skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the last time we had a referendum in UK the people didn't vote for the option they were meant to

You mean "the people believed false promises and voted for something they inevitably regretted".

https://qz.com/brexit-polls-support-popularity-eu-uk-1849952...
This looks really cool! Are there any plans to open source the code so that people (I) can run it locally? I doubt the service wants me adding my 1000+ feeds.
Technically nobody stops you from writing one giant function with labels and goto, it's just not the most obvious path even to the most inexperienced programmers.
Indeed. My wife, whom i consider relatively open-minded in today's society, is somewhat offput by the fact that I engage with and consider 'conservatives' friends. There is a pervasive and insidious association with disagreement with 'evil' or 'wrong' in society today. People who espouse themselves as tolerant, are not. Any opposition to a held belief is considered 'wrong', inherently.

This attitude is destroying society. There is no place for nuance in general discourse anymore. It bothers me greatly. I have no solution, only an ability to despair.
I don't really think you can brand it propaganda. The source is credible and well sourced - you can Google Natalie Wynn/Contrapoints.

It's also a complex topic that has many facets.

However the summary would be that male and female arousal in western society is quite different. Male sexuality is based on perceiving outward - seeing visual stimulus of someone being attractive, and getting turned on.

Female sexuality is based on perceiving inward - making oneself attractive, and being turned on by the reaction that it receives from the partner.

As a result, cis hereto women report feelings that in trans women get called autogynophelia when planning or expecting to meet with a sexual partner, or during sexual encounters.

There is a lot more to it than that.
Classic McEliece age plugin...thoughts? ;)
presumably if your "career" is to help other runners get better times, and you beat them, you're fired, your career as a rabbit is over. But of course, your career as a runner is just starting!
Large corps love subscriptions. The platforms they create impose this upon developers too. I get very exhausted with the never ending stream of payments and T&C updates. Moving to the desktop has been a way out, the other has been clubbing subscriptions and outright cancelling even those that seem useful but have lower functionality alternatives in favor of having better control over my finances.
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Yeah, you are right, for some reason I thought I was replying to grandparent. Removed the "maybe not" as I meant to agree with parent.

The plant shaped was not a fragment, but the whole text, this has a screenshot [0]. It was about fact-checking the Seymour Hersh Nordstream 2 article.

[0] https://nitter.librenode.org/Samy_t42/status/162879312196521...
The primary goal of the projects is to spend money on well connected government contractors and consultancies.

Mission accomplished.
This thread is an exercise in accepting disappointment in your fellow man.
Do you know what types of wood is considered furniture grade by the Japanese? In the US, all I hear about is walnut teak and mahogany.
This is basically distrobox.
Generative AI could be the perfect tool for a 1984 world.

Remove whatever is inconvenient from the record, replace it with 10x more generated ahistorical content. At nearly 0 marginal cost.
Seems like no one has ever been prosecuted for perjury on a DMCA take down notice. This feels like more of an empty threat by Github to prevent false DMCA complaints, but of course submitting claims on their repos would be one heck of a way to test that.

https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/51541/has-anyone-bee...
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You seem to be missing the point that if something can be weaponized by the right, it can be weaponized by the left, and then the right can weaponize it again…

Any argument you have given so far can also be used by your opponents.
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I think it’s way off. It looks surface waves propagate without dispersion — tap it and watch the caustics. Real water haves have the packet of waves and the individual peaks and valleys moving at dramatically different speeds.
It's a small point, but, from the article:

> Today, any information stored only on a floppy disk is essentially gone.

That's totally untrue. You can buy a USB floppy drive on Amazon for $20, and a pack of disks for another $20. I have two 1990s-era Power Macintosh machines with floppy drives sitting on my desk right now, they both work, as do the floppy drives.

And I was able to access some ~15-year-old floppies just a couple of years ago with no trouble.
Any API that returns error codes has that issue; if it just returns an int you can't just set a breakpoint on the "allocate an error" method.
Happens sometimes:

https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a30152339/pacer-wins-abu-d...

Not sure why it's career suicide. Usually pacers can't hold that pace for the full distance but if they can, more power to them.
People take for granted the cardiac muscle dutifully pumping away oxygen and nutrients to each extremity. A weak heart makes it difficult to move, difficult to think. Once your heart deteriorates everything else quickly follows.
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I'm responding to you saying there's evidence. To what were you referring?
Maybe it was a poor attempt at trying to spur action without saying more than they were "allowed" to?

To me the whole idea of "China knew" is an oversimplification. Even if it was a lab leak, given the insane stakes, I can't imagine a majority of the Chinese government, or even a sizable portion of their own government would ever learn that.

