skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cesspool? I don't know that I would go that far, but take for example a recent thread I was involved in that was... unpleasant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35010229

HN often can be a great place to seek interesting and varied discussion on purely technical topics. When discussions veer anywhere close to topics that may touch on how people want to view themselves and their relationship to the world, PEOPLE can be somewhat lazy, tribal, and narrow-minded and PEOPLE are bad at respecting other people's value systems that differ from their own: because commenters on HN are people, this includes discussion on this site. Intersectionality is poorly understood, "hurt people hurt people", displacement[2] is rampant and that can lead to some pretty toxic interactions. It takes a very low proportion of badly-behaved people to produce an overwhelming number of negative, hateful comments. I overall like the community here, but that doesn't mean that it can't produce bad behavior that is beyond the scale of an individual to cope with reasonably, and I can sympathize with an individual seeking to cut off ties with a source of such conflict. As a society, we still haven't really adopted to the scale of contact that the internet creates.

The [insert social networking site here] effect is real and can cause enormous traffic spikes, which have real bandwidth costs and in this case potential emotional costs; removing a tool to deal with that spike isn't exactly a neighborly thing for HN to do, even if I can understand other arguments promoting less tracking, the realities of the internet etc. that people may want to make.

[1] Displacement: an immature defense mechanism in which a person acts out their frustration and negative feelings on a target that is not responsible for the situation evoking those negative feelings. Typically that target is less powerful and less able to retaliate within a given setting. Colloquially "punching down". The specific populations that are marginalized/less powerful are very context-dependent. Classic example is Person A getting a bad review from their boss and yelling at their domestic partner. Punching down at that individual/population puts Person A in a position of power, gives them a feeling of agency and control, and provides a feeling of moral/commercial/etc superiority that they feel is lacking in other aspects of their life, but it comes at the expense of others.

> obviously if vile comments frequently come with an HN referrer, a site admin who reads the vile comments will think poorly of HN

You can hate the site and the moderation team without believing that everyone on the site is bad. You can recognize when a referrer is generating a lot of stress and heartache and take steps to reduce that, and you can be upset when your attempts to reduce that are circumvented by site ownership, all without believing that the majority of the folks using the site are bad.
Relevant video from The Onion:
https://youtu.be/9BnLbv6QYcA
On the Robustness of Topics API to a Re-Identification Attack
You've just described social policy. Everything anyone does hurts someone's interest.
Show HN: An open-source OLAP Multidimensional Database
They are not a net benefit tax-wise, and anyone who has lived in these areas can tell you. Public schools, which are utterly inundated and massively overcrowded in these places (as well as in other non-border towns that have large undocumented populations such as Springdale, Arkansas), are primarily funded by property taxes. And having lived in neighborhoods that were predominantly populated by undocumented migrants, they tend to rent apartments/houses and pack in 2/3 to a bedroom, which means that there is no net increase in property taxes. And if you think that sales taxes paid by a frugal new immigrant remotely covers the roughly $15K a year it costs to educate a pupil in a public school, you are absolutely not doing the math honestly.

The amount of willful blindness on this topic is amazing.
I honestly think the the taboo-nature of medical records kills people in significant numbers.

More-so than anything else, the focus should be on preventing pre-existing conditions from being able to affect individuals negatively than adding hoops for the individual to access their own gated personal records (Moving between hospital systems today can be an absolute nightmare in the states).
Manhattan 2 days ago vs Night of the Comet:

https://imgur.com/a/MYpreX5

EarthCam view:

https://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/worldtradecenter/?cam=s...

No idea if this link remains permanent:

https://static.earthcam.com//hof/newyork/skyline/16862004424...
The hottest highlights about AI, tech stacks, recruiting devs, etc.
GDPR has exceptions, this would be such an exception that doesn't allow you to simply invoke GDPR and get everything deleted. They just have to anonymize the poster by deleting their signature, avatar, profile,... while the posts can stay intact (unless they contain personal info).
We've (Coloradoans)been dealing with wildfire smoke pretty much forever. On average our air quality is quite good, but fires in any of the PNW/SW states regularly impact our air quality during the spring, summer, and fall. We held the dubious title of worst air quality in the world for at least a day earlier this spring.

It's been a little comical having this NYC air quality situation keep finding it's way into my news sources -- it's been a part of my life as long as I've been alive. I check the FireNow site as much as I check the weather during the warm month.
What blows my mind is that Python was designed for maths and data science by a maths and data science guy. It should be natural to work with immutable values and pipelines in Python, which are natural functional constructs. Yet everything in Python is mutable and pipeline-style programming is not really supported. ???

