skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who was enforcing corporate healthcare? You just made that part up. And also, Twitter is a corporation itself. Government is supposed to regulate. They exchanged information. They were told when laws were being broken. Deleting content was entirely Twitter's discretion. And they did what they deemed most beneficial to their operations and their shareholders.
Well, you don't need a drone to detect a shot, but once a shot is detected, they could be used to track the source and take pictures and/or follow the perpetrator to their car or even further.
There are very real people who have been harmed by side effects from the vaccine.

Whether the virus itself would've been more deadly is a question for another time, but if your loved ones were unlucky enough to get myocarditis from the vaccine, and you were silenced on social media, sometimes invisibly like you're being gaslit, and so were the doctors and researchers, it's easier to understand the strong emotional reactions to unnamed large entities colluding with other large consumer facing entities.

This also creates a tendency to migrate to communities that share your point of view, creating an echo chamber.
Regardless of what happened when, by whom, and where, it was fucking hilarious watching the world lose it’s shit because you couldn’t go to the bar randomly or eat out.

Lost. Their. Minds.

wife and I happily read books and watched movies and played board games and went on hikes like usual
I take solace, maybe ignorantly, that everything made by humans is inherently imperfect, and that nothing burns down and nobody dies if my code or whatever sucks more than my peers' code. Also, if someone thinks my stuff sucks, they can snicker at it, or they can help with a better idea. It seems to me that software is all about ideas that build upon or replace each other.
I think Covid (and all the anti-vax grift around it) was the last straw, exploiting fears that were constructed by a cutthroat for-profit health system.

It reminds me of this recent quote from Cory Doctorow:

>We’ve had massive institutional
failures that make people not believe anything. We focus a lot on
the technical mechanics of why people don’t believe
anything. Ten years ago, my pain specialist wanted me to go on
opioids. I did my own research and determined that big Pharma was
conspiring to kill people like me and I was right. The fact that I
have the same epistemological basis for my healthcare
decision-making as anti-vaxxers is undertheorized in rooms like
this one. We leave people in an epistemological void.

Source: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/12/reimagining-d...
Oh it certainly leads to healthier eating choices and/or unhealthier meal skipping but I do try to be completely aware of my surroundings including clothes, bms, etc.

I mean it can be the decision maker between a coke and a water for me. Regardless if the data is not sane.

Probably I should just only drink water and only eat whole grains, veggies, and fruits. But who doesn’t love a coke?
Did they do an rct?
> The code is self-explanatory

Never overestimate this, there is no upside to the one time it isn't.

> Reading over-the-top verbose code is just as bad as the opposite

No it isn't, it is just as easy, and when can help it pays off, there is no downside.

> It's difficult to describe the result succinctly even with a variable name - use comments

This isn't an either or, if it deserves a comment by all means use one, but that doesn't negate the benefits of thoughtfully named vars.
Weird take imo, if anything I think trust in big pharmacy among the mainstream has increased, although maybe the fringe moved a bit more, most people still got vaccinated etc.,

Republicans were already anti everything before the pandemic.
Show HN: Ask Me Anywhere
Depends on where you're coming from. I've lived and worked in all 3 and I would say Stockholm.

It's the easiest to navigate if you don't speak the language.
it's a hard tradeoff between false positives and false negatives. it's like being a soccer referee or a judge, you can be almost perfect but the screwups are all anyone remembers. short of putting everyone away for life, some convict is going to get out and do something, and some tabloid is going to question why this person was on the street. You do the best you can subject to the Constitution, the laws, and common sense.

there is so much absolute garbage bad faith BS on social media that is poison to a civilized society and a democracy, that there is no choice but to do the best we can to try to spread less of it. you don't get to throw up your hands and say, there is no perfect arbiter of truth and decency so let's say, anything goes. of course that's what all the worst burn-it-down extremists would like to see.

A lot of US institutions were exposed as unfit for purpose by the pandemic and we have to do better. But I'm not sure Twitter would be near the top of the list.

And somehow, the new regime seems able to make everything worse.
Harvard professor explains heart-wrenching source of EV, iPhone batteries
‘When asked by Rogan if there was any cobalt mine in the Congo that did not rely on “child labour” or “slavery”, Prof Kara told him there were none.’
Maintenance is negligible. A set of used tires can be had for $200. If it's not part of the drivetrain, most fixes can be done in a couple hours for a couple hundred bucks. I've maybe spent $2000 on brakes, tierods, alternators, and starters. I buy cars that are easy to maintain yourself. If I can't fix it, I sell it for parts or junk it.

Avg price doesn't matter. You can find plenty of cars in the $3-5k range that are mechanically sound but have aesthetic issues.

