skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Per the US constitution, they are considered a person (an individual with human rights) after being born.

I'm not (that) familiar with the US constitution, so is there a specific reference?

Philosophizing here: One fetus could come come out at 8.5 months gestation and have rights, and another at 9.5 and gain rights. But the one that came out at 9.5 would have no rights at 8.5 because it just happens to still be in the uterus. What property of the fetus/whatever changes post-birth versus pre-birth that makes it have rights?

Another legal jurisdiction could have it defined in another fashion, so that would mean that they are both considered both a person and not a person, completely depending on an accidental characteristic (the location). Is there an 'objective' property to them/it that would lead to a classification regardless of location (uterus/not-uterus)?

Slightly sci-fi-y: what happens when artificial wombs are developed? I wonder what will being "born" be classified as in those (currently imaginary) situations.
Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39159418
They asked about using their personal account. The README does not mention this.
And without a personal account, you won't have any luck with self-hosting this, as guest accounts don't work anymore.
If a developer wants to release an app for iOS, what company do they have to go through and are there any alternatives?

Sure apple is prepping to allow 3rd party app stores but they'll likely go about it in a very Apple fashion and have some sort of catch.
FB, Linkedin, Pinterest as well. All of these walled gardens are "built on the shoulder of giants", whose work pioneered the open internet.

Further, what isn't silos seems to be content chum whose main purpose is collecting the reader's email address.

Oddly the modern web seems to be driving me offline and back to books.
Shell shortages. that is a first. Time to get this trending on twitter.
So if I have 1000 devices I have to advertise every single one to my ISP?

Couldn't they start a pricing based on how many devices I have?

By default it will send the mac addresses of all devices?

Is there a way to enable IPv6 NAT?
> the world that judges every single photo online to assess a person can no longer exist.

Outside of the tech bubble, it's going to exist for lifetimes. Most people already don't care enough to educate themselves about what is real and fake when it validates their biases; cries of "this is AI generated" will be just another "fake news" magnet.
It's not the same site, but it's the same company: one thing that caught my attention lately is those little messages nagging you whenever you access Google without being logged in. And... those sorta passive aggressive behavior always start like this. Like, "Oh, why don't you log in? It's good for you, log in!", and as the time passes that behavior just gets more and more hostile towards the user until you end up reaching twitter/instagram levels.
These articles are always "Don't buy an EV yet, MUCH better ones are coming soon".

Same article since 2010, always Coming Soon™.
The Epoch Clock
> In this respect I think philosophy of mind, epistemology, language, semiotics, and to a lesser extent ethics have crucial bearing on the things we see happening nowadays

Whenever I hit that brushes up against these, I always find myself wishing that introductions to these topics were more easily found. I’m not saying they don’t exist, just that there’s no clear entry point to start learning about the philosophy of mind (or others). It’s like in Math, where you have books like Lang’s “Algebra” which are titled in the most literal way possible. It is simultaneously exactly what’s in the book, but woefully inappropriate for people who don’t already know what it is.

Do you have any recommendations?
What is the benefit of keeping a language alive, other than to not lose the knowledge/creativity from books written in the language? If those books are translated into a more widely-used language that isn't dying, would that make it okay for the language to die? Is it purely out of respect for the culture of the language? The only other thing I can think of is that the folks that use the dying language don't know any other languages - which I can understand (no pun intended).
> because the subject matter experts whose real-time thoughts we used to follow have left the platform

Do mind naming 10 subject matter experts who've permanently left twitter?

I'm really curious as to which communities used to be vibrant on Twitter and then died after the X switch over.

Yeah, as you stated, my personal experience is that all the communities I follow continue to be active.
The lore for D&D is extremely well done. Better than even a novel. The reason is because the game is all about lore, so the focus was on world building. While for a story the lore is their only to serve the story.

If there was some sort of writing Pulitzer prize just for world building, D&D would be up there.
You know how Stallman browses the web by emailing a scraper that replies only the text? And he avoids all the Medium flurry of popups and overlays and trackers and cookies and other rubbish?

Seeing a screenshot of the text in Twitter accidentally does that too, and provides a better experience than visiting the site for anyone who doesn't need to customise the text for readability.
I think of this too. And I break it down into ads and operations. An ad is simply summing two inputs of some kind. In operation, might be a change of state or an input coming online or going away. Something analogous to the bit operations and or not exclusive or and friends.

With all the physics talk of information being fundamental, I suspect we will find both an upper bound and a lower bound.

The upper bound will be something like compute power per volume divided by energy or some similar construct. Basically you can only pack so much information and so many operations into a given region of space and energy level possible for that energy for that region of space to contain.

The lower bound might be something like the plank constant for computation. What's the smallest unit of space and energy level that can support an add, for example. It's interesting to think about.