(A long time ago I tried to teach programming fundamentals to a maths person. She was completely puzzled by x=x+1. X equals to X+1? That was nonsense in their eyes.)
But they might have seen the shiny new software touted by "those smart AI guys as being revolutionary and passing the Bar!" and they don't hang out on HN all day so to them that's like someone saying "this bridge is sturdy!" and they walk over it without realizing they should really go over the nuts and bolts of it like a civil engineer to really be sure
From what I gather from this page it seems organisations need to be added by the community or organisation members. I know a few organisations that aren't on that list for my country like https://github.com/GouvernementFR, https://github.com/DISIC, https://github.com/ANSSI-FR and https://github.com/ansforge. No promises but I might make a PR tonight on the page you mentioned.
no your records are their business

Thier corporate records are none of your business

if we are gonna have no privacy, it should go both ways - companies lose privacy too
I canceled my sub to that website tonight, too. But I wish this could edit the posts to show something like "Post removed because Reddit proved themselves to be cunts in 2023, but you can find it on my blog at fuckspez.com/2789892"

Because it is true that the loss of the posts would be a net negative for humanity in general. It does suck to find the answer to your esoteric problem iin the search results, only to find that it is actually deleted when you try to click through.

But OTOH the posts are literally the only value reddit has, so leaving them on reddit is aiding and abetting shitty cunts fucking over their own users. It's also important — a moral issue, even — to punish them for doing that.
Doesn't Apple Health on its own already allow you to do all that? It'll track anything you measure directly via an Apple device like heart rate or step count, but you can also enter in measurements you got from something else, and it will integrate with exercise and diet tracking apps as long as they run on iOS. I think it's missing blood markers other than glucose, but seems to have everything else you're asking for.
We're the same people who founded MakeCode. DeviceScript has a very different target audience (professional TypeScript developers vs students), is easier to port to different architectures, is more tied into VSCode, and is more compatible with JavaScript semantics (though slower).

Also MakeCode compiles to ARM machine code in the browser, not C++, which is one of the things that make it hard to port.
I think theres a general need to dig more into differential privacy and how data can be effectively anonymized for research purposes if its done right.

https://towardsdatascience.com/understanding-differential-pr...
In their definition of programming languages types, I'm not sure I see how SQL which they cateogrize as declarative really differs from FP, especially with lazy evaluation. Both are a succession of functions applied onto a previously declared variable : just think of a long SQL query with many ctes modifying the previous ones; each of them can be thought of as a variable which takes its value from the application of a function on other variable (a bit like the let function in ocaml).

I always thought of LaTeX as being the prime example of declarative programming.
Funny, everyone was pissed at the Apollo developer before Reddit announced these changes. Now the anger has completely shifted.
Yeah I’m referring to e.g. Google the company, not its employees. It’s amazing that companies pretend the modern office environment is a reasonable place to work. IMO office with closed door is much better than WFH, you’d think someone would start offering it again. Is it really that prohibitively expensive?
> But I think it would be impractical to restore to the correct version at scale unless they want to manually review to find the “right” version to restore.

They could restore all comments a month after controversy/blackout events from about a month before such events.

That would probably restore the majority as most people are deleting/overwriting their comments as a reaction to or as a part of these events.
> Solar stops at night, slows down on cloudy days, and so on.

All of which is already accounted for, so you're double-counting

> Panels degrade and have to be replaced after 20 years or so.

Most of the ones I've seen have 25 year guarantees; historically they've lasted longer, but I don't know how much the manufacturing etc. has changed so I'm not sure how strongly to predict extra years of life beyond such guarantees.

> Non-hydro renewables only beat nuclear when you conveniently forget storage, which is insanely expensive, and when you look at nominal capacity, not actual production.

1) Hydro is a storage system as well as a source

2) Even with li-ion backing it's cost-comparable to nuclear, and li-ion is one of the more expensive PWh-scale options

3) The current pricing is for digging up rocks and applying enough chemistry to make them batteries; recycling is expected to be much cheaper once scaled up.

(I'll grant that recycling is an "if and when", if you like; but the other points stand without needing any support)
The 2022 edition has a dinosaur on it while the 2021 edition has eagles, for what it’s worth. I am tempted to buy the eagle one for only $350 … but I don’t really have the space for it!
Because you have to size the cables based on amperage. The highest voltage supported by USB-PD is 20V. At 20V to deliver 240W you need 12 amps. That's already a fairly high number. At 300W you'd need 15 amps.

So unless you want to drag around an NEC type cable as thick as one of your fingers, you need to set a limit.

