skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Each side of every argument is full of misinformation, intentionally or not.

This is just silly information, and is used to sow resignation and demean actual and valid arguments.

There are plenty of arguments and forums where misinformation is treated disdainfully, as it should be. HN used to be one of them, but everything anti trump and musk seems to get brigaded, rather than debated.

I will point out that it is predominantly one side in American politics using misinformation as a weapon. Its the side that brought us "teach the controverry" instead of accepting the scientific reality of evolution. Its the side that made it illegal for the CDC and ATF to do studies of firearms. Its the side that claims to be anti- politics in science while at the very same time politicizing science.

Your statement benefits the side that doesnt have truth on its side, and is therefore harmful.
Edit wrong thread.
Sure, it's better that he backpedaled than doubling down, but that doesn't mean that he cannot be criticized for the initial transgression.

If I drive drunk and then hit someone with my car, I'm not immediately forgiven just because I called 911 and offered to pay the hospital bill.
Women didn't think they needed to hide their periods from the government. Until the rules changed and suddenly period tracking apps become a vector for lawsuits against women.

You don't always know what you're doing now that seems perfectly normal that will suddenly be used against you in the future. Or which data will mark you as a target.
America will collapse by 2025 (2010)
> in order to fulfill

Well, there's the rub. They'll just throw their hands up and the claimants are left holding the bag. Which is what sometimes happened historically.
There's a snarky thread going around attempting to dunk on DOGE employees who revealed that some social security recipients have 150 year old birth dates. The claim is that this is just the default start date for COBOL (like the UNIX epoch), but it's not even true, and even if it was, it's still a major problem if we have social security recipients with no birth date in the system.
The stack exchange question is the example. It specifically talks about a bit of information making the rounds that turns out to be wrong. You read the linked page, and didn't just jump to the comments, right?
To be fair, the regime running this playbook simply wants different rules and the people who should stand in their way have spent a decade claiming the existing status quo will stop them.

So, it's really hard to point out that we want to revert to the status quo because the winner of the last election was apathy in first place.
> I don’t think I’ve met someone that truly thinks technological progress stopped in the 1990s and that URL’s and DNS are all we actually need

I never said this. You're putting some rather strong words in my mouth. Just giving an example of something that could have been if it wasn't for NAT and an acceptance that you need a third party platform to allow you talk. Feel free to change out the pieces to whatever.

Personally I'd like to be able to just dial a FaceTime-like client from any device instead of just what Apple blesses with accounts Apple allows. And have that stack just be the norm. I understand NAT isn't the only headache that prevents this, but it is one of the several that does.

I don't think it's crazy to think easy dynamic DNS services could have become common if advertised right. People don't know how phone numbers work but in the end they know how to use them. The tech for routers to auto configure firewall rules based on client requests exists, and potentially if everyone-has-a-public-ip was common we'd have seen less reliance on brittle edge firewalls and NAT to provide so much of our security.

Killing NAT doesn't solve all the problems, but it does solve some of them. And I'd prefer solving the ones that help give users more freedom instead of accepting things like CGNAT.
The github curl worked for me?

curl -6 https://github.com -o /dev/null
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 273k 0 273k 0 0 957k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 956k
>I think the question is whether "left" always means progressive, and whether "right" always means conservative

They don't. It's widely established that sometimes in the late 19th century or 20th century that party priorities basically shifted around. But for modern times, those are generally how Left and Right assossiate.

> I would not claim that the American right is very conservative these days

I would. In my best faith interetation, they want to preseve their right to bear arms, restrict and downsize immigration, remove many federal departments made in the past 5-6 decades (like the DoED)\, and overall serve, foster small business, and reduce taxes. These are all policies to try and go back to "the good times", without understanding the history and why we can't go back. What are these progressive ideals that the Right hold?

>I don't want to really delve into political topics, however I feel strongly that what is currently going on with executive orders and gutting the executive branch workforce is not conservative whatsoever.

