skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I don't want millionaires to pay for their own care. I want to tax them more than it'd cost them to pay for that care privately.

Millionaires paying for their own care is how you end up with a terrible, underfunded, and eventually privatised public care system.
> Airplanes are public data, so this is a gray area.

US law has never had 'doxxing' of public figures in any sort of legal gray area, though. IIRC German citizens get a bit more protection, though.
I mean, either you're a free speech absolutist or you favour blocking user-generated links to a competitive website to evade other bans you've put on one of the many ADSB tracking websites that can be used to establish the in-flight location of your private jet.

There's no grey area.

The only reason for using Mastodon redirects was to further troll Elon. Other redirect services exist, as does content on Mastodon which doesn't refer to Elonjet. And the "extortion" demand for a Tesla is about as serious as Elon's promises involving horses...

Funny to see all the people who argued that public health, incitement to racial hatred and coordinated trolling of people not called Elon Musk were not valid grounds for a social media company to intervene now rushing to argue that the real fire in a crowded theatre is Elon's butthurt...
Why can’t we get a handle on this safety thing? (1998)
You don’t have to have brain surgery to replace your smartphone.
>It would be a bloodbath for investors and consequently cannot be allowed to happen.

If it will be a bloodbath for investors it's not a matter of not allowing it, people just won't invest and it won't happen anyway. Or the government will massively subsidise it and under-wright it to make it happen, and the public purse will carry the can. If it were financially viable on it's own, the private sector would most likely do it anyway, but if you're starting from the point of financial non-viability of your housing scheme as a starting assumption, blaming investors seems a bit silly.
They mention base64 encoding messages to evade filters. There were actually other base{n} methods [1] created specifically for Twitter to be more space optimized though not as readily available to operating systems. I guess this is less useful if they are really expanding the text limit to 4k soon but figured I would add it in the event they add a parser for base64.

This assumes most people would be able to:

npm install base2048

I think it might be interesting if Mastodon added a function to automatically detect and decode base2048 for browsers in javascript since JS is required to view a Mastodon site anyway. Bots would then have to adopt this logic, rendering most bots useless until they adapt and evolve. But I am not a developer and maybe this is just not possible.

[1] - https://github.com/qntm/base2048
Hmmm, that's what a human-imitating robot would say... /s
> Except pretty much everyone agrees, even within Labour, that Corbyn was unelectable... in part because his team and policies where squarely on the far left.

That does not make of him a bad politician (he can be, but you keep saying "he is a bad politician because I don't like his ideology and his ideology was not popular enough", which is NOT a criteria to decide if it's a bad politician or not). In a democracy, every ideology must be represented, even if they don't correspond to the majority and are therefore unelectable.

But again, that is not my point: Corbyn was shit, unelectable, whatever, ... And yet, the other party had bad politicians. Corbyn is not the one putting those politicians there. Corbyn supporters neither. Neither Corbyn or his supporters have any say in this, because they have a different ideology and therefore cannot build a good-politician party that defends an ideology they don't agree with.

The fact that the restaurant A serves expired food is not a good excuse for going to the restaurant B, eating slightly less expired food, pay your bill, leave without complaining about restaurant B, and conclude that the main reason is that restaurant A was bad. Restaurant A is bad, and we can, and should, complain about it, but when there is an article about restaurant B explaining that they are failing to serve correct food, you cannot bring in restaurant A as an excuse for the failure of restaurant B. The MAIN REASON restaurant B serves bad food is BECAUSE RESTAURANT B IS FAILING.

You may even be centre-left and chosen Tories for the first time just because you did not like Corbyn. But as soon as you vote Tories, the quality of the politicians in the Tory party is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY. If you vote for them, you are part of the process that reward their choice of bad politicians. (I use "you" as the "hypothetical you", not you in particular)

Also, your idea that what matter is the electability is really bad for democracy. Basically, it implies that minorities should never be represented.

> A healthy democracy needs a credible opposition.

If your definition of "credible opposition" is "an opposition that I would have maybe voted for", you are dead wrong.

In a healthy democracy, when you have two main parties, one in power, one in opposition, then, there is one party that you should think is okay, and one party that you should think is shit (it's more complicated than that, but it is to illustrate). If you like all the parties, it just means that you have just one ideology represented.
No worries, and I completely agree with the other reply suggesting it's disrespectful to comment on others writing.

I'm Dyslexic and have had to cope with people criticising my writing, judging my ability based on simple mistakes, it hurts and I'm sorry you have had that today.

I haven't had the chance to fully read it yet, but I'm going to later as it's super interesting to me.
From what I've seen, it seems to have had the opposite effect. People have gotten creative and far more have spoken about it.
I don’t see how it can be doxxing when it’s publicly available information that anyone can look up at any time.

Naming and shaming the usage of private jets is a useful public service if you ask me.

