skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was indeed an ally. In fact, after the war surveys showed French people overwhelmingly credited it with winning WW2. It was decades of american propaganda that reversed that.

The western front was already lost. The game was over. Germany won. Britain was pinned back and had no chance of invading France. If the soviets hadn't won at Stalingrad, turned the whole war and then slowly pushed back Germany... it was over. The US would've done absolutely nothing about it.

More Russians died at Stalingrad alone than Americans in the entire war. WW2 was, for most of it, just Germany v Russia. That's where all the losses were. Thats where all the fighting was. D-day was only in 1944... what was happening from the french surrender in 1940 until 1944? Who was fighting?

Honestly, Americans drinking their own kool-aid is mad to me. This is all basic history and a few hollywood films won't change that.

From France 24:
"Just after the European fighting ended in May 1945, a poll by the French survey group Ifop found that 57 percent of the French thought Moscow had contributed the most to the war effort, compared with just 20 percent who named the United States.

But by the 60th anniversary of the Normandy landings by Allied forces in 2004 -- when Russia was represented for the first time, by Putin -- the figures were reversed, with just 20 percent putting the Soviet Union first.

Instead, 58 percent lauded the US, even though its total losses of 400,000 in both the European and Pacific theatres were just a small fraction of the dead in the Soviet Union.

"In 1945, the great ally was Stalin and the USSR -- their role was absolutely clear for the French," said Stephane Grimaldi, director of the Caen Memorial Museum for World War II in Normandy.

"But 50 years later, it's the US that won, for the very simple reason that in the meantime we had the Cold War," he said.

Hollywood also helped change perceptions with a string of hit films starting in the 1960s showing brave Americans fighting far from home.

"If you look at way it has been portrayed in popular culture, it's all about the battle in France and the Battle of Britain, but World War II was overwhelmingly Germans and Russians killing each other," said Jeremy Shapiro from the European Council on Foreign Relations."
Yeah, I didn't pick it and this is an inherited codebase that I'm trying to bring up to date while I still have overlapping Java 11 support.

I haven't picked it in the past except for a toy project, to experiment with Lombok.

It has some interesting ideas which would be nice if they folded it into Java, but while it's fringe it ends up being a liability.
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The problem with this is that you as a non practitioner think you can look in and decide which parts of the religion are fluff and which are true. You really can’t, and that’s one of the biggest failures of secular Buddhism. Without significant training on the path there is no way for you to tell what is bs and what is the true deep stuff. I don’t really get this pattern of random westerners coming into Buddhism and thinking they immediately know exactly which things the Buddha made up and which he didn’t
Everyone is mostly wrong about most things most of the time. Don't assume you're a paragon of rationality and correctness just because the toleration in your daily life is bigger then the margin by which you're holding mistaken beliefs.

We just need to be right enough long enough within a limited scope. That's what makes civilization successful. Specialization.
I wonder if this covers Play Store microtransactions.
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You know, for all the talk about how twitter is going downhill and making stupid decisions, this is the only one so far that really, really, does seems stupid.

Verification was bad and now it’s a joke, api rate limits have some possible argument etc - but why in the hell buy a household name just to change it? Why not build X from scratch?
>Or do they need to develop their own concept of the state, or at the risk of sounding imperialistic, do they need to learn the concept of the nation state?

Western governments need to stop assassinating leaders and toppling democratically elected governments every few years for that to happen. That hasnt stopped and it has a chilling effect, which is the purpose.
No it isn’t. This is that the standard says you will always have 4 in this position. Distribution of randomness has no involvement.
My Corsair K63 is much quieter than a Model M. No need for a din to USB converter either.
I initially thought buying twitter was about converting massively overvalued TSLA stock into only somewhat overvalued TWTR stock. I now think I was wrong.
I can resonate with that. I regret not pushing harder to get into the bigger companies earlier. The scope increase in invaluable. You are not going to get it by urself unless u r extremely lucky and be able to scale ur own business to the comparable degree
And some gay men.

If straight guys talked seriously about astrology they'd immediately get clowned on.
Have you seen the thread yesterday where someone was complaining that they are dying and the government is preventing them from trying an experimental treatment? You guys should talk :)

And there were so many comments lamenting the total lack of sense of forbidding certain treatments....

As in many situations, there is a balance to be struck. It's just so sad seeing so many people, presumably smart people, complaining about how an opinion opposed to theirs can't possibly make any sense whatsoever. This is why we can't have nice things.
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Piracy is almost always a service problem.

- Gabe Newell
Ah, evidently, it was a typo.
The raw milk debate is odd to me because we have factory food recalled all the time due to deaths. The factory food outbreaks cover a wider area than a raw milk dairy farm.
That's not death metal.
Yup. I worked for years in the imaging industry, and there's plenty of Apple, there.