Imo, buying a brand new car is the biggest waste of money ever.
Also, readers should know that The Free Press is Bari Weiss¹. Vanity Fair described her as "a provocateur", which is the kindest-possible interpretation of her editorial philosophy.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bari_Weiss
> insane conspiracy bullshit

If it's proven true, is it still conspiracy?
Shouldn’t it be up to the company? Congress made no law, no on forced Twitter from what I’m reading, they made a choice. That is their right.

Demanding that people hold an antagonistic or untrusting view of government speech is no different than any other sort of speech code demand.
> Will anyone even go to prison or lose their job?

Why would they? This is another nothingburger, Musk is just seeking attention for the sake of attention. If that means echoing antivax bullshit, or trying to make sure Hunter Biden's penis is available for all to see on the internet, that's what he will do.
I was watching wild kingdom, with my mother. At the end of the show it said produced by Wolfgang Bauer. Directed by Wolfgang Bauer. My mother asks, do you suppose thats the same
No need. All they have to do is remain neutral and avoid "moderating" at all.

Just because the CDC said something does not automatically make it true. It's a valuable authority but it's not the Ministry of Truth. People are allowed to question and contradict it.
If the government pressures a platform to censor information I would think that goes against freedom of speech or maybe freedom of the press
Pentium Overdrive is basically a 586 in a 486 package... which also means, with an adapter, it could fit into a 386 mobo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29046117
if you start with a fundamental premise that CDC and government are 100% unbiased sources of truth, then you’ll believe this story isn’t really a story. america is so polarized that if your party is doing something dirty it’s didnt happen or if it did it’s totally justified.
1) Cars vroom

2) Enable multiplayer + voice chat

3) $
I should have mentioned, our appearance had to do something with the situation. Majority of the crowd is Indian in such restaurants, but with clean and 'westernized' attire. Our experience was not unsurprising becasue we had seen/read several such instances all across the country. In fact, there is a law passed in Tamil Nadu mandating all public places to allow folks with Dhotis or face license termination. This is to peotect the interests of natives. Quite a bit of what is mentioned in your comment is loaded. I wouldn't want to get into details and am happy to let your opinions be. Only thing, I am well aware that I am writing on HN, a place which inherently forces you to be reasonable and grounded. Writing here takes 10x more time than usual. So yeah, my intellectual arrival can never really arrive.
In this snippet I introduce a work-in-progress comment system I'm calling "Ask Me Anywhere".
Ask Me Anywhere lets you ask a question at any point in the post.

Give it a try. Simply click between two paragraphs or double click on a paragraph to open a comment box.

I put this together in Jan 2020. Since then, I've actually introduced a second comment system on my website: Discord!

You can give that one a try too. Scroll to the bottom of the post, and click Discussion. That will open a topic-specific Discord channel inline on the post. You can use it to discuss the snippets or any of my other snippets on the same topic.

I think it's surprising and cool that you can embed Discord discussions in a website like this. And as a bonus, you can leave comments anonymously / without logging it. If someone replies to your comment, it's updated immediately (like chat), rather than requiring a refresh (like a naive comments implementation.)

The "Ask Me Anywhere" comments are private, whereas the Discord comment section is public, as is more typical of web comments.

My goal with these comments threads is just to make it super easy to get discussions started. I suppose part of me prefers 1:1 discussions, but the private vs public distinction isn't so critical. Just looking to connect!
Free speach isn't absolute. There's plenty of examples in life already where you can't say whatever you want.
It's a true conspiracy, but not bullshit.
What if I want a workspace directory in my $HOME to clone repositories to after I image my laptop? How do I codify that state?
Thanks, it helps a lot to know that it's a skill that you can develop!
I can't speak for Wine, but my son uses it on Proton regularly and except for a few brief glitches after updates and the inability to use the steering wheel controller, it's worked very well. https://www.protondb.com/app/284160
> it’s been damn near impossible to scam someone via eBay…

I got scammed by an eBay seller with thousands of transactions, and an almost faultless history. He shipped me a ‘brand new’ Punkt phone, but when it arrived it was in really bad shape: not only was it scuffed and scratched, there was about a year’s worth of call-history on it.

I made the mistake of contacting him first - and he immediately opened a complaint against me with eBay - meaning I was unable to leave a review of the sale (therefore his impeccable record).

In the end, because I had pictures and evidence of the phone having been used, next to screenshots of the sales page describing the phone as totally brand new, I eventually got my money back.

But nowadays I only buy from stores on eBay.
> I have yet to see an in-depth treatise on how it works under the hood

Check out “A Complete Guide to useEffect” [1] by Dan Abramov, one of the core React developers.

[1] https://overreacted.io/a-complete-guide-to-useeffect/
I once was nerdy kid. It was a treat to be allowed to choose.
Sheesh it entirely works both ways. 70 years ago most didn’t want to hear about equal rights for homosexuals. But after 70 years of discussion, celebrity, pop culture, expiration of the issue, society has basically done a 180.

