skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wikipedia Put a Near Total Ban on Calling Gaza Health Ministry "Hamas-Run"
Could you please stop posting in the flamewar style? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for, and we've already had to warn you about this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41790409). If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

On this particular topic please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41950993 also.
Not when you are the one trying to change the status quo. Regardless of what you believe, if you want to change the default you need to explain to people why it should change. A self-righteous stance like yours will change nothing.
It was formerly understood that Tether was not backed 1:1.

My people in the space now believe that they have made up the hole thanks to juicy interest rates (where Tether keeps all the yield).
I honestly have no idea what you are insinuating. Can you be more specific and less clever?
UnitedHealth Ransomware Attack Exposed 100M People
Yes — we have a unified approach that describes light as just an aspect of the aether, which is why I used that specific term. But much of that wasn’t known at the time the original aether theory was posited.

Both MM and LIGO were looking for evidence of “the stuff waves move through” — and LIGO found it by changing the experiment, because you can’t measure our own motion because we squish, as we’re also made of aether stuff.

Per wiki:

> The experiment compared the speed of light in perpendicular directions in an attempt to detect the relative motion of matter, including their laboratory, through the luminiferous aether, or "aether wind" as it was sometimes called. The result was negative, in that Michelson and Morley found no significant difference between the speed of light in the direction of movement through the presumed aether, and the speed at right angles.

You also have the MM experiment wrong — they weren’t looking for a pervasive wind, but for signal from our motion through a static aether, by looking for a difference in speed of light aligned with that motion versus perpendicular.

Which is why it’s cancelled by relativity.

The mistake of MM was thinking that the aether only pertained to light and matter was something else that could move through it — but it turns out everything is aether, including us.
I would suggest that that would make more sense as a response to the upthread comment: “Im not sure people really know how to use an AI chat bot or understand its a more powerful, quicker and personally more fun way of getting information then just a Google search” than it does to someone explaining why they disagree that the only explanation for people not agreeing with the superiority of AI Chatbots is that they don't know how to use them or understand their innate superiority.
100% cotton is usually treated with plasticizers, even without dyes
From the article

> In a 2019 lawsuit, Amazon claimed it had lost a $10 billion cloud computing contract with the Pentagon to Microsoft because Trump had used “improper pressure ... to harm his perceived political enemy” Bezos.

The implication being that endorsing Harris might cause Amazon to lose out on government contracts in case Trump wins the presidency.
Now THAT would be extremely interesting.
I'm happy to support farmers who want to turn to regenerative methods, but I can't see them as a solution for feeding today's world. As the article itself notes:

> U.S. agriculture production tripled in the latter half of the 20th century, due in part to chemical inputs.

And, yes:

> But that came with an environmental cost — soil degradation, water quality issues and a loss of biodiversity.

I'm not downplaying those costs, and am happy to see a range of approaches. But this is not a serious proposal for feeding folks at scale.
It's wrong.

"TCP packet" is a pretty common colloquial term which is also factually wrong. There is no such thing as "packet" at the TCP protocol layer.

This paper is discussing the tunnelling of payloads with PPP over SSH.

You can see in the stacked diagram that "TCP" appears in two layers of the protocol stack, as does IP.

Essentially, they're encapsulating TCP segments inside other TCP segments, although there are also trappings of IP, PPP, and SSH protocols in-between those.

This isn't a VPN use case at all. And if a VPN is forwarding IP packets, then it's forwarding IP packets.
I wanted to say don't be unrealistic, but then I realized 15 years ago was 2009 and it was basically the stone age. In computer vision, the state-of-the-art was HOG+SVM, SIFT features and bag-of-words. Pixel-level tasks were extremely brittle, best you could do was something like GrabCut etc. Neural nets were still in their uncool phase. In NLP you were happy if you could do reliable part of speech tagging.

2039 is really hard to foresee.
The legitimacy of Indian courts is something only Indian citizens and people living in India can decide. Other people may have opinions, but they are more or less irrelevant.

Anyway, the fundamental issue here is that domestic rulings often have international consequences. As a sovereign state, India obviously has the right to ban the Wikimedia Foundation, or any other foreign entity, from doing business within the county. That right is an essential aspect of sovereignty. If they don't like you, they can ban you. But if the Wikimedia Foundation values access to India more than their right to host a particular article, they may choose to comply with the demands of an Indian court, even in matters where the court does not have jurisdiction. And that compliance would technically be voluntary.
Guess how the majority of farmers and rural folk wanting to fix their own equipment are leaning politically. Also the automotive aftermarket.
It takes a lot time to build the reputation of impartiality. To be honest only BBC comes into mind when I think about a somewhat impartial medium.

