skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Until they start censoring. Some orgs (like Guardian,) don’t like getting fact checked in real time. Old Twitter is far worse than new Twitter. In the recent old days, you’d get suspended for even debating Covid vaccine safety. Couldn’t even debate it! They even colluded with the U.S. government to silence dissent. Crazy.
Tech Elite Push Tech Elite to Elon Musk for Cabinet Positions
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Absolutely agree.

Neither are "haters", though. And, speaking on quality of feedback, "ignore the haters" seems fairly low.
That's not really accurate, most butter has salt, water, and sometimes a few other ingredients like lactic cultures, but milk is definitely always an ingredient.
Ice cars have a much higher rollover risk compared to EVs. All the data supports that along with physics. Absolutely weight distribution. Compare the heavy battery in an EV vs the heavy motor that's up a bit higher in an ice car. Pretty much any hit over around 20mph to the front quarter panel of an ice car, truck, or SUV will flip it over.
Do you believe that Trump won the popular vote... for the entire planet?
Slack, notion, and a meeting every Monday to talk about what we're doing and priorities.
https://archive.ph/2NSCV
Non-elementary group-by aggregations in Polars vs pandas
I thought this was going to be a post about plumbing and then I read further and was even more excited to say the phrase "python executable". Very interesting. Thanks!
Unfortunately, they are. They have discovered that this kind of behavior gets people into office.

Expect to see more of it.
One of the weirdest complaints I have heard: Musk says his competitor is paying employees too much:

In his complaint, Musk alleges that OpenAI and Microsoft are engaging in anticompetitive practices, including "lavish compensation," to corner the market on generative AI.
This was solved 20 years ago with RSS, I guess it's about time for someone to rediscover the idea and reimplement something like it, push it like a great new invention, and make a couple of billions in the process.
I feel like that's fine, as another boomer. The internet wasn't designed with this idea that you only visit 10 websites and everything else is on the fringes. Did people forget that bookmarks exist?

Back to crushing reality, that's also why I'm a huge RSS fan. your feed should be based on websites you want to follow, not what the website's algorithms want you to follow. RSS puts the control back to the user while giving 95% of the convinience of a centralized platform.
Which are those controls?

I drive a Tesla since 2019 and have never needed a touchscreen control for the driving itself.
I believe the logic is to heat gently through friction, and to promote blood circulation through manipulation.

Warming up cold body parts is painful, so maybe it's about distracting from the pain as well.
But people don't bother looking on non-interactive platforms. This is a problem for outreach that aims to hit 100% of the public, ideally.
Back in the 80s, a coworker (knowing I was in the C compiler business) came to me and asked "my husband wants to get into C programming, which compiler should he use?" (At the time, there were about 30 C compilers available for DOS.) I replied, Datalight C!

She laughed, touched my elbow, and said "oh no, not your compiler!"

Another coworker (Eric Engstrom, yes, that guy!) heard this and let out huge belly laugh. She suddenly realized what she had said, and got very embarrassed. (I won't print her name. I've long since forgiven her! I just thought it was funny.)

Good ole' Eric. Truly larger than life. I miss him.
> The study's authors make clear that the results do not indicate Tesla vehicles are inherently unsafe or have design flaws. In fact, Tesla vehicles are loaded with safety technology; the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) named the 2024 Model Y as a Top Safety Pick+ award winner, for example. Many of the other cars that ranked highly on the list have also been given high ratings for safety by the likes of IIHS and the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, as well.

> So, why are Teslas — and many other ostensibly safe cars on the list — involved in so many fatal crashes? “The models on this list likely reflect a combination of driver behavior and driving conditions, leading to increased crashes and fatalities,” iSeeCars executive analyst Karl Brauer said in the report. “A focused, alert driver, traveling at a legal or prudent speed, without being under the influence of drugs or alcohol, is the most likely to arrive safely regardless of the vehicle they’re driving.”