The Majority is very often simply wrong.

In fact is, look at all progressive movements (those that you’d have to be pretty insane to dispute today). They all began with the majority opposing them. Women’s suffrage, civil rights, homosexual rights, etc.

Each of the movements responsible for those achievements went directly against the grain. You were crazy to side with any of those at certain dates in the past.

The most fascinating part is to think which movements haven’t occurred yet. Which topics are we all collectively wrong about. Whatever they are it’s the first amendment that will enable them to be rectified.

I have many ideas what these will turn out to be, but that’s another topic.
Knowing that someone else managed to learn it and can now just stop spirals of thoughts is a big help, thanks for sharing that
That's an interesting viewpoint, yes, you are probably right. But 'download' is still a thing even if streaming services are more and more common. And with the frequency of OS updates booting is also still a thing unless you never patch your systems.
my spouse spent $650 I think on a Dyson vac. I tried to interfere but it was going to turn into a fight and wasn’t worth it.

3 years later, its one of best purchases we’ve ever made. I put on airpods and vacuuming is almost therapeutic. It’s so light and works so damn well. not sure if it’s over priced but it’s not half the noise of the previous vac and works amazingly well.
I was on official Microsoft support forums for Xbox cloud this fall. Many of us had similar breaking issues that did not appear to be a pebkac. I provided reasonably detailed description, what I tried, what I discounted, my full hardware software and network setup, testing results on different machines etc.
But couple of other users provided hours of their own network traces and wiresharks and extremely detailed investigation. Basically handed a full replication and analysis to them for something that affected a significant number of people. Continued copy and past response from "support" was basically to send us to reddit or stack or some other even more social support.
Could be for data connectivity? These phone booths usually provide wifi
I’m not sure lack of French support would have made a difference with how we understand America today assuming the Americans had still won, but had the British won, frankly, I think the US would have been better off in many respects.
No, because the authors didn't know exactly what they were doing. It can't be that secretive. Even rocket science is explained, just put it in the docs and people will learn it.

For 9 years in a row we discuss core concepts of the library like it's some dark art that only select few will ever understand. It's really not that hard.
Roll the Bones Chernobyl Style
Browsers and engines are also regularly patched to improve web compat. I remember V8 "recently" released an update to improve the performance of a very common module. The details escape me however.
In 2010 things were going on in Facebook that I wanted to be notified about. Now, at best, there’s one post a month I might find actually interesting. For years Facebook promoted trash, divisive people, and ads. I got bored with getting sucked into debates with extremist acquaintances on both sides and removed them from view, everybody else did the same or settled down in life and had less to post about. Every once in a while somebody will post something I want to see, but it’s gone from once an hour to once a month and really the only reason I still have an account is to keep very distant connections alive.

It would be nice if meta went back to the original inspiration of a “face book” and made a product that was just a photo or two and links to social links and contact information.
Conspiracy theory is just the news in 6 months.

Hell at this rate I’d hear somebody out if they said the moon is made of cheese.

What a time to be alive.
While I like his idea and I think airplane does offer some very interesting advantages over regular house... his looks like miserable place to live.
Fast subtype checking in the HotSpot JVM (2002)
Cliff Click & John Rose on the JVM's subtype check -- achieving complete subtype checks in only 3 instructions and 1 memory reference, essentially all of the time.

Nice paper for those interested in language implementation & optimization.
The problem is there’s a lot of conjecture concerning intentions and thats basically unprovable.

Some parts feel sensationalized for the sake of theater.
Yeah, I've been mostly using Apple Weather as I need to get used to it anyways. But for a few things, in particular precipitation amounts, I immediately switch back to Dark Sky.
How do you state it's a fringe view when the viewpoint was actively being suppressed by everyone?

You've chosen a few examples where the posters didn't have strong credentials - how about the Harvard professor?
Sales Engineer or Solutions Architect.
Campaigns against disinformation are bound to fail because everyone has a different interpretation of the truth and assumes that everything else is “disinformation” (with quotes this time).

Much like social media generally, disinformation is now one of the chief scapegoats across the aisle for all that’s wrong in the world.
A horrifically biased list.
Yes: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Huis_Baarle.jpg
I worked at a company in the late 90’s that transitioned from Netware ( Novell ) to Microsoft. The company was growing like crazy and always renovating.

At one point, all the NetWare servers had been retired but one. They could not find it. Eventually it stopped being used but it was still on the network for a couple of years. One day, they tore down a wall to make an open area and there it was! It had been locked into an inaccessible empty space between walls but just kept running.

I never knew Novell myself ( other than the bulky adapters my laptop needed to get on the network ) but that server made a big impression on me. Legendary.
> I'm not a conspiracy theorist

As told in my Middle Eastern history class, "it's reasonable to be a conspiracy theorist when you've been the subject of countless governments conspiring against you and/or your people -- in fact it would be unreasonable not to be one".