Edit: Fixed math. I haven't had caffeine yet.
The only part of your response that makes sense is the last sentence.
If space is expanding, does that also mean that gravitational potential energy is always increasing, too? I'd never thought of that before
Nah, it's sites like HN and Reddit that curate the randomness for us. There is / was a service, the name escapes me for now, that would install itself as a hotbar in your browser, press it and it would send you to a random web page, depending on your configured preferences / interests. I'm sure the name will come to me randomly soon enough.
> The reason Texas and Florida's political stunts elicit an outcry because is because those states are kidnapping and trafficking people

I highly doubt it's kidnapping. If I were a migrant and given the options:

1. Stay in Texas and sleep on the street in El Paso, or if you're lucky get to stay in some charity-run shelter.

2. Get on this free bus to New York City, where the government there will pay to house and feed you for free and you will have a much better living situation.

I would eagerly get on that bus.

>> Why are El Paso or Brownsville expected to incur the negative externalities of people who illegally cross into the US without any comments/concerns from national media, but a tiny fraction of that number in a northern city suddenly elicits an outcry?

> Given that the Texas state government is funded largely off of sales tax and property tax--and undocumented immigrants are ineligible for most social services--undocumented immigrants are a net positive to Texas' revenue.They are subject to sales tax whenever they buy things and pay landlords' property tax via rent. All while being unable to use most social programs.

That's just utter nonsense, and it's hard to imagine that someone could write that without misunderstanding the situation (willfully or otherwise). You're cherry-picking facts to an extreme degree to arrive at false "counterintuitive" result. And even if you weren't, no one cares so much about sales tax revenue to think like that.
i cant give you that guarantee today. I can't guarantee the government or your healthcare provider isn't misusing your data.

In fact a surefire guarantee essentially doesn't exist. But what exactly are you afraid of? How does someone weaponize your information? Everyone in my life already knows about my health conditions, i speak openly about them in my personal life, my business life and online there have been zero consequences to this.
Ask HN: Can Lua be remade to use 0-based numbering?
Lua seems like such a fun, simple, efficient language... but even on HN, people hate on it almost to the point of an absurd meme simply because its 1-based indexes.

If you search the forums, this fundamental issue is mentioned thousands of times over years and years.

Which leads me to a naive question: Lua is open sourced. Why hasn't anyone in the world just forked the language to be 0-based? Is it not as simple as it sounds? I don't know what goes into designing and compiling a programming language, so it seems like such a trivial fix for what appears to be the #1 issue for every person out there allergic to Lua.
> Given that the Texas state government is funded largely off of sales tax and property tax--and undocumented immigrants are ineligible for most social services--undocumented immigrants are a net positive to Texas' revenue.They are subject to sales tax whenever they buy things and pay landlords' property tax via rent. All while being unable to use most social programs.

If we are presuming they are unable to use social programs because they aren't eligible, are we to also assume they are all subsistence farmers, since they aren't eligible to be hired?

Not saying they couldn't still be a net positive in terms of taxes vs. outlays.
I was approached by someone once asking me to write a script to delete stuff from reddit, facebook and google plus once. He seemed kinda shady and I was not exactly sure what kinda content he was trying to delete, so I did not take the gig. Nice to see a tool that does that.
There's a toplevel option called "random article" as well as the shortcut ctrl+option+x to go to a random article. If anything it's a way better serendipity generator.
I've got some really, really, really bad news. Lawyers are not really any smarter than any other group of people out there. Passing a test about law doesn't mean much at all...

I mean, I did computer support for many lawyers and prosecutors and many were clever intelligent people. Others had to be explained to in simple instructions they shouldn't pour the glue on their keyboard before eating it. How they became a lawyer is beyond my understanding, and yet here we are.
I'd say Peloton is as fundamentally different... as you can get within the fitness category. Absolutely agreed: its an exercise bike with adjustable resistance and integrated, network-connected stats. In objective terms, not fundamentally different.

But if even it's having trouble financially, fitness isn't a great category to win with technology. Branding and advertising, absolutely! (Nike?) But not tech.
Kidnapping

Texas penal code title 5, chapter 20, section 20.03:

KIDNAPPING. (a) A person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly abducts another person.

Abduct is defined in section 20.01(2):

(2) "Abduct" means to restrain a person with intent to prevent his liberation by:
(A) secreting or holding him in a place where he is not likely to be found --snip--

Per reports, the alleged undocumented immigrants are induced with imaginary benefits (such as expedited asylum claims) and are sent to destinations unknown by them. If you don't know where you're going, you're not likely to be found.

At the very least it'd be unlawful restraint.

Sec. 20.02. UNLAWFUL RESTRAINT. (a) A person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly restrains another person.