Sorry for the typos I used voice dictation on this one
For me it's the abysmal SNR no matter where I look, except if it absolutely needs to be real-time. Even considering just the "content" and ignoring the unfathomable interface that we're left with now.
They’re not wrong per se. the tech has been improving quickly.
Twitter was great for reporting on court cases. For example, last year the Biden administration essentially made millions of Americans into felons via an obscure ATF rule change. The rule has since been enjoined by at least three federal courts, which anyone who follows @2aupdates would know about because he crawls the PACER feeds. My local newspaper has been following this story, but as recently as last week reported that the rule was still in effect. I submitted a correction and they fixed it.
Oh yeah, Paper.li, right? https://web.archive.org/web/20120204055823/http://paper.li/

Unfortunately they've shut down at some point, it seems (thus my linking to archive.org instead of their actual domain).
AT&T unintentionally creates Climate Risk and Resilience resource, opens for use
I don't think the problem is the anonymity, but the complete lack of accountability. They don't need to be "unmasked" they need to be replaced when their moderation, which has long since turned into editorializtion, isn't serving the needs of readers.

I like the idea of changing out moderation to a subscription system where you can 'subscribe' to specific moderators and moderators you dont like you can ignore. Ignored mod changes do not get propogated to your view. Default moderators can remain a popularity contest but at least this provides a release valve for all the completely unchecked corruption that happens in these mod teams and lets people fix the problem on an individual and eventually group basis.

This would allow people to control who controls what they see rather than have moderators just materialize in these positions and be all-powerful for all time as they rot from corruption.
I guess it depends on what content you want.

I don't really get into the news enough to want a real time feed. Even if I did, I think I'd look for something more reliable than a collection of posts from Twitter users. It probably even goes deeper than not getting into news for me though, because heck, I don't even watch much TV really.

But I am into sports. And I think the best real time sports feeds out there are the reddit game threads. Now maybe the threads on X are better for some people? I don't know? But reddit game threads are far superior for my purposes. ie - Finding out if everyone else is thinking "What The Actual F--- was that?" Whenever Drew Allar threw the ball in a bowl game for instance.

Similar to you not having found a substitute for news over Twitter, I haven't found a substitute for reddit game threads where these kinds of sanity checks are concerned.
Hehe, thinking maybe the font we used was called "Clean", not "Clear".
> the sites it indexes are at the absolute least 20 minutes behind twitter

Genuine question: who cares?

There is almost no news where the difference between getting it now, twenty minutes from now, or tonight makes a meaningful differ to your life. Much of the information in the first twenty minutes of an event will be confusing, misleading, and/or wrong.
Unfortunately, waiting for them to ‘get the message’ is a losing battle.
The main issue i find is that non-tech related folks just don’t care enough about this stuff to move to different platform.
That's not what the article says at all. It says 45% of the foreign fighters hailed from Africa and the Middle East. The foreign fighters numbered ~42k total. It's unknown how many total fighters ISIS had, but estimates range into 200k total, which would imply that the vast majority of ISIS was native; more conservative estimates are that half of the fighters were "foreign fighters," which would mean that ~75% of the fighters were MENA-native (since the foreign fighters were about half MENA-native). [1] The strongest claim you could make regarding European contributions is that ISIS was around 16% European, including fighters from Chechnya. (The weakest country-of-origin claim is it was about 7% European including Chechnya, although given that Chechen ISIS fighters nearly outnumbered all other European ISIS fighters combined — and that Chechnya is a majority-Sunni-Muslim semi-autonomous region of Russia, and ISIS was attempting to form a Sunni Muslim caliphate — I think the least-European claim might point out that trying to bundle that into a pan-European identity group is probably mistaken, and the most-accurate depiction is "ISIS was a bunch of radicalized Sunni Muslims, mostly from the Middle East and North Africa.")

TL;DR: ISIS was not "a bunch of European guys who got radicalized." It was mostly people from the Middle East and North Africa: somewhere between 75-93%. 95% MENA is probably not correct either, but it's much closer to correct than your original claim.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State
None of these 3 articles "predict a sure collapse".

One of them reports on what twitter users were saying, one reports on technical problems occurring at that time, and one is an opinion piece titled "Elon Musk Has No Idea What He’s Doing at Twitter" (but which doesn't predict a collapse AFAICT).
For those eager to pounce on this without reading the article, Important disclaimer: it was the 12V battery (the kind you have in an average CRV or whatever) and for some reason they were charging it indoors - no mention of the why or how it was being charged like that.
...but then, what material did you expect as a beginner?
Apple launders its sale of your privacy and data through their deal with Google. Google launders its sale of your privacy and data through its ad tech ecosystem. It's all indirection and obfuscation. None of them are leaving money on the table.
Flipboard

https://www.macrumors.com/2010/07/21/flipboard-a-social-maga...
12. Uncomfortable agreeing to their terms of service. (e.g. according to their own summary as well of the text, you are not permitted to learn from the experience of using their mobile app, e.g. about app design principles, because it is "solely for the purpose of enabling you to use and enjoy the benefit of the Services.")
Climate Risk and Resilience Portal; detaoed geo-models for 60 climate variables
As Fenix 7 usrry, I wouldn't call it a gimmick - in sunnier months it definitely reduced the battery drain.

