skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So are Reddit comments[1]. Once there are sufficient comments on the internet that you can't read them all in a lifetime, who's to say the one you are reading is novel and written by a human, and not a pre-fab comment scrambled from dozens of previous posts on the same topic from years ago, or the same topic on another site?

[1] you can't prove otherwise!
During my first year at uni, we used to play a lot of counterstrike, back when it was still only a mod. Me and my roommates discovered that if you lower the resolution to 320x200, the heads are really big. Desert eagle headshots all day long...

Later i started playing Bad Company 2 with a friend. With details on minimum i could easily make out the mines. We played quite a bit of tanks, him driving and me on machine gun/repairs/mine spotting duty.

Fun times
Nothing about the parent's comment assumed a metaphysical identity.

It's unambiguously true that no one chose their genes or their childhood environment. That statement doesn't require a metaphysical chooser who might have made the choice.
What is the role of the manager, if they are not providing guidance and mentorship?
Yes. Advertising should be illegal. Failing that, there should be ubiquitous technology to render it completely ineffective by deleting ads in real time, destroying any and all returns on their advertising investment.

One day someone smarter than me will make some machine learning thing that deletes brands from videos in real time.
This is becoming the case with Lyft and Uber now.
> West has abandoned the upper hand in defense technology.

Ah yes, superior Russian technology, as demonstrated in Ukraine.
Looks neat. Of course you can do this in c++.
In general, the better you can see outside, the less motion sickness. It’s driven heavily by a disconnect between your vestibular sense and visual sense. Your vestibular system needs periodic “updating” to remove the inherent drift in it. If you feel sick, looking outside helps reset that drift, alleviating the symptoms. Many people feel ill and decide to close their eyes, look down, or read to take their mind off it. Bad idea.

Keeping cool (even slightly cold) also helps some people.
Unless you code in MatLab, in which case:

Science ~= policy
Yep, not to mention the recent scandal with car security (keywords: kia, usb cable) because they cheaped out and didn't include security keys until 2019.
I've been hearing constant news about how awful their censorship laws are for at least 5 years now. The only reason telegraph is saying Britain was "sleepwalking" was because up until now they've been exclusively benefiting from it
I think this fails because you need to install python3-venv too (on Debian systems I believe). So then you're back looking it up on Google.
I think part of the reason why this is so much more visible online is the fact that the whole online world is the world of words.

For example, the idea that you can "be violent" toward someone by not affirming them is a profoundly online idea, because everybody here is only as real as they can convince us they are. If I told you I am an 80 y/o woman from Iceland there is not much you can do to verify that. Thus we end up in a culture where you HAVE to believe me, otherwise you are "literally erasing" me from existence.
It’s terrible on syncing small files and its creators admitted: that’s by design and won’t be changed any soon.

https://forum.syncthing.net/t/really-slow-at-syncing-deletin...
This would be a bit more usable if it were in a sortable table and/or had more filters. The badges look is cute, but less useful for quickly skimming. As a casual "hey I want to play an opensource game" reader, I think it would be beneficial if the landing page focused only on those that were Playable. A long list of Unplayable games with Halted development degrades the quality of the resource.
The pedant is like a man living zeno's paradox of Achilles and the Tortoise.

You'll never get anywhere pedantically deconstructing things with no bounds.
Three days ago the leader of the Oath Keepers, a right wing paramilitary organization, was found guilty of seditious conspiracy. As it’s a conspiracy conviction, we can expect more convictions to come.

You whatabout this with several examples that aren’t even political violence. Rand Paul’s neighborhood spat isn’t political violence. How is the Waukesha attack political violence, I just don’t see it.

Republicans have shown us exactly what political violence looks like. Thousands of people, flying the banner of a political party, organizing to attack the government. Seditious conspiracy is coming from the right, and nothing even approaching that severity is seen on the left. The FBI director is right to draw a distinction between left- and righ-wing violence.

The age of small-scale lone wolf attacks being the worst of political violence in the US are over thanks to the right. Now the biggest problems are homegrown terror cells like the oath keepers, and terror attacks instigated by media and the high ranking government officials, as the former President did on Jan 6.

> 4 years of conspiracy theories surrounding Russia

You need to catch up; the only ones still denying Trump’s collusion with Russia are Trump and Russia. Even Trump’s campaign manager has admitted to his role of coordinating campaign strategy with a Russian intel officer, which is a fact reported by Senate Republicans in their investigation.

The Trump tower meeting with the Russian spy is known by all and admitted to by all participants. The Trump Tower Moscow deal is known by all and admitted to by Trump. We know Russia hacked the DNC and Trump admits to welcoming that help, as shown in the Mueller report. Hillary Clinton was largely vindicated.
> fear of eternal torment

Do people really believe this though?

