skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Atheist polemicists often treat

I'm sure some do .. I'll even grant that most online that engage in such arguments likely do.

I'd suggest the bulk of atheists don't spend much time pointlessly going around and around in such circles.

The "common tactics" of "Atheist polemicists" presented here so far are just daft - they're more the hallmark of obsessives that engage in oline forum textfests.

> Only if people are doing something because they are Catholics.

The statement I made was that "atheists" are not as homogeneous in their belief as, say, "Catholics".

I stand by it.

I would also suggest that Mormons are more homogeneous as a group than "atheists", the Greek Orthodox are more homogeneous as a group than "atheists", etc.

If people engage in activities under the organisational overwatch of the Catholic Church, eg: the Christian Brothers in Bindoon, then the Catholic Church bears responsibility for allowing those actions to proceed unchecked.
How do you mean do we "believe this nonsense"? I don't use twitter regularly, but I have two accounts for reasons. I just signed in, I typed out a (fake) signal URL, and... posting was blocked.

It doesn't appear to be nonsense, it appears to be entirely true that any tweet with "signal.me" in it is blocked.

Occam's razor says they're blocking Signal. Hanlon's razor says they're just idiots. Either way: An important tool for communication is being blocked by twitter, which is both dangerous and not "nonsense".

Given Elon Musk's current propensity for authoritarianism and censorship, I'm leaning towards Occam's explanation. If you have evidence otherwise, I would genuinely like to see it, but honestly Hanlon's explanation that it's incompetence is not much better.
Tech blogs demonstrate quality of engineering of a company and this blog post is just doing that. Uber eng org is probably so bloated that nobody really cares about this stuff anymore.
In my experience, if you can't create an agenda, then it's more than likely the meeting is unnecessary.
Lol, is this statement serious ? People are openly calling out for his assassination on X, calling him any number of insults, etc.
>>many engineers pride themselves on how they solve problems.

Im guessing its only a matter of time we see newer programming languages specially invented to work in the LLM era. So the same old processes like ever before continue. You need to understand things in a fundamental way else you won't have a clue what is going on.

You could say you still need to have done a fair of code work without LLMs to work through difficult to find and fix bugs.
having a bad day on the internet, huh?
Without any proof you have resorted to some blatant racism. Sheesh
Heard the of bimodal salary distribution? I'd bet it matches up quite well with a bimodal influence distribution.
Adventures in the ancient DNA time machine
The news in the media (and outside) is so full of this that I might even be better at naming US presidents and their terms in reverse than German chancellors. The two term limit helps, to be fair. We're only on the fourth since I was born, vs 8 (counting non-consecutives) in the US. (Like, of course I can name ours, but not the exact years)
I was actually trying out KOReader (on Android via F-droid) last night and it... looks promising... but better than the Kindle app, really? It doesn't have a dark mode which is basically baseline for me reading at night. Or am I missing something?
yeah if i had to pick a single word it'd be "cosmos"
>Also, Trump did not run on these policies -- he's implementing policies he explicitly repudiated when he lied about not being affiliated with the Project 2025 manifesto.

Where do you think Project 2025 came from? Trump may not have run on the specific, enumerated list of items in the Project 2025 agenda, but everything in that agenda falls in line with Trumpist goals and right-wing Republican ideals, and it had deep connections with the Republican Party establishment and Trump's own network. It was published by the same group that selected Trump's Supreme Court nominees. It didn't simply emerge from the aether.

The narrative that "this isn't what Trump voters voted for" is being pushed hard right now for understandable reasons. That may be true in some cases, but it's also true that this is exactly what a lot of Trump voters voted for. At worst, they simply didn't expect the consequences of their actions to affect them, but they knew what they wanted to happen to everyone else.
But Amazon DRM-laden reading isn’t terrible. I buy a book, it’s on my Kindle. With Kindle Unlimited, I can read tons of books for a fairly small monthly price.

Not sure what problem we’re trying to solve.
Guy is crying like a baby, he gave performance of an unreleased model which only he has access. Most corporations would recognize this as breach of confidential information (performance tests for coding).
I have memories of asking adults how many planets in the universe we know of at a time when the answer was 10 because we had just discovered the first exoplanet (and Pluto was still considered a planet) and laughing when they would give answers in the thousands or millions.
If I am to believe the Corruption Perception Index, which I certainly would over your unsourced blanket statement, you’re wrong and Europe is actually doing rather well at having low rates of corruption. Anecdotally that has certainly been my experience. I don’t really understand the perceived competition anyhow, why not wish for everybody to do well?
> The massive ship named USSR sank in a matter of months

There was a decade of dysfunction and ossification before the USSR collapsed within a couple months

A decade of low oil prices (affecting exports), high defense spending (increasing deficit), societal unrest due to the resurgence of nationalism, and slowing productivity all happened quietly over the 1980s before catalyzing into collapse.
Ha, my first Anno was 1503. Guess what in my mind is the prettiest Anno! 1404 and 1800 are nice too I guess. o:-)

(A friend’s mum was famous among us kids because she could play 1602 well, I always got bankrupted by tools. How did she do it!!)
You are failing the first law of HN, where you have to assume the worst possible form of any action when it refers to Trump.