That still doesn't stop a very vocal minority of folks from spewing hate on us. Heck, just spend five minutes, browsing comments on this very forum, and you'll run into it.

Seriously. Just make a few posts, indicating that you develop Apple software, and see where that takes you.
I love death metal but hate so many of the vocals. If an instrumental version of “none so vile” existed I would pay good money for it.
No CGI. He did shoot and edit on film, without any digital conversion. You can do a lot of things with normal film editing tricks
I once tried to start a reverse dictionary, an obscurantorium: look up a normal word to turn it into caliginous locution. I didn't get far, so I'm glad to see other people have brought it to grotesque heights.
There is little scientific evidence to suggest there is a correlation between personality and star signs. It is a good icebreaker, and to gauge common interests.
Isn't that mostly black metal? The genre is also sadly quite infested with Nazis, but it seems to be getting better.
when a word becomes too common it risks losing its trademark though
> Could those consumers just go for pasteurized milk and let others have the choice they want?

People can have the choice they want. It requires that you shoulder the risk yourself, rather than having it pushed on you by someone who is financially benefitting from it.

No, through painful experience we have arrived at a system where people can go to a store and purchase food without needing to develop the expertise and expend enough time to be reasonably confident that it won't kill them.

For the same reasons we also restrict the sale of expired meat or adulterated baby formula.
What the h*ll do you know about my life? Nothing.
> No, I was not trying to imply that.

> Psychedelics have a way of forcing you out of this ignorance

Is there a contradiction here? You said that you weren't saying that they transcend ignorance, and then say that they force you out of ignorance.

Which one is it?
If we get into this territory all major religions struggle as well. Petty gods from the canon somehow fail to deliver unambiguous punishment for clearly worded insults. The outrage over Bible or Quran burnings is largely driven by the demonstrated impotence of the deity rather than the sacrilege itself. The stories themselves are completely bonkers and self-contradicting in many aspects.

But I guess ignoring all religious people in the world is simply impractical.
What does the path to success look like for "the everything app"?

I can't picture it. So far it looks like they're acting like a FAANG in a "fake it til you make it" move to try to attract money. But not only do they not have the scale, Twitter is also losing its place as the reference app for live text updates.
I wouldn't jump to conclusions about people based on their blind spots. The guy who invented calculus believed a whole lot of nonsense. Doesn't make him dumb or invalidate his accomplishments. Being in a PhD program is most definitely sign of some sort of above average intelligence. Irrational beliefs are not proof of lacking intelligence. People who are so ready to dispense judgement should go talk to specialists about things they hold to be true on fields they don't really know a lot about. Would be humbling.
I've always been a big fan of open-mindedness, humility, self-discipline, completionism, personal integrity, and constant learning.

If you keep those going, you'll do well in almost everything.

I'm loath to give more specific advice, because the whole industry is experiencing a bit of a "sea change," right now, and I'm not sure that past performance is a good indicator of future results.
You're downvoted but it's true… anyway one can have a phd from a bullshit university in a bullshit field. Not all phds are decent.
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Is it, though? It looks like they drew the dolphin with circles. They aren't just randomly placed circles.
> the reason this is happening is science and rational thinking has really let them down in their lifetime, especially during the pandemic.

No it hasn't. Science and rational thinking are part of the reason that many are still alive. Without vaccines the number of dead would be far, far higher than it ended up being (and people are still dying of COVID right now, but fortunately in lower numbers and it looks like we can safely say the pandemic is behind us and chances of it flaring up again are low).
I'm not sure about this. TPMs can provide valuable features such as non-bruteforcable disk encryption and other secret management and secure boot can be valuable protection for your devices. The real problem here is that this is allowing a third-party to verify what software you are running. Doing these things on my device by my choice is one thing. Having another party require that I am using a specific unmodified software stack is another.
As an FYI: most Firefox also supports most Chrome Extensions, so it might help you to go through its store as well :)
> > I’d like to be remembered as an innovator. I think it was General MacArthur said, you’re remembered for the rules you break, and you know I've broken some rules to make this. I think I've broken them with logic and good engineering behind me. The carbon fiber and titanium: there's a rule you don't do that. Well I did.

> [Note: According to Wikipedia, MacArthur is remembered for his accomplishments and his failures, the Occupation of Japan, “I shall return,” and being fired by Truman, not the rules he broke.}

Speaking of strategic misrepresentation… MacArthur is, in the initial quote above, presenting as having said that you’re remembered for the rules you break, but the response says that MacArthur was not himself remembered for the rules he broke, as if that was some sort of rebuttal.
ChatGPT does a nice job of this.

> [Prompt]: Let's create a reverse dictionary, an obscurantorium: look up a normal word to turn it into caliginous locution.

> [ChatGPT]: Absolutely, that sounds like a fascinating endeavor! Let's turn a few everyday words into some delightfully arcane vocabulary.