I get your point in general though: religion works.
Mocha Dick
Some social media are like that, others are not. When I read “It’s that I don’t see my actual friend’s posts and they don’t see mine.” I thought that my friends do see my posts and viceversa because we use channels on WhatsApp and Telegram. If all I want is keeping in touch with friends, why should I use media like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok?
TIL that current working directory is stored with buffer lines. Cool idea.

I've quickly tried to drag and drop file from another directory earlier from the history to the terminal itself, but it was converted to "cd directory" command somehow.
> The child is more akin to the reward the lottery gives out than the person getting the lottery.

You seem to be missing the point that we are stuck with who we are. Our mental and physical faculties are handed down to us. We receive them, even though they define us. We experience ourselves.
Startups and Side-Projects
If we're plundering you, rest assured, you'll know it.
> practice React and Javascript interview questions

Who interviews this way (with asking language and framework specific questions)? I thought the point of leetcode is you can practice for FANGA level interviews with $200k+ salaries?
I see your point, but choice of transportation vehicle is more obviously dependent on environment than intelligence.
Ironic that there's several assumptions around things you've tried to logic out without looking at research.

>I think this is why depression rates are higher in more intelligent people. There's a better ability to comprehend and change your life, but that usually doesn't translate to the willpower and wisdom needed to do so.

Other possibilities:

- intelligent people have a history of being bullied and develop anxiety/depression from that

- they struggle with impossibly high expectations placed on them

- genes associated with intelligence increase risk of mental illness

- they rely too much on their intellect at an early age and fail to develop other important skills

- intelligent people may be more arrogant and have difficulty maintaining friendships

- a higher correlation of neurodivergence and the difficulties of living in a world not designed for them
Are Kias that unreliable? I'm still operating a 17 year old Corolla in the rust belt that has some years left.
No one chooses their genes because to a very important extent you are your genes. There is no meaningful "you" that could have done the choosing.
The poster and you are talking about different things. You are describing the reaction of a class of practitioners and he is describing the reaction of a different class of approachers. You have identified two different real profiles.
C-f gut

Nothing. No gut bacteria this time, but they did have "In Praise of Tasty Wooden Salad", which is in line with Hackernews dietary recommendations if you don't want cancer, heart disease, violent mood swings, etc.
Installing the newer versions won't make the old ones go away though, and there are presumably a lot of built-in things linking to the old versions.
I long for the day I can carry my phone or watch without needing keys or wallet. The fact that most adults carry at least 3 things (keys/phone/wallet) at all times in 2022 is crazy.
Your experience agrees with my experience of myself. Growing up I was the youngest child in our family friend group and particularly had an older sibling who basically bullied me - I learned to be reticent to speak and was definitely afraid of saying something stupid. When I got a little older (in high school) I eventually got curious about how so many of my peers seemed to converse easily without fear of saying anything stupid. Upon observation I realized that my peers said stupid stuff all the time and for the most part nobody cared. I think to some extent position in the social pecking order probably mattered more for how people would react to what someone said than specifically what they said.

I sometimes think about something similar while watching sitcoms - the characters will often say/do mean things to each other for a laugh and because everyone on the show reacts as though what was said was okay/normal it seems to barely register to me how mean it actually was.

I think growing up with a critical sibling lead to me developing a self-critical voice that I carried around with me so even if externally people didn't react poorly to something "stupid" I said, internally I provided myself that negative feedback that reinforced my fears/beliefs. I think the self-critical voice was protective when it developed - it helped me avoid the more painful external feedback from my sibling, but it continued on long after that was useful.
He's killed 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers so far, by the best current estimates, and he couldn't care less about that.

He's lost a similar number of his own people, and he couldn't care less about that, either.

But yeah, let's appease him, and see how that goes in the long run. Maybe it'll work this time. Maybe this time is different.
Stephen Watt got prison time for writing hacking tools that he himself didn't use. Why is this any different?
As I’ve recently been testing a bunch of habit trackers for iOS, settling on Routinery for the past few weeks, there’s a few things that seem to be missing:

1. Privacy, subscription-less, tracking-less. Which you’ve covered.

2. A decent widget showing your streak of not breaking the chain. Most of the major habit tracking apps either have no widget or the widget is just to launch a routine set.

3. Timers for each habit item, which then allows you to mark as complete to auto start the next habit and timer, or pause if one is taking a little longer. I’ve found this creates a little more incentive to get them done in succession and want to click that done button even more.

4. Syncs to multiple devices - watch, iPad, phone, etc. I see you can export out of the app but syncing would be helpful.

5. As someone noted in another comment: A way to export and/or print a habit tracker so as to get away from the phone and tech and only come back to log it on the device, should I choose to and snap a quick photo that gets OCR’ed to update the app stats. Maybe a pocketmod.com format could work?
Not really. I didn't have a Twitter account before, and I still don't have one. The only thing that's changed is that I find myself using Twitter more...
The question older than Civilization itself: how to make the human behave the way you want it to?

