skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's too late to make up for those ills. Move on and quit living in the past.

Do you apply the same viewpoint to everything else? When is too late? 1 year? 5 years? 50 years?

It took 45 years for Japanese American internees to get reparations. Was that too late? Should they have given up because they were living in the past?

In today's news, "Nazi secretary, 97, convicted for role in 10,000 murders at death camp". That was 75 years ago. Is that too late? Do you think the German prosecutors live in the past?

People right now are survivors of European colonial atrocities. Why shouldn't living Kenyans who were tortured by British troops get compensation for the Mau Mau rebellion?

> Why drag our children down with the ills done by our ancestors?

It appears that you want to teach our children that they can commit whatever atrocities they want in a less powerful country and, so long as they say "it's complicated" they can put off dealing with it forever.

Do you think the children of those tortured are so easy to forgive?

"Race" is a cultural creation meant to control people. I reject "white guilt" as being a meaningful concept since I've only seen it used as social control meant to keep others from doing what is right.

We need only to look at the long-held animosity between Irish and English to know that animosity does not disappear in a generation, and that "white guilt" is an artificial term.
> Honestly, I think the people that would bristle most about this are the instances themselves.

Yeah, I can imagine that - which is why the instances would have to be in control here. E.g., require that an instance explicitly registers with the service before you start assigning users to them. Also that's why I think it's important that instances announce how many new users there are willing to take.

Of course, this could lead to new problems, e.g. the service could be a target for malicious instances: Make an instance, stuff it full of (your own) bots that promote some sort of MLM or crypto scam, then have the entrypoint service supply you with a steady stream of gullible users.

Or alternatively, use the service to quickly grow large, then sell data from your users, employ accounts from your instance as spambots, etc.

So such an entrypoint would somehow have to balance the interests of the users and the interests of the instances.
> And popular people have plenty of places where they can do that. But why does everyplace have to be amenable to people with 10+ million followers?

This is where you're wrong. Twitter is the only place they can do that right now, where the audience is for that type of content. And people are positioning Mastodon as a better alternative to Twitter. So Mastodon needs to be amenable to people with 10+ million followers. That's just logic. Otherwise, people wouldn't be actively encouraging Twitter users to switch to Mastodon the way they are.

If you want a product that won't support popular accounts then that's fine, but that's clearly something different from Mastodon and the Fediverse then. Really, that's just what regular forums are for, and always have been. But Mastodon is not a forum.
I do believe that woke language functions as a cultural signifier that keeps the elite safe and guarantees them success. This particular list is just too egregiously dumb to function correctly. I would be willing to bet that 99% of these replacements simply don't happen outside of Stanford domains, and the ones that do happen won't be due to this list.
Techno-optimism. We didn't have planes, now we have planes. We rode horses and now we go to the moon. Therefore, anything you can possibly imagine is inevitable because "technology".

We will circumvent every possible logistical and physical barrier because of nebulous reasons.

It's a lot like that scene in Silicon Valley when Big Head is pitching a neuralink-esque device for a phone to the CEO and the CEO asks how long it will take and Big Head says "Soon, we just got to figure out how".

Like, no shit, the "how" isn't just the important part, it's the only part.
>Every other western country has managed to get reasonable abortion rights by political processes. In the US you can make no progress unless 99% of people agree or SCOTUS step in.

It's because of the Supreme Court's mistake with Roe v. Wade in the first place.

By the early 1970s various US states had legalized abortion. In Roe the Supreme Court suddenly ruled that abortion was a constitutional right, abruptly legalizing it nationwide with more or less no restrictions whatsoever; even many abortion-rights supporters believed before Dobbs overturned Roe that the legal theory behind Roe was faulty, including Justice Ginsberg. The result was so across-the-board that, among other things, the US still allows abortions to occur later than anywhere else. (More on this later.)

Preventing the full political debate process from occurring is why abortion remains so controversial in the country 45 years and counting. Because such issues are polarizing and partisan, they need full discussion in a legislature, as opposed to unelected judges unilaterally short-circuiting the debate.

Again: Dobbs, by overturning Roe, did not "ban abortion nationwide in the USA". As one of the justices wrote, all it did was to restore the court's proper silence on the matter and let the states decide.

Further, as s1artibartfast told you, it was not true before or after Dobbs that "every other western country has managed to get reasonable abortion rights" (by which you mean, more allowing of abortion than the US, since the US surely is the world's most restrictive on abortion). Let's take Germany as example:

* Abortion is always illegal in Germany, because courts have repeatedly found that the fetus has a right to life. (This occurred at almost the same moment as Roe v. Wade.)

* However, Section 218 of the criminal code has decriminalized abortion in some circumstances:

* Before 12 weeks, with counseling and waiting period.