People in China may have known and tried to do "something" without being able to outright say what the world (and even their own country's people) was about to be dealing with
Which actually means “white power”
> The solution is to respond to bad information with correct information and to bad arguments with good arguments. As I said, if someone makes a bad argument, then explain how it is bad.

The firehose of bullshit makes responding to every bad argument untenable. It's a DDoS of online discussion. Making a counterargument is one strategy against toxic and harmful online content, but it's not the only one and not always an effective or appropriate one.

>That's the only thing that can work in the long run.

The only thing that works in the long run is removing and banning those who engage (knowingly or otherwise) in disinformation distribution.

> There's another, highly underrated and effective way to respond, though, and that is to simply ignore it and walk away. Responding to these things feeds them.

This is demonstrably false. As a particularly bad example, Rwanda learned this one the hard way. Russia wants Ukraine to lose popular support - if that happens many more innocent people will die than would otherwise. Ignoring the guy on the radio who tries to make others question you and wants to cause you harm will not prevent the machete from slicing you open.

>If people would simply starve bad information/arguments of attention, they would fizzle out.

They get even less attention when the material is removed and the user reasonable prevented from spreading more of it. This isn't high school debate club, it's a nation-state that wants to kill its neighbor's civilians.

People highlight instances of whataboutism to inform others and to point it out to moderators. Punishing them for doing that is clearly the objectively wrong thing to do.
>our best strategy for achieving AGI may be to architect it as problems that can be solved by computing, without requiring human guidance.

I've heard this view endorsed by someone recently. Was it Kurzweil?

That humans trying to bake in their own intelligence seems to help but only to a point and, past that, is actually harmful. That techniques which seemed impotent compared to the tempting shortcut of teaching AI human knowledge, like simple search algorithms, only seemed comparatively impotent because computing capacity was lower than it is today. With today's computing capacity, those techniques have proved more fruitful.
Fascinating. Would love to know how driving directions are presented when the streets have no names.
Does managing a 10 billion dollar construction project take dramatically different skills than a 100 million dollar construction project?

The government doesn’t need the best of the best for this stuff they just need basic competence.
> The Friend did not answer to the name you use so obtusely here, ever after a "rebirth." That historians such as Susan Juster (the publication ca. 2000) would disrespect the Friend's wishes as you do here, insisting on a name and gender that had been disavowed, is little surprise.

That's not true, she uses both names on her last will and testament (and uses "her" there as well). And I'd caution against pretending to speak on behalf of someone who's no longer around. Many who do so have little interest in the deceased beyond them being a tool for their own ends.
From a mirrored/archived version of the README:

>Collection of publicly available IPTV (Internet Protocol television) channels from all over the world.
I even used that on a piece of software last year to extend the trial period. It was good software, so I brought it afterward. But I was surprised that the old trick still worked.
It's kinda funny that in the end it wasn't a political party or the government that led to this, but instead capitalism and market forces.
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American Virologists feared that their field would be blamed for the pandemic, and used motivated reasoning to convince themselves that the field could not be responsible for the pandemic. And the US was gripped by Trumpism, so anything in any way connected to Trump automatically became verboten.

Some of the leading voices in opposition to the lab leak hypothesis such as Peter Daszak had close academic connections (collaboration, grants etc.) with the BSL4 lab in Wuhan.
The evidence used by the Energy Department in their assessment.
As a amateur runner. I want to thank you for your service.
So, I generally lean towards the lab leak being the most likely cause. That said, why does anyone give a shit what the Department of Energy thinks about this? What makes this department qualified to even put forward a hypothesis?
> Sometimes, races without pacers can have exceptionally slow splits (which-- admittedly, leads to a very exciting and tactical conclusion on occasion).

The classic example here is the 2016 Olympic 1500m final (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grf_62s_95w). Centrowitz should not have won that on paper. It ironically seems to have revolutionized the event, in a sense - championships have gotten really fast since.
How bad is this type of load for your spine/neck?
(An inference based on context. I don’t know anything about this activity.)

Because they’re not actually running the race; they’re staff for the event paid to run part of it at a set pace.

“Finishing”, especially in a top spot, would take the spotlight away from the actual winning participants.

It would be inappropriate for non-competing event staff to take away the spotlight from the competitors. It would be equally bad if one of the motorcycle cameramen did anything but what they were paid to do, and tried to get personal attention. “Rabbits” who run part of the race are not finishing, just like the motorcycle cameramen are not finishing (despite the fact that both might be there at the end).
Yes! The worst part about it is the infinite loop of captchas.
> hereditary peers were abolished in 1999.

Mostly abolished.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/By-elections_to_the_House_of_L...
Wow, I am so glad I'm not the parent of a teenage girl right now.