Any good manager will tell you the answer is as long as it is varied.
This is the paper that introduced 'The Wheel of Reincarnation' to describe how
the same ideas keep recurring in computer science.
thanks. i do the same and consistently have to push back on reviewers (why don't they learn?) that the hardcoded number is there for a reason
Just to say it, for measurements that take a unit I am hardcore that you should include the unit in the variable time:

`timeSeconds`

`distanceMeters`

`amountDollars`

Have unit tests and everything, but also write your code so that when someone reads it they know as precisely as possible what's going on without other documentation.
> as well as learn about and create your own devices similar to other existing, commercial technologies such as Samsung MST and Coin

Yup
Agreed completely, but keys/IDs work 100% of the time. Even if virtual versions work 99% of the time, that's still not enough.
Uh-uh. 98.47% of $$ went to Dems in 2020. But _obviously_ magnitude of dollars has nothing to do with number of people, influence, or power. Or rather, you're saying, there's no way to know, so we should just move along right?
Because in the US almost no one uses WhatsApp and Telegram.
> Ironic that there's several assumptions around things you've tried to logic out without looking at research.

Yes, exactly! I'm aware of it and can't stop doing it. You do it too I bet. It's a very annoying flaw in the human psyche.

edit: to be clear, you can stop. It requires some energy to open up your mind though, so you can't do it forever or you'll burn out, at least in my experience.
It only looks that way because the link to its stylesheet is broken:

<link media="all" href="https://3skoz1yr97849dum72v8p1rj-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-..." rel="stylesheet" />

The `href` leads to a 404, hence the "refreshing" look...
Secular humanism tastes like cardboard.
> Modern Phoenix is entirely dependent on cars and air conditioning. It's not very human-friendly.

What is with the obsession with air conditioning in Phoenix? New York is dependent on heat moreso than Phoenix is dependent on air conditioning. Does that make it “not very human friendly”?

People seem to think “air conditioning is evil technology” while simultaneously thinking “obviously we need heating to live in otherwise uninhabitable locations”.

> It was only a slight incremental improvement over the existing state-of-the art.

This downplays the real-time and feedback mechanisms. Cab drivers behaved like grade A pieces of shit because there was no rating mechanism to encourage anything else.

You may have had GPS dispatch, but people couldn’t get a real time ETA nor was there any actual commitment to pick that person up.
Well, the establishment can go to hell. I'm signing up for a Twitter account again, never thought I'd go back there.
A year ago I picked up the BASIC dialect PureBasic. Pleasant surprise actually, the syntax of the PureBasic dialect is a bit archaic, but if you accept that it is much easier and faster to get anything done compared to C (and C++). Personally I find low level topics easier to grok in PureBasic than in C even though they mirror the same concepts. PureBasic has Unicode strings built in.

It is a bit shame that BASIC has such a bad reputation, there are many BASIC dialects that does the job well still today.

https://www.purebasic.com/documentation/reference/ug_string....
I put your quote into ChatGPT:

This passage is discussing the idea that good people do not want to hold public office because they do not want to be seen as hirelings who are only interested in payment, or as thieves who are secretly enriching themselves at the expense of the public. The author argues that good people are not ambitious and do not care about honor, so they must be forced to serve out of fear of punishment. The worst punishment, according to the author, is the fear of being ruled by someone who is worse than oneself. This fear is what ultimately compels good people to take office, even though they do not want to and do not expect to benefit from it. The author suggests that good people take office out of a sense of necessity, because they are not able to entrust the task of ruling to anyone who is better than themselves.
Curious to hear more about your experience with Node/TypeScript. Is it really comparable to the maturity of JVM or the .Net ecosystems? I've experienced some problems such as: 1. It's still running JavaScript on server-side 2. Debugging becomes a pain because stacktraces will contain .js files and line numbers 3. Multi threading is still complex.
Density brings advantages to industry, technology, labor markets, factories, and infrastructure in general, but I’m unconvinced it represents an advantage when we’re talking about the optimal size and density for healthy human communities, and the mental and physical health of the families that comprise them.

I personally benefit from having enough room that I can live independently, without the kind of constant oversight and strictures required to keep high-density environs operating.

I’d even suggest that this is almost universally true, and that density represents a cultural pathology in service of industrialization, not human beings.

That said, I won’t begrudge anyone the same right to live how they want; I merely take umbrage at the pervasive undercurrent of opinion that how I live is not just wrong, but that state authority and cultural power should be leveraged to coerce or force a more correct choice.
>Do people really believe this though?

Yes.

Might come as a surprise, but some people really believe the world is round. /s
Incredible application of technology, interesting read about the internals of credit card payment information storage.
The fact that it could not be otherwise doesn't make it incoherent to say that you didn't choose your genes.

