skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many words spent to justify owning a battle rifle that boils down to

> So if you ask someone else on the opposite side of a culture war argument, “Why would you want to own one of those things, anyway?” please don’t be surprised if they simply respond, “Why wouldn’t you?”

They also admit the sample size of a few hundred years for the US is poor before then going on to compare the US to autocratic countries like Russia.

Let's say you now own a battle rifle. Now what? Well, you can't just have a battle rifle lying around the house. So you buy a battle rifle safe. Now what? Well, you can't just own a battle rifle and now know what to do with it in case all Hell breaks loose can you? So now you have to go down to the shooting range and learn how to shoot the thing. Now what? The heavily armed squads that are going to be raiding your block are probably really good shooters so you better buy a few more and buy lessons for the whole family. See where I'm going with this?

A prepper's mind geared up for such a man-on-man scenario of doomsday violence will never be satisfied.
Personal opinion here but I’d put TypeScript in the S-tier for “static typing overall enjoyable-ness,” Java in D-tier and it pains me to say Python in F-tier.
I wish more hardware had this setting exposed.

My wifi router had a bug that was eventually fixed, but before that I would need to reboot it every hour. That's a simple workaround - if only there was a setting for that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35986375
I loved this game, but the controls on this web version are not great (on mobile).
I like toggles, they are much larger touch targets and easier to hit one-handed when you're running late to a meeting and can't hold your phone still.
If I didn’t provide the definition for “sensitive information” in my comment that doesn’t mean the law can’t have it.

Same as I did not give you a full definition of what “phone records” means, but the relevant law has it.

> This proposed law would not require users to be paying customers

If it’s made illegal to profit from users through such indirect means, then there would be no choice for companies but to require users to be paying customers.

The core issue is not that users don’t pay, but that they are the product (and that hurts the users and distorts how market works, preventing competition). That’s what legislation could address. Whether users pay or not simply follows from market mechanics.

Companies can still provide subsidized accounts for disadvantaged families and cover the costs by charging premium users more, for example, if they want to.

> But it would be a huge issue for Big Social

Absolutely, it’s probably their worst nightmare ;)
I'd like to address some of the citations in that post, they really stood out to me.

> CAUSE I CAN'T MAKE A BLOG POST, GOD DAMN IT. I have ADHD.

I can relate... I have attention deficit disorder too and it's extremely difficult to start working on anything. I take top tier medication and it makes it much easier to maintain focus but getting started is still difficult.

Somehow against all these odds I managed to publish a bunch of articles. They languished unfinished for quite a while though. Wish I had a general solution for people but my advice is probably too specific to my case: it turned out the only tool that can make me productive is Termux. It gave me the ability to start working on stuff anywhere and anytime. So whenever I get the sudden motivation to do something, I make the most of it. Requires enormous effort to write any amount of text on a tiny screen made even tinier by the touch screen keyboard but it beats the alternative which is writing nothing because my laptop is too far away.

Hell I wrote my own goddamn programming language inside Termux because of all this. As far as I know it's the first and only programming language to be literally born inside a mobile device. Lots of C code, all written in a tiny 135x8 terminal emulator window. Never stopped to think about how insane that is until now.

> if I try to make a blog post, it'll end up being abandoned and unfinished, as I am unable to edit it into something readable and postable.

I felt that one too... I would worry way too much about perfection, try to make sure everything's correct and substantial. Actually felt guilty if I published before it was perfect. Which is the same thing as saying I felt guilty if I published anything at all.

It took someone here on HN telling me something like "if your comments are good enough content for this place then they're good enough content for your blog" for me to finally stop caring. I got that sort of realization that seems obvious in hindsight. It's my site, I can do whatever I want. I dunno why I ever thought otherwise. If I make mistakes I'll just fix them. If at a later date I have more to add, I'll just add it.

I'm starting to think "readability" and "postability" are very harmful concepts. It's OK to be imperfect. Actually it's probably better to be imperfect. Everything is more sincere that way, more human. Perfection is a machine's job.

> but I can do rambly tweet threads. they don't require a lot of attention for a long time, they don't have the endless editing I get into with blog posts, I can do them.

I do the same thing but with HN comments instead of tweets. The rate limiting the moderators applied on my account is actually helping stop this addiction. I've realized that over the years I discussed certain topics many times. HN has definitely helped me shape my world view but the moderators are right about the fact this isn't the place for repetitive discussions. I've resolved to turn all these thoughts into articles at some point.
What did you find when you looked into it?
What happens to your walking speed if you drop a 20kg ball of lead you were carrying?

