skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speech does not censor speech; this is an essential core of the concept of free speech.

If I tell you to take down your comments, I am not censoring you. I’m speaking. It’s only censorship if I can force you to take them down.

The same is true for federal officials; just telling someone to shut up is not censorship. Without an actual threat of force, it’s not censorship or intimidation.

Note that I’m not arguing that intimidation cannot and does not happen. But intimidation requires an actual threat. Not just an angry email.

The ironic thing is that federal officials can speak freely because of the First Amendment. It gives them license to speak because actual legal protections exist for citizen speech. The power of federal officials is well constrained under U.S. law. They can tell a media company to change their content, and the company can say “no.” Because of the First Amendment.
Thanks for sharing John!

I particularly liked the Challenge: Building A Redis Server. It gives a really good high-level understanding of how Redis is operating. Good job!
Is anyone on the right arguing for any speech restriction? If so, they are by far the minority in that camp.

Only one side is afraid of open debate and pure freedom of speech. Why could that be?
Claiming something is the hottest day on earth when your data only goes back half a century is the reason people think all these groups are little more than grifters. It’s bad science and hyperbole.
Some follow-up thoughts after sleeping on the topic for a night and reading everyone else's comments:

* There's a bit of a "have your cake and eat it too" problem with Diataxis. The key underlying idea of Diataxis is that it represents modes of documentation, not concrete doc types. In that regard it's super counterproductive for us to discuss Diataxis as "the 4doc model". But on the other hand Diataxis does map each mode of documentation to a concrete doc type (Learning => Tutorial, Task => How-To Guide, Information => Reference, Understanding => Explanation) so I think it's understandable for people to conflate the two. Also, to make Diataxis useful, you have to be able to translate the ideas to the real world quickly. My impression at the moment is that Diataxis might be a little too abstract and it's causing us to have discussions where we just keep circling around the same ideas and arguing about definitions rather than actually having conversations that lead to documentation innovation.

* The article brings up a great point that Divio was initially billed as the grand unified theory of documentation, but Diataxis has moved away from that phrasing. Based on how Diataxis deals with modes of documentation I do think that it's essentially still attempting to be an attempt at a grand unified theory. And that's a good thing! Most of us agree that it's a useful foundation. The main questions in my mind are these: 1) are there any other modes out there? 2) is learning/tasks/understanding/information the most useful way to think about the fundamental modes? The main research approach for figuring out these questions is to look at real docs in the wild and then contemplate how they relate to modes.
I imagine anyone who runs the mobile app could probably open the camera and scan it.
> He says police beat the driver, which made him release the brake pedal, so the car creeped forward

Fortunately there's a video to show this is an obvious lie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSfcLfoNkFk
Wild guess: maybe only the partial pressure[1] controls whether water will flow through the membrane, and the partial pressure of freshwater in this scenario is identical on both sides?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_pressure
> the cops say “we pinged your phone”. What that entails exactly I have no clue.

The cell phone infrastructure knows where your phone is. It has to in order for it to operate. The police routinely ask cell phone companies for locations of cell phones. Many (most?) not only won't require a warrant, but provide an official portal the police can use to conduct their queries without having to get a phone company employee to do it.
Ce qui est bon pour l'oie est bon pour le jars.
https://svedic.org/

Started in 2012, some of blog posts featured on HN, sorted by more popular first:

HN points, Title, URL, HN discussion

346 points, "Worst CAPTCHA Ever", https://svedic.org/programming/worst-captcha-ever, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5465716

184 points, "Web Bloat Score Calculator", https://www.webbloatscore.com/, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12783898

124 points, "I was kicked out from TEDx event for saying water-fuelled car is a scam", https://svedic.org/skepticism/i-was-kicked-out-from-tedx-eve..., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6409062

61 points, "34 little POS machines", https://svedic.org/philosophy/34-little-pos-machines, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11001819

58 points, "Daddy, did you really need to buy an electric car?", https://svedic.org/tech/daddy-did-you-really-need-electric-c..., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24342495

43 points, "Screwed by Lufthansa and the German Government, Saved by PayPal", https://svedic.org/travel/screwed-by-lufthansa-german-govern..., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23898423
> Imagine not being "satisfied" with a ~85th percentile wage.

In aggregates: Household income > individual income > wage/salary; you've confused the first with the last.

$150K is beyond 90th percentile individual income. [0] I can’t find wage/salary percentiles separately, but its probably even further beyond 90th percentile there.

https://dqydj.com/average-median-top-individual-income-perce...
Optics, price point, word of mouth. Coming from the SNES as a kid, I only wanted the N64 and that's what I got. Very quickly the PSX got popular and games were stocked everywhere. No one talked about the Saturn.

I did get to play it when it was new (the Saturn), and the catalog I encountered was shitty FMV games and a shmup. I was not enamored.