It is not. But they decided to trust in their elected official that this is done to protect small business. They are being hoodwinked, but they do believe it aligns with their goals. In very basic logic: ICE is deporting illegals so there's more business opportunities, and a smaller government means less money to run it, which means lower taxes. That's how they rationalize it.

It definitely is not traditional conservatism, but these days it seems the party has accepted that the ends justify the means at best.

>I also think it could potentially be argued that leftist programs, such as entitlements, social programs, etc, are not necessarily "progressive."

When we have the worst coverage in a first world country, "catching up" is still "progressive". It shouldn't be progressive, but here we are with proposals to cut Medicaid and Elon Musk calling Social Security inefficient and insecure (and sadly, he's right here. But once again, he's attacking something without understanding the history).

>In other words, they may just be no strict definition, and I think you could also argue that _I'm_ the one taking a minority definition.

At the end of the day, communication is used to (hopefully) quickly convey ideas, even complex ideas, to others. It's not perfect without being a lawyer, so there will always be a lot of wiggle room when defining abstract concepts. We've spent millenia in hundreds of different languages trying to define "love", for instance. We won't ever fully agree, but we all have this abstract, univeral, generality on what "love" is nonetheless.

Politics are similar, so I wouldn't delve too deep into definitions unless the context requires it. No one fits in a jar but most people will have a rough idea on what "Left" and "Right" in the modern US political concept is if you've conversed enough about it. Good enough for this context.
OpenAI Plans Grand Expansion While Losing Billions. Sound Familiar?
Fandom’s UI has truly won the race to the bottom. Makes me grimace whenever I see it.
I’ve taken to just disabling it.

I’d prefer to keep it on but every time I try it I run into a bunch of odd bugs. Silly stuff like GitHub container registry pulls being dialup speeds but docker.io being fine. Disable ipv6 and both at gigabit speeds. Bizarre stuff like that which I just don’t have the time and energy to go spelunking into the mysteries of dual stack to untangle.

(Out of the box opnsense)
When Trump illegally "paused" funding for electric vehicle charging networks, I wondered if it was (among other possibilities) an attempt to get some extortion leverage over Musk.

The inner dynamics must be fascinating, even without one of Musk's broodlings telling Trump to shush his mouth on TV.
In your /etc/sysctl.d/local.conf:

net.ipv6.conf.default.accept_dad=0
net.ipv6.conf.default.accept_ra=0
net.ipv6.conf.default.autoconf=0

Or, in your network startup script (like Debian’s /etc/network/interfaces):

sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.default.accept_dad=0
sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.default.accept_ra=0
sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.default.autoconf=0

Or, in your /etc/systemd/network/en0whatever.network:

[Network]
IPv6AcceptRA=false
IPv6DuplicateAddressDetection=0
> having a cheap, but not-great equipment is a good stepping stone.

I don't agree for something like this. The problem is that beginners often don't understand how to deal with the limitations of equipment--all they understand is that something is wonky and they don't know how to fix it.

In addition, bad equipment can make your initial impressions so painful that they prevent you from going further. Oscilloscopes, cheap soldering tools, etc. all have this effect. It's not unique to electrical engineering though--super cheap guitars are painful to play while something just $150 more is dramatically easier to deal with.

Where cheap equipment shines is when a beginner has been at it long enough and becomes "dangerous". They know just enough to do things but not enough to avoid things that will destroy their equipment. That's when the $20 "whatever" is a blessing because you'll get annoyed but you won't be distraught if you blow it up. Even as someone experienced, I semi-regularly destroy a $10 logic analyzer because the circuit I was analyzing wasn't doing what I thought it was (of course, this is mostly laziness--since the analyzer is merely $10 I don't take the time to double check things that I would if I were to put my Agilent analyzer on it)

> Besides, beginners won't have the skill to fully use fully-featured pro-level-gear.