They're thriving because they had the brains to drop off the excess weight they fained in the covid years. Not despite.
Are those tiers good or bad? What is the order?
I realized some years ago that there are two types of players. Those who play music, and those who play team-sports. Both are called "players" even though the fields are far apart. So I started thinking why are they both called "players".

Musicians don't play AGAINST anybody. Team-sportsters do. But they both play for an audience. Both provide entertainment, do not produce anything tangible.
For removable media, I believe that finishing up with "eject" would be the safest way to ensure that all writes were committed to the hardware.
I really liked (past tense) Withings as well. However, the mineral glass kept breaking. I paid one replacement, and got two others under warranty.

I didn't have this problem with older watches, and I don't have it now, with a Fossil.
Pfsense (on a Proxmox VM, on a laptop with 2 NICs), tp-link managed switch with PoE on half the ports, all-in-one ASUS box configured as an AP only (and switch). It's only WiFi 5, but in a pinch that could go back to doing everything. Rock solid, with no reboots in years other than what ended up being unnecessary ones. Went 390+ days at one point on pfsense.
Americas test kitchen also says you can't make crispy pork belly without frying it, I don't know why people put so much trust in a group that can get something so easy, wrong.
China has a No First Use policy on nuclear weapons.

Russia threatens to use nuclear, even without being hit with nuclear.
You are right. And honestly, if someone came up with a way to "perfectly" burn it, we wouldn't have this problem.

The biggest thing about EV cars IMHO though is the responsiveness. There's no way a gas engine will ever keep up with that.
See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_list
> No, you couldn't. Not easily.

This speaks to a lack of imagination on your part. Absolutely I could. Easily. Of course it would involve something outside of social norms, but that's the whole point. Go on, try to be imaginative.

> It's not arbitrary, it's the result of human evolution.

"It's not your kind of arbitrary, it's this other kind of arbitrary." Autism is a facet of human evolution too, by the way. In a sense, societal norms are nothing more than a tyranny of the majority.

> if you have trouble with the most basic human things

The most basic according to you. Somewhat ironically, society is already doing an excellent job of making some of these "basic human things" less relevant. Face-to-face interaction is less frequent. The "me too" movement is shifting the pendulum away from subtle social cues and towards arbitrary social rules. And the job market has never been better for people with the sort of hyper-rational mindset often correlated with ASD (if they can get past the job interview, which is increasingly automated too).

> It was to make a point in a specific context, and that point is valid.

It really isn't valid. Most mild to moderate autistic people have natural deficits which can be mitigated with targeted education. Some "normal" people have similar natural deficits with respect to sport, which can be mitigated with targeted education.

> Which again, is a ridiculous argument and stance

Which again, is an understandable reaction if you only had a superficial understanding of autism's extreme outlier cases. Here's an interesting little tidbit for you: there is a school in my city which has an enrolment exclusively comprised of ASD students. If nobody had told you this, you probably couldn't have guessed. The vast, vast majority of autistic people are really no different to the general population except for needing a bit of extra help in a few areas, but — much like the "normal" kind of social awkwardness or deficiency in physical coordination — can be overcome with empathy and education.
Probably the only true one is mitochondrial brain theory.
yeah, even target.com won't publish any 1 star reviews of their products - I bought a play kitchen years ago that was pretty terrible but sure enough they would never publish the review
While the checkbox is less confusing than a lot of toggles (eg, the ones in Windows' settings are bad), relying on the unintuitive distinction between a circle and a square is just one of those bad old UI traditions that, I guess, persist until the next tech generation, little to love here.

The better UI would be for the circles to be visually connected somehow to illustrate that only one selection is possible like you have in physical switches with more than two positions
The article is tragically revisionist and completely ignores the context:

People tried to kill Tupac, then Tupac went off on them, then people killed Tupac.

The article summarizes this as “Tupac said mean things and it got someone killed.”
Also how specific do they think a company wide OKR for Google is ever going to be?
Because Australia is a long way away and food imports incur consequences due to biosecurity.
I think there is a big difference in what we type-check. The interfaces of public methods should be declared and type-checked. What happens inside a function not so much.
wait, what do you mean by in PHP?
Cradle of religion you mean
The dollar is the dollar because of the military.
I find it quite useful, with the exception of the porn ads.

But I strictly follow python developers, bsd people and retro computing enthusiasts. None post any politics.

I think any social media platform can be good/bad just like people in general, it all depends who you interact with.
Personally, I like when people have usernames, and have to enter those, to receive a recovery message sent to the associated email.

Or better yet, enter both username and email together.

Because it's more likely the attacker won't know both.