* After 12 weeks, when rape or medical necessity is involved, with approval by two doctors, and possibly counseling and waiting period.
Of course they will be affected if their customers are unprofitable and are forced to cut costs or go out of business.
You only need social security if you’re unable to work. If we increase healthspan to the point that you can maintain the physical condition of a 30 year old indefinitely then you are able to pull your own weight.
A lawyer was banned from seeing a popular show for reasons entirely unrelated to physical safety, with an FR twist. She then hit back at their liquor license. Who's got popcorn??
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> They got a warrant to get access to their suspects emails and electronic files based on other evidence sent to a judge.

Incriminating files and emails don't necessarily exist when smart people who see each other in person all the time do crime.
Not the user you replied to, but for me:

Open blinds in the morning, shut them at sundown.

Turn on porchlights after dark if I'm not home. Turn them off 10m after I'm home.

Turn HVAC up/down when I leave the house, revert when I get home.

Unlock doors when I arrive home. Make sure they're locked when I leave.
I can't use this for work unless I pay $50 per year, is that right?

If I sign up for the Sync or Publish plans, do I still need to pay $50 per year to use it at work? Or is that included?
Hmm, I doubt it was a design decision. The only time I've experience this was from bargain bin screwdriver sets.
I agree with this.

I've been an Ars fan for years, but they are an outlier, in how they handle this (which is a good reason to like them).

Most news outlets have their changelist buried at the end. I don't think that it necessarily means they are bad. There's plenty of other stuff they pull, that does that.
It's funny how while this might make some sense for the US, it doesn't apply at all to Europe:

- many positions in EU, especially on the leadership level, straight out require a Master's degree.

- most masters are consecutive. This means you need to have a bachelor in the same or an adjacent field in order to pursue the master.

- there aren't any high fees and the admission process is often more competitive that for the bachelors. Employers would rather wonder why you left university early. Bachelor's still has the reputation of not really being a full degree.
> Too bad that it's only available for Windows as a Chrome extension

Looks like it's available under msys2 on windows: https://packages.msys2.org/base/mosh

As an aside: msys2 mingw64 and friends are > 100 hours saved if you are a linux-soul in a windows environment. I don't think msys gets the attention it deserves.
FTA: "In a press release on Tuesday, the South Pasadena Police Department outlined a different set of facts, declaring at first that “detectives do not believe Mr. Musk or any member of his family were present during the confrontation,” which Deputy City Manager Domenica Megerdichian confirmed in a phone call with The Daily Beast. Soon after, the department released an updated press release, which simply stated that Musk wasn’t present during the incident."

sounds like the "detectives" working on this don't even know who was there. It would be nice to see the actual press releases.
> Conlon is an associate with the New Jersey based law firm, Davis, Saperstein and Solomon, which for years has been involved in personal injury litigation against a restaurant venue now under the umbrella of MSG Entertainment.

> "I don’t practice in New York. I’m not an attorney that works on any cases against MSG," said Conlon.

> But MSG said she was banned nonetheless — along with fellow attorneys in that firm and others.
All these tech "influencers" and CEOs have such laughable opinions on AGI. First, they cannot really seem to give a formal definition of AGI (are we talking about some network that can problem solving in n > 2 problems or defining and creating consciousness)? Second, it's clear many of these people are just bandwagoning onto the hype. They started with crypto, then maybe some VR, and now are moving to AI/AGI coat-tailing on the accomplishments of OpenAI and DeepMind. What exactly about AGI do they find compelling or find feasible? Are they asserting that a deep learning networks of 2 separate problem spaces can be combined in an elegant manner? It's all just spew that looks like some article that can be posted on Vixra.

These tech "influencers" and "big CEOs" know no shame in their constant attention seeking. I guess to be fair, many people on HN or other platforms talk about AGI and other popular things, but the statements and arguments generally are a lot more specific or nuanced, relative to these quackery beliefs from "influencers" who are clearly attempting to gather a digital "I am smart" badge. Just lol.
What does it matter that it requires Apache? It's a super solid webserver, anything else to server it to the web just does the exact same thing.
Scoop: ProPublica to Return SBF Funds
#4 could (and almost certainly would) be used for broadly awful reasons. For example, “I’m not discriminating against minorities! I just don’t want to serve anyone who’s worked in a chicken processing plant.”
> Iterable is an import away, while list is already at my fingers.

`list` might be but `List` isn't. Are you not defining the type of the contents of the list?
Endless growth is not attainable on this Earth. Japan hit the inflection point some decades ago. They are doing alright. They still innovate. In some respects it's stagnant, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. It does mean that offspring will not perpetually think "they will (potentially) earn more than their parents" and that's okay.

It depends on what you mean by this. But I think more growth is possible. The problem is negative externality.
Yes, that's a good point. I wouldn't be surprised if this goes back to the original Latin
Strings aren't immutable in Lisp, so there isn't a huge benefit to making (eq "" "").