Quite often, pro gear is better for beginners. For a beginner, an "Auto Scale" button on their scope that does the right thing is a godsend. Even I use it all the time. Sure, I can dial the signals in quickly, but "Auto Scale" does the right thing 99% of the time with a single button press.

Even with soldering, a Metcal system maintains the temperature exactly where you need it. You don't have to worry about having too much/not enough heat on the component you are working with. You don't have to worry about the calibration on your soldering station. A Metcal will pump a lot more energy into a big hunk of transformer and a lot less energy into a QFP integrated circuit. Sure, someone experienced can adjust for this on a Hakko, but a beginner is having a tough enough time getting solder down and the soldering iron in the right place without knocking the IC all over the place and doing it all through a microscope.

> investing in an expensive soldering station is wasteful if one decides that it's not really for them.

Used Metcal soldering systems are "expensive" ($250-$500), but they also resell for almost the exact same amount you bought them. Cheap soldering stations won't resell for anything. So, all the money you spend on a cheap station is lost if you decide not to go further while the expensive station cost all gets recovered.
I really appreciate your comment. I'm being totally sincere.

I did see the news reports about him with a chainsaw. He seemed like a nut when I saw that.

And I then watched the Lex Friedman interview and read the profile in the New Yorker.

I was surprised in that my initial glance at him was not positive but my opinions shifted.

Please give me other nuanced and intelligent discussions. I'm sorry I missed the ones you read.

I am a us citizen. I will say the fact that Milei seems very enthusiastic about Trump is very damaging to his brand for me.
Feature request: an alarm clock mode that gradually fades in stall warnings and mayday chatter when you need to wake up.
Thank you! We need more Svelte lovers against the tyranny of React.

RE: social network, I'm also gonna charge money to use it so I'm not yet another free option with a dubious future...an extremely tiny portion of people would pay for a social network so I'm hoping I can add enough features to make it feel worth it. So yeah, it's gonna be tough af out here LOL!

I've never used Tailwind because CSS-in-JS weirds me out. I looked at the docs and it seems like I just wrap my custom colors in `@theme.css`? Is there anything else I'd have to do? https://tailwindcss.com/docs/theme
Position Firing – B-17 Gunner Training Film (1944)
> I don’t believe in all-or-nothing advice.

I suppose asking for an email address fits with her stated position.
Someone sold 1.9% of coin (seems fair) and entire thing busted?
Yes, it sounds familiar because it's exactly how new industries play out in history. A rush of people starting companies to compete. One or two major ones will be left standing. The rest will close, get bought out, or merge. We're in the beginning phase.
I think they were going for a very clean aesthetic that focused attention, which it does well. My only gripe is I find the blinking a bit annoying, it could have been a more subtle gradient.
I have a story about that screen. I knew about the file’s location (a .bmp), and I usually tinker with it to show me my own. There was once an expo at a high-end hotel where IBM was introducing their PCs to our local town.

I went with a bunch of friends. I fired up Paint on a few PCs and changed the BMP file to say that the computer was “Hacked” and to be prepared (something in that line). In the following demo, they got to that screen, and there was chaos — locked down the room, the frantic shutdown of the expo for hours.

My friends had fun, and they knew then that I knew computers. :-)
> was first published in 1988

No, the social security system and the COBOL that powers it predates that standard by quite a lot.
Ayy, thank you!

Does Emacs support oklch? I wish Sublime Text did but it doesn't (otherwise I'd have a few themes launch with this as well).
Don’t take it out of context.

> “It’s better explained by stating the tech industry is dominated by certain demographics because that’s just how it is”
It’s literally an adtech company…
Indeed. DOS had primitive disk caching, but it flushed all caches before returning to the command prompt, for continuity with the time when it had no caching at all. So if you saw C:\>, you could safely turn the computer off. You wanted to exit Windows before cutting the power.