Restrain is defined in section 20.01(1):

(1) "Restrain" means to restrict a person's movements without consent, so as to interfere substantially with the person's liberty, by moving the person from one place to another or by confining the person. Restraint is "without consent" if it is accomplished by:

(A) force, intimidation, or deception
--snip--

The alleged undocumented immigrants are being induced onto these bus and/or planes by false promises (e.g. expedited asylum claims elsewhere). Which means they're being trafficked somewhere else via deception.
I think he's underestimating the ability of the industry to go "hmm, we're short on X, but we can switch to an alternate chemistry that avoid using it at a slightly lower efficiency". This is already happening in the E-V market, and fixed batteries (home or grid) are even less space/weight constrained.

Also, when there is a demand the market finds a way.

These guys have been doomsaying about renewables for decades now and have been consistently wrong. https://zenmo.com/en/photovoltaic-growth-reality-versus-proj...
I’ve been running this as a cron job for years. Love it.
100%. HIPPA is the reason doctors offices still use fax machines and refuse to update patients with emails.
The risk of centralized systems was discussed long ago. The Cathedral and the Bazarr was published in 1999. None of these ideas are new. Everyone who payed any attention knew it was coming.
But I can do all that with python already?
Your example would work this way too:

def _(f):
content = f.read()
return sum(int(c) for c in content.split(" "))
with(open("file.txt"), _)
I use a bookmarklet that works on old.reddit.com for both comments and posts, it only removes the current page though

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Again, not talking about Manjaro as I know nothing about it, but while Debian is indeed reasonably secure out of the box, it is a far cry from being actually hardened (because a hardened system is less user-friendly). Security-oriented distros that I am familiar with are more hardened out of the box.

But, again, that's a state you can achieve with every distro. It's just with normal distros, it takes more work.
The price problem will solve itself over time, as it always does for electronics components with enough mass demand.

The $500 Quest of 2028 will have OLED screens that rival the Vision Pro that ships next year. Just like cheap Android phones took a few years to catch up to the iPhone 4 display spec, but they did, and now DPI is not an interesting spec on phones at all.
>aspects of fascism are not "just politics"

Yes they are. You're engaging in binary thinking here. These demagogical patterns that Umberto Eco describes were in The Iliad, they've been tropes as long as we've had writing at least, probably longer.
I also have this perspective. The HackerNewt app is perfect for people like us.

They posted a Show HN here a few weeks ago, which is how I learned about them. Highly recommended!
Why do you consider anonymous functions so important? Regular functions can be used the same way?
I went a different way. I researched what watch hobbyists wore while they mowed their lawns and dug ditches.

I landed on the clear leader, the Casio MDV-106[1].

Keep the rubber band it ships with, if you like, but most people seem to switch it out with a NATO or steel band.

It is such a great, sturdy watch and takes a beating and costs $30-50.

1. https://www.amazon.com/Casio-Stainless-Steel-Quartz-Plastic/...
> Ultimately however the worst part of these laws is that they are so harmful to research in the long run. With easy and ready access to medical data we could be decades ahead of where we are today.

You are saying that you'd like to take my personal data and make money from it without compensating me. My records are mine and they are private and it should stay this way.
If you want to see a renaissance of manufacturing employment, then headcount is clearly the metric that matters.

The fact is that offshoring of manufacturing was a myth - the jobs never left, the industries just transformed in such a way that old, labor intensive processes were eliminated. Those jobs, and the economic prosperity they brought, are never coming back. It's merely a coincidence that at around the same time US manufacturers were computerizing their operations China was building 1920s level industrial facilities.

Certainly none of the data is indicative of a sudden boom in US manufacturing in the past 2 years which could be attributable to any recent decisions or events.
While true, Apple has long made products people view as stylish and mainstream. VR advertised by Zuck isn't taken seriously (by most), but Apple will be. At the end of the day, there will be more consumer eyeballs on the devices now that Apple has entered the fray, and likely consumers that weren't even looking at VR devices before. That's probably a net win for everyone in the space.
> Meanwhile, I often get Reddit conversations in my Google results, and regularly see threads that are riddled with [deleted] comments. The worst is a deleted comment with replies along the lines of "Thank you!! That's exactly what I needed!" The answer I was looking for was there, but now it's gone.

I've had that happen to me as well, as if someone anticipated exactly what I was looking for and nuked it. It's part of why I've never more than lurked on Reddit. I was on the fence about actually creating an account, but this sort of thing as well as our current drama have seriously lowered that likelihood.
Given that subreddit s have been doing it for years when it served reddit's interest, I disagree.
I have tons of memories of reading my parents' World Book Encyclopedia growing up. Honestly, getting a print copy for my kids to browse through doesn't seem a bad idea.