What's the underlying point you're trying to get across? It doesn't seem like a productive thing to go on about.
Maybe I was just young and naive back then, but when I was at uni 20 years ago the truth still seemed to hold some sway. In my subjective experience there’s been a massive change since then, but it’s hard to say how much of that is me changing and how much is actual change in the world.
Non-JS accessible version [1]

[1] - https://archive.ph/Fh4Qc
Ah, you're correct:

https://www.media.volvocars.com/global/en-gb/media/pressrele...
That only works on some people. Others respond better to loud angry messages. Or funny ones. Or reverent ones, or whatever.

As a self-described secular humanist, I think part of the reason the philosophy has remained so cloistered is BECAUSE it only tries to be "calm and rational" -- which the overwhelming majority of humans don't respond to on an emotional level. Evolution didn't give us the tools to readily make value judgments from careful analysis.

It's its own kind of echo chamber, heavily intellectual but not very charismatic or viral and limited to its own tiny bubble. Truth in a snowglobe.
Although you can disable the bits in the service code pertaining to the cards ICC capabilities, in theory there's a good chance that the track2 equivalent data on the chip is different from the track2 data on the magstrip. That would make it easy for the issuer to determine that the track2 has been modified and reject the transaction and/or flag the account for fraudulent activity.
Same thing in France, in the 80s we had pro pedophilia militants on TV, talking about lowering age of consent, about sexually educating kids (1-6 years old), how pedophilia and homosexuality were similar and as such pedophilia shouldn't be illegal, &c. it mostly came from left wing philisophers and academicians who wanted to go further with the "sexual revolution" of the 60s/70s and somehow were either blinded by their ideals or pedophiles themselves

For the past decade or so more and more people are starting to talk about systemic rapes and sexual assaults in the church too
The blog he referenced was discussed here recently.

I can't find the specific discussion, but searching on the domain is probably a good summary:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=whyevolutionistrue.co...

The conclusion in that thread, as I recall, and apparently coming from people in NZ, seemed to be that he was mostly misrepresnting it to generate rage bait, similar to Critical Race Theory discussions.
Nobody argues that the truth doesn't truly matter.
I agree it would be convenient. But consider the new dangers: 1) pickpocketing would suddenly be 3x as profitable and 3x as easy, 2) lose one thing and you've lost everything, 3) if one thing stops working, everything stops working, 4) venues where you have to give up your phone means carrying extra cash in.... a wallet, 5) cybercriminals can now steal much more from you without ever getting near you, 6) I imagine there will never be a universal standard for these things so changing vendor will be quite difficult.
Who is Elon Mask?
In my company, the project manager is essentially just there to report progress to management.

Why is it necessary to report progress to management? I'm not sure; as far as I've seen, nothing is ever done with the information, except to propagate it further up the chain. I can only speculate that, without progress reporting, management would seem to have too little work to do to justify its headcount.
But that is missing the point.

It stops being about the most ingenious solution. It becomes a pay2win game. There is no creativity, there is no actual competition.
One could.

However, many people in game programming care about their craft and having as much control as possible and also being efficient with their resources. In this project specifically, there might be also some kind of nostalgia thing going on.

By the way, even though I use Python daily for ML and some web stuff, I find Python very lacking for serious, complex projects because of the dynamic type system, bad performance, and the infamous GIL. I find the idea that programming something in a system-level language is some kind of lost, arcane craft that shouldn't even be attempted quite perplexing.
An AI comment bot trained on past HN comments that can be unleashed on the actual HN to whore karma sounds like a great meta-humorous project - it would prove that as far as upvotes go, we have achieved the singularity.
What’s interesting to me is how much of atheism, rationalism, and the various fellow travelers is dominated by people who are clearly well onto the autism spectrum.

Atheism is basically the result of an inability to read spiritual cues just as typical autistic behavior stems from an inability to read social cues. I feel for people who are spiritually blind, but I’m really not interested in their opinions on religion anymore than I am in a tone deaf person’s opinions on music.
Yeah there is a difference, a priest telling his people to vote for one candidate while being a tax free organization is illegal.
The question was: “ Has the government, any division of the government, any member of the government, or any organisation acting on behalf of the government, ever had partner access to Facebook’s takedown portal previously found (since removed) at https://facebook.com/xtakedowns/login?”
Balance in everything.
i.reddit.com is still better for me than anything they released after that. Loads faster than any app I tried as well.
This is contract law. Most general or transactional (aka business or corporate) law firms -- as opposed to criminal or family law -- will handle this sort of thing. Contracts are the bread and butter of lawyers. It's what they live for.

I would suggest a solo or small law firm as your business will be more important to them. And attention to the agreements you have questions about is actually what you're looking for. Larger firms will probably just hand you off to a paralegal with a quick review by an actual lawyer. And then charge you way more.