> Water - Aquatic Adamant

> Sun - Celestial Candescent

> House - Domiciliary Edifice

....

> In the spirit of our obscurantorium, the sentence "You have been automated" could be transmogrified to:

> "Thou hast been actuated into automatonian existence."
I could imagine a much younger version of myself getting into an argument like this.

Now days I just don't care, people like their own things and do stuff I disagree with or don't understand all the time. Live and let live, nod politely and try and steer the conversation to a topic of interest or even better find someone else to talk to.

I like to think age has steadied me, but maybe I've just lost the will or become misanthropic.
> Backwards compatibility is one of Microsoft's strengths but with IE it became a weakness for them.

I know that Microsoft in general puts a lot of thought and resources into backwards compatibility.

But the thing is, with IE, I never felt it.

Back in the day, whenever a new version of IE came out, so much stuff would break, and the whole company would scramble to get everything fixed and compatible again - and getting things to work on multiple versions of IE simultaneously (and flawlessly) was such a pain.

We never had any similar problems with Firefox or Chrome... those updates never hurt as much. IE was the only browser, where new versions would cause all-hands-on-deck meetings...
Or maybe the author is not discarding the hypothesis that, in the southern hemisphere, frames tilt backward due to the Coriolis effect ;)
Deciding what's useful and what's not can be a bit tricky, like deciding between a gummy bear and a chocolate bar – both are sweets, but they fulfill different cravings.

Remember that one man's trash is another man's treasure, right? Some tools might seem pointless until you find that one task they're perfect for. So, keep an open mind and don't be afraid to try new things. You never know, you might stumble upon a digital gem!
* Spend 44 billion because of memes

* Fire 90% of the workforce

* Get clowned on every day on the very platform you own

* Lose half of your advertising revenue because you insist on platforming fascists

* Destroy any brand recognition you had, including having created a damn verb out of it

* Have your puppet CEO spout some vapid shit about your new platform being all about AI

* Have your logo be blatant copyright infringement of a well known typeface

Eagerly awaiting Paul Graham to tell everyone how Elon is a complete genius and that he puts rockets into space, making a WeChat clone can't be this complicated.

Every single one of them, clowns failing upwards
The way you use orientalist seems like a strawman to me. I am all about being careful of orientalism as a search for exotism rather than serious intellectual and spiritual inquiry. But using terms such as "wahabi" or "conservative" is not necessarily judgmental (maybe a bit in OP's message, but even there I would avoid overinterpreting) - they just describe a particular stance regarding the scriptures. While it is true that muslim literalism has bad reputation in the West, using the term can be done outside of a progressist normative framework.

My understanding is that Wahabism is a very important aspect of modern Islam, even in countries of Soufi tradition, auch as Morocco. As a mystically inclined person it rubs me the wrong way, but I am fine with anyone deciding to follow that path.

It seems however to be fundamentalist in the bad sense of the word to assume that the Wahabi doctrine is the only proper interpretation of Islam. Wahabism is a relatively recent (and human!) creation, and multiple and conflicting interpretations of the scriptures are part of Islam since its very beginning - just take the Shia vs Sunni interpretations as an example. Even assuming that the Q'ran is God's word and the ultimate truth, we are still only imperfect humans trying to interpret it. Any interpretation in itself can only be imperfect, and it is the sign of a healthy tradition when conflicting interpretations can coexist and cross-fertilize. The humility that is part of devotion should also allow to be humble about one's own capacity to understand the truth.
> From my reading, this "hand out a 2xx and an error message" advice is for badly behaved clients who are retrying when they get 4xx.

But trying to handle clients who mishandle things like that is a fools errand. What client, in their right mind, would try to retry a request that is failing because of what the client is sending? In no case does that make sense, ever.

Similarly, should everything just be 200 then just in case clients mishandle redirect requests?
My point is, why do people set up bots? They are probably trying to get money. Looking at it naively through a system designer's goggles: Fixing it at the platform level by verifying if a user is human or not is fixing it at the wrong level. It's just a band-aid. We should instead fix it at the societal level so that nobody has the incentive to set up a decieving bot.
I guess he wanted 400 million prospective customers for $ 100 each.
It seems like Elon Musk has a vision of creating a platform business model that encompasses all his business endeavors and more.

I don’t like Twitter, nor do I like Elon Musk, but it seems clear to me that he has a strategic plan. I doubt he gives two shits about what Twitter is or was - when he bought Twitter he acquired a lot of talent, and a place to start to launch his platform - of which he envisions the world being beholden to, and he will be the king of that castle.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he will have some kind of X crypto, X digital wallets, X online shops, he’ll probably even have his own X-onion sites too, for all the people who want his X branded LSD and MDMA.
The proposed constitutional amendment would fail hard in the given hypothetical situation. There was no "often" or any other nuance in it.