Ok so Tesla's aren't less safe than any other vehicle in this lineup. It's just that Tesla drivers are more likely to be careless.
This article must have been written by AI. I suppose it's my fault for clicking through a Forbes link.
The part that's out of whack is the part where they tell consumers who have already bought the butter to throw it away. In order to have received that direction, you must have already seen the recall notice itself, which tells you the butter has milk in it.

It's not so bad if they pull the stuff that hasn't sold.
When I learned about git commit squashing I was sincerely disturbed.
Keyword is "draft". You still need a person to review the response with knowledge of the context of the issue. It's the same as my email example.
Unfortunately you are way more likely to get a blank stare when you say "add our RSS feed" than when you say "add us on Facebook" or similar, especially if you are an organization like a police department. Ordinary people do not tend to set up RSS readers or know how to handle feeds.

Picking a reader means making one or more choices (for your phone, laptop, tablet whatever), adding a feed is several steps, and it is easy to get overloaded with too many boring items (and too few interesting ones) because curation is left to the end user.

Centralized social networks require no choosing of readers, let you add an info source in one click, and ensure you have neither too few nor too many interesting items -- for some value of "interesting" -- regardless of how many entities you follow.

I love RSS and decentralization but creating a smooth, user friendly experience with such tools is a major unsolved challenge.
You don’t think the left misspells slurs, communicates in death threats too? That’s not a left right thing, that’s a crazy-normal thing.
A trustee's responsibility is to creditors. While directing the disposition of assets, a trustee may judge that a secondary offer better serves the creditors.

In this case, the creditors are the Sandy Hook families who were wronged by Jones. It is my understanding that they had a hand in The Onion's offer. I suspect they signaled a desire for this sale to the trustee - but that is just a guess.

source:prepped personal bankruptcy cases for a couple of years
Interactions draw views. If someone asked the same question you had, and had it answered by the original poster, that's more valuable to you than a simple feed.
Twitter was never a majority of Americans let alone 80-90+% share that justifies being a single outlet for a taxpayer funded agency.
Huh that’s a great way of putting it.

These ‘federated’ systems are just recreating feudalism in cyberspace.

Edit: Well even worse in some ways, since it’s not like a majority of the ‘gentry’ and ‘nobles’ could challenge and seize control of e.g. a Mastodon instance from the owner.
It will never make sense cause Claude Shannon already told us why.

When everyone Broadcasts, info explodes, no one hears anything. And as a reaction, they shout louder and louder or increase the number of times they repeat their message. This compound the absurdity of giving everyone Broadcast capability even further.

When you use the word commons you dont even realize the commons never had Broadcast (1 to All messaging) for Free.

Technically we can give everyone a radio transmitter that support Broadcasting. But no one allows that anywhere on the planet ever since Claude Shannons Theory of Information came out. Because it clearly shows us everyone can not broadcast simultaneously.

Even the human body with more cells and more signalling going on than the entire dumb internet does not give every cell broadcast capability.
Title deposit wire fraud is a very big risk. The amounts are devastating to the victims, so the operator has to go above and beyond to secure the data because of the huge risks involved. Would you risk losing a 5-/6-digit amount to fraud in order to potentially save on a 4-digit closing fee?
I see BlueSky getting some traction regarding some specialized discussions (akin Discord?), but Twitter will continue to be the public space to go.
Correct. Bluesky is dogfooding AT Protocol.

https://atproto.com/specs/atp#protocol-extension-and-applica...
> The military reports to the civilians