Four years of this TDS is going to be exhausting.
Defenceless Britain
Coaching hires and selection process in more recent history.

I'd also argue that Venus and Serena Williams were a prerequisite to Coco Gauff. That's the point of representation: to make it easier for the meritocracy to work by creating a path for talent that might otherwise not consider a field (or sport, in this case). In many cases with minorities, what we see are extraordinary individuals who are able to shatter these biases and be pathmakers for others to follow. Jeremy Lin has also talked a lot about his experiences with racism all along his journey to the NBA (racism and prejudice is just a form of exclusion).

But it's ironic, right? Professional sports is a meritocracy that for decades excluded other non-white races from participating. The only reason we can call it a merit based system today is because there were strong efforts by individuals and organizations throughout the 20th century to make it inclusive, you know, the "I" in "DEI". You cannot have a functional meritocracy if individuals are being excluded from participating.

There's this assumption that certain races or genders are just better at coding or engineering or finance or math and that these fields are already merit based. Isn't it more likely that these fields still suffer greatly from the same type of prejudiced exclusion that professional sports suffered from and that "non-conforming" talent is being excluded at the candidate prospecting phase?
I submitted this a little while ago. I’m not the author

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42818169

Every level of software engineering above a mid level developer is based on “scope”, “impact” and “dealing with ambiguity”. Title doesn’t matter, if you are pulling stories off the board with well defined business use cases - you are a mid level developer.

https://www.levels.fyi/blog/swe-level-framework.html

> I would love to switch to being self-employed either via consultancy

“Consult” on what? If you don’t have a specialty and no “full stack developer” or “backend developer” is not a specialty.

There is a huge difference between “staff augmentation” and strategic consulting where you are bringing in specialized expertise and talking to decision makers.

more autonomy over my time and my work

Learn how to deal with “the business” and be more strategic, learn system design and architecture and some project management.

> more money

This is a different optimization. It might sound reductive. But to make more money, work at companies that pay more money. You are never going to make the eye popping comp that you are seeing on levels.fyi as an “enterprise developer” - ie non tech companies.

In the words of r/cscareerquestions “grind leetCode and work for a FAANG (or equivalent paying company)”. That’s the first step and then see the first part about getting ahead.
Is there a different Internet that I can use?
> Is that really the case though? I very much doubt it.

It's what AT&T fiber does. Well, they give a /60 to their shitbox, but if you want your own router with a public IP then you're stuck with a single /64 for it at least when doing the "easy" path.

You can get some routers to request multiple IPv6 blocks and then you get the freedom of a whopping 7 subnets but you've also left "ridiculously easy" way, waaaay in the rear view mirror at this point anyway
How to Use an LLM Without Selling Your Soul
> The Twitter Files also conveniently omitted that Twitter also got requests from the Trump campaign and accepted some of them.

It got requests from both the Trump administration and the Biden campaign. Joe Biden was not President in 2020. Donald Trump was still running the government that was "censoring" social media.

I don't know why this never comes up when people talk about the Twitter Files.
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I don't mind that it has that many points - I actually really like the work that guy did. What I don't understand is why all the comments are so weird. It's like everyone who had a bad day decided to come here and take it out on this his work.
I believe Amazon impose a whole bunch of conditions on people publishing on their platform. Along the lines of exclusivity and controlling where else if at all you can sell it. I'm pretty sure Corey Doctorow extensively covered this.
>>Milley faced the moral issue when he was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Trump lost the election

And sadly he failed the test.
Paragraph sixteen, second sentence.
Coaching is the most prominent aspect of professional sports in recent history (both gender and race). Minority coaches are a recent phenomenon.
Well, according to Free Speech Absolutist Elon Musk it does. Which is why we're here, discussing this topic. Right now. And is the point of the person you quoted.
you had a book that listed every phone number in numerical order? because a phone book is the exact opposite of that
> cost money

yes, but it's surprisingly cheap (if you now where to ask for it and your operation is large enough)

could have changed a bit after FTC started pushing a bit more against robocalls and for caller verification idk. a year ago??
House prices plunge as council acts on second homes
Well, that's true, but I think it's based on the economic plan by Caputo.