Blocking an entire competitor service just because of a single account?

Elon is just a hypocrite.
I don't know BASIC, but I would say Processing is very accessible. They tought it in my Middle School and I would say making games is trivially easy with it, even if it is more designed for animations than interactivity.

I would argue the problem is, back then, as a kid, you most probably had access to only one machine, and one PL. Now too many choices can make learning unfocused
Who are these productive outside entities who's capital is being violently extracted and why is this system (whatever it is) coming to an end?

I'm genuinely interested but you don't support your assertion with any evidence.
Show HN: Vulkan on Bun and Binding Generator
I made a couple(dozens) of hacks, but I managed to build a binding generator for Bun that eases using Vulkan and GLFW libraries to make blazingly fast GPU powered JS programs.
I've never been to Portugal, and don't know much about it.

Upon reading your comment, I casually looked up its economic stats and on first glance nothing jumped out at me.

So, what's wrong with Portugal?
> you're basically required to trust your online identity and private message secrecy to an anonymous activist admin with a kitty avatar

I have some friends operating a Mastodon server, with a team of volunteer operators, and I'm pretty sure I've met all of them in person. I've only used Twitter a handful of times and don't really like the medium, but it's really not that hard to run a server. And I don't think there's any fundamental reason this doesn't scale. Every single community center runs a website, it's not that much of a stretch to imagine local, trusted Mastodon-type servers operated by all sorts of organizations. You may already be a member of an organization that has the capability and drive in your area, if you just can find the other people who want it.
Any issues or gotachas you've run into as compared to Next?
From Wikipedia:

> Manchester code was used in early Ethernet physical layer standards

So, not in later standards?
> Pigeons are a little different because they’re mostly city-wide pets as things stand right now, they don’t seem to fill any “needed” ecological niche, but I may be wrong on that.

What is “needed”? How do you even define that? (And are you filling a “needed exological niche”?)
I agree with some of what you wrote, especially regarding selfhosting. I personally would like to see the ability to follow and post to local timelines, to ensure that you're able to be part of communities in a decentralised way.

However.

> you're basically required to trust your online identity and private message secrecy to an anonymous activist admin with a kitty avatar.

Is this worse than trusting Twitter, Facebook, or TikTok? Those companies are actively looking to exploit you for profit. Whereas strawman kitty avatar can't do anything. Especially are there are no private messages on Mastodon.
In the end there is no realistic future where every home has an efficient battery. The bulk of power has to come from grid/utility that provides storage.

Honestly my hope was that metering like this would be an incentive to build said storage but it is not. In the end the grid/utility operators are crying missed profits and lobbying government to step in "or they will become bankrupt". It's a sad state of affairs, these utilities make money hand over fist but not doing the investments they are supposed to do.
I have manjaro installed on my note 9 under termux, with vnc viewer to loopback to display x-windows stuff.
With the Dex functionality I can plug in a mouse, keyboard and monitor to use it as a Linux desktop.

It runs blender and gcc pretty well!
Airbrushing claim as ‘Eric Gill museum’ shuns legacy of artist and sexual abuser
If you like the idea of a decnrelized network but think mastodon has problems (ie attaching your identity and friend graph to a single server) Check out nostr:

https://github.com/nostr-protocol
I Was One of the Last Kids in America to Grow Up Before the Smartphone
Peoples morals do not improve, only temporarily, whatever misbehavior you've exhibited in your past you will do so again in the future. Your past behavior is the best predictor of what you're gonna do in the future. The character isn't something static in the course of life, but not on fundamental things.

About narcissism... where do I even begin. Let's just say that narcissism is the norm nowadays, especially in first world countries. I feel it's futile to describe further but I like the fact that people (me/you/anyone) see certain things in a different way.
That’s why I used quotes. Supposedly crows around these parts eat mice and even rats, which is good enough reason for me to define it as filling a “needed ecological niche”.
Hm yeah I didn’t, I left the book for when I’m on a computer - thanks for spotting it!

Obviously, now I’m curiouser about the secret editor :)
Realistically, each Mastodon instance sets its own policies. Most publish lists of the instances they've banned. When I looked at those lists a month ago, it seemed like the median instance banned 6-10 other instances. Typically, the banned instances included a particular instance which publishes a lot of Nazi symbols, which are illegal in many European countries. Other frequently-banned instances included ones with lots of NSFW content, including a now-extinct instance used by sex workers. Also, spammy instances got banned a lot.

However, a handful of Mastodon instances, mostly ones used by frequently harassed groups, banned dozens of other instances. This was one of their major selling points to their users: "Join here, and we'll provide a curated experience with fewer harassers."

No instance that I saw banned linking to Twitter, and I can't think of any instance that banned journalists from major mainstream papers.

