skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least an NGO will likely have a consistent point of view. The CN algorithm, apparently, requires “agreement from contributors who have a history of disagreeing.” Let’s say we have an entirely hypothetical scenario where the two primary political groups arguing over notes are a milquetoast centrist party and a far-right party susceptible to conspiracy theories; accordingly, any notes that are agreed upon will either be extremely obvious (“the sky is blue” but not, perhaps, “the president’s wife is not a man”) or will tilt center-right. That seems far from objective to me. And that’s to say nothing of thumbs-on-the-scale tweaks to the algorithm by the platform owner, which will be undetectable, or changes to the political makeup of the editors.

I don’t think there’s any way to algorithm your way out of non-trivial fact-checking. Tech is not the solution to these kinds of fundamentally social problems.

(I should add that the best-case scenario here is an emergent and stable cabal of intellectually-rigorous editors, perhaps of varying political persuasions, similar to what happened to Wikipedia. But that’s barely different from fact-checking by some NGO.)
> I'm still waiting for something built on a rootless container solution

I'm pretty sure you can run both Dokku and Dokkplay using podman. It's a drop-in replacement for docker that runs just fine rootless.
How do you know their practices are better than at your typical artisanal chocolate company? The kind of claims they're making don't look unusual to me.
No, it was based on Google+ which was integrated with Picasa
I don't think they were meaning to say digging is cheap, just that the cost would be minor when compared to the total costs of other nuclear power projects. It cost something like $34B to add two reactors to Plant Vogtle in Georgia [1]. And cost overruns at a project in South Carolina ended up with an estimate of $25B before the company filed for bankruptcy and the project never got finished. Whereas most of the estimates I have seen are in the single digit millions per mile for drilling. But even $100M in drilling would be minor compared to $25B.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogtle_Electric_Generating_Pla...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nukegate_scandal
I know this narrative is appealing to people when someone they disagree with is in the white house but it isn't true. If you are a member of a country club and then Biden or Trump (whichever you dislike more) has you kicked out of the country club, it doesn't become a free speech issue due to their involvement. There may be other issues but it isn't a free speech issue. So it is with private platforms which already do all kinds of other moderation.
Did you try whole foods?

Thats where my hippy parents get their chocolate and I mean that in a positive way.
Not sure who said it but I was aiming for the "Simple Ain't Easy" trope here ;)

I agree that the JS build scene can be churning a lot as well (e.g. ESLint's recent config changes), that's why I tried to make everything as orthogonal and disposable as possible.
Well King and Blizzard are in Activision, and at least some years ago in their balance sheets we saw that King has a similar operating income as Blizzard. Those silly mobile games rake in some cash.
> That government was founded on an entirely different principle, the principle of individual rights. This principle says that man, due to his nature, has rights that no one else, not even his government, is allowed to violate.

That's far from a uniquely US principle. See, for example, the European Declaration of Human Rights.

The US places more emphasis on individual rights over the rights of the community, which is its prerogative, but the US is an outlier; most liberal democracies accept a little more restriction on individual rights for the good of the community.

You can argue it either way, but a lot of US commentators seem to get outraged that other countries might have a different viewpoint.
I was in a "101" undergrad compsci class the first year the program used Java (1997, I think?) and so this asst prof was showing a simple example of some Java syntax.

I had been programming in C for a while, learning from K&R, to build ray tracing input files and that sort of thing so I was kind of disappointed but whatever, I was a mature student who had rediscovered computers a couple of years before (had a C64 in the 80s) and was just happy to be there.

Anyway, this guy in the back yells out "I could do that in 2 lines of Q-BASIC" or something to that effect (Q-BASIC was definitely part of his pithy one-liner). Little did I know he was representing so many of the people I would encounter over the next decades.
Hackers Exploited AWS ENV Files to Attack 110k Domains and Steal Credentials
I can find red flags in any company's accounting. Some of them like GE are so completely fucked over and obscured you are better off avoiding their statements. When you change how you measure something all previous stats are invalidated as a comparison going forward.

Sort of like when a 3rd person shooter has its RNG tweaked. Too much trouble to revise all historic numbers, probably impossible. Current stats no longer compare to previous.

You can revise calculations and bookings in nearly infinite ways but the statements are "standardized." For executives it's money or more favorable numbers just staring you in the face saying "take me."

I know, they get audited, which is the only thing containing the corruption.
That the Jewish people have a right to govern themselves as a sovereign nation in the land of Israel.

And it's perfectly possible to question this claim (it is not ipso facto a "right") without being even in the least antisemitic, or wishing physical harm on anyone. Being as you're leaving out the fact that this "sovereign nation" was carved out of another people's land, fundamentally denying their right to self-determination.

It is this usurpation and denial of the rights of the indigenous inhabitants that people question, when they express doubts about the supposedly inalienable "right" of the State of Israel to exist.

