skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alright, this will be my last contribution here. But:

To start, "I like rain" is a factual statement derived from your opinion, not an opinion itself. So let's change it for "rain is good":

> If you think rain is good because it waters your garden I'd hesitate to call that opinion because you have a factual reason.

> If you think rain is good because it sounds pleasant that's an opinion.

You're making distinctions that don't exist.

Thinking rain is good because it waters your garden is based on the fact that it will help your garden grow.

Thinking rain is good because it sounds pleasant is based on the fact that you enjoy the sound of the rain.

Both of these ignore counter-factuals. Sure, you think rain is good because it waters your garden, I think rain is bad because I live at the bottom of the hill and all that rainwater frequently floods my house. I think rain is bad because I dislike the sound.

Your opinion is based on the fact most relevant to you, my opinion is based on the fact most relevant to me. Choosing which facts are most important is a personal choice that results in an opinion. They're all opinions! To finally bring the thing full circle:

> But Facebook supporting marketing because they make more money with marketing can be a verified fact

It is an opinion supported by fact. A Facebook exec could make the argument that they could make more money by dropping advertising and instead charge a monthly membership fee. There are definitely fewer facts available to back up that opinion but it would still be a valid one.
Institutional ethics are a counter force to tyranny.

In a democracy a professional organization does have a right to check power as does every individual citizen.

Where do you think checks and balances come from? A two party state defeats a traditional notion of checks and balances. Our founding fathers warned against it.
Totally agree, and well run organizations will give authority to new teams to rebuild existing products, learning from the mistakes of the past while documenting their decisions along the way.
Are you implying you should be able to shoot at someone just because they are at your house or something?
Lawyers should make sure to get paid in advance.
My comment was not about how they are being prosecuted. But just about the ethics of doing something like that. Especially when the prior admin are heavily perceived as bullies. And they were supposed to be different.

The fact that the Biden admin behaved the same way vindicates them from accusations that Trump admin behaved unjustly or they should be disciplined for such inappropriateness.
Not if it requires installing an additional mobile app.
Not everyone is looking for a small self-hosted space for their friends and family and local community. Heck why do I even need an online social network for that when I can just go out and talk to them? The vast majority of users on networks like Twitter are looking to connect with a wider world. And "success" in those terms simply means having a critical mass to make such a network sustainable and interesting (and maybe profitable). Zuck himself has stated multiple times since yesterday that his idea of success for Threads is 1 billion users. That is a lot fewer than 8 billion, but it is success nonetheless.
I want XAES-256-GCM/11
Yes, the exercise of “teaching” it helps retention even if you’re teaching yourself or a rubber duck. Model it, draw it, make a dashboard with servos that measure important metrics, any way to abstract it or reshape the information. Take on the onboarding presentations to help other people understand it and talk about it. It will help you to dig deeper and know it more by putting the information into a different context.

Or in other words, that guy knows it because everyone asks him.
in procedurally written scripts, i write "what" comments as an outline or roadmap. i also use # vs // differently where the // style designates these what so i can find next to jump to next section. if i ever get away from being a solo dev and work as part of a team, there'll be a lot of unlearning personal habits
Rings a bell: "Thou Shalt Not Travel Into Thine Own Past Lightcone", unfortunately the search results are now overwhelming "NovelAI" and actual physics, so I can't find the name of the story I'm thinking of (and have yet to actually read).
Goodhart's law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"
The prioritization of individual freedoms above most other considerations (along with the assumption that it will work out better in the end) is what libertarianism is all about. Maybe you’re a libertarian without realizing it? :)
Sorry for being off topic, but let me introduce you to the only true metric of code quality: WTF/minute.

https://www.osnews.com/story/19266/wtfsm/

One wonders if profanity in the source code interferes with reviewers and skews this important metric ...
Portland to Santa Clara is a relatively flat drive. LA to SLC is not, plus a fully-loaded Model 3 in extreme weather (at least, extreme for EVs) and the need to charge multiple times on the way due to charging anxiety related to the lack of chargers en route, the overnight stay in a motel due to the delay related to charging...yeah, it's over 24 hours, easily.

You might want to consider that not everybody is driving themselves; some people have families with them and that changes the calculus of how you approach the drive.
Root cause analysis, weren't you paying attention?
How to get a grip on my data? File organisation. Photos. etc.
Sure, as soon as you have a viable method for funding the services that rely on that revenue.
Another problem is 40% of Federal MPs are landlords.

The Federal Minister for Housing is a landlord.