But the thing about Mastodon is that if you really want to talk to Nazi wannabes, you can always set up your own instance. However, many people may choose not to talk with you, because many people dislike wannabe Nazis and their buddies and don't invite them to the cool parties. Almost every worthwhile social space has always had rules about who's not invited.

Elon Musk has every right to shout loudly about freedom of speech, and then ban journalists and links to competitors. And his critics have every right to mock him for this.
For people who pretend "to be inclusive" and all that type of rhetoric it's really funny how they would go with such a misogynistic slur as absolutely acceptable and encouraged.

You see it in action too, how people substitute having arguments for simply calling people some label.

After a while you realize that most people online and offline tend to be very authoritarian and love witch hunting/piling on others. So any type of situation where they can other and freely attack someone they'll take it.

But yeah, don't like "karen" at all. Call them whatever they are, e.g.: "this woman went and was rude and entitled and did X". Also, demanding good service or a manager might be perfectly acceptable done in a polite manner. Consumer advocacy shouldn't be blanket attacked.
yup, most of it
'In the context of this joke, the phrase "and off-by-one errors" is not being used as a loop or array index, and therefore cannot create an off-by-one error in the joke itself.'

This gave me déjà vu from some of the more pedantic comments I'd get on my failing answers in exams.
No, it means that only people highly involved in the ecosystem keep using Emacs. Ideally, you'd like people completely unaware of how it works to use it; like for VSCode for example.
> Also, there are doxxing laws. Airplanes are public data, so this is a gray area. I think if the public data is specific enough to pinpoint individuals, it should revert to being private. Same is usually applied to other types of public data.

Then you should fight with the government to make this data private instead of banning those who are simply reposting that public data.

FWIW I think if you own a private jet then the world deserves to know where you fly it.
> It seems a lot of people are pointing out the massive amounts of hypocrisy Elon is displaying, as well as how fickle & fragile the concept of free speech is when it comes up against the personal opinions of a billionaire.

As Peter Kafka (heh) wrote over at Vox:

> But I think we’re better off if we face reality on reality’s terms: One of the richest men in history bought something many of us use and like. Because he could. And now he’s going to run it based on his whims. Because he can.

* https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/12/16/23512993/doxxing-elon-...
Well if you're pro-EU, Corbyn is also a poor choice...
The “moderate politics” community has has to stop debating certain contentious topics because the Reddit rules don’t allow one side, held by the majority of Americans, to express their view.

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/29/1107484965/transgender-athlet...
Until a training set of joke explanations is eventually created haha
> thousands of Californians are experiencing unnecessary and extended end of life suffering.

> Making a case requires evidence

Where's the evidence that (1) Californians specifically, (2) are experiencing extended suffering, and (3) what evidence exists that suffering specifically is unnecessary?

I'm just pointing out dropping a comment like the first answer and defending it with the second is doing exactly what is being claimed -making a case without providing real evidence.
QOI is in the same ballpark as RLE simplicty-wise but performs much better in a larger number of common cases. That's very much "golf".
Couldn't find any yet, but I'm curious as well. APR-1400 business is booming.
"The domain"? Saint Car appears to be filtering links to _all_, or nearly all, mastodon instances. Did you read the article?
Cinderella’s fabled glass slipper is revealed as a joke on royalty
Airports use lasers and pyrotechnics to get rid of them.

https://www.birdcontrolgroup.com/chasing-away-the-geese-at-d...
The Childish Drama of Elon Musk
You could use the same arguments against the web.

It's bullshit fearmongering that uses the existence of a couple of heavily blocked instances to smear the thousands who have nothing to do with them other than using the same software.
I dont think it feels threatened. Most migrated Mastodon users dislike Musk and they deliberately rub him the wrong way.
Git is an append-only ledger of this kind.

(Well, append-only plus regular garbage collection.)
I wouldn't know. The person I replied to claimed that it was "private information of individuals". If it's public info by law then referring to it as private seems very misleading, wouldn't you say?
Good points, but rn it seems that Emacs is playing a game of catching up. Thinks like LSP integration, tree-sitter are coming now but it's still really rough. I'm glad they are! But we're not there yet.
Completely agree! A world with lots of private property that people can enter and exit freely is one compatible with liberalism. A giant privately owned public square is a terrible idea.
I think the fundamental problem, if we ignore Musk's hypocrisy is that Musk appears to be using his newfound moderator abilities capriciously to silence people he dislikes, without any sort of standard for behavior. With the plane thing it seems like he invented a rule to justify his behavior, and it gives the impression he will continue inventing rules whenever it suits him, not because these rules are good, but because he needs a rule to justify banning someone who annoyed him. And eventually he'll be in the classic corrupt regulator situation where he has a rule to ban pretty much anyone who annoys him, and they will be selectively applied only to people who annoys him.