(And yes - this generalizes to all countries; it's perfectly reasonable to question the "right" of any country to exist, or to exist with its currently claimed borders).
Lets be real, its about business models. POWER was and is backed by IBM. ARM won on mobile. Does this mean POWER and ARM are better then MIPS, SPARC, PA-RISC, Am29000, i860? I don't think so.
Several GBs of RAM definitely too much, I'm not aware that this consumes that much memory. I will spend more time trying to figure out how much memory is minimum necessary for this and will warn in the page.
If you're using semver, it has a special allowance for 0.X.Y releases that says they can break at any time.

Thus, 1.0.0 is not equivalent here if you want to signal to your users "we're doing rapid iteration and the API might change at any time before our first stable release".
Just don't mention Electric Clojure, because that might cause some head explosions. (Fully reactive multi-tier programs where an entire web UI is 60 lines of code and implements infinite scroll with search and dynamic viewport resizing.)

If you know Clojure, the code presented in the example seems fairly straightforward. Parentheses demarcate the syntax tree; and the last expression in any tree is the result carried forward.
Vetted.ai: AI-powered shopping assistant
Film Finance Bullcr*P
It does not matter whether there is a fire or not. Its about the communication style provoking mistrust.
The main problem is they tried to be a middle way between a forum and a wiki with only correct answer (even if as some other have said, they never wanted to acknowledge that especially in programming the answer is correct or good or valid only for a certain amount of time most often than not)

What we actually need:

- the owner of the question must be the only one capable to say if an answer is good or not for his question

- no other user must be able to modify the question of the owner even if they think it is badly explained. They can always suggest modifies but the owner can decide if to accept them or not

- the moderators can try to suggest "hey we think this is a duplicate of that" but the owner must be the one to accept or reject it. Even if he says "I just want a more current answer, the one you linked is 4 yo" the moderators must accept his decision and keep the question open

- moderators must act aggressively against people (and other moderators) saying things like "this sound like some homework" or "you better use technology y instead of x" or similar

- answers older than a few years should have a visible flag on them signaling that probably that answer is not anymore the best possible one and to be careful using it and, if it doesn't work anymore, to open a new question tagging the old one
Did not know this one, will study for sure. Thanks!
To the downvoter(s) may I ask to provide us with the reasons for the downvotes? Without such it just looks like a knee-jerk downvote for something which goes against the preferred narrative. Do you disagree with the quoted articles and if so where do you think they are in error?
I'm firmly against taxing unrealised gains - for the fact that they are unrealised.

What we should do is re-think the capital gains tax, especially when using securities in lieu of personal income. That's how the C-suite has been avoiding a lot of income tax, and it's not just people having $100M in assets.

Also, the top tax rate should be increased, especially for incomes above $10M.

Likewise, the FICA cap should be increased.

Those few tweaks put us in really good shape, without resorting to taxing unrealised gains.
MiniJinja: Learnings from Building a Template Engine in Rust
Not all speech is, or should be, protected speech.
Constant loading would require a way too powerful macro preprocessor. I am using the basic core of a C preprocessor only.

Because what's the point of avoiding the complexity of a compiler if I get it from the preprocessor...
Part 2: Prioritisation, Part 2 - Achieving Goals — https://www.neelnanda.io/blog/mini-blog-post-17-prioritisati...
I was very fond of SuperMicro hardware back in the pentium/ppro days. One dual pentium board in earned its place on my shelf by running flawless for a decade (less power outages) as a router / load balancer. It only got air conditioning in the second half of its life.
>spreading deadly misinformation is a constitutionally protected right

For the people saying that it is a protected right, then how come you can't yell "fire" in a crowded theater when there isn't a fire?

I'm not trying to argue one side or the other - because I don't have a good answer. But it's not as one sided as some people make it out to be - free speech isn't totally free.
Has mark zuckerberg ever expressed any regret for the fact that his platforms have played a role in instigating conflict and lethal violence in many different parts of the world over the years or is this his only regret?
Yes, but then it needs to be stored, and the price effects might encourage even more production. Previously this has led to events like the devastating Wisconsin butter flood [0] ("A firefighter reported flames 300 feet (91 m) high", "It took about twenty hours to contain the blaze, and eight days until the fire was officially out").

Not that rice would do anything so nefarious, but more to point out that large scale purchase and storage is not a trivial task. I can imagine the scenario where some bureaucrats ran the numbers and concluded that it is cheaper to just give the money to farmers instead of running the purchase/storage scheme.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Butter_Fire
> Japanese consumers vastly outnumber Japanese farmers

Japan is also a parliamentary system, and a significant portion of Single Member Seats in the House of Representatives are small towns or rural [0]

Pissed off farmers caused the LDP to lose power in the 2009 election [1], which is historic in a country that is a de facto one-party state.

