skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Guardian's reasoning is:

"X is a toxic media platform and that its owner, Elon Musk, has been able to use its influence to shape political discourse." [1]

"Social media can be an important tool for news organisations and help us to reach new audiences but at this point X now plays a diminished role in promoting our work. Our journalism is available and open to all on our website and we would prefer people to come to theguardian.com and support our work there" [1]

> There is no logical association with "right wing" conspiracies in their decision unless they believe they are contributing to it.

Could you define more precisely what you mean by "contributing to it?" I think my understanding there might differ from what you meant. I don't want to talk past nor at you.

> Of course. That's what a discussion forum is for. If you want someone else's claim naturally you'd go talk to them instead. But as you have chosen to interact with me, logically you are here to hear my claim as I give it.

Hacker news discussion has a culture of discussions based on supported claims. Unsupported claims are often challenged as being unsupported. The culture war topics often degrade as it gets more of the Reddit & X style crowds that are more interested in winning discussions rather than having discussions. I believe the culture of hacker news in this regard sets it apart. In essence, this guideline: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

> Is there some additional pertinence to you pointing out the obvious here? Because if so, I am afraid I missed it.

I want to drill into the substance of your claim, and/or better understand it. I think my first interpretation might have actually been off-base. (So please, do define better what you mean by "contributing to it.")

> Most importantly, the news is difficult to convey when the users aren't there for news from a news organization. Let's face it, X is not well suited to conveying long format news in the first place.

I largely agree and is a major criticism I have X and lots of social media (eg: reddit, facebook, instagram). I would go further and say that none of those forums are all that well suited for sharing truth, nor discovering truth. I am passionate about truth (it is why I love math, logic, science & programming so much. There is very little in life that is black & white, true or false, correct or wrong.)

> It is really only good for individuals sharing small tidbits of information

I agree. On the other side of the coin, tidbits of misinformation too. The culture on X I do not believe is to reward sharing true viewpoints. Instead, dunking & hot-takes are rewarded (AFAIK, my impression, particularly so for Reddit as well).
For me, the most important thing is to think about what data you’re sharing with third parties, and how that data might be abused.

Or maybe that third party doesn’t abuse it themselves, but they’re vulnerable to someone else stealing it, and landing you back into HaveIBeenPwned yet once again (I think I’m up to 17 times on HIBP so far).

I think about this any time I use a service like DeleteMe, or Optery, or 1Password, or any other third party service where I might be sharing potentially sensitive information. And I very carefully select the third party services that I use which might have sensitive data shared with them.

Then I like to try to ensure that I minimize what data that I share with these third parties, especially data that is shared automatically — like a log of every single URL that I visit.

I’m a lot more willing to use tools that work 100% locally and don’t share any data with any remote service, even if those tools do not provide all the same levels of service that can be provided by the remote service. For example, I would never voluntarily enable something like Microsoft Recall, but I might be willing to use a local-only program that recorded periodic snapshots of every URL that I visit and make that information locally searchable, so that I can roll the clock back and see what I may have been doing at some time in the past.

The problem here is not that the data is collected, or that it is collected locally, but how that data might be able to be abused by others once it is shared with a third party.
Uber and Lyft unintentionally sent gig workers' SSN numbers to Meta and TikTok
In c++ for debugging a mid-sized app, gdb will sometime take up to 5 min to start (assuming no remote symbol cache used). On fairly powerful hardware - i7 13000-something, 64g of RAM.
I have the time to do 15 compile-edit-run cycles adding prints in that time span before I have even reached main() in it. (And I really tried every optimisation, gdb-index, caches, split DWARF etc. It jus is absolutely mind bogglingly slow and sometimes will even just crash when reaching a breakpoint. Same for lldb. Those are just not reliable tools. And I'm not even talking of the MSVS debugger which I once timed to take 18 minutes from "start debugging" to actually showing a window with all the symbol server stuff.
> but when I found out he was fined $1.5 billion for believing and furthering a conspiracy that seems excessive

Yes, that's a hole in your understanding of the fact-pattern. He wasn't fined $1.5 billion for believing and furthering a conspiracy. The error of his lawyer revealed evidence that he knew the conspiracy was false but he spread it because it made the people who listen to him keep listening and buying his products, which crosses the line into "malicious" and opens him up (in most states, including Texas) to significantly larger penalties.