What I see is a traditionally Democartic leaning newspaper, choosing "impartiality" as an excuse, because they cannot come out and support Republicans. And of course I believe that this is the choice of the owner.
Sounds like an authoritarian government that should be ignored.
Pretty sure PP was referring to mainstream criticism and concerns which tend to be about plastics in foods, etc. but less acknowledgement of the problem of fast fashion switching from cotton to plastic based textiles.
Could you please stop posting flamewar comments and using HN for political battle? Your account has been doing both. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
In some sense, they did. The spirit of free software is inherently pro-freedom and against any external actors being able to pressure your entity into submission. This includes any and all legal threats or orders. Look at the history of PGP for an instance of fighting the US government to defend a greater principle.

In practice you can't fight everyone all at once. On the net it may be better to compromise on some to defend others you cherish more.
Indeed, you can practically eat for free regularly at McD's if you use the app.
> It’s astonishing that handling and/or storing strings correctly is so hard

Is it astonishing? "Don't sanitize your own strings; always use a library" is common advice for handling SQL and HTML, which implies to me that it is in fact pretty hard to do correctly.
Its a pain in da arse to support brotli decoding in Ruby (not sure about other languages) so when I send http requests, i just omit it in the request headers
Trump launched an actual Shitcoin.. will be interesting to see what happens to that.
Which means sometimes you buy replacement machines from Taylor
I think you have a solid point here.

I can accept that there may be larger root causes left to address, as long as we can also be clear that these drugs are also a huge win for individual health while society works on those, possibly intractable, root causes.

It's obviously going to be faster to treat individuals than it is to change our entire societies relationship with food and how we produce it, and we shouldn't just let all the fat people die while we figure it out.
>now if the control station can switch one receiver off to a dummy load, instead of to an antenna that might be useful.

That wouldn't do anything, would it? A phased array antenna is relatively small enough that a jamming signal from the ground would jam all antennas, not just one or a few.
Currently LLMs do not have executive or error detection cognitive abilities. There is no theory of self or emotional instinct and imperatives. At the moment LLMs are just mindless statical models.
Thanks. That's a brilliant explanation.
The traditional ideal is that editors and journalists exercise a freedom of practice that owners don't intefere with, much the same as the academic freedom tenured professors are traditionally given at universities.

In practice, that's of course not the case (in either domain), but it predictably makes front page news when an owner acts too egregiously domineering.
I wish I had the hours to dedicate to every single technology I'm using, but alas...
> Ethics are pretty universal

Anyone who has taken a basic philosophy or ethics class or read more than the summary page of their history books knows this is not even remotely true
What is a franchising fee or other franchising requirements? The shop is paying them money for the ability to get money for the repairs. Don't be intellectually dishonest.
Recommend reviewing some the other comments with sources listed in this thread. Basically, they preemptively levied contempt charges before there was a chance to respond, and the statements were sourced.
It's amazing how motivated reasoning and a poltics poisoned mind can be used to make obvious points out to be unreasonable. Institutional neutrality is simple, the organization does what is ncessary to operate, but doesn't prescribe anything unnecessarily over that.

It does not mean that professors are not allowed to talk about disagreeable things that are required for teaching the subject. If anything, it makes it easier for them to do so, as they can teach whatever is necessary to produce well-functioning members of society.

Eg you don't need to endorse a specific candidate to fulfill your duty of teaching students. You don't need to avoid talking about research that runs counter to the organization's politics. You don't need to openly pick sides on protests besides advocating for enough civilty to allow your institution to keep operating, and so on. I'm fairly certain that a good portion of the neutrality statements from universities have been coming from the difficult ideological situation presented by the flaring up of the Israel-Gaza conflict, where picking sides opens them up to either being islamophobes or antisemites.

I'm not really sure what you're getting at with the tension about creationism as part of science education. In my schooling the early science education often covered the history of the topic, which would inevitably talk about the local religious ideas, working it's way through them, sometimes even with brief readings of some associated stories, through to major discoveries that provided the evidence for the modern consensus. That's just part of providing a comprehensive education and connecting it to the culture kids are exposed to?
Then, yes, if the risk is largely off loaded to automation tasks then larger PRs become far more reasonable. Reviews file by file does not lower complexity, but just segments your effort so as to allow the task to become less daunting. Since you do have good automation in place perhaps the most important thing to review during your PRs is organizational complexity, which appears to be your primary concern. If the change requires tremendous effort due to organization concerns that might be a strong point for push back and refactor such that like conventions are grouped together to lower complexity into the future. Although refactors like this increase effort in the immediacy they lower tech debt at future maintenance. Another benefit of strong automation already in place is that large scale refactors are low cost efforts.
That's an actual quote? That's so, juvenile. And it admits pretty much all of the 'defamation' that Wikipedia is being sued for.