The LDP in 2024 is looking similarly weak like the LDP in 2009 so they cannot afford to anger the farming bloc.

[0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_districts_of_the_Hou...

[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Japanese_general_electi...
If said activists are part of a company that approves of their activities why isn’t their censorship legitimate? Commenters/posters are free to take their comments and posts somewhere else. Why don’t the “censors” get a say on what goes up on their platform?
Isn't that also how we ended up having corn in so much food we produce.
https://archive.is/uN6oz
BaseX – a highly W3C compliant XQuery processor
>often with a barely veiled racist tinge to it.

Please go ahead and explain what's racist about referring to very unambiguous homicide and violent crime numbers that show how high the level of black on black murder is in that community. We can debate its causes and underlying systemic issues broadly, but the actual murder rates are what they are compared to other demographics.

>There’s no causal relationship between black on black homicides (especially in the fbi statistics you are allegedly referencing - those crimes would be solved and not related to missing persons) and missing black women

I'd argue that there very much is. Generally, if a certain community has a high murder rate and the women of that community, who live within and also work within that community are disappearing at disproportionate rates, it's hard to reason for outside causes unless you have evidence pointing to them. Also, among solved disappearances caused by homicides or violence against black women, the perpetrators are also more often from within their own demographic. Are you really going to say that it's then insane to extrapolate similar tendencies for many of the still unsolved cases despite a majority of solved cases consistently showing the same demographic tendency for the perpetrators?

>suggesting so is very victim blamey and a little gross.

I'm not at all blaming victims and can't see how you'd come to that conclusion. Pointing out likelihoods for cause of disappearance isn't blaming the woman for having been the victim of that disappearance, and a reasoned argument shouldn't be subjected to schoolyard criticisms like "gross".

>For your statement to be true you’d have to also allege that the same statistics you’re referencing (but won’t post) are actually incorrect and the violence rate is much higher within the black community than the “authoritative” source you won’t post, which kind of invalidates your entire point, if you even had a real one.

This I literally just didn't understand. How would my statement being true invalidate the statistics i'm referring to, or my point? The FBI's stats about resolved cases can be true while at the same time, for the reasons I mentioned above, the unsolved cases can have a high likelihood towards a certain outcome.

Also, I didn't link the stats because it's not hard to find them, not for some obscure point of obfuscation. They're really easy to look up, right through 2 seconds of google and then directly to the FBI's own web pages.
Whatever Polymarket Is, It's Not the Future of News
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41364448
First paragraph reworded with alarmism removed:

Climate data shows the current temperature excursion is ongoing and accelerating. Temperatures have exceeded the historical recordings by a significant margin, which increases the difficulty of making accurate models about future developments.
The current standard is "imminent lawless action", which hardly fits covid misinformation.
> A former marketing employee at Nvidia told Bloomberg News that she would often attend up to 10 meetings per day — each of them involving more than 30 people.

> The meetings would be characterized by shouting and fighting, but employees put up with it because of the “golden handcuffs,” according to the ex-staffer.

Hopefully, the shouting and fighting was at least motivated by drive for the company to succeed.

There are dysfunctional places where people don't care.

There are dysfunctional places where people battle for individual advancement.

There are dysfunctional places where see their job as only doing what they're told, and, culturally, anything else (e.g., questioning, taking initiative) as improper.

But if you have a place where everyone is focused on the company succeeding, and the 'only' apparent barrier is that they're not collaborating very well (e.g., not communicating or managing information well, or a brawler is steamrolling over better ideas), that might be a relatively easy dysfunction to improve. You could start by observing a single concrete meeting that's unproductive and/or fighting, figure out the effects and why, and go from there.
Why isn't SendGrid on the list? It seems to have a similar pricing level
When the plague struck, I was living in NY city, in a large apartment building. *Every* *single* *day* one of my neighbors was wheeled out the front doors, feet-first, never to return.

Then it was *two* neighbors a day...

The hospital beds were filling up so fast, they were building tent hospitals in Central Park. So many bodies were piling up in morgues that there was serious talk about having mass burials.

It is very easy to armchair quarterback how this should have played out--5 years later, with the benefit of hindsight. Yes, lots of things could have been handled better. Yes, we should do postmortems to find out what could be done better next time.

But FFS, both the government and corporate leaders had to make decisions in real time--decisions they knew would have real consequences, and decisions they knew had the possibility of being wrong. They didn't have the luxury of perfection. It was a once-in-a-century pandemic, and they had to act in the face of partial information.

All things considered, they did a pretty good job.
Yeah.... no it's overblown.

I think you're exaggerating. You're imagining the worst but your argument basically boils down to not trusting that people can handle it, and calling me a liar. Good one.
> Of course there's no logo saying the chocolate is made with child slavery, I hope you didn't mean to be snarky here.

