skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PP said that it was _compared_ to an illegal act, which the author did.

> (Theft by violent means is called robbery.)

(Legally, that's not accurate.)

_Morally_, all theft is violence. Shoplifting a pack of chewing gum is extremely minor, almost zero but it's not zero. Shoplifting also includes the "flash mobs" which run in and steam items, or the folks who walk into stores (e.g. in California) with trash bags and loot as much as they can fit because they know the employees won't touch them and the legal punishment is almost zero.
This is false. See:

> To prevent abuse, apps with user-generated content or social networking services must include:

> A method for filtering objectionable material from being posted to the app

Filtering is exactly what muting does, which will still be allowed.
... They should host the big anonymous services for the purpose of being able to break that anonymity? Somehow I think that might not go over so well.
Well that was marvellous to play with! Thank you.
I would imagine most of tourists experience onsen during ryokan visit instead of going to separate bathhouse and those tend to be somewhat expensive.
I get that I may think differently, but I still don’t understand why being solution-oriented isn’t superior?

What’s the point of reading and writing if not to learn things about the world to help reduce suffering through solutions? I guess you can just read and write for the enjoyment of it, but it seems weird to do so in a case where there is a huge potential to reduce suffering though sharing knowledge.
I still don't see it as funny... Maybe my sense of humor is dry, or something.
Wanted to let you know your comment was appreciated!
Any good cook can slip anything into the food even if you're staring at him; but it might make the elites feel better.

I feel bad about this whole thing, because half the fun of working a restaurant is being able to talk and joke behind the scenes, which you can't do if you're perpetually "on display".
> I don't like war, but when you have someone that wants to expand their borders, sometimes you save a lot of money and lives by ending the problem at the start. If Ukraine goes well, why not do the Baltics next? What about all those ethnic Russians in need of "saving" in Kazakhstan? It might even give China some ideas.

So what? How is this our problem?
They should then just have a “gold” version which does an optimal job for the end user.
Apple's Knowledge Navigator marketing video (1987)
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Try your hand with this next time you're arrested and have your phone dumped, I guess. Tons of police departments across the US use them and so many courts have accepted data extracted from devices.
yes. And for the BBC micro too.
Sartre, wise like the Hulk, said "Hell is other people".
I appreciate the kind words. Even (or especially) small HN discussions can be amongst the most interesting.

On your GC analogy: the principle objection I have is that the barriers Runciman describes don't remove the poor / uneducated / old, they disenfranchise them.

What you're describing sounds far more like eugenics, which has proved quite problematic. In the context here, one additional problem is that removing the young eventually removes the population, as they're where old people come from (eventually).

I'll also push back on the poor being unproductive. Often the poor are productive but have limited compensation negotiating power, and as contrasted with, say, the wealthy inheritor class living off rentier income and/or trust funds, probably compare quite favourably in actual economic productivity.

Those lacking formal education may also be quite productive or capable (another podcast I'm listening to just mentioned Michael Faraday, whose formal education ended early; he was apprenticed to a bookbindary by age 14), and the young are typically at the early end of both their productivity and wage-bargaining curve. So a few of your premises may require revisiting.

Again, what Runciman is describing isn't a culling of portions of the population, but of deciding whose voices are heard and/or influential politically.

I'm also thinking of the long history of the spread of the electoral franchise over time, in multiple countries. Typically from propertied males (often restricted by ethnic or cultural origin) which dates back to the original democracy in Athens, then typically more inclusive classes of cultural-majority males, women, and finally various ethnic / cultural minorities. Even in what's generally considered an advanced democracy, the United States, there are current attempts to exclude specific groups from the franchise, either by law (e.g., convicted felons, even after their sentence has been served), or through other restrictions (limited polling places and times, restictions on vote-by-mail or other remote / early voting options, registration limitations and requirements, etc., etc.).
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Drug metabolites are measured repeatedly and precisely, as is a forensic bite analysis . Not sure how you can claim those are unreliable when they are used daily. GC/MS is a good start for drug testing..
The series started with the author writing about the comedy club owner violating Covid restrictions in NYC, which is a perfectly fine subject for journalism. The article you are looking at is a response to the comedy club guy pissing about the first article and doing the same thing he does in the GP - "no, this guy isn't a journalist, but when I post on Twitter I am and I must not express any beliefs, and for Seth to pretend that I have them and have expressed them is wrong" then proceed to advocate for the thing he said it would be unethical to express a belief about. The tone isn't gentle, but it's perfectly reasonably to then lay out, "well this guy actually had expressed this belief in medical conspiracy theories" and tie that to the original article.
It's not theft or denial of service or anything like that. It's ordinary, reasonable, ethical behavior.
Most of all models are resolved in some sort of projected space. It depends on the model (e.g GFS uses an inflated cube, the ICON global from dwd is projected on to an icosahedron, IFS just moves most of the calcs to a spectral space instead of point-grid, and many regional/meso scale domains use a conic projection). Also by and large it’s easier to assume the earth is spherical and then nudge any differences in datum to Mach your crs.