Yes, they do, but we don't want the civilian leadership criticizing captains for their operational decisions. Strategic, yes, absolutely. "Do we do this mission or not?" is absolutely up to civilians (Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of Defense, President) to decide. A captain making in-the-moment decisions about the running of the boat or ship can be handled by the military - up to and including loss of command or even court martial. If they are operating within their orders and official regulations, civilians should stay out of it or risk having a military that doesn't work when we need it.
I'm not sure what hysteria about lab leaks? I mean maybe it did, maybe it didn't.
The difference between Facebook and your bank is that it's illegal for your bank to just say "you don't have an account here anymore and we're never giving back any of your deposits".
Obviously not, but Americans regularly tell me a dish doesn't contain milk, only for me to find out that it contains butter. The labels help.
He had both chambers in 2016 too, on similarly narrow majorities. The hiring has consistently been for allegiance. The court has changed a little. One thing you don't mention that is perhaps the biggest thing is temperance for reelection. But overall, I don't see much reason that it will be that much different from last time. Talking about things being much worse seems like an emotional statement.
What I want to know is how did people come to believe that microblogging is a social necessity. How have we allowed for what’s perhaps the most impoverished form of human expression to become a gathering place for ourselves and our institutions.
Depends. Dairy milk? Oat milk? Soy milk?
Yes. Oat milk / almond milk / etc doesn't contain "milk". There's a section for both "ingredients" and "contains" on every label, and "contains" specifies if it includes "milk" as defined by the FALCPA.
I could believe that "Signature Butter" could be a substance that wasn't butter. It would be dumb, but I wouldn't give you odds it didn't happen if someone claimed it did.

So putting milk in the ingredient list at least confirms that yes, this is butter, not "butter."
I do want to point out that this is not about lactose intolerance. This is about a milk allergy. Different things. Upset tummy vs anaphylaxis.

But the recommendation to throw it out is insane. There's nothing wrong with it besides the label. And what person who can't eat dairy is running around buying butter?
Twitter won because that's where the people I follow are. If/when they move elsewhere, wherever they move to will have won.
It was solved 20 years ago. But companies unsolved it by deciding to de-prioritize or even remove such RSS API's.

Getting around that requires some heavy and expensive scraping (compared to a lightweight API to hook into), and as we're seeing right now companies are at each other's necks in real time over scraping.
I've come to realize that putting everything into a container is the only viable way to share a python program.

I'll certainly checkout PEX, I think that distribution of a binary is likely the largest one for Python right now. Java solved it with a JAR file, static-compiled binaries for most compiled languages.

At Google PAR files have been quite a useful way to handle this for at least 18 years now, hope this can get reasonably solved everywhere.
The scene from Groundhog's Day with the two drunk guys.

Stuck in the same day over and over again. Yep, sounds about right.
It really does look like homework cheating. I guess it's been so long since I was in school, I didn't realize it's normal to get someone else to give you all the answers.

Isn't trolling or sarcastic humor a sign of intelligence?
Being right or wrong is often irrelevant to the question of “does it belong on HN?”
Barring changing one's own diet and activity-level? Seems so. Sadly, only one of these options takes 30 seconds and the US is quite the "Now, please" culture. [1]

1: Am an American. I want it now.
>Why? Who cares?

I do, if I typoed previouslyUndefined the first time. I get it adds boilerplate, but it also catches stupid bugs
That's pretty much irrelevant to whether you know if butter contains butter.
Can you say "cisgender" on twitter? No? Not committed to free speech.
ideally, yes. Realistically, companies were never going to willingly give up their centralization once they started chasing ad revenue and then later selling data to 3rd parties.
Google became a billion dollar company creating the best search and indexing service at the time and putting ads around the results (that and YouTube). The didn't own the answer of the question.
Equally disappointing: the situation being described, the quality of TFA.
That is a different question. If something is labeled "butter"it is probably butter. If it is labeled "not butter" it definitely should have a label that says "might contain butter.
Now I understand the labeling and allergy concerns. Like does "almond milk" contain milk? I didn't know but it probably contains almonds or almond extract.
folks should just go to wholly owned websites like back in the day. on the other hand most major websites are absolutely unreadable with the ads/autoplay videos.
You might know about the recall, but does someone visiting your house know that? Does a random chef who gets an allergy notification at a restaurant know about the recall?