And the watch will report amount of solar energy gathered ... Somewhere.

I'd say the main problem is that sometimes the watch stays on battery so long I forget it needs a charge at all ...
The first link is reporting about users panicking and one of the few comments from NYT itself is "Though there are no official signs that Twitter is going anywhere,...".

The second documents actual issues and makes no predictions.

Even the third one which is just an opinion piece about how bad of a decision maker Elon is doesn't come close to suggesting a collapse.

Please read the actual articles.
1) There are people who dislike E. Musk but you can't know whether the downvoters are those people or not.

2) Twitter hasn't shutdown, but you can't know if that's connected to the downvotes.

3) Same as 2)

4) You can't know that the parent was downvoted for happily using Twitter.

For something which claims to be "the reason and reality", it's really "things I imagine are the reason without evidence, because that lets me feel superior to strawHN users". The reason I'm writing this is to intercept you going "downvoted for telling the truth" because what you are telling isn't the truth.
> why would you want to?

It seems like you know C++ pretty well, so I think you could probably come up with some reasons if you gave it a try.

The obvious thing that comes to my mind is because you can't rely on an undesirable, unknown, or potentially nonexistent implementation of the STL for your target platform.

As for cookies: who am I to dictate what/how someone should bake?
The alternative is to use a snail carcass as a shell.
As a journalist who has been involved in newsroom analytics at three organizations since Twitter launched, I can assure you that most online news outlets have seen very little to no referral traffic from Twitter in nearly a decade. Journalists love to point to some viral retweet of their story, but most of the time: the number of likes/retweets > actual referrer traffic.

See NPR: https://niemanreports.org/articles/npr-twitter-musk/
Is this a storefront designed to dupe ignorant music producers with too much money?
Agree if you can find a reputable agency that adds value and get taken on. A lot of so-called agencies are really "body shops" who fill empty chairs, and outsourcing firms that fill a stable and treat their people like employees. If the so-called agency takes anyone on and promises to find work with no vetting, industry connections, or tech expertise I'd find a better agency.

Having an agency represent you and do the marketing, legal, and billing makes sense, that's just outsourcing your non-billable time to someone more efficient at it. You're still freelancing with all the advantages and caveats I listed.

10X Management agency represents me. My opinions, I don't speak for them.
I’m not sure that I would recommend a young person get a media studies degree. What I can say is that as an adult reading about media studies is fascinating and rewarding. Learning what goes into good film making touches on history, psychology, marketing, writing, and more. Many philosophers use media as a jumping-off point because our media reflects our culture. It makes watching movies more enjoyable to boot!
I follow subject matter experts on Mastodon/ActivityPub. Scientists, engineers, librarians, mathematicians, doctors, programmers, designers, artists, musicians, retro computing enthusiasts, amateur radio operators, etc. etc.... They've been migrating away from Twitter for a long time, because it has shown us how horribly "millions of people in the same room" works out, especially when a sociopathic algorithm rewards conflict and sensationalism at the expense of thought/consideration and kindness.
Just lease for the next 5-7 years - best risk mitigation I can think of
> I disagree; that question is not relevant. Many people say it is relevant, but I disagree with that. Whether or not it is "human life" does not somehow mean it is better than everyone else.

I do not think there is (necessarily) any claim that if it is a human life/person it is "better", but rather 'just' equal to any other human life (including the mother's).

Generally the only two situations that most (Western?) societies have allowed the taking of life is self-defence and capital punishment (which can sometimes be treated as 'societal self-defence' if (e.g.) prison infrastructure cannot keep dangerous offenders locked up safely: the only way to prevent them from further harming people in society is to remove the threat).

If a life (mother's) is in danger, than one can claim an action is self-defence in order to save it. But if there is no threat to a life, what right is there to take another's? What has the fetus done to 'deserve' death in the latter case?

> (Making exceptions for rape, etc isn't the solution either, since then they would have to know if it is rape, which just adds delays and other legal issues.)

Even if it is rape, if the Entity involved is a human person, what has it done to deserve to die?
> and the website just shows a oneliner saying Germans are not allowed to read that page.

Curious which website do you mean? The official instance is not online anymore. And I'm not aware of an official libreddit website.
They swept for of the same reason the Chinese worldcon was a mess: we are used to operating much of society by an unwritten set of rules that assume everyone is pretty much a good actor. Sure, they may have an axe to grind, and might stretch things, but no one will deliberately find loopholes at scale to abuse. This worked for several millenia. Whole countries used to not have written constitutions, just unwritten agreements on how to behave.