...?

Quality labels are a thing, why couldn't an independent NGO overwatch the production?
Yes, there is a need to be condescending. Outsourcing your personal notepad by emailing people off-hours is silly, rude, and abusive. That kind of behavior warrants direct confrontation and aggressive ridicule.
Notably, the possibilities are quasi-finite because of the solar neutrino noise floor. When we reach that, we stop needing to scale to 10x larger detectors for a 90% reduction in reaction cross section, and they start to need to be 100x larger, in my understanding.

Even in a world with WIMPs, we aren't necessarily privileged to have them show up above the solar neutrino noise floor.

It's going to be funny if the reason we get a mission to Neptune's moon Triton a century from now is to house a dark matter search experiment, once the cost for continuing to scale Earth's search becomes dramatically worse.
Isn't sugar just relatively cheap to produce and can be locally grown in Europe?
Shouldn't axions interact with atom nucleus?

This rules out any interaction except for gravitational, right?
I wonder how will LLMs give you the answer when the source, SO, is gone?
One can also ask how Tencent and NetEase is buying up stakes in everyone if they were not making money. There cannot be that much free money from CCP...
Except we didn't.

You can't yell "Fire!" in a crowded public space as a prank nor can you yell "Bomb!" at an airport as a prank. We have determined that's NOT protected speech. Neither is slander nor libel.

You're going to have to work a little harder at convincing me why spreading misinformation that can kill people should be regarded as protected speech.
Changed suddenly 3-4 years ago... long COVID?
No it wasn't. Telling people to drink bleach or take random medicine is and will inherently remain dumb.

I literally had to spend weeks trying to convince my parents not to take random shit they read about online.

Filtering out garbage for official advice from experts on the topic is not "censorship."

What a ginormous cunt this guy is turning out to be!
Chinese government hackers penetrate U.S. internet providers to spy
Looks kind of like OpenBSD's pledge(2) and unveil(2).

I have used both and I personally think those calls are the best security mitigations in our field :)

I would love to see something as simple in Linux.
Sony to raise Playstation 5 price by 20% in Japan
Signal is openly against third party clients, they basically killed LibreSignal:

https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...

Also how easy is it to run a custom Signal server?
The same elements that make Reddit and Twitter unpleasant places to comment are also the elements that meant they sustained the discussion around the research (and conspiracies) of the ongoing Covid pandemic. There is no Covid aware community really anywhere else of remotely the same size as on Twitter and secondarily Reddit (which cracked down a bit). The weird part is 4.5 years into this pandemic there are still significant restrictions in most places that don't allow Covid medical papers to be posted and discussed. Its an ongoing problem.
That seems like something the compiler would generally handle, no? Obviously that doesn't apply everywhere, but in the general case it should.
In all honesty, I've never got to properly look into Vue, but it has been mentioned multiple times in the comments. Time to study it I guess :)

The "src/js" directory was initially called "src/scripts" but it kind of clashes with the top-level "scripts" for the shell scripts. Agreed it's not ideal though.
not going to say you're wrong or right, but learning lisps/clojure fairly deeply you can find worse examples. Also when people learn it their mind tends to find it a very consistent langauge overall visually. I've moved on after a long stint in clojure to elixir and while I like it, most other language pale in language consistency.
Musk is free to do what he wants with his platform, but let’s remember Facebook, x, TikTok, instagram, etc are all free to censor their content as they see fit. They are under no obligation to be a free for all. While they can do that like X, not all choose to. That’s also respecting their own Constitutional rights as an organization. Freedom of speech means controlling the narrative of your platform as much as you like, as you are not stopping those people you kick off from forming their own platform as happened with Gab, Truth, etc.
These are good points. The devil is in the details for how to implement stuff like this, and there are a host of other tradeoffs, e.g., seemingly optimal regimens that people despise and that are de-motivating are, in practice, far worse than theoretically less-good training that people will actually do.

If it was as straightforward as some of the "expertise" research suggests, the world would be teeming with super-beings. That it isn't should give one pause about the relative leverage of constructing the problem this way.
Lacking from the experience is the BEL noises.
> bringing back places for people that just want to make and play games.

What exactly does that mean?

No one is stoping you from playing and making games. There isn't a law that says that every game has to be diverse. You can do whatever you want.

If you are playing a heavily story driven game like Spiderman, Horizon, or the many other games from Sony that are diverse and sell quite well. You should want it to reflect reality instead of a narrow view of the world. That is good story telling.

The ability to see yourself in media is a powerful thing. Something that many people take for granted since they are in a group that was already largely represented by video games, movies, tv shows, etc.

If you just want to play a game for the sake of playing a game, skip the story, play online games and just do whatever. That still exists also.

I don't understand what your complaint is.