Most often, final global models are output on to an orthogonal (plate-caree) lat/lon grid. Data at the poles (singularity) is always a bit fidly
The rise of open kitchens feels like just another facet of our panoptic tech age. Everything and every job and every person is under surveillance, every task monitored, every move assessed against metrics, every act rateable. there's hardly any realm of work now where you're not being constantly observed and judged, and having to perform for that rating, not even minimum wage work now. Maybe it's not just about transparency, maybe it never was about transparency, or it was about the one way kind of transparency. And also about control.
Wayland is less buggy on AMD and Intel.
does that invalidate the criticisms?
I'm using something similar at the moment, and it mostly works. There are issues now and again though - if the developers of a service own the "top" layers, and start adding new services then that often requires changes to the core.

For example if a team were to suddenly start using DynamoDB then the IAM roles for their application, in their account, suddenly need the permission to add/get records.

Most of the time the layers are distinct and the "ops" team can handle the core, leaving the application/service-specific stuff to the developers, but things do come up that have to be scheduled and coordinated across the layers/owners. It's a pain, but so far tolerable one.
JS’s Math.random is not a system (or CS) RNG, and a few years back it was barely an RNG at all: https://medium.com/@betable/tifu-by-using-math-random-f1c308...

So no, Math.random is very much not

> as reliable a source of randomness as the system
The photo at Costco there shows something many people might not realize; big stores like Costco and Walmart have weather departments that try to analyze and predict things like this, and ship in additional water and supplies to the stores in the days before.

Even our local Walmart can end up with piles of pallets in the aisles before an expected blizzard.
It is probably hard to find a house with a separate kitchen these days.
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But the original post was "personal entertainment". Between eating out and having a couple of beers (both of which are unneeded), it's easy to spend at least $35 a day ($250 a week).
personally love it when family asks me for help with computers as its piss easy work that does them a huge favor, you and the author share a perspective that i dont
It's not nostalgia for anything, as the show's never been to my taste. What I'm saying is the show's ratings are quite literally the worst they've ever been. Part of that is the general decline of linear tv and part is also the quality of the show itself. Were it not for its largely unchallenged time slot, it would have been off the air long ago.
Lol trivial as in running your own bridge outside of great firewall?
Also, Lewis wasn't exactly averse to fairy tales.
Theres an entire manga plus anime adaptation covering this fascinating topic, for anyone invested in these media formats.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermae_Romae
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I like the % on AWS (or infra let’s say) because it is possible to be too cheap and get engineers to solve problems the clouds can offer you a solution off the shelf. Since the Engineers are making the decisions the may balk at spending $10k/m for something in a cloud but if it is framed as 0.1% ARR it can be put into perspective: this is 1/1000th of your infra spend, is it worth it? Or would you rather have X? The idea being to untie personal spending decisions and fear i to a business decision.
Sure, but we are discussing how to address crime focused on luxury L.A. retailers during a time of historic economic inequality, massive inflation, and large numbers of jobs lost or threatened due to automation -- so being reductive seemed like the right thing to do.
> But just like modern noise, at some point you stop consciously perceiving it

No, "«you»" don't: /some/ people do.

And even when they do, to forget about something does not remove it, nor its effect.
Yeehaw! Glad you may be able to put it through its paces
there was some readbait but you didn't take it
> MacOS is actively hostile ( I still remember when they dropped cocoa or carbon or whatever it was, many apps died that day ).

These changes are not like they announce something and the next day the libraries/APIs are gone. There is always a transition period that is long enough for the apps to be updated.
Thank you for that context! It's so glaringly obviously ASCII that I was unsure why it would have taken so long to decode.
Celiac or allergy? I've got celiac, diagnosed at age 47, but it explains a lot of growth issues back to my teenage years. Never heard of phages in relation to gluten issues; that's very interesting. Seems unlikely to help with celiac since that's an autoimmune issue.
The house I grew up in was immediately adjacent to a convent. They would have bells ringing around the clock.