Argentina is very presidentialist and personalist, so everyone thinks this is Milei's doing, but most of the economic measures are done by people from other political party (PRO), with plans that were in the working for at least 2 years for it's candidates. They have nothing to do with what Milei campaigned with.
Well that isn't quite right. The original idiom came out of an earlier supreme court ruling that was partially overturned by later rulings on the matter:

> Ultimately, whether it is legal in the United States to falsely shout "fire" in a theater depends on the circumstances in which it is done and the consequences of doing it. The act of shouting "fire" when there are no reasonable grounds for believing one exists is not in itself a crime, and nor would it be rendered a crime merely by having been carried out inside a theatre, crowded or otherwise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...

Incitement to violence is also permitted as long as it isn't immediate and/or likely. This is known as the Brandenburg Test:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imminent_lawless_action
According to the Social Security database there are 20,789,589 living people over the age of 100.

According to the last US census that number was about 90,00.

Are you ok with sending social security checks to 20 million dead people?
Such resets are sometimes followed by civil wars, economy crashes style "there is no food for tomorrow" and a generational trauma. As the one who has been through it, be careful what you wish for.
Yea, I'm a regular HN reader and I've been stuck on the street for going on 7 years. Used to be commended for persevering against the odds and the like, as a child and young programmer at 15 onward, home owner at 22.

I've left SF and landed in a college town in Sac Valley last year. Rent is $750/mo here. Been working in a kitchen for a year. Am I housed yet? Nope. Just gotta save a few thousand dollars. I have about the same amount of bills as a housed person, between gym + storage + take out food + car insurance.

But then the social aspect, my old relatives and network need to distance themselves from me. Any kind of old reference or something, non starter.

I will beat this. I only keep posting here on these threads because as you say, we span the full range of human existence. I like to think I'll use my approach as a template to help others. Get out of the big metro and into a peaceful place with cheap rent and lots of opportunity, yadda yadda.

Cheers.
But at the same time, obedience, discipline and chain-of-command are ingrained in military culture (do correct me if I'm wrong, my main sources are movies and propaganda). But also trust, trust that e.g. your commanding officer knows what they're doing, considered the risks, and takes responsibility. They too in turn make decisions based on what they know / are told; if there's civilians in a target but intelligence doesn't say so, are you or your chain of command guilty of a war crime?
> > Even free speech has its limits

> It doesnt though, thats the point.

In theory. But in practive even the most staunch pro-free speech jurisdictions have limits on them. A lot for good reasons that most people would agree with (threats and fraud, stuff like that), but also some that would be absurd in other jurisdictions (obscenities for example, which is usually very locality specific).

There's a Wikipedia page with free speech exceptions in the USA. Those exceptions don't really seem weird, but just seeing that there are reasonable exceptions makes free speech absolutism less sensible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...
What part of that sentence is racist??
I heard some new guys were running it federal bureau of something
For some reason a lot of people seem think animals are smiling, when they're making what seems like a pretty obvious distressed face, in a situation one would imagine is distressing.
Pornography is properly regarded as a form of speech
Imagine for a moment that your entire government infrastructure was under the control of someone who feels so strongly about their opinion that the government does not use SQL that he publicly calls someone a retard for suggesting it.
I agree with most of this but I think if one system can rather accurately simulate another I would say it is computationally stronger
Discussion mediums just don't seem to scale very well at all. Feels like we've arrived at a point where it's either this or walls of text where you spend more time trying to figure out what a post is replying to than you'd need to keep up with the new messages coming in (i.e. loads of discords)

I remember as a teen how much of a pain it was to find a good forum. Too few users and it'd feel like a graveyard, not worth checking in on often enough to build up a habit. Too many and it was impossible to keep track of anything or gain enough of an understanding of the regulars to know how to read their posts. Even the sweet spot in the middle would be frequently torn to shreds by one troll or mentally ill poster spamming the forum in a frenzy.
Far preferred it to the reddit tree based vote setup but I can understand how this is what most people have settled on.
I'm jacked in to the left wing online political discourse, and your comment is the first time I've heard anything about Musk doing something with voting machines. Provide a link to where you heard that.
“Enshittification” is a specific and well-defined term for platform decay in pursuit of profits, it doesn’t mean “anything I dislike”.

This EU hate on account of the banners is misguided: We should be upset at the companies engaging in unfettered data collection and tracking, not the body that made it mandatory for them to reveal their practices. It’s as if your government enacted a law saying restaurants had to inform you whenever they piss in your food, you begin to see warnings everywhere, and then complain about the law instead of the rampant pissing.
And all previous D governments, no?

The point is that Congress is the one responsible for indebting the US, and it's both parties that are responsible. The Executive can only do so much to correct this, and even if Musk's claim of saving $2T turns out to be true, that still isn't even nearly enough to stem the tide of spending that has bankrupted the US.
"This meeting could have been an email" is a common refrain from an associate of mine who works as a software dev for a major finance/print shop in the states. If having to use an obscure COBOL variant wasn't bad enough, the management and IT teams are absolutely garbage.
There is one war France won so comprehensively that everyone in this forum is still using words with a French origin in almost every sentence.
>Pick a lane.