Also a bit stupid to ask someone to not work in India if they point out they have no legal presence there. If they really have no presence in India it might make most sense to just call their bluff. The government does indeed have the power to block the webpage but there's no winning against a government that is willing to go that far. One can only hope that blocking wikipedia is unpopular enough to give the government pause.
Could you please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41792592? Single purpose accounts, which yours has become, are not allowed on HN.

(This is not a comment on the actual situation, which is obviously dire.)
If it is intuitive understanding you’re talking about then I feel that there are things in math that are more intuitive and less intuitive and harder to grasp.
Indeed. I never would have heard or cared about this statement or the high court. Now, I'll let the rage driven by an unwarranted attack against a purely beneficial institution cool a bit from white hot before engaging.
> This is regarding endorsements by the outlet as a whole

Endorsements are written and attributed to the Editorial Board, not the entire outlet.

Examples:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/10/18/opinion/kamala-harris...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/opinion/editorials/kamala...

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/editorials/a/endorsement-pr...
> Most of the people in developing countries don't need IDEs

Most people in general, I would say. I haven’t tried JetBrains editors in a while, and the “developing country” definition is very unclear in my opinion (and also part of why I roll my eyes at the “what about developing countries?” argument sometimes), but I do think the yearly price looks good for WebStorm at least, as someone living in Colombia.

For reference, at the time of writing, the standard Netflix plan costs 26,900 COP a month, which ends up being 322,800 COP yearly. Meanwhile, WebStorm’s first year comes at 298,541.10 COP post USD -> COP conversion - it isn’t an insignificant sum, but if it offers significant added value, I think it’s a fair price, certainly better than the Netflix pricing. The second year is reduced to 237,967.54 COP, and the third to 177,393.99 COP - that last one is even less than what you’d pay for the Netflix basic plan over a year (202,800 COP).
> "If all the earth's crust was converted into bio-mass, what would be the limiting element?"

I think selenium would run out long before phosphorus.

The crust contains selenium at 0.05-0.09 ppm, but most plants require around 0.1-1 ppm. It's also one of the hardest nutrients to remediate because you can't just dump a bunch of selenium on the surface when 5-10 ppm starts to become toxic to lots of other organisms.
I feel like many of the commenters in this thread are asking (sometimes demanding) that their devices offer a duality that can’t be met; do you want smaller phones or do you want longer battery life with more compute? At the moment, those are mutually exclusive goals. Thermodynamics can be a PITA but we’re doing (almost) the best we can.
There’s waves in it (gravitational waves) and objects could be made from it (blackholes).

That sounds like “stuff” is there.

> Stuff/substances is where you can talk about a chunk of it, and say where it is at some later time.

In what sense can you do this with a liquid but not spacetime?
Yet another need for alternative, private internet connections. Authoritarianism should be acutely subverted.
All true.

But they were also an anti-colonial struggle to liberate occupied native christians from the imperialist ambitions from the Arabian peninsula.
The press is free to report on whatever they want. That freedom however is not a mandate that they must report on everything. Newspapers and other media companies have ALWAYS focused on profit. Nothing new there.

Plus in this day and age there is literally no restriction on the flow of public accessible information at least in the US. Even when it was tried recently (twitter, FB, YouTube) during the pandemic the public backlash to that attempts at information control was so great that it might literally sway this election.
depends on the arrangement of the antennas. When it comes to phased arrays you can basically use any arrangement you want within reason
But, my connection speed is usually greater and my loss is much less to my VPN endpoint than to whatever services I am accessing though that endpoint. As a result it doesn't affect things much. Further, accessing it with UDP is not always possible.
Because you believe in something more than personal gain. The US and other countries were built by elites who believed in more; it's the current generation that are failing.
I'd suggest the quality of McDonald's ingredients is superior than the vast majority of restaurants that rely on Sysco or US Foods. Just my opinion, I know it's not going to convince anyone whose mind is already made up about McDonald's.
Not saying the BBC is Fox News or CNN but I wouldn’t really call it impartial.
Yes, and it seems to me equally likely that he likes Trump but is too cowardly to say so. I don't know why others are so certain he's scared of Trump, unless there's a piece of information I'm missing.
It seems to be the work of a man named Scott Shalett. Not sure in what capacity.

https://www.publicdemocracy.io/scottshalett
Here's the thing about the Cybertruck, if you give it a decent paint job it actually looks kind of amazing...

https://pristineautospa.com/the-benefits-and-advantages-of-c...