After a while you just don't notice, though I did often wake up during the night when we moved away from there - I imagine I was expecting to hear the bells and getting confused when they didn't ring.

I imagine its the same as living next to train-tracks, or similar. Regularly repeating noises start to get tuned out.
I'm open to theft being violence (though skeptical, that seems to elevate property to the moral status of a person), but comparing something to theft isn't in the same universe as incitement to violence. When you say someone has implied that someone else is "inciting violence" I think the comparison has broken down and we're getting into accusation territory.

That certainly wasn't what I meant by shoplifting but if I said, "we should all start going to big box stores with trash bags and stealing stuff, because the employees will not resist us and we won't have to fear a physical altercation" (again, don't do that, that's not my real position, you shouldn't steal shit) I don't think that is reasonable to call "inciting violence." Inciting violence is literally calling for people to be hurt or killed.

I don't really want to quibble about the precise definition of words, my problem with that comment was that it seemed like an escalation from nowhere, disconnected from what the author was actually arguing for.
I'd be fully on board with this! However, I believe that @tqi nailed it.

Perhaps another way of putting my feelings into words is that the essay feels far too much like shaming to still qualify as a "can't we do better?"

It's written in a voice that strongly implies that Lorne actively resists progressive notions, and attempts to get readers to sort themselves into "part of the problem" and "part of the solution" groups. I find this reductive at best.

I'm fatigued of people telling me that I should be a lot more upset.

We might have to agree to disagree that the author isn't judging the audience for their complicity in finding SNL funny. The only reason to publish this essay is to make people question whether it's still okay to enjoy the show, given how evil it all is.
I think detached houses with yards are better.
The main improvements for me since Musk took over:

- No more unjustified blocking of accounts by activist moderators, as far as I can tell.

- The new "following" timeline now shows all and only the (re)tweets from people you follow. No "recommended" or "liked" tweets interspersed like before.

The main thing that got worse:

- For accounts with many followers, it shows not the most relevant (liked etc) replies on top, but the replies of random people who bought Twitter Blue. I mean X Premium.

Overall I would say it's significantly better in my opinion.
In practice, Scheme isn't interoperable - you pick a Scheme implementation and pretty much stick with it. Different schemes implement different subsets of SFRIs, and many bring their own non-standard batteries to the table.

I think having r7rs large would eventually make the language more interoperable.
But you didn't include the parts about sexism, racism, classism, elitism, ableism, etc. The author is a victim of a _system_.
It's common on HN to note the date for reposts. The mods will usually add the year to the title if it's not included. So that's probably all that CoastalCoder was signaling.
https://Last.fm connects to Spotify and can give you a bit more of an independent set of suggestions
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What the author calls theft is neither theft, nor any other for of unethical behavior, as far as I can tell from her description.

I could just as easily say that she has committed theft of my attention span because I had to read her ill-considered opinion in order to fairly criticize it. But I won't say that, because it was my choice to do so and I am not a victim.

She seems to be trying to criminalize the ordinary back and forth of social life. We have roles and make use of those roles. We have power and make use of it. For instance, her description of the healthcare situation is all covered, directly or indirectly, in her contract with the healthcare insurance provider; or else it is simply a matter of saying no. Don't do any of that work. Suffer the consequences. It's not theft-- it's the marketplace at work.

How long before someone calls EFT a "microaggression?" Yet another front in the culture wars will open up between people who can't be bothered to assert themselves (and apparently, according to her, women don't assert themselves very much) and those who put the energy in to be assertive.
it doesn't seem like he knows much about anything really
They can still be muted
I haven't seen the manga version, but loved the movie adaptation with Abe Hiroshi in it.

@strobe999 linked to the Wiki article for the manga. The story follows Lucius, an architect in ancient Rome, who timeslips into modern day Japan. He carries ideas from modern Japan's bathing culture back and builds the public baths of Rome. It's a comedy, but a very informative one at that.
Ray Kurzweil makes an appearance in Episode 17 talking about AI: https://clp.bbcrewind.co.uk/f3fc8a5ce91dfb847a4f91eed7ddb184
Have you looked into why housing is cheaper in Japan, its zoning. https://www.sightline.org/2021/03/25/yes-other-countries-do-...
Also checkout Strong Towns blog they go in depth on this.
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/category/Zoning
I love that you went to the effort to do brush dynamics for this. It really enhances the joke.
>You are right. I concede nil is not useful.