The Dreamcast though, I remember being very attractive. The demos of Sonic Adventure looked absolutely astounding to me. I was late hopping on to that gen of consoles (parents strapped for cash), and still given the choice I went for the PS2, because it had the more attractive catalog and a DVD player. Years went by and I borrowed a GC to play Prime, an XBOX to play Ninja Gaiden and Halo, but I was not that motivated to try the DC.
It’s too bad there’s no way to “short” these people.
Addressing Bazel OOMs
curious if anyone else sees a connection between a slow delivery (aka slower development time) and less bugs?

I certainly see a connection (several actually) between having more bugs and following development processes that emphasise metrics like time between starting work on a job and running the code in production. The advocates of Accelerate and the annual Google DORA reports seem to have taken over the web development asylum lately but the underlying arguments and data are still dubious at best.
> huge derisking happening first

How long did that huge derisking take? What was the budget for the time spent doing the derisking? I'm willing to bet the "huge derisking" ended up taking longer than the actual project (and was itself open ended and unpredictable).
I think the interesting problem being described is:

Find two non-trivial algorithms so different that their equivalence is difficult to establish but which will always produce the same results.

Artificial code obfuscation techniques are not allowed. The algorithms can’t just be differently obfuscated versions of each other.

I.e. both algorithms should be in their simplest form given their respective approaches.
For a trucking job you do in general need a commercial driver's license (CDL) which has far more stringent requirements than getting a regular driver's license. Many states require an EAD (employment authorization document) to get a CDL.
The thing with dynamical systems, and specially complex systems, is that things very complicated, very fast. Evidently things are complicated to reason about, so the severity of climate change is not obvious. So your questioning is completely natural.

There are intuitive one-minute explanations for why climate change is real and important. However, I think that due to the complex nature of the topic a full answer requires deep study.

Thus, I think it is reasonable to rely on the decades of evidence and science that have led to a concensus among the people that spend their entire lifes studying the topic.
How heavily are type annotations and type checking used in the codebase?
I wonder how improving technology will affect perceptions of of these concepts. Right now, transitioning genders physically is hard, for many reasons, and quality of outcomes is dependent on many factors.

What if you could just pop into a genetic resculpting pod and it could literally physically edit you to be biologically the other gender? What if it was fast and easy enough that someone could do it habitually during a day or week? Be one gender at work and one gender while at home?

I suspect that enough generations will pass that the gradual decoupling of physical biology from our sense of identity will make this a less interesting smooth change with no big-bang, but I'd be kind of interested in reading a short story exploring what our world would look like if this star-trek-tier sophisticated body-modding was invented tomorrow.
Wild to think about the fact that there were people living there who would have seen (or been buried) by that. Same with some of the cataclysmic floods and other events that came with the end of the last ice age.
Yes. I'd say I'm probably one of those sort, though I'm well enough stocked that it's of no matter to me at this point.

I use them in the evenings, on deep dimmers, because I've given up trying to find LED bulbs that aren't "substantially blue" in the evenings - I've reviewed quite a few (https://www.sevarg.net/tag/spectrometer/), and having run out of the cheaper ones, I don't feel like spending $30-$40/bulb for testing the higher end ones that actually come with spectrum data showing there's still a substantial blue spike in the "messes with human sleep" chunk of spectrum. Their CRI is high, but they don't dim to a nice dull red, and that's what matters - at least for my sleep.

Though admittedly I also enjoy curling up with a good bit of fiction (on paper) and a kerosene lantern - especially in the winter, when the heat is welcome.

I built my own solar (large ground mount), I run around most of the miles in a PHEV, I'm all for reduced carbon impact. Where it matters. What I'm not for is senselessly pissing people off to "make a good point" or whatever, and the actual incandescent ban seems exactly like that.

I guarantee people I can see at night wouldn't run hundreds of watts of LEDs, were they to be lighting the outside of their house with incandescents. And we see this in the light pollution metrics over time - LEDs are more efficient in lumens out per watts in, but they tend to get used to just add more light, run them longer instead of turning them off, etc. And that's not just using more energy, it really screws with a wide range of nocturnal animals.
The people most scared about climate change are the kinds of people who tend not to have children anyway, so what are they so worried about? Are you trying to keep the earth habitable for the religious?
For me the Apple silicon Macs are a real innovation. The battery life, size and weight is fantastic.
>>Free speech cuts both ways.

You have completely miss understood the purpose of the Constitution and the 1st amendment, the Constitution is the States and the People limiting the power and role of the federal government.

The 1st amendment DOES NOT bestow or grant the US Government any freedom of speech, in fact it specifically limits the US Governments freedom / power in many ways by baring it from actions and activities that curb the speech of the people of these united states.

To proclaim this ruling is "violating the rights of the government" is a complete and utter inversion of the how the constitution works, and the direction of power.