And the self-interest of present homeowners.

It's now the landholders vs the landless. Hmmm...that's like a Feudal society.
you left out keeping the docs in sync as well
Trenchers... but it was old bread and you didn't necessarily eat it. Or sometimes you gave it to the poor after your meal if you were being gregarious.
I remember when MSU, Baroda had also leaked aadhaar/income certificate & other PII as a publicly accessible storage bucket. All of which then got scraped into Google images....lol
Last I looked into this, it seems there's products out there now that offer "nanofiltration" which has more permeable membranes than RO filters so the minerals can pass through but the more complicated molecules like PFAS cannot.
Not sure why "refused". We want to support it but it's not trivial and it doesn't help that we don't have the hardware to test this. It will be done eventually
Slow compared to startups, very fast compared to similarly sized companies, even other tech companies.
Probably this one: https://crbug.com/1324296

Linked from here: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/70691
I assume it suffers from the same issues as the other Markdown editors I've tried, particularly failure to soft wrap list items to the appropriate level of visual indentation.
Sometimes it's better, sometimes it gets bogged down by the "second system effect" and is worse lol
Disclosure, not disclaimer. (Sorry!)
Government agencies secretly communicating with people is not a free speech, There are many more cases when government employee can't talk about work with other people, so i don't see a reason to be horrified.
I stopped buying console games after ~1993 until sometime in the 2010s, so my experience with the Playstation and such was visiting friends who had them. It was pretty cool, but I think Sega was doomed in North America before that.

Sega released the (backwards compatible) Genesis two years before Nintendo released the Super NES -- anecdotally, I knew far more folks with SNES than the Genesis, and my impression was that was true all over NA.

Again, Sega released the (backwards compatible) Saturn two years before Nintendo released the N64, but I didn't know anyone at the time who had a Saturn and a few who had the N64.

My recollection was that Nintendo kept promising their console "tomorrow tomorrow" so that folks wouldn't buy the Sega consoles. And I think it worked.

I don't know if this played out in Japan and Europe, but in NA I think Sega was doomed long before the original PS.
By foreign actors do you just mean foreign people in general or something more specific. Because using the word "actors" give what you say an ominous overtone, but I can't figure out how it's not that you believe in some generic but wide ranging conspiracy of non-Americans to disrupt America with .... opinions. Those things that Americans are famously lacking and reluctant to espouse.
I am confused why anyone would even consider this news. If there is considerarion to the farmer then what is so special about the emoji? Any reasonable person considers it an affirmative response.

Think of it this way, if this was some EULA and instead of "i agree" there was a thumbs up emoji, would it not still be valid?
1. Wikipedia had the same issue with the Turkish government, fought it in Turkish courts and won. Twitter bent over and used the "but another even worse app will take our place" excuse you're using here. They're not helping free speech here.

2. Flight data is public, no one is doxing anyone. The incident Musk used as proof that this was bad was while he was in a car... far from his plane.

3. Twitter banned Mastodon links before Substack. Was Mastodon scraping Twitter's contact data too?

You see, the problem is not even what he's doing with Twitter. It's his company, who cares? It's claiming that Twitter is the internet's "town square" and that he is anti-censorship, while restricting access to the platform and censoring content. It's complete bullshit and people like you fall for it and even defend it.

I'd respect Elon Musk more if he came out and just said "this is my platform, I'll ban stuff that affects me or affects my revenue, get out if you're not happy." Instead, he says one thing and does another.
When I lived in India I lived through scheduled power outages every day. What's the big deal?

You don't get Internet for a few hours on a single day. Who cares?

Go outside.
I think that's just business as usual for Russian intelligence agencies: deny that you're keeping close tabs on someone that you're obviously keeping close tabs on. The Russian gov't denying that they could possibly keep track of someone is such a ridiculous claim that it signals a gaslighting playbook.

I think it's more likely that Prigozhin is dead or being tortured. I certainly wouldn't expect to survive leading a coup against Putin, regardless of what Putin says. I guess it's also possible he fled and he's trying to hide.

There's clearly more to this story than we're getting (like why Prigozhin took a deal). But I don't think Putin planned this as an elaborate way to relocate military assets. The military losses he incurred during the attempted coup aren't trivial. And the ordeal makes it look like he's losing his grip on power -- his posturing in the days following the deal show he's desperate to portray himself as a strong leader again.
I'd guess it is the first independent linux distro, with its own Desktop Environment, Installer etc. Which is seemingly completely independent from things outside of China, well except the Kernel and that it preinstalls Firefox as a browser.
Between this and Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino's weird tweet about how great Twitter is (https://twitter.com/lindayacc/status/1676965566597464065), the arrival of Threads is definitely an existential threat for Twitter.
Do you regularly provide commentary to your own arguments with strangers?
Threads already has over 95M posts
That's a cool story and connection to the article, thanks for sharing!