Jones was hit with a level of consequence few defendants in civil suits over slander are hit with because of how egregious, continuous, and malicious the offense was and because he took actions to mislead the jury.

If you're more familiar with crimlaw, civil court is a significantly different animal and worth learning more about. It serves a slightly different function in American society but is part of the fabric of systems that let people sleep at night.

> If Alex Jones had been some left-wing commentator, who just went crazy and was wrong about this shooting, who the left loved, they wouldn't have done this lawfare against him.

We are currently a pretty tribal society, so I suspect you are correct that nobody on the Left would sue. But you can bet that someone on the Right would have (for bathroom reading, look for summaries of the suits Donald Trump has brought against people in his 78 years and ask yourself if you would consider that "lawfare"). The civil courts are intended to make people who have been harmed whole; someone on the left lying about someone on the right would have to be sued by the aggrieved party for the case to exist.

And you are right that emotion enters into it. But regardless of the jury's opinion of the man before the trial (and, again, both parties, which includes Alex Jones's legal representation, tuned the jury to be maximally charitable to their side)... He lied to them on the stand. I don't know that a jury exists that is magnanimous enough to overlook that. One of the points of a jury trial is to judge not just the facts but the overall character of the defendant (because so many facts tend to originate from the defendant themselves, so if the defendant flips the bozo bit in the minds of the jurors, that matters). If you're looking for someone to blame for Jones's fate, start with Jones.

Because the evidence shows he's not crazy; he's a con artist.
I use Helix, which doesn't have find and replace built in!
Yeah, listening to him last week he seemed very unlike that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXCBz_8hM9w&t=2324s
Fascinating! Balloons from canisters for me, but I’d be interesting to find the threshold
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Can you provide any legitimate documentation on the actual outcome of that lawsuit? Not from "Children's Health Defense Inc" (RFK's own organization) or "RFSafe" (a "5g causes cancer" rag) but an actual legitimate legal source?
> "X is a toxic media platform and that its owner, Elon Musk, has been able to use its influence to shape political discourse."

That may be true, but irrelevant to the Guardian – unless they feel they are feeding it. That would deserve action, but otherwise...

> "X has become a cesspool, our work no longer belongs there."

That doesn't really make any sense, but even if we accept the irrationality of it, they claim to still want others to share their content on X, so apparently their work does belong there. A curious contradiction.

> The culture of hacker news is to present evidences based discussion. Unsupported claims are challenged, very frequently with "citation needed." This is something that sets hacker news commentary apart from Reddit or X.*

I have to disagree. "Citation needed" is stupid Reddit nonsense (that sometimes creeps into HN, but thankfully infrequently; it is not acceptable behaviour). On Hacker News, there is an expecting of being smart enough to carry on your own conversation using your own words without needing to outsource to an arbitrary third-party. If bringing in data helps with your comment, so be it, but if all you can offer is something like "citation needed", you contribute nothing and are participating in anti-social, bad-faith behaviour.

Logically, if a comment is so poorly prepared that you can't figure it out on its own standing, you either:

1. Work with the author in good faith to understand what they are trying to say. If you find value in reaching for external resources to accomplish that, then fine. Offering something like "XYZ says this, which contradicts what I think you are trying to say. Was that your intent?" would be reasonable, but "Go do my homework for me!" is uncalled for.

2. Accept it as a lost cause and ignore it. Those who cannot string a worthwhile post together will soon grow bored with being ignored and leave. Don't feed the trolls, as they say.

(Why did you remove the rest?)
Depends on the situation and job of course, but cramming isn't necessarily always a negative thing. Sometimes you may only need to learn a technology/skill/etc. to accomplish something quickly, but then not need it again.

But yeah in general I agree with you – I just don't think it's necessarily always so clearly a waste of time.
Regardless of your intent, you didn't acknowledging the parent poster's concern about python overall. Just exculpated PyPI.

I believe you would have received a much less pushback if you hadn't been coy about the obviously impending quiet deprecation (for lack of a better phrase) you finally acknowledged elsewhere in the thread.
Still haven't figured out what I truly love at age 40+. Guess it's a life long mission. Maybe that's what I truly love to do -- to figure out what I truly love to do.