We the people...
What I'd really like to see is a "brick bucket" that contains mostly large bricks and maybe a few doors, windows, and slanted tiles. I'm all for gribbly bits, but it seems harder to accumulate a good collection of the basics these days - because the big "brick buckets" you describe are probably half gribbly bits. In my experience as a kid, what we really wanted was enough mass to build walls and houses and forts, and were not as interested in small detail stuff.
>That's a very silly question. "No phones in school" is no different from any other rule the teachers have to enforce in class.

Few school rules come with the deprivation of your property though. Taking away a phone "for a week" as you suggested would be that. We had a kid who reported a computer crime to the police (a threat of violence). The police took his computer as evidence I believe. I don't think he's ever reporting something like that to the police again.

>"Imagine a teacher stops some kids from beating up another kid; if that happens how do you think they will feel about the teacher that did that? Do you think that kid will see eye to eye with the teacher after that?"

This point is ridiculous though. This rule protects other children, whereas the phone rule, especially the confiscation rule only affects the kid in question. Ie you're saying it's for their own good, but I bet that in 20 years the evidence will be a wash - that there really was no huge drop off in ability linked to phones in that generation.

>At some point there will be a need to set boundaries. That's the essence of socialization and necessarily a part of education. Teachers will have to set boundaries and enforce rules, that doesn't have anything to do with phones.

Sure, how about boundaries where the government doesn't make such insanely stupid laws? They're eventually going to use phones anyway in their daily life. It will be a constant thing next to them.

Ultimately you have to remember that the vast majority of students do NOT choose to be there. They're forced there by other laws. And while it is probably a good thing that they are there, it still feels akin to a prison for many of them. Pushing them down harder doesn't make them appreciate you more or necessarily improve the quality of their education.
The term "open source" was invented by capital in an attempt to use the products of Free Software's ideology while erasing the parts that are not amenable to capitalist exploitation. It means whatever capital needs it to mean.
Are there specific ones you recommend? Currently I just use CloudFlare's, but I'd love to squeeze a few extra kb out of my static pages.
Or, they don’t know what they value yet and money is a way to measure value without understanding. It opens opportunities to discover your values and affords housing, education for children, retirement, and optionality later in life. Some folks, like myself, found what I value aligns with pretty good pay and I appreciate it while not particularly valuing it.
If your concern is bandwidth related, you can use the "Youtube Audio" Firefox extension to access only the audio from a feed to save bandwidth, otherwise why not going for podcasts?
That just means there’s someplace you can hide for the rest of your life, not that it’s a loophole that gets you out of trouble.

What matters is if it’s legal where you live and travel. And whether any of those places have extradition treaties.
> Take two glass boxes. Fill one with air. Fill the next with air and add carbon dioxide in any amount. Put them outside next to each other in the sun. The one with additional carbon dioxide will get hotter in proportion to the amount of carbon dioxide added.

Any amount? How does this play out with a CO2 concentration of 0.04%?
The question is how accurate is cell tower triangulation?
Do you remember what games were part of that "bubble" after ff7?
I was a huge fan of JRPGs at the time and a few years prior on the SNES... FF2 and FF3, Chrono Trigger, Earthbound, Secret of Mana..

FF7 took it to the next level graphically but kept everything good about the gameplay.. I didn't play it until it was ported to PC, and the 3d accelerated video cards made it look much nicer than it even did on the PSX. It was a masterpiece of a game, the character development was extremely engaging and memorable. And the cinematics of Aerith dying, or Sephiroth walking through the flames... I had never seen anything like that up to that point.

FF7 and Zelda64 (ocarina of time) were the last games I really got into before I shifted to wasting all of my time on the internet instead of video games. I feel like games haven't been as good since that era, but it's probably mostly me that has changed.
Yep, the price delta is definitely because of the high seer rating. That being said, we were quoted about the same price for a 16 seer unit from another contractor (McCarthy). It's definitely worth shopping around.
Global surface level temperatures do not jump around like that by degrees and we do not have proof for a mass aridification event for some thousands of years so no it's not bullshit.
Yes, like I said I'm aware of the facts.
I'm surprised they don't own their own IPs. In the email world I would say that's quite important. Seems a tad casual to say "luckily they are willing to lease them"...
Slightly tangential, but in the span of my career, when I have worked with young people, I have enjoyed it much more than old boss-stereotyped bosses.

I only once had a younger supervisor, and I preferred that much more than an old boss.

Is it just me? I have also had a friend tell me the same.
And Trump should be prosecuted for treason because he attempted to overthrow the government. Good luck making your case stick. :)
I am logged into Instagram but see nothing about Threads.
I'm on the web interface.
Because, being over 85th percentile in intelligence, they would be more likely than average to realize that the marginal impact of income on experienced utility declines sharply the higher you go on the income distribution. (Especially if they’ve experienced life at a variety of income levels, including some near the 85th percentile.)
I was responding to someone who said:

> Him being a trump nominee makes me suspicious
Your baby/bathwater filter seems to be on the fritz.

