript

It generates TS type file from a raw JSON file. Has totally saved my sanity at least once.
not all dynamically typed languages are the same, Ruby is strongly typed and JavaScript is generally described as a weakly typed language.
Hosting is the easy problem. The main problem is the discoverability on the users end. Individual websites just don't show up on Google anymore, worse yet, even if you find one you like, your browser provides no tools to keep track of it. Bookmarks are completely static, they don't inform you when a site changes. While RSS exists, it fails to integrate with the Web, it's basically its own separate thing, requiring separate sites and clients. It no longer has any browser integration either.

People might not like social media, but the ability to discover content on there and keep track of it is just lightyears ahead of the regular old Web.

Another big problem is the permanence of the content. Hosting your own content today is easy. Ensuring that it is still online 20 years from now is hard. Worse yet, even if you maintain your site, URLs still change over time, links break. An IndieWeb build with regular Web tools is just going to be a lot of 404 and "DNS address could not be found".

We've been there, done that. It doesn't work. There is no point in trying to repeat it without some key innovation.
> sodium content is as bad or worse than just plain regular beef

Hasn't the dietary sodium thing been found to be a non-issue, except for a few individuals with high blood pressure?

https://www.cochrane.org/CD004022/HTN_effect-low-salt-diet-b...
Launching an e2-micro VM instance on GCP is impossible
>when most Asian diets are mainly vegetarian and have fed populations in the billions for millennia (eg India, China, Japan).

The modern Japanese diet is very, very far from vegetarian. In fact, you'll have a very hard time eating in restaurants if you're a vegetarian in Japan. I guess if you consider fish to somehow be "not an animal", though, it's much easier.
Out of curiosity, I've got to ask: Why do you - and other people in similar situations - want more money? Is it because you want to buy some specific products such as a specific real estate you've set your mind to? Or is it for more general reasons?
Google safe browser API returns safe for some URLs blocked in chrome so you don't even know what content is unsafe to fetch (like images) before your site gets this hideous red warning appear
AI generated?
My view from the ground as a client support monkey is that people who ply on tech spend their days having arguments with inanimate or intangible objects, and/or mediating other peoples' irrational arguments with inanimate or intangible objects.

Management's job is to ply on people. Rational arguments with rational actors...most of the time.
Wire? Didn't they get bought out by some shady company a few years back?
Like that wouldn’t leave a bad taste in your stomach.
Mother loses peripheral vision from apparent exposure to mercury in beauty cream
The internet archive has first indexed their site in 2021, so if they existed in 2017, that would be interesting.

Here's the Yandex (weirdly the best results) search for images similar to their Sr Managing Director: https://yandex.com/images/search?source=collections&rpt=imag...
> Q: Shouldn't gov.uk just stick to domains under .gov.uk?(!) Would make it easier to work out who's actually gov.uk and who's merely pretending :)

The main reason to buy those domains is to spend as little money as possible. Someone at gov.uk is a cheapskate or works with a really limited budget.
The Seven Circles of Meeting Hell
Gaslighting is not an objective term so it makes no sense to try to cast it as such. What constitutes gaslighting depends on terms like "abuser" and "victim" and since these terms are subjective, it follows that the term gaslighting must be as well.

Still, I think it's worth involving personal morals when arguing for or against when a term like this can be used, because if we don't we can't really use subjective terms to describe anything.

Consider for example that other charged terms involving an "abuser" and a "victim" would be open for the same argument, but arguing that this means that no moral opinion can be made in any of these cases would (in my opinion) not be intellectually honest but simply nihilistic.

I don't think that it's very productive to say that any term open for subjectivity in this manner should either be hardened into an objective criteria or discarded, because morality has never and never will be something that can be proven scientifically, it has to come from subjective values.
Pfff, yesterday i talked with a Brain fucker...it was terrifying.
Can we just stop calling peoples after tools?
The 28th is a Sunday this year. Banks in Germany don't work on weekends. This is perfectly normal.

In fact, there is no legal obligation to pay an employee before the end of the month (unless explicitly stated in the work contract). I've worked for employers that only paid in the first week of the next month.

If the money wasn't in their account by tonight, they may want to get worried. But at this point in time, this is just the press trying to spread some hysteria.

Edit: The problem with vacation: You lose track of time. the 28th of course was Monday.
They don't claim this. They claim Cloud Chats are encrypted, which is true and only claim e2ee for Secret Chats, which is also true.
Fantastic, that is far more useful
Does anyone know what font is used in the sound list? It gave me some serious 8 bit game nostalgia. :)
Limited budget, the UK public sector funding right now is atrocious, even in IT
Bakers do not bake bread, they merely construct a gel from precursor ingredients. The oven bakes the bread.
> Instead they talk about how wonderful the Shinkansen trains are.

At the time, Japan's HSR was the fastest in the world. California's would be the slowest in the world.

Merely slapping on the name "high speed" doesn't make it so.
Disputed territories: where Google Maps draws the line (2016)
There is in a sense a marketplace of algorithms, or at least, a marketplace of user experiences. That's the actual marketplace. It's the reason Facebook is losing marketshare to Tiktok.
That's not sugar, mon ami, it's high fructose corn syrup
Im a meat eater, but you can wake me up anytime if some good Indian vegetarian food is being served. I don't think its necessary to call chemical slop "meat" but okey.
Just as counter intuitive as that all file compression methods make most of all possible files larger.
Counterpoint: “objective truth” is the mainstream viewpoint and the “reality is a shared perception” folk are the ones being weird and disruptive, gaslighting people into questioning whether a spade is really a spade.
That's only for the telemetry that happens during the install process (if I've read the link correctly). Seems quite reasonable as long as we accept them sending telemetry during install. ("A single telemetry entry is also sent by the .NET SDK installer when a successful installation happens")

For telemetry during actual use, you can set that flag any time, and a message is shown on first use to inform you about it.