EDIT: Again, people are trained to trust the labels – not to parse the marketing. That's why they exist. If someone in a kitchen says "grab the dairy-free butter", the most accurate way to check is to glance at the "Contains" label. Once that trust is broken, the label is useless.
yeah. there was a proposal by big dairy to ban alternative milks from calling themselves "milk" at all, but there was a public outcry about it and it was found to be overstepping, not least because alternative milks have existed for hundreds of years and been called as such.
It always falls in the middle. There's a reason politicians are known as liars. Of course they won't do everything they claim on the campaign trail.
Good point. If Discord can make billions by essentially reinventing IRC...
I get when products have something harmful to people like when your favorite brand of ice cream has listeria or something else has e.coli and the product should not be used.

This is just a labeling/packaging issue where there is nothing harmful about the product itself.

Also, how many people with milk issues would be confused by the missing info and think there's a new type of milk free butter?
Yeah it's extremely painful. I jumped into a frozen lake years ago and ran to a shower afterwards. Turned on the water, just slightly warm and it felt like my fingers and toes got smashed by a hammer.
I, for one, welcome our new recursive reference system.
exactly, we should ask Karl Brauer to cite his sources and explain his methodology
When people who do care about privacy and security make their voices heard, such as the case here where the owner has committed to improving their policy & processes, it benefits everyone using the product or service.
An account costs nothing. You get an intern or someone to post on it now and then. It isn't exactly a deep commitment.
Let's not pretend everyone is aghast at the goals of this administration. We just had an election and these viewpoints resoundingly won the day.

A non-trivial component to this election was this constant, smug nagging. "We know better, you're all so stupid".

If you turn out to be right, enjoy your smug "I told you so", but until then - these views are a minority and are very tiring to constantly see/hear/read.
> people wouldn’tve been doing it if it hadn’t worked

Now do trepanation and corpse medicine.

Like, look around you. We’re a stupid species. Not consistently. But a lot. We’ve always been a bunch of apes banging around.
Good point too. Things that the authors should've thought about.
The idea that the novel coronavirus didn't escape from the local coronavirus R&D laboratory never had anywhere near enough evidence to be credible.

It was pretty much the WHO simply repeating the claims of the Chinese government, who had already tried to cover up the outbreak (with any warnings sent to the WHO coming from Taiwan instead).

It was about as believable as the completely baseless claims that the emergency use authorised vaccine was safe and effective.
Yeah, the wifi connection on my setup is flaky. Not an attached garage though, a good distance from my router, with cinder block walls.
>Who in their right mind would find it acceptable if their program/operating system decided to automatically download Purble Place.

>People didn't choose to install that, it was "pushed" upon them

So we're on the same page? Or are you being sarcastic? I'm not sure what your stance is at this point.
How do you handle calls from unknowns like Doctors, hospitals or clinics?
Yup, and this is why the labels exist. So many people confidently "guess" when asked, and I've had to ask a few times for them to check the label.
Well, one is before they spend a lot of money, and the other is after. In only one of those scenarios are they prone to spear-phishing wire fraud on the Title deposit. The victim is already primed, and has indicated they have gobs of money set aside.
You can't. Age is X25519, not Ed25519.
Yeah, this has been a meme all week. ~one truckload worth of one product has to be recalled and suddenly its 'part of the national conversation'
now we get into the area of should these products be called milk when they don't have milk.

if there's regulations that say a package must list what is inside, shouldn't there also be regulations that say you can't list ingredients that are not inside?
The "bus" aspect is more related to how many passengers it carries. Implying that it carries a lot of people.
I’m glad you used the word snark since that exact word in the HN guidelines

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.
To be fair, RSS isn't an either/or. Quite the oppoiste. You make an RSS feed and bring users into twitter to reach them. Ideally being able to move people to your own hosted service and they then interface with the base news in the same way, on their chosen RSS. Even if the link may take them to a blog instead of a centralized service.

Issue is that the bird app doesn't want this middleman between them. They want all the users' attention.
> Using it was appropriate. Using it exclusively was not.