Another wrinkle to this is that many computers' power switches were physical switches on the power supply that directly closed or opened the circuit supplying power to the computer. There was no way for the computer to switch itself off like in today's ACPI-mediated world, so the user had to be told when to turn the computer off.

Just goes to show how backward and primitive the PC was until well into the 90s. Macs had been shutting themselves off, and ejecting their floppy drives, since 1984.
"PAT" is not doing any firewalling either.

(It does rely on state tracking, which it shares in common with stateful firewalls, but you could run a LAN with either a stateless firewall or no firewall if you really wanted to meet the "nothing in common with a firewall" requirement.)
IEEE754 is not great for pure maths, however, it is fine for real life.

In real life, no instrument is going to give you a measurement with the 52 bits of precision a double can offer, and you are probably never going to get quantities are in the 10^1000 range. No actuator is precise enough either. Even single precision is usually above what physical devices can work with. When drawing a pixel on screen, you don't need to know its position down to the subatomic level.

For these real life situations, improving on the usual IEEE 754 arithmetic would probably be better served with interval arithmetic. It would fail at maths, but in exchange you get support for measurement errors.

Of course, in a calculator, precision is important because you don't know if the user is working with real life quantities or is doing abstract maths.
If you're traveling with a SO and have joint accounts, check the account numbers. My wife was pickpocketed in Madrid and 2 of our 3 joint cards had the same number, meaning that even though I had the physical card, it was cancelled until we got the new cards.

We weren't aware of the issue before this happened.
I'd love for a half half solution here.

Where the phone collects notifications silently for an hour, then if there are any meeting the "alert" bar, it just buzzes or tones on the hour. Or whatever interval I choose.

I think a few times a day is plenty for my notifications, except for a couple of close friends and family -- but they're all in the same bucket. An app I installed yesterday who's messages I need but are not urgent, and a lifelong friend? Same value to the phone OS.

I'm thankful for the star contacts on Android working through dnd, but would love an aggregate/timed system for bulk stuff.
I've sat down and tried to figure this out, and never been happy with the solution. I carry an old phone as a spare, which also has my password manager and 2 factor codes.

I asked HN about this recently because I couldn't believe everyone, especially people who aren't interested in designing backups, i.e. the type to come to HN, were all thinking this through enough to have good solutions.

HN consensus seemed to be for hardware keys like Yubikey, and paper backup codes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42427443
This is true, I've heard the SF DA and police departments say so as well. They no longer prosecute or convict people of things here also, because there is no purpose, no where for them to be sent for rehabilitation. As a result we have created an open air mental institution combined with an open air drug market. It's getting pretty wild to live here.
How does the reduced palette work for you? https://uchu.style/simple.html
Why is this the color scheme for internet lovers?
I moved off of NPM and tried Caddy since Traefik seemed complicated. The paradox was that when I tried to do more complex setups like authentik as a front end and some web books, I could never get them to work with Caddy.

But with Traefik, albeit more complicated, had tons more examples to work from, and a little help with LLMs to clean up my configs when complete just made it much easier in the long run.

I tried Caddy with caddy-docker-proxy and maybe that was my issue? I’m happy with Traefik but for a simple config I can definitely see the advantages of Caddy.
What's next: 本(běn), "the root of all colors"?
I love the color schemes, very simple! Although can’t beat “catppuccin” :)
Fraud runs rampant before large market collapses.

https://www.history.com/news/roaring-twenties-scams-ponzi-wa...

It happened in the 20s, before 2008, and it's happening again. Trump doing this is an extra level of depraved, and I suspect the coming crash will follow suit.
The model of having every router being a firewall has created a fair bit of false security, with vulnerable systems being left behind the firewall and simply waiting until a user inside the network does something unwise. It seems a common story where whole hospitals or municipalities get shut down because one host got infected and then all the unpatched system in the same network got hit.