It may be undefined behavior to modify "", but it's not the same thing. Suppose that mutating "" signals an error; that still leaves the problem that some other string which you are allowed to mutate can be mutated empty, yet is a distinct object from that empty string.

Moreover, though every string has "" as a suffix, it's not by way of pointing to a "" object. A unique "" wouldn't serve the role of terminator.

A language with immutable strings could intern all strings, so they are de facto symbol, and then exact string comparison is eq. That implies there is only one empty string object.
I'm defending Hacker News, it's really just that simple.

Can you please use the site as intended? It's only worth anything if it's interesting, and vandalizing it is just a way to destroy it for everybody. I'm sure you don't leave campfires burning in dry forests or toss your trash on the street. Why do the equivalent here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
CRUD in WebAssembly with Fermyon Spin and MySQL
Even if we got the world pop to 1960s levels we cannot indefinitely consume and defile the environment. We need to exercise restraint despite our capacity or ability to do things.
Painting and Proficiency with Your Tools
Gee, who could've foreseen this?
Why do you think all countries and their citizens would want you to impose your healthcare system on them?
TablePlus for dev and prod database stuff. Easy as hell, worth the cash.

ChatGPT at it's worst saves me an hour a day.
I love these kinds of demos, and it's cool seeing them on the web (again). There's joy in doing a creative exercise and sharing the results with each other. I see it here and there: sharing Advent of Code solutions is a big one right now, or TikTok trends, making "meme" images isn't far from photoshop contests or caption contests from long ago. The recent AI tools have been great about getting people involved in a process. But on the whole the web still feels very unidirectional right now, most interaction is limited to forums and comments sections (I lump social media in here). I'd like that to change, include visitors in creative processes, invite participation instead of passive consumption.
30 minutes, just used my vise-grips to grab and turn a plastic&felt chair leg end that was stuck on the bottom of the leg. Perfect tool when you need to grab it, pull it and don't care if it is damaged in the process.
As someone not involved in the suit?
> I can also believe that the absolute numbers of a victims of using drugs, alcohol, smoking is very high and so are the direct and collateral damage costs to society.

But is that relevant to the discussion in any way?
Will Guest Posting Be a Good Strategy in 2023?
Over time, guest posting has been less and less of an effective strategy due to Google putting more restrictions on the strategy
I work as a consultant and have to do a timesheet. I use an old app called TimeSnapper that records screen grabs every few seconds. Works brilliantly for timesheets and has saved me numerous times.
Bank of Japan stuns markets with yield control policy change
IIRC, truth social is a custom mastodon instance.
Parallel industries are hard to spring up when, as mentioned elsewhere in this discussion, entrenched oligopolies like MSGE and Live Nation buy up all of the independent venues. Unchecked corporate interests are the biggest enemies to free market competition and capitalism.
See people don't want to even believe healthy eating and exercise long life expectancy!

For what it's worth obesity accounts for about 5-10 year shortening. Not dissimilar to smoking.
Ye well he says the web interface sucks and that "pull request" do too. Like, all their value add.

I have never tried Github's web interface but I guess not being able to write tab is the first thing that pissed Linus off.
Who knows but that might not be the most important factor.

> One of the most common types of advice we give at Y Combinator is to do things that don't scale

I’m not going to explain someone else’s quote, but in my perspective, in a world of limitless abundance, perhaps trying to do everything isn’t the winning strategy.

If Amazon has every product ever made available (and 75% of it is cheap drop shipped junk), there’s extra value in being the trustworthy brand that doesn’t have everything, but instead the right things.

If Twitter is full of bots and misinformation, then there’s value in being a small mastadon instance of hand curated friends where you can trust everyone.

If Google can index every website, and most of it ends up as GPT lies, then being a librarian that can vet sounded for you is immensely valuable.

http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
The reason why we have "protected status" is that people were banning people based on their racist/hate views. Those people used their 5 senses to easily target the people they hated for discrimination. Other variables (such as who you work for) well that's not easily found out...until now. AI is now allowing for new innovating hate and discrimination to drive decisions.

What an absolute cluster. I don't envy the courts. It's going to be interesting if everyone starts weaponizing every aspect of political affiliation, employment, residence location and social status.
The irony of the HN crowd struggling to direct rage at either cops or Elon is hilarious. Moreso HN crowd "supporting police" is quite frankly the very definition of cope.