Similarly, I know several plumbers, electricians, HVAC techs etc. who consider what I see as eye watering stacks of parking tickets to be just an ordinary cost of doing business in NYC.
> We could go back to pre plastics, enjoy less sterile things along with more disease

Hint: it's actually about money, not sterility.

A foodstuff packed in a glass jar with a metal screw-top isn't going to spoil any faster than the same thing in a plastic container, but the glass weighs more, and costs more, so if all other things are equal the retailer will of course opt for the supplier with the cheaper and lighter packaging.
My take is that SeanLuke quoted a contentious description of PV's activities. wnevets said the description was an outright lie. ifyoubuildit asked for details. rootusrootus responded that the description implied neutrality, and said they aren't neutral because they target and slander one side particularly. sourcegrift gave an example of other media not being neutral. Then you said that media aren't obliged to be neutral.

Slander was only relevant insofar as the slander evidenced a lack of neutrality. But the lack of neutrality was never truly relevant in the first place; rootusrootus erred when he said the description quoted by SeanLuke implied PV is neutral. BurningFrog and streamer25 were correct in pointing this out. Describing PV as journalism doesn't imply neutrality, nor does anything else in that contentious description.

You also erred when you assumed sourcegrift considers mockery to be slander. From the context of the conversation, I think it's clear that sourcegrift considered the mockery to be evidence that the rest of the media lacks neutrality; in other words sourcegrift was correctly disputing the supposed contradiction between partisanship and journalism. Journalists aren't neutral; journalists mocking people with plain partisan bias demonstrates this.
That requires everyone to have access to the repo, and to wade through it looking for changes to the relevant area of code you're working in. That sucks.
In Royal Oak, MI, the city recently contracted Municipal Parking Services, a Minnesota-based company, to install a new parking system which reads plates and automatically issues fines after a 5-minute grace period (mailed to your house.) The system is a bit confusing and unexpected to visitors.

A DDA study determined that 43% of visitors were being fined.

As a result of getting ticketed, I've heard many people in Michigan say they won't visit Royal Oak anymore.

So I guess that's one way to discentivize yourself.
We can always rely on Elon Musk's Twitter to make the worst move.

Meanwhile (as the article says) Meta has confirmed no employee on the Threads team came from Twitter. So the letter is already shown to be completely without basis.
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I’m dubious. Millions of people in the country are on wells and don’t use any fluoride, also fluoride isn’t present in every municipal drinking water supply.
I have been, personally, figuring that I should wear mostly cotton clothing and glass / ceramic (as opposed to plastic) dishware. Limiting material choices for household items would be politically impossible, but I would like it to become a popularized "trend", which retailers will then cater to.

Companies should market based on using "traditional" non-toxic materials (still modern and industrial, just not absurd), and consumers can respond by giving their business.
Just a reminder.

If you donate blood you can chip away at these forever chemicals.

There's almost no downside.
Initial post was about controlling public discourse. Thats something where the attackers are governments. Sorry if the wording was misleading.
These guys claim their filters are good for this: https://www.hydroviv.com/blogs/water-smarts/duke-nc-state-pf.... I use these filters, but no idea about the validity of their marketing on this.
Not sure I'm in love with the idea of emergency services spending a bunch of time breaking windows and putting hoses through a car.

Although not in love with fire hydrants as a revenue source either.
Threads sounds pretty lame. The best part of Twitter was being able to see what other people were talking about using these two features:

"Unlike Twitter, Threads does not seem to use hashtags and does not have a feature that allows users to search for specific text or phrase." [0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/06/we-tried-...
The "Honest Internet" ended in the 80s/90s.
It's the tools that suck, not the users.

If you have two folders open in Microsoft Windows, and drag an item from one to the other... there are 3 possible actions (as of a decade ago) that might happen according to an set of rules the user can't be expected to know....

It might copy the file

it might create a shortcut to the file

it might move the file

This is just a tiny example of the inconsistency of one of the oldest and most stable parts of the UI on a desktop. To coounteract this, I always taught about right-click and drag/drop to actively select which was to happen.