There is also a bit of conflated use of terms. A firewall on windows is just a fancy name of permission management. A program want to open a port and the user get a prompt if they want to allow it (assuming the user has such privileges). It is indistinguishable from similar permission system found on phones that ask if an app is allowed to access contacts. The only distinguishable "feature" is that programs might not be aware that the permission was denied, thus opening a port that is not actually open. Windows programmers may know more of the specific of this.
This is in quote marks but Google did not return a result. Can you tell me who said it please?
Oklch in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL (2024)
Big refiners? Have you accidently cross commented?
I'm gonna work on this since it's been a common wish.
Leaf would've been decent if not battery health issue and crazy charging port. Cleary Nissan doesn't want it so succeed. I nearly bought one as my spare EV for short trips nearby (they can be had for 1.5k NZD here). But minivan is just more useful for short trips, and doesn't break a bank either.
Yes I did… ty for telling me.
Well since the linked page said nothing about it, I'll bite:

Privacy is a check on tyranny and corruption. Some things you want to keep to yourself, even if they're not inherently wrong, illegal, or immoral:

1. Intimate moments with people you love. Like, with your genitals and stuff.

2. Medical conditions you have or might have, even if it's just embarrassing.

3. The company you keep, especially if they are politically active, accused of a crime, or otherwise subject to scrutiny.

4. Your political views. Always. It's your right share them or not, and with whomever you want to or not.

5. Your financial interests and possessions. Up to the extent required by law to pair your fair share of taxes, the rest is absolutely nobody's business but yours.

6. Particulars of friends, relatives, loved ones, and associates that might be used as leverage over you.

People pretend like a tyrannical--or just plain corrupt--government or government official couldn't just decide to come after you. Well I hope you don't witness a crime by said government official and want to report it or testify in court.

I hate to be dramatic but there's absolutely a reason why the witness protection program exists/existed. Because powerful people will try to fuck you over, and your privacy is the first step at stopping them.
It loaded for me, but here's a description for future readers.

The first image is the of the original IBM PC's power supply (or a clone) wherein there's a nice, clunky red switch directly on the power supply.

The second image is of a later AT style power supply where the switch was moved to the front of the chassis/facade. To facilitate this, it runs a pair of wires carrying mains power to the front of the case, which the switch (usually clunky, due to the current) physically toggles mains power into the motherboard.
Political appointees including the IRS commissioner have never had direct access to the system before given its sensitivity. There are likely legal ramifications that will be worked through the courts on this.
Point 2 is the basis for a pyramid scheme.
I agree with the article for the most part (except the last snippet where the author reverted to bare, mutable fields), but the point was very badly argued.

I think we really need to consider that sometimes you want a place to hold together data, and some other times you are encoding some behavioral trait, and prior to records Java did not have a way of distinguishing between them.

My rule of thumb is to avoid exposing data in behavioral classes, and prefer immutable patterns for data holders. But sometimes it's not possible to not have setters (e.g. for builders and for JPA entities).
Gift link https://wapo.st/3QizwcN
697-page book publishes a poet's 2,000 Amazon reviews posthumously
Have you interacted with the federal government? Or any government at all? Do you know how much money they waste? Do you think a 7 trillion dollar budget isn't going to be filled with multiple hundreds of billions of dollars of false payments, waste, fraud, and 42-year old loopholes that have never been closed? Our national debt is growing at trillions a year. That's not sustainable. The inflation is happening now. It gets a lot worse without this.
We already have "the answer", it's obviously bad or exceptional data. The question "is it fraud" can't be answered by looking narrowly at that data.

But the idea that no one has noticed the problem and investigated it (including possible fraud) is very unlikely.
Is netflix profitable from income gained, or from expenses "saved"? As Zazlov has shown, you can "make money" if you simply slash a bunch of contracts, layoff employees, and writeoff stuff for tax instead of releasing products. That's pretty much what all companies have done for the past two years

It's not profitable in a way that can work for a decade. It's like cutting off your arm and saying you "lost weight".