I'm somewhat moderate and I definitely do not trust cops and do not appreciate their presence in my neighborhood or around my home. I get it, it's a hard job, but at least attempt to solve heinous crimes - for instance, a robber shot a handgun 12 times and the police simply threw their hands up saying "yeah, we just cant find that guy" even though a neighbor had clear video evidence of the license plate and individual attempting to walk up to their garage.
I could have worded that better--I'm not proposing to ignore anyone. The goal should be to make the disinterested/cheaters want to learn instead.
Here's a cool service (unfortunately I haven't yet been able to use it) to do a "European safari" and go see some of these wild animals. Good fun, but also important to provide an economic benefit to the local community

https://www.rewildingeuropetravel.com/
> But email didn't fail as a result. Just as you said, email services popped up.

With centralization; hence the spyware, bans and spam prevention which only benefits the big centralized email services like Gmail, Outlook, etc.

Email was meant to be used as a decentralized protocol such that one can operate their own email service; but despite many here claiming to run their own, they gave up and many still won't. Even sending an email to a Gmail and Outlook addresses will just fail their spam filter test.

So it has been a failure for email without centralizated providers.

> Just give it a little time.

A 6 year federated experiment is not early days to see that a worse version of Twitter has already failed.
This is a pretty interesting concept. I think way this is described as “fewer rights” is not precise enough to pass muster. But I agree with the principle that the harm to an individual resulting from a ban is proportional to its scale / reach.

For example, getting banned from all McDonald’s restaurants is qualitatively different from getting banned from one McDonald’s restaurant.

So how does one go about qualifying / quantifying (1) the potential risk or harm caused by an individual violating terms for service and (2) the harm caused to the individual resulting from corrective actions; and then balance the two against each other?
I didn't say it wasn't a pain point or that there weren't challenges. I said I don't hear about people complain about how Rust programs are packaged. Not that the packaging of Rust programs (among others) itself doesn't present interesting challenges depending on the policies of a particular distro. Archlinux, for example, has far fewer problems than Debian because of differences in policy.

The poster I was responding to was literally posting false information. I'm correcting it. This doesn't need to turn into a huge long sprawling discussion about packaging Rust programs. The main point that I was making is that lock files do not prevent Rust programs from being packaged. bombolo then went off on their own little tangents spouting nonsense without bothering to acknowledge their mistake.
Oh but private business, blah blah blah, which I support or denounce based on my current view point.

Really if the eff wants to take on nonsexual nudity then the payment processors and social media platforms aren't the starting point. They're way down the list. First start with topless equality recognized nation wide in the USA. Not just in public but also in print and broadcast media. Get the FCCs indecency regulations revised. Probably a good thing would be elimination of the FCC if free speech is your goal.
I am curious, what do you think is what holds Rails from being useful for going beyond the MVP. In 15 years I've seen my fair share of Rails projects going to production and keep evolving with the business, and not in the startup world.
I was assertive and not aggressive. I tried to do friendly chit chat with the security guy trying to corner me against the wall so "I wouldn't escape into their venue". (People dealing with the public have very short fuses when it comes to non-polite language on ejecting you/banning you/etc.. I have no plans to giving them the ability to invoke that policy despite their frequent gas lighting "well this is what the artist demands")

> unclear

This about a venue's (MSG, which also runs the one that the Rockeets played at) overzealous and seedy decisions to deny entry.
Tickets are transferable. Not-banned persons can give them to banned persons.
You might be thinking of the Sopranos:

SPOILER

When Tony and Carmine are getting divorced, Tony consults with every lawyer in town, creating a conflict of interest and not allowing Carmine to use them.
Money is only a proxy for power, because it is easier to measure and is fungible.

But talking about inequalities, especially related to political systems and redistribution, we should be taking a closer look at power because this is, always, ultimately, the real thing.

Money can be kind of boring when you have too much of it, power has a longer lasting appeal, and for some people, the appetite is bottomless.

I tend to be wary of power-hungry types.

Also, contrary to wealth, power is a zero sum game, and the size of the pie is directly defined by the demography.
Yes, because a good amount of the cost of that pro level tool is R&D and support for its use by pros. By using it once and shelving it you've paid for more engineering than you need. Case in point, when I needed to drill two holes in concrete block I opted for the cheapest $20 aliexpress carbide hole saw I could find rather than the professional diamond tipped version costing hundreds. In the unlikely event that I'll need to do the same job again I could easily bang out a few more cuts with what I have or order another cheap one and still be ahead.
Does anyone has a resource to learn Wordpress? Udemy or Youtube. I am graphic designer , and if I need to publish a site, I want to try WP. Thanks
It's funny how there's always a cheap offshored bodyshop involved in these stories yet it's never their fault. Cue in the 9$/hour indian coders working for Boeing.

Here's the thing I've learned over the years: Never touch offshored code. Always go for a complete re-write. Don't add features to it, don't refactor it, don't extend it. Just re-write. In my experience it's the best approach.

I know guys who made it their whole business to go and completely re-write projects from scratch after offshoring efforts failed.