In any event, I have been recommending to everyone for years to use email aliases (that GMail and others support) as your login. Have a different one for each site, for example yourname+az@gmail.com for amazon. That way, you can avoid crap like this which is out of your control, since the attacker won't even be able to repeat your login email: https://www.wired.com/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking...
Lia Thomas: Transgender swimmer begins legal case
>When your interoceptive signal fails to cohere with your overall computed sense of motion, you get the bad kind of "lurching sensation" — which, if it happens enough times, causes a unique kind of acute "body load" nausea purely localized within the gut

Something like this would happen to me sometimes when I was intoxicated on alcohol and cannabis together (getting crunk, the kids used to say). After achieving a substantial buzz, if I closed my eyes and leaned back deeply in a chair or lay down on my back, I could get this vivid sensation of falling rapidly. Just like going down a steep rollercoaster. As long as I stayed in the sweet spot intoxication-wise, it was a thrilling and pleasurable sensation.

From what I recall, after a few brief moments of exhilaration (that I could maybe relax and focus into in order to prolong), a subconscious awareness that I'm not actually moving takes over, which turns the sensation into pure nausea. Right in the pit of my stomach, like you describe. Sometimes if the nausea passed quickly enough I could open my eyes and sit up, re-center myself, and then induce the effect again. Anyway, kind of relevant in a weird way. The things we do for cheap thrills...

And on that note, I could see potential for some people to get acclimated to this effect of the technology and actually enjoy it as part of the experience.
…you’re suggesting pollution is fake news?
They just had a very high-profile event involving deepfake porn of one of the world's most popular musical artists. They appear to have belatedly responded to this by shutting down all searches of that famous artist's name. This does not suggest an organization that has the capacity to quickly or effectively manage the systems they are running.
I’ve cooked the TJ version a number of times - the only time the ribs have fallen off was when I overcooked them. I don’t think it’s a bad pasta but I do think its virtues are being oversold- there are many pastas that achieve exactly the same thing.
This isn’t really additive manufacturing though, it’s more like cnc casting if I understand correctly.
An important point EV advocates often gloss over is that you don't get to burn battery. In aviation, especiaslly, this really matters - over half an aircraft's weight at takeout is often fuel. The later in the flight it is, the more fuel has burned off, the lighter the plane is, and the more efficient the rest of the flight will be. You have to lug that empty battery around at full weight.
It's not fine. It's become a cesspit and virtually every new development over the past year has been to the detriment of its users.
Maybe there should be a "slightly different" "more relaxed" criteria for fucking people that build.
Not true at all. Torque is basically just a number you can manipulate with gearing.
This is pretty useful. Thank you
Tumblr with their NSFW removal change as well.
A marketplace for businesses and homeowners to offer storage space for rent and earn passive monthly income.

We welcome any feedback or comments!

Thanks HN community!
Actually this sounds useful as alternative to C++ stdlib:
i've often compiled C++ code via GCC
for simple stuff where C++ stdlib isn't included by
default and all 'nice' C++ things are not linked,
giving less overhead per file, but forced you
to rely on ancient C functions.
This would be a middle ground solution between
unsafe C and bloated stdc++.
I'm sure it felt the same when neurons were found to use that weird stuff in lightning, what-do-you-call-it, electricity. Are you telling me my brain is like lightning!?

If quantum physics can model consciousness, it'll take a few generations before it feels normal to talk about it that way.
I mean, sure if you’re comparing a 5-star first party review to a 4-star third party review.

But nobody should be doing that sort of comparison anyway — that is, cross-site review comparison.

If I’m looking at first party reviews, I’m comparing them to, at most, reviews on other products of the same site.

They for me, they still carry some relative (intra-site) weight, but definitely no absolute (cross-site) weight.
> Pointless ultimately, maybe. But languages can even be revived from nothing to have millions of native speakers, see Hebrew.

But, it's a lot of effort and energy expended: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language#Current_status

> The Haifa municipality has banned officials from using English words in official documents, and is fighting to stop businesses from using only English signs to market their services.[85] In 2012, a Knesset bill for the preservation of the Hebrew language was proposed, which includes the stipulation that all signage in Israel must first and foremost be in Hebrew, as with all speeches by Israeli officials abroad. The bill's author, MK Akram Hasson, stated that the bill was proposed as a response to Hebrew "losing its prestige" and children incorporating more English words into their vocabulary.[86]

With enough energy (time, money and influence), you can revive any language, even dead ones.

You can do that, and you can continue expending more effort into making sure it doesn't decline again, but eventually whatever is popular globally is going to dominate, even in the face of legislative actions that force the use of the language. Each generation will have less and less use (outside of forced use) for the non-popular language.