It _is_ a decisive rhetorical victory, even if you don't like it.
I'm too young to be any kind of oracle on IE and it's history, however I'm personally glad that IE was already fading away by the time I began my software engineering career. This is because, from the stories I've heard from older colleagues, IE rapidly turned into another loser EEE Microsoft boondoggle; trying to own the ecosystem and crush competition by:

1. Moving standards so fast, so randomly, and so opaquely, that nobody can keep up.

2. Abusing market share and WinOS (then sued for it)

3. Etc...

In my eyes, IE was never going to recover from all of that bad blood. It was ill-fated and doomed to die once greed took a hold.
Agreed 100% .. The only "body count" we should be getting up in arms about:

https://psr.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/body-count.pdf
I know but it was resubmitted and upvoted to the Front page. :)
I'm sure on some level, the position of the earth, moon, sun, and planets has some effect on all life. These things are intertwined afterall. It would be interesting to gather data that could make assertions about someone based on when they were born. However it's clear other things have a far grater impact on someones development, like whether they have a father, financial situation, etc.
A major aspect of psychedelics, as also outlined by the author himself in the very first paragraph, is their proven potential to unlock new ideas and perspectives in people who take them. The experience could greatly affect the way he might look back at this article :)
It still has a boatload of users and is still the cultural town square of the tech world. To build X from scratch you'd have to convince people like Marc Andreessen, Paul Graham, a bunch of other VCs etc to move.

Changing behaviour is very hard. You'd have to get people to install new apps, get use to new workflows etc and humans are creatures of habit so this is very hard.
Once the foundational tech has stabilised, post transformers likely, the hardware people will finally get to do their thing - at which point the battery drain will go the way the battery drain for HD video went
OS bundling is way overrated, historically. People choose the bundled item when they are literally forced to by the vendor, in the way Apple does.

Netscape won the original Browser wars because it was better and faster and smarter. Over time it became slow and bloated as Netscape literally tried to bundle an OS into its browser.

The original IE was faster and smarter than Netscape Navigator, people literally made conspiracy theories about why it was faster.

Microsoft stopped developing IE effectively, then Open-Sourced Firefox came along to challenge, but it was inherited from the same Netscape codebase and made minimal market progress at the time.

Google suddenly came out with Chrome, it was faster, smarter, and cleaner than IE and others. And worked best with google.

Microsoft controlled the OS, but it did not control the web, and in various ways the web said use "Chrome" because Chrome was better.
> but it's true that they were always technically advanced and competent releases.

Wow. Historical revisionism if ever I saw it. Netscape imploded like the fall of Rome, rent by incompetent business leaders and crumbling from unassailable technical debt. IE defeated the competition by anti-competitive practice, then had no competition as their opponents scored all of the own goals. Mozilla was a slow rising Phoenix from the ashes of that catastrophe.

From there, Microsoft did what big companies do best, having destroyed their competition. Absolutely… sweet… stuff all. Years of nothing. Technically advanced? Competent? Ha I say! If miserly underinvestment is now “technical brilliance” I weep for the youth. Thank goodness that competition eventually returned; but there are reasons every single human who could jumped on chrome when it was released.
That was my thinking, too.

What do you think now ?
I agree and I'd edit my comment to include this if I still could. who knows what more there is in the world beyond our senses. actual reality is not observable
It's a line of progression from old metal stuff, which always had social transgression and horror elements as key themes. Because the genre is more extreme musically, the lyrics are adjusted to be more extreme, too. "Death Metal English" is actually not that common.

Serial murderers have always been a lyrical topic, for example, and you can see the progression directly if you look for songs about them. From Judas Priest and Iron Maiden writing about them existing, to 80s bands like Slayer writing about them more individually, to death metal bands in the later 80s and 90s very graphically describing their acts.
The judiciary is supposed to have enough power to ensure that laws are actually followed by the executive. Of course, if judges are in bed with the executive this assumption is violated. A strong separation of power is the best insurance against such things.
I need something for the opposite (WFH the majority of the time doesn't really work for me, the company is officially “hybrid” but with all the people I work with almost always elsewhere I'm just remote but in an office with a couple of people on other teams).
To me there is an a huge difference. I can accept religions, which are adding axioms that aren't falsifiable, and that are usually taught to a person when he is a child. And religions had their roles in shaping society for good.

I can accept conspiracy theories and disbelieving the known consensus.

I just can't accept a person who, in the age where we know exactly how planets move and what they are, decided to believe they have correlation with psychology.

It's the worst. It shows the person doesn't even try to connect cause and effect in a meaningful way, and in astrology this is all there is to it. No epistemology. No logic. It's one thing to believe in unfalsifiable things, and another to believe in falsifiable things that we fully understand and have no causual relationship.