No, a good society should not pick lanes, but cherries.
1404 gets samey after a while (when going for the monuments). I’d say 1800+DLCs is the same game, but with so many regions and tiers and options.
> and when I talk, I do not know exactly what I will say before I say it

Using voice with Gemini on my phone I've found it to be nearly useless:

- it decides I've stopped speaking when there is a small pause whilst I think of the rest my sentence

- I use too many "ums" and "ers", or even "wait, no I meant..." and so it ends up a useless transcription

- because I know of these "problems" I end up making even more mistakes in a perverse anxiety feedback loop of trying to get it correct first time and failing miserably
It didnt work for me.
For most profitable search categories (ecommerce etc) I can see LLMs taking over - ChatGPT with Search is already more reliable than Google, not to mention Deep Research
This sounds logical enough but I think I remember reading that larger embeddings were only better for certain classes of words, because increasing the dimension size (in those cases) introduced noise. Will try to find the paper — it’s escaping me at the moment.
I think a lot depends on whether you have very low online profile or if you have a wikipedia page with your date of birth and you've been blogging for 20 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Trapani

Compare with Americans' often voiced concern of doxing (I'm not saying it's unfounded) and yet other jurisdictions demand that you put your name and address on your online publications even as a private citizen/solo business.
Show HN: oParse.com – Track what different AI models "think" about your brand
I use Copilot for code, and I find my self turning it off when I'm writing down in comments step-by-step what I need to do. I use it both as a checklist, but also to mentally understand what I need to do.

Maybe it's my brain that's weird, but when I have a train of thought, and then read the auto-completion of my sentence, I forget what I was thinking and suddenly I can't think of anything other than the (usually incorrect) suggestion.
The "lane" is simple and has always been: no "right", as fundamental as it can be, is limitless. For ex. Freedom of movement is largely restricted, and the fact I can't "enter your house freely" is not a slippery slope to internal visas as the sort China uses to restrict movement internally.

Even in the US, freedom of speech IS restricted: the Supreme Court put the bar very high but it didn't say you could say anything. State secrets can't be revealed willy-nilly; even lower, you can't enter a non-disclosure agreement and then violate it.

The "lane" is that we try as much as possible to put clear, consistent guideline that apply to everyone through a legislative (actual laws) and judicial (precedent) process. This is absolutely not the same as Musk deciding on his own, inconsistent, ridiculous fits of drug-addled rage, where he bans the word "cisgender" or @elonjet for his own safety and then allows complete nazi-"WE WILL KILL YOU BITCHES" stuff - and that's only one of many examples.
>So do Jews. So are we seeing full free speech in action?

To be clear, you're comparing anti-semites (a racist "group") with Jews (an ethnic/religious group). One is defined by holding a targeted, hateful ideology. The other is a group of human beings, by birth/existence.

I make no claim against you, but this framing represents the insidiously successful repackaging of hate as an "equal right", which racists have used to mainstream hateful ideas that, at-scale, ultimately infringe on the rights of groups of people. This can include (has included) incitement to violence. The latter is famously a limitation of free speech, and all rights are generally circumscribed by their infringement on the rights of others, in any case.

The other insidiously misleading argument around this issue is that Twitter is enforcing "free speech" in the first place. Only the government can infringe on the right, as it restrains only the government. Twitter is no "protector" of free speech, because it cannot be. It can, however, make the choice to allow and promote hateful speech against others, and that's exactly what it's doing.

So, the argument here is not whether promoting rights is good for society. The argument is whether promoting hate is good for society.
> He wasn’t charged because SCOTUS ruled that acts committed while president were immune from prosecution and because the senate didn’t have the guts to impeach him and by the time he won the presidency he fired those working on the case against him.

You're getting mixed up.

SCOTUS didn't rule on that until years after Jan 6th. And the SCOTUS ruling doesn't cover crimes committed outside the scope of the President, which an insurrection would most certainly fall under.

And "by the time he became president"? You mean "four years later". You're saying the insurrection case was so solid they couldn't bring him to trial within 4 years?

No.

The truth is that the prosecution knew they didn't have evidence to support convicting Trump of insurrection. As for impeachment, they tried and failed.
Skepticism is obviously going to be my first response.

I was arguing it should be yours as well.

And you seem to want to go off-topic, again, but what idiot would believe the U.S. government doesn't use SQL? The U.S. government is the direct cause of the creation of SQL.
This also happens in real life on the equator when the sun is at just the right point in the sky ordinary objects look like bad rendered cgi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahaina_Noon
Considering how common is swallowing and aspirating seawater is, how significant is this risk?