How pathetic.
You've never needed to get root access on an old computer when nobody knows the password?
I'm not sure it's as obvious as you think it is to know what you're Overman would do, but in theory I think you've got it right.
In practice, people are not exposed to any scrutiny. Tons of people pirate operating systems, image/video editors, CAD software, games, etc. without any issue. It's only large organizations that have that exposure. This is doubly true if you publish the source code to a program you wrote with an "all rights reserved" notice (i.e. you're not really trying to prevent individuals from using your work). If an individual used your program, you'll never know. If a large organization is freeloading off of you, and you learn of it, and you don't like it, then you can go after them. They have no defense because you explicitly told them they may not use it.
You also need to learn that the Flemish wanted so much to get rid of the French only classes that in 1916 they created a Dutch speaking university... with the help of the German that destroyed Leuven the year before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Bissing_university
The nice thing about real time calls is they help avoid confusion, convey more emotion and information than most messages can.

There is less ambiguity usually during a real conversation.

Conversations tend to resolve very quickly because in the span of five minutes we can go back and forth on multiple questions, get clarity and finalize how we want continue. Some things require this but not everything. There is a balance as with everything.
Why must this be a mutually-exclusive situation?

You can have the source code debugger log messages to the output window without having to add logging statements and recompile the affected code.

This is the 21st century.

see visual studio's tracepoint functionality - works in native and .Net languages, https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/tracepoints/

sure, if you want the logging messages available for perusal when deployed in production, then this won't help.

Even better - use Hot Reload and tweak your code in the debugger - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/hot-...

[edit] GDB's equivalent to tracepoint is mentioned elsewhere in this thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42147372
> a younger, happier me

I hope you're okay.

I have notifications set up for anything Matrix/ XMPP on HN, and I very often see you in the comments. Some of the threads on here are really harsh and unnecessarily snarky, I don't know how you do it. You're doing great.
There are relatively serious plans for permanent habitation on the moon. Transporting seeds occasionally hopefully won't require launching a lot of mass, but I don't know how many seeds they store.
My boat’s divers were definitely trained in more than just the basics, including closed-circuit. I don’t think it was regularly used, but they knew how to.

If you’re somewhere you aren’t supposed to be, and you have to dive to fix or inspect something, you don’t want to be sending bubbles up.

You’re on your own in the ocean, whether civilian or military, sub or surface. You have to be able to handle any and all potential issues.
Ok, we s/the government hides//'d the title above.
I always assumed it was just a misspelling of "wary" by analogy to "wear". You're telling me that people actually say "weary" when they mean "wary"? That's very different from what I thought.
Yeah...but when I started playing with Rebirth (software) in the late 90s, I remember recreating that song as I learned how to sequence drums, bass, and lead synths. It's definitely a corny song, but I needed to branch out from recreating "Blue Monday" (despite it being a better song).
It's not all or nothing, as the leader of a country doesn't rule alone. Even if a system encourages two dominant parties, the smaller parties can have a big effect. In Canada, the two big (Federal) parties are the Liberals and the Conservatives, and they always win federally.

But it's still not all-or-nothing. For example, the Liberal party often adopts NDP positions if they're gaining popular support. And when the big parties get complacent, they risk losing their "one of two" status. In 2011 in Canada, the NDP was the Official Opposition (second winning party) and the Liberals were a distant third, leading to a big shakeup in strategy. And the provincial parties are different than the Federal parties. I think our system is flawed and too "two party", but the small plurality of parties is what makes Canada a lot less prone to political extremism in my opinion.

Canaidan-Australian Youtuber Paige Saunders has a video arguing that instant runoff voting tempered more extreme politicians in Alaska:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8vWF2E3qDg
It probably isn’t millions of HP, 746MW is roughly equal to 1 million HP. Regardless, it’s still several hundred thousand horsepower driving the propeller, so your point still stands!
There is a standard which you should follow. Here you go https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/
It’s apparent that design decisions are made keeping Musk in mind. I won’t be surprised if a lot of people have blocked Musk on X as they don’t want to see propaganda being spewed. And, he wants them to see it. I cannot think of any other reason why this decision was made. Are there any?
Not affiliated, I just built a little tool to make my life easier and thought I'd share
It is unfortunate democracy and an unsophisticated electorate has led us here. All you can do now is attempt to protect the vulnerable while allowing the culpable to experience what they've voted for.
>I would guess they test props against real-world commercial fishing nets as part of some qualification process.