He needs to show he's a trustworthy moderator who won't behave like this, and his behavior makes it pretty hard to believe he will be.
You can study anywhere in the EU. Why limit yourself to France.

Would a Scandinavian country work? The courses would be in English anyway. Everyone speaks English (I assume in other Scandinavian countries than the one that I live in - DK)

And also why math and not CS?

Are you interested in software development or just hacking stuff together?
That's an interesting hypothesis - though one that is far from fact, that many would disagree with, and which has never been tested. As such, you might want to avoid fallaciously stating it as a certainty.
Sveltekit 1.0 was just released and I got teary eyed when going through the interactive tutorial at http://learn.svelte.dev and saw how intuitive some things were compared to react.
Is it the culture? For years the people (Microsoft, Apple) who would have naturally pushed standard ways of doing things in javascript front end, actively neglected it. So lots of much smaller entities had to invent their own ways of doing things. That culture persists on the back end.
It basically means 'I hate white women' but that's ok because they are white
Comedy is now legal on Twitter.
More often than not, the large right wing instances strip out all the Mastodon branding and turn off federation. See Gab and Truth Social.
Do you think it’s OK for the FBI to go work with massive corporations to try and “manage” a public conversation?
> city-wide pets

Did you mean "pests"?
People are on Twitter because of accounts like that, across the spectrum. It was the one place where you could find everyone, including politicians, organisations, journalists, experts, and random people with cool interests, and interact on a more or less equal basis.

When enough of those leave it'll just become Truth Social or Parler. You might personally find that more fun and interesting, depending on your political background, but it'll never sustain the same user base.
Hilarious you see the NUJ as competent enough for that. In my view the NUJ, NCTJ etc are (sadly) not the answer for the challenges of media in 2022 and beyond - it could be argued they are not fit for purpose.
I find this article very trivializing with regards to his views and wonder why this ends up on the HN front page.

In his writings he very much wrote about races, deemed the Jews to be ‘destructive‘ and aspired a German state where Jews could not be German [0] (German source, but throwing it at deepl should give you an understanding). He was totally antidemocratic, racist and nationalist and it is no coincidence Nazis admire(d) him as mentor.

Of course you can look with different perspectives at his life and works, but disagreeing with Hitler and Nazis in their most extreme views and intentions and having some doubts with regards to their ruling while serving them in higher positions in my opinion is not enough to trivialize his role in such a manner, especially not in such a short fragmentary way.

[0] https://www.hagalil.com/2021/03/juenger-2/
Musk said the ElonJet account was allowed even though he thought it was a "direct personal safety risk".

He went completely against that and journalists that reported on it when he banned the account and the journalists.

Keep in mind that none of this was "doxxing". It's publicly available information what Elon's plane is and where it's flying. He just woke up on the wrong side of bed and decided to ban, perhaps to see how far he could push things and whether his "fans" would support him.

He then starts a Twitter poll to democratise the decision to unban the journalists. The result is to unban them now. He didn't like that result and did another poll, except with the news that he was doing it again, the poll was even more in favour of unbanning them now.

He's a hypocrite deciding what to do based on what some brown nosing fan tweets him or what he dreamt of that night.
This article says that the cause of mass sea stars death is still unknown. I don't see how we could help them to recover if we don't know that. Mass-grow them in some kind of sanctuary? There will be a risk that they all just die again when released into the wild (if the death factor is still present).
> If they had merely done what Musk does now

If they had merely done what Musk CLAIMS he does. But what he claims is not what he actually does do.

That flight tracker he banned is based on publicly available information that everybody can legally access, at the same time he posts someones license plate for weird paranoid reasons. How can he be against doxing when he does it himself with people other than himself?

> there is certainly way more speech now than before

Speech does not get more free, when there is more of it. Speech replaces other speech. There are certain things you can say on a anonymous image board you cannot say anywhere else. But there are also certain discourse you can have in other places that would not be possible elsewhere.
Isn't Reddit already filled with generated stories?

Bots on HN are not allowed.
Email address spam evasion techniques work. Replacing '.' with ' . ' or [.] or [dot] all work.
Yes, AR+VR should converge into something similar to the differentiation between windowed- vs fullscreen-mode today: AR should be translucent, non-intrusive visuals overlaid atop your vision of meatspace, and when you need to sit down and fully immerse yourself into a game or movie, you would temporarily switch to VR, on the same device.

So until we have lightweight and powerful-enough glasses — not bulky headsets — everything else is just a public-funded prototype on the way to the real goal.
> While Musk can no longer claim to be a free speech absolutist,

What are the arguments for this??

Is it because he's blocking live trackers (from Mastodon or otherwise) for his airplane while he's an active target for political assasination or is there like.. an actual good reason/example for this statement?
Why? It's almost trivial to do it in OpenGL or Metal and the result will be better.