At the same time, I wonder if perfect filters like this might actually result in people rejecting beauty standards like this. I mean, if everyone can easily look this good online, if people start to think that it's impossible to determine the veracity of anything that wasn't done face-to-face, maybe people will just start rejecting it. Kind of like how I never answer my phone anymore from numbers I don't know because there is a 95%+ chance it's spam/phishing/etc.
Thank you for the response. I really like the idea that in older years I can keep coding and be on HN. Of course we all can once we think about it. Why not.

Your comment also illustrates something I already feel, that software and systems knowledge can be lost over time and that wisdom from long experience can be valuable to younger generations as we get older.

It’s too bad FOSS is such a battle. One odd Linux desktop adoption tip I’ve found. I setup people on Ubuntu mate instead of regular Ubuntu desktop, the fast streamlined, lightweight, more old school desktop environment seems to draw them in more than MacOS and Win11 imitation desktops.
Yes in a perfect world that would be nice. But in reality, it doesn't work that way, and it will never work that way.

I don't actually care what Scott Adams thinks, I enjoyed his Dilbert comic back in the day, I didn't know that it was still around with new material.

The point is, Why is the media giving him attention as such? Because it serves their agenda of PROMOTING racism. The people in power LOVE RACISM because it keeps people divided and fighting amongst themselves. The problem is the media.
Are you thinking of The Bitter Lesson [0]?

[0] http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
This is part of the reason why increasing federalization and consolidation of governments of the world worries me. A big part of progress in society is a crapshoot and arguably a lot of what we do is inadvertently harmful to society. Allowing experimentation in relatively small segments of the population compartmentalizes risk while allowing everyone else to copy it if they see it works.
This wasn’t a blanket rule allowed for all events though right? Michael Jordan and the USA men’s basketball dream team come to mind as obvious professionals but it seems for boxing, as an example, Professionals weren’t allowed to compete until more recently (2016)

https://www.rookieroad.com/boxing/can-pro-boxers-compete-in-...
Do you see any use cases to include WASI into your godot gaming support? Maybe midi music too.
Having or being willing to make a Signal account (which makes the phone irrelevant) is an actually pretty great quality filter for dates in my experience.
>Again, I say this as a proud and happy husband of 19 years!

Yeah, you basically won the lottery. For every one of you, there's a bunch of people who lost the relationship lottery: divorce, abuse, etc. The odds really aren't in one's favor.
I’m always puzzled when I’m using SO to help diagnose some obscure problem in my tech stack and I see a bunch of “hot questions” in the sidebar about whether dwarf armor can deflect magic bullets, or what the energy capacity of a Stormtrooper’s laser rifle is, etc.
This sounds more like the medium/channels that you use for discussion have changed. The type of people who had internet and knew how to use something like IRC 20-30 years ago is a pretty distinct sub-group of people vs the general population. And the atmosphere in specific chat rooms is very different than current large social media platforms.

I would also chalk a lot of it up to you changing over the last few decades. All of us have a habit of being nostalgic for things past. But a lot of that nostalgia isn't because things were better, it was because we were in better health, were not as jaded to the world, and monotony of life had not yet kicked in. When you were growing up you also didn't have to take full responsibility for what you said and a lot of times didn't understand the implications of what you were saying.
I feel like I'm 28. Until I go riding with someone that's 28, then I'm quickly reminded I'm far older.
When you see videos like this, imagine if something similar was made about black people? If I were white, I would be extremely offended if anyone made a video like this about me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZTmbDNLUkk&t=0s

I think the story of Daryl Davis is exactly the point of free speech. If it were up to the fascist liberals, those KKK people would be cancelled into oblivion. But Daryl Davis reached out and talked to them, and through the power of his love, changed hundreds of people. He didn't build up more divisions, he broke them down. This is what Free Speech is all about.
It's definitely something I want to experience!

It's too bad they aren't easier to plan around. I looked into going to Iceland once and it was like " there might be an aurora." As I recall, it's less of a seasonal thing and more sheer luck. (I know the weather is hard to predict in general.)
Fair point, although remaining in the same position without promotion is usually discouraged and not a real option in the long run. Yes, promotion means more value added, but that can be defined many ways. In tech companies it usually includes having more management and/or other non-technical skills (for technical workers). The value could be more aligned with just having more technical skills. It could even be formally assessed by reviewing code and even test, yet from my experience more technical skills had little impact on promotion chances.
Well, not really. Not in the way OP is describing. Of course queries are literally compiled at run time. But by then it's too late as user-supplied data is already in the payload that is being compiled. Even stored procs don't protect you as their invocation itself is a runtime sql which can fall victim to injection.

To achieve what OP wants would require a "build time" compilation. And a permission system where a SQL-account is restricted to only run/execute these pre-built queries and commands. No ad-hoc sql allowed at runtime. Stored procs only get you half-way there, ignoring their own invocation is a runtime sql vulnerable to injection.