So seems relatively reasonable to me.
You’re using an overly narrow sense of the term in math.

Consider any orthogonal coordinate system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal_coordinates). The whole point of orthogonality in this case is that it makes coordinate values independent of each other - varying only one coordinate cannot result in a change in any other coordinate. The term is used in this same sense in many other areas of math, and elsewhere. This is the sense in which it’s been used in software, for more than half a century.

Forgive my curiosity, but in what sense were you “originally from math” but aren’t familiar with this term beyond a high school level understanding of geometry?
This is a very important distinction to make. "Tesla fan blogs" would be a better description than "Tesla blogs".
>you need to read more than just the headlines

It's sending your contend without consent...what's the problem?
I think this is harder to parse than just having a well formatted structure in a text editor
As an aside, this:

> The word “Lyappa” does not exist in Russian. It is probably a corruption of Russian: лапа, romanized: lapa, lit. 'paw'

does not seem to be completely accurate to me, since 'ляпа' is a word in Russian that is pronounced more or less like "lyappa"; The only reason I'm hesitant is that ляпа means blunder or mistake, which would be a rather ominous name to give you a component of your pride-of-the-nation space station. Almost seems like the 'paw' nickname somehow got out to western media, and someone decided to play a little linguistic joke.
Concept creep. Should be word of the decade or something :)
> I read the use-cases for this, but I feel like: if you’ve gone so far to where this is helpful/useful, have you just gone too far?

I don't understand this perspective. JSON isn't used only for RPC, even if that's what most frontend software is doing. For better or worse, it became a data serialization and interchange format - the need for such support tools arises naturally once you're generating or processing anything but most trivial data, and you value your time/sanity.
This is silly. You adopt practice based on your threat model. Threat models presuming the government can just torture information out of you also mean that any system will give you away - you're either completely anonymous or not, but if you use a messenger of any kind from your home internet IP address, then they'll come pick you up.

Telecom companies have full records of who had what IP, for what duration and when as does your ISP. If a phone number will get you pinched (based on no decryptable data) then so will anything else.
Blue Peter discovers the Internet (1995) [video]
All the hating on Signal but for me it's the best and fits my threat model. I live in the UK and by all accounts I'm pretty unremarkable - I want privacy but not overly worried about anonymity, I also wanted something that I could persuade family and friends to use.

Signal works perfectly in my use case, my friends and family happily switched over to it where when I tried to help my parents set up Matrix it was super verbose and required them to remember long passwords, etc. (of course they shoul dbe using a password manager, but one step at a time!).
That doesn't match my experience. Sure, there's the usual set of performative announcements of leaving by those who are terminally online and can't really bear to go somewhere without the same level of engagement, but I've seen a bunch of the more interesting people with niche interests leave and not return. In most cases they're starting their communities again on Mastodon, but some have just stopped engaging entirely.

Unsurprising, as the experience is being degraded. I now get far more spam, see more hateful and unmoderated responses to certain people, and the glitches are increasing. I now open the app less often too.

Maybe that'll reverse, it's too early to say. But it's also wrong to dismiss this as flippantly as you have.
On one hand, this is true, phone UIs are a bit harder to discover.

However, the other thing is that you were kids. If you were a kid with that phone app, fueled by curiosity and with a drive to be the first that discovers a functionality, you would have found that extra screen in 15 mins tops.
Probably a sad reflection of recent prominent news stories regarding governments that don’t tell the truth to their people. By my calculation covering a sizeable chunk of the world’s population.
Very Neat! Didn't know of this.

Have any more of "C Idioms" collection?
Cloudron: Complete solution for running apps on your own server
I'll pull the quote forward so people can make a decision as to how they feel:

> At the time, it seemed that Musk had dished out the Hyperloop proposal just to make the public and legislators rethink the high speed train. He didn't actually intend to build it. It was more that he wanted to show people that more creative ideas were out there for things that might actually solve problems and push the state forward. With any luck, the high speed rail would be canceled. Musk said as much to me during series of phone calls and emails leading up to the announcement. "Down the road, I might advise on a high speed rail project but right now I can't take my eye off the ball at either SpaceX or Tesla", he wrote.
It's not just America, and English.

There used to be (sometimes rather insane) niche dictionaries like reverse dictionaries, specific terminology dictionaries, hyper-specific ones like "A dictionary of "Names for inhabitants"[1] that catalogued 6000 local/specific names for people of different places and so on.

Some of them have moved online, but more often than not they are maintained by people who just collected some words on a page (like all the "chose the name for your baby, 10 000 names" lists) with no system or context.

And the world is ever so slightly worse off because of this.

[1] Yup. Published in the USSR. See for yourself here, in Russian: https://www.booksite.ru/fulltext/slovnazvanii/text.pdf This stems from the fact that it's not immediately obvious how to form a proper adjective from a place name in Russian
Just to be clear: that is to opt out of the single telemetry message sent by the installer itself on successful install, not to opt out of .NET telemetry in general. You can do that at any time post install by setting the env var, no need to remove and reinstall the entire SDK just to turn off telemetry.
> It sounds like you are suggesting non-animal agriculture kills or displaces more animals than animal agriculture.

Is exactly what happens. Without cattle there is not the need of meadows anymore. Not wildflowers, butterflies, hedgehogs, molluscs or birds. Soy fields have a biodiversity composed of: Soy. Period.
Cot–Caught Merger
I add IRC to the Mix
Is there a smear campaign going on against BM? Noticed a few of these stories — I just can’t work out whether the stories are causing their issues or vice versa!