If, as in the common case, a police officer is performing their duty correctly, why should they as a private individual be singled out, maligned, their personal safety be threatened, etc. etc?

If you’re coming at this from e.g. the US perspective where the situation with police is a very stylized us/them, this may feel odd.
> In recent years, there is a general drift towards "collectible display models"

I think there is an actually an "addition" here rather than a change. You're an adult conversing with adults (I assume) and therefore the discussions you have and the marketing you see are more about sets targeted to AFOLs (Adult Fans of Lego).

The classic Lego childhood lines (Lego City) still exist and still work just as well for play and creative construction as they ever did - and they don't use a lot of 1x1s. It's just that we've also gained these new lines of large adult sets that never used to exist.
Fantastic, thank you! I came here to find this link. :)
I've been using Joplin for a while now, syncing via Nextcloud.

One tip: I set up a cronjob to export into a Git repository so I have a complete history. The core of the script is:

joplin sync
joplin export --format=raw "$tmpdir"
# Rsync that directory to the repository
# This deletes files that no longer exist in the current export.
/usr/bin/rsync -a --quiet --delete --exclude=.git "$tmpdir/" "./"
/usr/bin/git add -A
Think about copyrights of photos.

A photo is presumed to be copyrightable. Even horrible photos taken by somebody without any aesthetic sense are presumed to be copyrightable. The argument (AFAIK) is that the photographer chooses the time, location, object, and tweaks various settings of the camera (exposure, aperture, etc.), and these choices are considered sufficient for a photo to be copyrightable.

How about LLMs?

The hyperparameters of LLMs are hugely important in training LLMs, as is the choice of source training data. To me the "degrees of freedom" (and hence room for "creativity") in training LLMs are larger than that of a photographer taking a photo. And as of today, training a good LLM is probably objectively harder than taking a good photo, even if we forget about hardware costs for a moment.

It's easy to convince judges and juries that copying phone numbers into a phone book doesn't require human creativity. But we're talking about the most bleeding edge tech companies producing a bleeding edge new product here. I think it's going to be really hard to convince judges and juries that making this new shiny thing doesn't require human creativity. Maybe in say 20 years when even a 10 year old can train a LLM the situation might change, but as of today, quite unlikely IMHO.
First, you would need the appropriate license for driving a truck. Second, a driver’s license doesn’t convey the right to work in this country.
Sorry, I was just noticing things.
In a post-Twitter world, Mastodon and Bluesky need to get on the same page
If this is true, how in the world do people in India or Arizona survive their summer?

More sensationalist, Doomer nonsense. The world absolutely isn’t going to end in the next 10 years because we hit a local max in a data set that only goes back 40 years.
Dressrious: an AI app that will help you dress in glorious
How to make a great tech team when when you only know HTML,CSS and JavaScript?
I want to create a great tech team to make a great product but i dont know much coding.What is the solution to this , should i learn all the stuff myself and start building basic product , if so how can i hire great people afterwards? or should i start searching for a tech co-founder first.
Even in a LCOL area, with a family, I would not feel comfortable on $80k per year as I would not be able to save enough to afford out of pocket healthcare expenses for family, plus premiums, plus retirement savings, plus education savings for kids.

Plus it is LCOL area, implying that there probably will not be many alternative $80k jobs if the one I had went away.
So what did you say if not what I quoted? Why is it up to me to figure it out, just clarify for me? There's no emotion from me in fact I find this somewhat stimulating, otherwise I would've left long time ago, but I see the urge to dismiss me entirely as being emotional. I'm just a random internet stranger after all, and it's easier that way. Anyway it was fun, I wish you the best.
The cost per user to maintain these kinds of platforms is extremely low. That's why advertising supported models work. So that means if you charged for a platform, you wouldn't need to charge each user very much on a monthly or yearly basis. Such a platform could still be one that require no technical skills or knowledge from the users, who just want to publish their stuff.

Many people (especially tech people) have an almost psychotic adversity against any kind of paid online services. But do we always have to cater to those people, who'd refuse to pay $10 per year for an ad-free social network? I even suspect that a paid social network would be of higher quality, since the payment is an effective barrier against bots and some low-quality users.
Especially not when most (all?) of those games were also on the playstation.
Is anyone on the right arguing for any speech restriction?

Yes. Restrictions on what teachers are allowed to teach are restrictions on freedom of speech. Restrictions on non-sexual drag performances are restrictions of freedom of speech. Bans on calling for boycotts of Israeli goods and services are restrictions of the freedom of speech.
Tl;dr: This new plan basically fix the number one complain about PlanetScale and offers Unlimited row reads and writes.