Even though Latin is extensively legislated for use in Law, and used popularly in the Sciences, it still died.
Generally, in order to run bank apps on a non-stock ROM you have to root your phone and install things that hide it, kinda defeating the purpose.
China's Imagination Deficit
If you wanted a factory that allocated vectors of a variety of known types, you'd probably declare template <typename T> before the generator function, so that on compilation a separate version of that function would be emitted for each type you passed to it.

(Not really a c++ expert, but that's my understanding; someone more knowledgeable can correct me).
They're near, if not actually, universal in places like Canada and Scandinavia. Not exactly tiny markets.
And making it worse, past experience with other apps cannot be relied upon.
Technically the battery gets a teeny bit lighter because of E=mc².
Interesting - I’ve been playing with some SD Card to USB interface ICs and almost all of them include an 8051 core.
I don't quite get your point? Assuming I'm interpreting it correctly:

https://www.bas.ac.uk/data/our-data/publication/ice-cores-an...

: The oldest continuous ice core records to date extend 123,000 years in Greenland and 800,000 years in Antarctica. Ice cores contain information about past temperature, and about many other aspects of the environment. Crucially, the ice encloses small bubbles of air that contain a sample of the atmosphere – from these it is possible to measure directly the past concentration of atmospheric gases, including the major greenhouse gases: carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide.

And fossil records go back further with respect to more general climate conditions capable of sustaining various species.

But regardless, changing the climate status quo in a short time will have various impacts, only some of which we can accurately predict and model.
I mean if it's a race they've lost.
That's an interesting question re: genetically-driven tendency to criticize those who advocate having less children. I've had the same experience when voicing my opinion as it seems you have, and I'm still not quite sure where its rooted. From the outside, it just seems like a kind of species-selfishness, like "we can be invasive but no one else can or we'll exterminate them!" like we do with deer.

I've found there's a whole philosophy that seems to line up with my (and maybe your) perspective:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_ecology
Appearances of MIT in Anime
"If X is so great, whe aren't everyone using it" implies that programming languages exist in some kind of well working marketplace of ideas where the best on their own merits win out. But it's not like that at all.
I like this post because it boldly assumes what "typical" means.

Of course everyone is using (MS) cloud, skype, twitter one drive and what have you. It even throws some guy's name for good measure.
Nonlinear dynamics means that adding heat to a partially-closed system doesn't result in an even distribution of increased temperatures. Instead, we observe a net increase in temperature averaged over the planet's surface, and wild swings in local weather due to the basically infinite-dimensional state space of the planet's atmosphere being nudged. No single observation of local weather should ever be attributed to climate change, I'll give you that.
US oil production alone is close to the total output of "that region".
I suspect the real issue is that a high school diploma doesn't represent a signal anymore at the low end.

Many failing students simply got passed through grade to grade.

If a high school diploma has no value as a signal, requiring it throws out eligible people for no reason whatsoever.
Well sure, but they could be wrong.
That's not ICE.
Well, that's because the premise of actions or policies being "right" or "wrong" is very simplistic.
Both sides are active in the PR front, you think those "free palestine" rallies organize themselves?
Didn't Tesla say they were going to start using solid state batteries at the battery day a few years back? Does anyone know if they actually ARE using them? Or not yet - or will use them?
I’ve written a lot of production Python and also a lot of thoroughly and rigorously statically typed code in C++. I use both regularly but there are clear tradeoffs in this regard. The main reason to avoid static type checking is that the programming language makes it difficult to do it effectively due to trading it away for other benefits. This does not change the intrinsic value of static type checking.

Python works great for cases where the scope of a particular function is tightly constrained around a tightly constrained set of inputs. In this scenario, it is relatively easy to test fitness for purpose, and that testing can replace static type checking as a practical matter. Many bugs sneak through in Python that C++ would find at compile-time, but that’s okay because the domain is so narrow that you can squeeze them out in testing with minimal overhead.

The minute you start trying to build a more generalized library of functionality in Python, the combinatorial bug factory starts to become a major drag. While you can add type checking, it is clumsy, slow, and less thorough in practice than you would expect with C++. Python is not designed to provide the degree of static type checking something like C++ can. Many types of code benefit from thorough static type checking, and for those use cases something like Python has a high cost.

This is fine. I understand the problems for which both languages are best suited. Right tool for the job and all that. Static type checking is generally beneficial in software but it isn’t always worth paying the tariff if the problem domain is narrow enough. It is quite possible to overfit static type checking to simple cases that don’t justify the effort.
Isn't the potato thing just differential potential caused by using different metals for the electrode? It'll make an LED light up, maybe, but the actual power available is a rounding error.