But in the age of the internet, it's much easier to find communities that you can break this way. These systems are resilient to a few people who are bad actors, but totally fall apart if there are coordinated actions.

It's exactly what the Republican party is doing in the US now. And what Trump supporters plan to do if he's elected with Project 2025.
So you read the Old Testament and Jurassic park?
> That's fine, don't hide from your position, you should own it.

If you stopped perverting the meaning of freedom and stopped stuffing so many words in my mouth, you'd realize that I'm not hiding from my position, you're just taking my stance on Apple's destructive role as a personal attack on your way of life. I never suggested that iMessage should be opened free for all, or consoles for that matter, or any of the other things you listed.

I was exclusively talking about app distribution and any associated payments.

If "your experience" is dependent on Apple seeking rent in every transaction tangentially related to its platform, and Apple applying its moral compass in interactions between pairs of consenting adults, then yes, I do think that should be illegal just like lead paint, dumping trash in the rivers, or the mafia threatening to burn down your business if you don't pay for protection. I'm not hiding from that.

That aspect of their monopoly is destructive to the wider economy and society, so frankly, it's not a matter of preference anymore.

Rather than pleading with Apple to save you from Facebook, why don't you do something more productive, like demanding that they secure their OS so that apps can't do anything nefarious with your data without your explicit approval, regardless of installation source and their superficial review process? Process, mind you, that has repeatedly approved malware to be released on their own app store.
I think the negatives apply to new/inexperienced workers and it's unfortunate that it wasn't addressed in the article, but this affects the smaller population of the entire workforce and will be one of those things that will be improved on over time. I imagine there being new processes to get new workers on-boarded and adjusted to remote work and that could be having them temporarily in the office.

I also started my career in a cubicle farm with a lot of other software engineers which was great for my growth, but I think that could be replaced with adjustments to the process of ramping up juniors. Perhaps colleges or training programs will incorporate training to deal with the lack of seniors or assign juniors with seniors to work together in a mentorship with guidelines.
I feel like we need to acknowledge that 12 average jury pool members are probably not the best panel of scientific experts to determine whether a chemical is carcinogenic. Much less calculate the damages involved.

Like at this point it would be more scientific to run a Facebook poll.

Jury trials are a great system for criminal justice but kinda need to admit this is not the same.
> I am not sure that “wait, wait… don’t tell me” (a 50s radio show)

Are you sure that's the show you are thinking of? The only show with that name I can find is from 1998-present [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wait_Wait..._Don%27t_Tell_Me!
The theory that consciousness is a quantum system gains support
Source?

Queen Elizabeth took his work seriously enough:

https://broadlytextual.com/2017/12/15/i-am-richard-ii-know-y...
Yeah, in 2008 when we signed up for it, we didn't realize the implications of that -- now we're learning, between Myspace, FB, and now Twitter. I made a LOT of connections on Twitter, a lot of meaningful interactions, and it absolutely had a large effect on my life. It's without a doubt one of the biggest disappointments to me in modern web/internet tech, that it has gradually been eroded into the trash it is now. Well, as I can say about so many things, "it was good while it lasted".
I was cynical about X like that too, but recently learned some good techniques that make a lot of difference to the overall experience. And then there's really nothing like it, in terms of reach.

Also, it's easy to see bad in everything, and then all we see is bad. But there're good things to find as well, it's just a matter of what we focus on..
There is a court case about this.

https://www.compliancebuilding.com/2014/02/06/working-on-the...

Roadroad workers notice a bunch of visitors in suits, boss asked them to put together an inventory of property.

So they thought the company was going to be sold and profited on it.

SEC charged them, courts found them not guilty of insider trading.
The same is true for AI at this point. this happens when technological progress accelerates sufficiently.
My kettle is a boiler wired under the sink. But a normal 2400w kettle in countries with 240v outlets plugs into the wall. It's not really the kind of appliance you want battery operated either.

My toothbrush is already USB charged. I think for those small / battery charged applications you mentioned we'll get there pretty soon.
I have a Garmin 235 and the heart rate monitoring also sucks. I think now it just stopped working but when I got it new it was sort of maybe accurate indoors when you're not moving. As soon as you go running or outdoors where sunlight can interact with the sensor it's basically useless, either measuring your cadence instead of your heart-rate or just producing total garbage. So I bought a polar chest strap which is incredibly reliable.

It's been a while since I looked at reviews but when I did the conclusion seemed to be all wrist based monitors are iffy and vary greatly from person to person. Maybe some people have a stronger signal at their wrist?

EDIT: I do like the watch though. Lightweight. Durable. Long battery life. Accurate GPS. Everything I need to track my running.