As of today, good coding practice with parametrized queries and procedure invocation is your only protection. But your app may not "own" the DB. Just a cog in a larger system. What OP is suggesting would move the shield closer to the data for better protection. So the 20+ other apps out of your control don't mess things up.
It's a translation through time. If you don't want your characters to come off as racist shitbags, they probably shouldn't use the n word in 2023.
The DMCA repository was last updated 2 days ago, and this link likely appeared on HackerNews only a few hours after the IPTV repository was unpublished. Therefore, it appears that they simply have not yet published the DMCA notice.
Geez, it's a programming language not a spouse! You can just, you know, use another one if it doesn't work out.
> You seem to be missing the point that if something can be weaponized by the right, it can be weaponized by the left, and then the right can weaponize it again…

No, I'm not. If some speech serves to cause people to die, that speech is bad and is not worth protecting. Preventing people from dying is the opposite of weaponizing. If my opponents want to prevent me from dying, I won't oppose them in doing so. My opponents and I don't disagree on everything.

If I say I should eat bread but not shit, your argument is that my opponents can now say that I should eat shit but not bread. You're ignoring that only one of these is wrong.

You seem to be missing that cancel culture is itself free speech, so your position contradicts itself.
Not quite midnight sun, but one of the most magical experiences of my life was staying up all night on the side of a proglacial river and watching the sun go down... just to have it come up again an hour or so later a couple mountains to the right. It never even fully went down, which is why I never fully went to sleep.
I mean, kubernetes or microservices don’t care how the data reads are distributed, right? That problem is a database-level thing whereas k8s is infrastructure, you can run any kind of database with any kind of sharding you want on it. I feel like it might be more accurate to say something like “the value of caching is based on the idea of winners” for example
Ask HN: Where do you find good freelance web devs?
Looking for a website for my new company and never feel satisfied with my own attempts. Where do you find good freelancers for simpler sites like landing pages (but to a good level)?
>Bonus 'I hate it' points if it's that Arabic-looking font that's just English text that looks kind of Arabic.

There's a faux-katakana font someone used for the titles on an otherwise amazing album of some FM synth Touhou remixes[0] that hardcore fucks with my brain.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24x3AL7yMX0
1.7K is not the smallest you can make this program. You can get this to fit in even smaller sizes and I encourage you to try!

I think 128 bytes may be close to a lower limit, although for a different platform (MS-DOS): https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=63518
Seems like a good argument against long-duration copyrights. The sooner we can freely exchange electronic copies of works the better.
Using your definition, most people who use the term "woke" as an insult are in fact super woke themselves.
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Not knocking any interest, just really curious that there is such a wide range of topics on there.
You already questioned 'my six months to be effective' blurb, like, its not a hiring issue, its that people see 'Delphi' and worry about their next job, the one after your company.

I dont think python or C# are especially hard to hire for.

I feel like you came to this conversation with a preconceived notion here. Look - not everyone can match the SV pay scale, I'm not on one, there are no stock options floating around here.
> So we have a conclusion: 'lab leak most likely cause,' and a confidence score: 'low'.

These qualifications seem to me to be in conflict. If there's low confidence about the most likely cause, then does that imply that there's low confidence about every possible cause? Could there be high confidence in the least likely cause? That, too, seems contradictory to me.
> wow. this is such a bad take, it makes me question using Age at all.

I would think it would bolster your confidence in age, as the maintainer is expressing a commitment to fix issues as they arise, not punt indefinitely with TODOs at the bottom of a README.

> > tools should not have issues that need communicating to users, and if they did they should fix them, not delegate a choice to a user.

You stripped important context from the beginning of this quote, the original reads:

> Security (and security-relevant) tools should not have issues that need communicating to users, and if they did they should fix them, not delegate a choice to a user.

Which seems reasonable.
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StarCraft was my first attempt and success at "cracking" a game!

Apparently it had a bug where it didn't recognize the CD on Windows 98 but it worked on Windows 95!

Didn't have internet, so I fired up Visual Studio, stepped through the .exe, and tried flipping each JE/JNE or JZ/JNZ instruction that came before the copy protection error showed up.

It worked!! I searched for the sequence of instructions in a hex editor and modified the exe. And it led me to one of the best games ever to this date. :)
> Do remember that the world doesn't consist entirely of tech workers.

> But given you didn't provide any of your own sources to back up anything you're saying,

https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2022/jun/job-mo...
Using other static website generators and CMS would be easy, but I beg to differ with Gatsby, Sanity, Vercel and more.

1-point-click installations failing, to failing standard templates, tutorials that are only for version 2 and not 3, because that's a video right now.

Talk is cheap, but execution is where it is.