You say this sarcastically, but it is actually true. A nil pointer is not useful. Once you have determined that a pointer is nil, you have confirmed that the function returning it at all was a waste of both space and time. Though it's actually only half true: nil pointers are worse than useless and they provide negative utility, because they allow invalid code to compile. A better design - which is also more efficient, even considering the overhead of tagged unions - is to not return the pointer/value at all if it would be useless. Other languages allow for this, even C does allow for it with manually tagged unions. Go is rather unique, especially among modern languages, in how it doesn't provide any mechanism for it, so people use what is available to emulate that.

For the rest of it, well, you've contorted yourself into some really interesting positions.
Thank-you for that.

> a policy prohibiting employees from talking to one another about any topic about which both parties have not yet been officially "disclosed"--Distortionspeak for "cleared to discuss"--by a higher authority.

The most modern of which I've seen so far is Conjecture's infohazard policy:

https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/Gs29k3beHiqWFZqnn/conje...

I can't find the HN submission anymore.
> And despite not having net neutrality in the US not a single one of the fears came true.

That same set of scoundrels[1] that CF backtracked on defending keeps having routing issues (on top of their ddos issues).

Supposedly they (or someone related?) recently complained to a state AG under a state-level net neutrality rule. Not sure if it's been long enough to know if anything'll come of it.

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[1] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/52416-the-trouble-with-figh...
Jackson's LotR is probably about as good as you could get mass-market movies made at the time; the Hobbit, of course, was about as bad as you could get at the time (likely if it had been compressed back down to one or at most two movies, it might be salvageable: so much so that various competing "cuts" now exist, search "hobbit cut").

More and more I come to realize that the things we argued about so much at the time are actually pretty good; especially removing Bombadil - because there's no way that would have worked correctly. The elves barely worked some of the time; Bombadil would have failed utterly.
It's NOT injustice. That is entirely made up by the author. What agreement or law has been broken?
> I believe the it's over because tech X has thinking is at best lazy and at worst dangerous. It implies that the everyone's requirements are the same and static and that solution X has reached all of those requirements.

I'm somewhat inclined to agree, because iterating on what we have and developing new tech and practices seems like a good idea (the concept of 12 Factor Apps comes to mind).

However, I can't help but to wonder what this would look like, when taken to the extreme. Perhaps something along the lines of: "We are only going to use Ubuntu for the servers and Java for all of our back end services, as well as React for the front end. Nothing else, no matter how many different projects there are."

And on a certain level, it makes sense: consistency and skills that carry over seem like a nice thing to have, there's even terms out there like a company being "a Java shop" and so on.

That said, such inflexibility might not always be nice (e.g. trying to do machine learning in Java) but at the same time if a specific technology is in demand in the job market in most companies, you don't really get much of a choice.

To return from the analogy, in the particular case of Kubernetes, you'll have to learn and use it and there's only so much free time for exploring other options.

> If people blindly accepted X has won we'd be still using Perl, XML, CGI-Bin, Apache, Angular, etc

For many folks, some of those might indeed be good choices.

Some backup software that I use is written in Perl and is actually pretty good (BackupPC).

XML can be a nice format to use and has lots of tooling available. Even SOAP wasn't necessarily the end of the world thanks to WSDL - being able to plug a file into SoapUI and getting an API that you can play around with, something that took Swagger/OpenAPI years to reproduce for REST.

There's something nice to be said about the simplicity of CGI and FastCGI still makes sense with something like PHP (PHP-FPM).

I actually still use Apache for hosting my personal stuff - if has most of the features you might want and with mod_md it's a bit closer to Caddy than Nginx in getting LetsEncrypt certs (ACME). If you disable .htaccess, reasoning about the config also becomes about as easy as with Nginx (nginx.conf).

I've also seen Angular be used reasonably well and the "batteries included" feel of it was nice, especially when React had about 1500+ dependencies for a new project. I do personally lean towards Vue, though (oh and migrating away from AngularJS after the EOL was a pain, when that was relevant).

My point is that if something is good enough for your needs and helps you put food on the table, then you can just go with that choice.

Let those who prefer to experiment do so (hopefully not with your livelihood), celebrate their efforts and successes and learn from their failures, though. Kubernetes is established, Nomad is interesting, even Docker Swarm or Compose is okay.