That I can agree with. Usually what I have seen, at least where i live, is that no public body used it exclusively. They still had a website, they still talked with journalist, talked with radios, used flyers, whatever was appropriate in each situation. (Or at least they tried, not saying everyone was getting it always right.)
I have this https://github.com/Azure/go-asyncjob library as well, with generic strongType connecting each step input/output.
As a home buyer, I've been beaten many times by an all-cash offer that was significantly lower than my financed offer. For example, a $450K all-cash offer where they'd close in 7 days beat my $525K 80/20 offer where it would have taken me 25+ days to close.
I agree that that's a problem but this is the wrong solution. Letting the blockee see the blocker doesn't help them correct the record if the blocker has replied to them before blocking. They're still not permitted to reply. You can unblock-reply-block and do that all day under either model.

Imho the right answer is just to

a) Hide the blocker's replies to the blockee in an expand-to-view mode (like Twitter's View Hidden Replies feature) so that in a large conversation the non-blocking parties are the emphasized ones.

and

b) When shown explain that the reply was hidden because the reply-er has blocked the reply-ee.

I assume they want to make blocking semi-secret so it's not showing dirty laundry all over twitter to people who aren't involved in the feud, but either way if party A and B had an argument and then one side unilaterally prevents the other from continuing it, that should made visible to the reader.
>A moment of distraction

Indeed, people really under(over?)estimate how small a loss of attention has to be to become catastrophic.

I once wanted to know the name of a track that was playing while driving on the highway. I looked right to the stereo display and read it, that probably took a tenth of a second, but it happened right at the moment when something came into my lane and I had to veer off not to hit it, I did not hit it but also almost drove the car out of the road.

When you're distracted, even if you're looking straight ahead, coming back to reality, assessing the situation, reacting, ... takes at least a couple seconds and that's a lot of time in these scenarios.
Next thing, the "manager AIs" start stack ranking the specialized "worker AIs".

And the worker AIs "evolve" to meet/exceed expectations only on tasks directly contributing to KPIs the manager AIs measure for - via the mechanism of discarding the "less fit to exceed KPIs".

And some of the worker AIs who're trained on recent/polluted internet happen to spit out prompt injection attacks that work against the manager AIs rank stacking metrics and dominate over "less fit" worker AIs. (Congratulations, we've evolved AI cancer!) These manager AIs start performing spectacularly badly compared to other non-cancerous manager AIs, and die or get killed off by the VC's paying for their datacenters.

Competing manager AIs get training, perhaps on on newer HN posts discussing this emergent behavior of worker AIs, and start to down rank any exceptionally performing worker AIs. The overall trends towards mediocrity becomes inevitable.

Some greybread writes some Perl and regexes that outcompete commercial manager AIs on pretty much every real world task, while running on a 10 year old laptop instead of a cluster of nuclear powered AI datacenters all consuming a city's worth of fresh drinking water.

Nobody in powerful positions care. Humanity dies.
One thing to keep in mind, is that if somebody is hypothermic and not just frostbitten, then rapid re-warming is a bad idea.

Body protects itself by shutting down blood flow to skin and extremities, keeping the core warm. So if the extremities are rapidly re-warmed, then blood vessels in them dilate. And then blood starts flowing through oxygen-depleted tissues that are cold and full of accumulated metabolic waste.

Not a good combination, and you might end up with organ damage as a result.

Gradual re-warming instead gives the body time to slowly clear the waste as blood flow re-establishes itself.
What is "counter depth"?
"Fun" fact... Tesla doesn't count fatalities in their accident stats!

Nor does it count accidents where there was no airbag deployment because as you point out, modern airbag systems use a wide variety of parameters, not just "if speed > x and collision = true; deploy".

So you can hit someone obliquely at 30mph, and due to factors, airbags don't deploy, and Tesla says "great, not an accident".

Or you can be in such a serious collision or similar where the airbags CAN'T deploy, and Tesla? "Not an accident".
What is the commons then? I think it's the internet at large, email, RSS, etc.