It's the unfinished metal look that absolutely baffles me.
Without end. These folks are listed as such and worse all across the internet by authoritarians in the US already.
58 points | 2 days ago | 62 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41921723
> “A company was registered using characters that could have presented a security risk to a small number of our customers, if published on unprotected external websites."

Ah, so fortunately Companies House themselves weren't affected by this, but they believe some of their customers who use that data have garbage security.
little bobby tables!
All elections ultiamtely come down to undecided swing voters. It's silly every-time, but you need to vastly lower your expectations for that kind of crowd. Yes, a cheesy dance number endorsing a candidate can be all that is needed to swing an entire election.

This is an issue with first past the post, but that's a much larger thing to tackle.
We're seeing the effects of globalisation.

India has no right to control what the rest of the world sees.
"There is no neutrality in the face of evil"

This is said by both sides, it is equally stupid every time.

If ethics are pretty universal, how is it that one party wants no abortions at all and thinks any abortion that isn't absolutely medically necessary is evil and the other party wants abortions right up until viable birth and thinks that anything less than that is evil?

Especially when considering that most of the world is somewhere in between, where abortions are legal for a few weeks and then illegal unless absolutely necessary.
Maybe? It’s almost a certainty that the news media outlets are outright bullshit and/or attention sucking propaganda.

https://fs.blog/stop-reading-news/
Trump may be handed unprecedented [0] power, is quite openly and plainly motivated by retribution, has repeatedly threatened to use the power of the military and the state against his political enemies, and at least once has used his own media platform to call for the termination of the US constitution.

(Those are facts. Not political claims.)

Putting aside any broader assessments of his character, I think it is rational to be afraid of the consequences of being on the wrong side of such a person.

What is depressing is the number of people in positions of influence who do not feel like modelling the virtuous position of having fear of the consequences of doing what they believe to be the right thing but doing it anyway.

[0] I realise that in principle there is a precedent for him having this power because he had it before. But what any presidential candidate in 2024 now has is the opportunity to run an executive with the clear legal opinion that they are permanently immune from prosecution for most of their actions, and an implicit handbook on how to bury criminal acts in official communications that are covered by absolute immunity. This extended power has no precedent.
If this was a long-standing policy, or one at least announced well in advance of the election it wouldn't get much attention. That it's coming right before the election for transparently selfish reasons on the part of the paper's owner is not great.
What a lot of regenerative ag proponents focus on is the value it adds to the ecosystem and the soil. But it gets dismissed because regenerative farming is objectively not capable of maintaining ag output at the level it is right now at the current prices.

We need to talk more about the need for the consumption habits to change if we want regenerative ag to take over. We won't be able to farm the amount of corn and soybean we farm today, but that would mean consumers will have to consume less stuff that is a corn derivative, or even better, consume less. There's no reason we should be selling a single bag of Doritos across the country, let alone for $2.
> As a sovereign state, India obviously has the right to ban the Wikimedia Foundation, or any other foreign entity, from doing business within the county

I fundamentally disagree. The Indian State exists to serve its citizens, which are benefitted unambiguous by a free and unconstrained source like Wikipedia. The sovereignty of any state is subject to the benefit of its citizens, not the other way around.

That doesn't mean they won't try anyway, but let us not confuse what is technically or politically feasible with what is moral.
If I were Wikipedia, I would just shut off access for a week or two.
That’s a pretty low bar for “activism” in my mind. Activism is more about organizing people, organizing events, coordinating action, raising money, protesting, etc. although good journalism enables activism.

The entire point of journalism is holding powerful people/groups accountable. This is why countries like China hate journalists. Big companies like “journalists” who don’t ask tough questions. But the job of journalism isn’t just to reprint a press release with slightly different phrasing.
(2023) Discussion at the time (64 points, 19 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36675611
Not that you asked, but a vape is a device consisting of a metal coil that has electricity ran through it to vaporize a mixture of nicotine (either in its salt or free base form), propylene glycol, vegetable glycerin, and other additives and flavoring that has soaked into a (usually cotton) wick so that this vapor can be inhaled. There are disposable vapes that provide all of these in one bright candy-flavored package, and diy-style “pod mods” and “box mods” with modular tanks/pods and coils (and parts of coils for real enthusiasts), the latter which is filled by bottles of the same type of nicotine pg/vg liquid. They are available in different flavors, different ratios of pg/vg, different concentrations, and with the salt of or free base nicotine. A disposable ranges from $10-40, a mod ranges from around $30-300, and bottles range between around $15-$30. They are kind of nice but addictive and pointless.