Throw in a phone, or the internet, and the UI de jure force through the web... how dare they cast aspersions on the users.... it's not their fault.
"those connotations weren't present on day zero), so how do you protect against that"

The same way that you deal with any words - you evaluate them in context. A thumbs-up emoji can be reasonably interpreted in this case as a confirmation of the contract.
> Your links don't support your claims.

Adrian Hastings has claimed that England's Anglo-Saxon kings mobilized mass nationalism in their struggle to repel Norse invasions. He argues that Alfred the Great, in particular, drew on biblical nationalism, using biblical language in his law code and that during his reign selected books of the Bible were translated into Old English to inspire Englishmen to fight to turn back the Norse invaders. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation#Medieval_nations

This was in the 9th century. More than a millennium before that, Greek city states realized they had more in common with one-another than with the Persians, and organized along those lines in the Greco-Persian wars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Persian_Wars

Even Aristotle spoke on the importance of kinship: Also difference of race is a cause of faction, until harmony of spirit is reached; for just as any chance multitude of people does not form a state, so a state is not formed in any chance period of time. Hence most of the states that have hitherto admitted joint settlers or additional settlers have split into factions; - https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext...

> had never met someone who they could place outside their concept of their nation?

You mean like during a war? Or their cultural inheritance of history? The Jews for example have a ~3000 year tradition of passing down stories of their nation interacting with others, e.g. the story of Moses. Even someone who hadn't left their shtetl for generations would have heard tales of other nations, e.g. the Egyptians, growing up.

I'm sure you'll agree that though based on common birth, a nation is flexible - the neighbor you quarrel with becomes kin and ally when a larger threat from further away arrives. But that doesn't imply it's based on nothing, "culturally constructed" out of thin air. So your claim that people didn't travel much supports my argument, through the rootedness required for a nation to form.
This isn't a question of fallibility - feel free to explain what you mean.

Governments are overtly attempting to control people. Powerful secret societies certainly use governments, but would also use subterfuge and trickery to direct attention. Governments would do this too, via special agencies. It's murky.
> As long as it's not an API I don't see the need.

And I don't see the need to use a SPA almost anywhere. If you are gonna use a SPA for stuff that really doesn't require it, I think it behooves you to still atleast try to conform the the HTTP spec
I seem to recall reading that there is actually more biomass below the surface of the earth than above, so you might be wrong on that one.
It's interesting the differences between gen z and older generations when it comes to computers. I'm a cusper (millenial/gen z) so I grew up with computers, just like my parents who are gen x, so we all understand it just fine. But I'll help out someone who can't be any older than their late 40's with a $2,500 laptop, who almost started crying when I opened a new tab in her browser because she thought I deleted it. She didn't understand the concept of tabs. Or just last year when I met someone who had never owned a laptop, and returned their school laptop and bought an iPad Pro instead because they understood it.

It's so strange, I feel like I'm in this weird middle ground of understand desktop and mobile OS's just fine, but the older generation and the younger generation are siloed into one or the other.
This is so profoundly ignorant that I am surprised it continues to come up.

Under your premise you would have wanted all Slaves to be counted as whole persons. This is exactly what many slave owners wanted, they wanted to have the slaves counted as whole persons so their states would have more power.

The Abolitionists wanted the slaves not to be counted at all

3/5ths was a compromise and directly lead to the eventual abolishment of slavery completely.
This is pretty deceptive. The curb is painted white and the hydrant is not even near the street and it's not painted in a red color.

I can see being in a hurry and not realizing that you can't park here. Definitely scammy.
> It's running on Instagram's #Cinder fork that includes a JIT, lazy-loaded modules, pre-compiled static modules, and a bunch of other interesting tweaks against vanilla Python 3.10.

So not entirely just python 3.1.
Meta's Threads Android app is written almost completely in Compose
Twitter Wants to Sue Meta (Threads)
Both Tesla and EA have chargers 80 miles from Vegas in Mesquite? And something like 14 locations combined between Vegas and SLC?

They do...now...They did not several months ago when my coworker attempted this drive. At least, none that were working or available.

Every EA station between Vegas and SLC has >= 1 charger at 350 kW

Yes, they do. And they have on average of 0 working chargers at 350 kW, so the theoretical charging speeds are irrelevant.

Tesla handles the routing for you, there is nothing to optimize on this route.

Ah yes, Tesla does such a good job at routing. Just like how it loves to route cars into trucks and stopped vehicles. Just because your experience with your empty Tesla works for you doesn't mean it works for families with greater charging needs.
I only swear in commit messages. Am I doing it wrong?