Iranians who claimed the US Government had orchestrated their elections were dismissed as conspiracy theorists, then 47 years later the US said "oh yeah, we totally did that".

Americans who claimed the US Government had lied to them about mask effectiveness, vaccine effectiveness, vaccine safety, lockdown durations, COVID severity, dangers of remote schooling, etc. were dismissed as conspiracy theorists, then 2 years later the US said "oh yeah, we totally did that".

Be a conspiracy theorist. To be anything else is to burry your head in the sand.
Unlikely, I feel the mods here take a personal touch.

Would be interesting to see what, if any, automated tools they use.
> How many businesses are so constrained by link times on Mac […]

Long link times are not specific to OS X / iOS. Large C++ codebases are some of the worst offenders and emit obscene numbers of relocations and DWARF symbols (or similar) into object files that bog linkers down. KDE, Firefox and Chrome browsers instantly come to mind. Rust and GHC generated object files also take a whiiiiiiiile to link[0].

On the businesses being constrainted by the link times subject more specifically. Über posted an article a while back enunciating the shenanigans they have to go through to build their iOS app (the app download at some point measured in a 300Mb+ vicinity): https://www.uber.com/en-GB/blog/how-uber-deals-with-large-io... . From the «Build Times» section of the blog post:

> The default pipeline builds the app in 21 minutes; the new pipeline with no machine outlining takes 53 minutes, which includes about 7 minutes of llvm-link, 14 minutes opt, 11 minutes of llc and 3 minutes of the system linker. One round of outlining takes about 7 minutes in llc, and 2 rounds take 9 minutes. Each additional round adds progressively less extra time, usually under 30 seconds. Overall, 5 rounds of outlining builds in 66 minutes — a 45-minutes addition to the baseline.

So, a default CI/CD build with no outlining heuristics applied spends 10 mins (7 + 3) out of a total of 53 mins in the linker. That is for a single CI/CD run.

And, since at least company has funded the work on fixing relocatable file generation in mold, there is indeed at least some demand:

> GHC (Glasgow Haskell Compiler) in particular uses re-linkable object files as dynamic libraries instead of real .so files, and it didn't work with mold. Now, mold can produce object files that GHC can load. Note that this work was funded by Mercury, so thanks to the company to help us improve the product.

[0] Fun fact: I have measured the memory throughput at the GHC linking time (via LLVM lld); it averages 65Gb/sec, and it can occasionally shoot over 70Gb/sec. So a faster linker still matters.
Biden’s administration was ready to put people out of work if they didn’t get the shots. Red team vs blue team rhetoric is nauseating.
The biggest revelation from the previous dumps were that Joe Biden's team requested Twitter remove posts of Hunter Biden's nude body from the site, and they obliged. This is content moderation and completely reasonable.

The latest revelation is that Twitter tried to keep antivax shit off the site. Everyone paying attention knew that was the case already, and was the right thing to do (Hacker News should do that, too).
I meant spirits but yeah you’re right tobacco is a better (worse) one.
Very cool and useful- how does it work? Does the podcast index allow you to download episodes through their api? Didn't know such a website was possible
You're referring to the machine generated paper (reference 3)? I checked and quillbot predates the paper (2017 vs 2019), so that's possible.
Interesting, I have forgotten all about Mince Pie. As a kid, it was always an option with Pumpkin Pie at Thanksgiving. I really did not care for it, but many people liked it.

I am curious about its decent to "oblivion". Will have to ask the young people in my family if they even heard of it, I doubt they did.
Did you even read the thread or listen to the discussions surrounding it. The point of the evidence supplied in the thread is that leading virologists and epidemiologists were actively suppressed by non-experts.
> Hell at this rate I’d hear somebody out if they said the moon is made of cheese.

Right. That's the problem.
Can't you just also sell some random cheap crap (perhaps via drop-shipping) to pad the activity on your account and avoid having a bad rate of returns?
It has its own wheels. Orange reflective triangle is $19.99…
The ultimate single-page app: chess analysis
Guix goes way further than reasonable with Foss for me. Refusing to deal with firmware blobs / microcode updates makes it a non-starter for example.
I don't know.

It should (and I think has) increase distrust in social media and big tech/gov but distrust in pharma? I don't know.

I'm still waiting for everyone to drop dead from vaccine related injuries (I've paid this more earnest attention than most people this glib at least) — most people, I think correctly for the most part, regard the nu-antivax thing that came about during covid to basically be the realm of internet weirdos and agitators.
This seems like an example of a scam not working on eBay.
Having worked for several state government departments, I describe "Utopia" as a documentary.
This is demonstrably false. As admitted by the government itself.
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