I assume enough nets have been run over by various vessels over the centuries that they can simply predict performance by looking at the design and plugging key parameters into a formula or table.
Unreal and Unreal Tournament are now free and preserved on the Internet Archive
I was asking ChatGPT about a "squiggled s" yesterday. It thought I meant ß, but the character I was actually interested in was §. Context was obscure keyboard layouts.
Looks handy!
Interesting experiment, thanks for the detail, I think I do still have my installers backed up somewhere, if not the actual disks.

> Less encouraging is the fact that the app-generated alert box text is blurry, suggesting the application wouldn't properly support Retina displays even if it could be cajoled into running.

This was actually the main reason I simply stopped using it (aside from not needing it professionally anymore and Adobe switching to subscription after CS6). CS6 was the last version before laptops started shipping with high dpi screens, and Carbon (from what I understood at the time) was simply the older cocoa UI framework that was replaced as Apple switched to a more versatile SDK. Sibling commentor suggested it was because Carbon was 32-bit only and that seems plausible, I hadn't experimented heavily with Obj-C or Apple dev, but I'm sure the switch was a massive undertaking.
Well, it was down when I looked at it. It does seem to be back up now.

Which leads me to the next question — how is this any different/better than `mtr`? I’m not seeing any benefit here, but maybe I’m missing something?
Parent meant disconnecting from the big picture of what it means to heal and be healthy, not specifically emotional connections with patients.
Discussion (238 points, 2 days ago, 322 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42129924
Is it built with Ruby? Looks like the landing and login page are.

Should probably consider moving to Elixir, if that's not what you're using on the server already.
Most flat earthers are just trolls who are baiting people who can't help but bite when somebody is wrong on the internet.
this is cool but unless you rank number one for json formatter you probably won't get any users.
I had a map go viral in 2013, a map of US rivers. Here's the Daily Mail article about it, the apotheosis of virulence. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2342083/The-veins-n...

Two things made it go viral.

1. Jason Kottke posted it to his weblog. Either you know about Kottke or you don't. Many journalists do. He's an authentic low-key tastemaker.

2. I shared the map on Flickr with a CC by-SA license. Which meant any publication could republish it for free without even asking me.

I'm still a little embarrassed about it. The map is pretty simple. The visualization is highly misleading and has all sorts of ugly visual artifacts. That Daily Mail article is full of mistakes (including misspelling my name three different ways.) The picture wasn't even really my goal, it was just a debugging workprint off my "real" project, a GitHub repo teaching people how to make maps in Javascript with vector tiles. But the picture looked cool and was easy to understand.

But I'm also proud of the result. It did look cool! And the recognition pleased my vanity. If I wanted I could have landed several years of consulting work off the momentary fame, I had all sorts of requests for custom work based on it. My favorite outcome was the artist Tamsie River took the data, made a giant mold, and poured a hot iron cast of the Mississippi watershed. I'm still sorry I didn't go for the event. https://tamsie.com/River%20of%20Iron.html
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Yes, but we're talking about time spent with "add a print statement and recompile" vs time saved by not including debuginfo on every other build. You have to do that comparison yourself.
The bar keeps raising because the term used for it promises human-level intelligence from a machine.

The same thing could be said about Virtual Reality where the bar raises each time the tech gets closer to making VR indistinguishable from reality.
GDB can do a, b, c (async Code is not really special?). d is going to be tricky and really depends.
You’re right to be skeptical. This entire space as far as I can tell is filled with people who overpromise and under deliver and use bad metrics to claim success. If you look at their false positive and false negative sections, they perform terribly but use words to claim that it’s actually good and use flawed logic to extrapolate on missing data (eg assume our rates stay the same for non-response vs “people are tired of our tickets and ignore our system”). And as follow up work their solution is to keep tuning their parameters (ie keep fiddling to overfit past data”). You can even tell how it’s perceived where they describe people not even bother to interact with their system during 2/4 high impact incidents examined and blaming the developer for one of them as “they didn’t integrate the metrics”. Like if a system can provide a meaningful cost/benefit the teams would be clamoring to adjust their processes. Until demonstrated clearly otherwise it’s dressed up numerology.

I saw a team at oculus fail to do this for highly constrained isolated environments with repeatable workloads and having the threshold be much more conservative (eg 1-10%) and failing. This paper is promulgating filtering your data all to hell to the point of overfitting.
Really? I get annoyed because after 4 or 5 decent picks based on whatever song I start with, it inevitably shifts to the most well-known, overplayed singles by any related band.
‘The first human being’? Who or when was this ‘first human being?