skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Focusing on the flaws is vital context for helping ordinary people understand the world. Any given study with a surprising result is likely wrong. Yeah, some of them are going to be right, but you're going to get many false positives and only a handful of studies that replicate to a convincing degree.

I've made this mistake time and time again, most recently with vitamin D association studies, and I'm grateful to all the people who urged everyone else to take a wait-and-see approach.
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But the Bible's ok...
Stupid people got unfettered access to the internet.

Essentially, this is all Steve Job's fault.
Just like oxygen, free speech is one of those things that you don't miss until you lose it. You use it everyday without even realizing it.

In a country without free speech protections, expressing an unpopular opinion about a political party or hot topic can get you thrown in prison. Look at the Syrian Assad regime or the current Chinese administration. People are arrested for merely being negative in social media posts. I can totally see the US going in that direction.

You can be nonchalant about this if you want, be there are very good reasons people are getting up in arms about this erosion of our protections.
Neither of these countries has a free speech provision in the constitution. To the opposite, both explicitly ban certain kinds of speech.
I came back to this thread after realizing I whitenoise would solve my current problem...

I'm working on a small internal tool using Django. When I turned debug off, my files stopped serving. And for this small deployment, I really don't want to have to require a separate nginx server. I get it now.
Compressing accurately requires understanding what's important.

If you understand it that well already, why are you attending a lecture that covers it?

Truly excellent lecturers can often guide some people to that understanding in a note-friendly amount of time, but oh god, most people are not excellent lecturers. The vast majority that I attended were almost literally just reading from the book in class. Book-structured information isn't at all the same as lecture-structured.
How can one be this delusional? I have the feeling you don't understand what a libertarian is or what the enlightenment was about
> Its more common for right wing parties to elect a female leader than for left wing parties to

If we define "leader" as executive or legislative positions at the federal or state level, definitely not true in the US, by a pretty large margin.
Very nice, how did you manage to bypass sites with cloudflare turnstile setup?
Exercising editorial control over publications and an information networks that you own or manage is also free speech.

As is engaging in discussion about it with people who own or manage them.
I'm open to reasonable criticism like yours appears to be.

It's not wrong to mention past given that past has great chances of returning as future. Not just in US context, but in most electoral democracies.

By not discussing issues objectively the article just reads like another NYT, MSNBC rant. Sure be my guest and go ahead but we know what the credibility of that approach is.
The UK and Germany don’t and never have had the 1st amendment.

As for “the other way around” - what I saw the right wing complaining about was “being canceled”. Freedom of speech has never meant freedom from consequences for your actions. A private business is well within their rights to fire you if you’re posting racist or homophonic slurs online.

The only thing the first amendment provides is freedom from the government impeding your speech. Doing things like, you know, threatening jail time for journalists who say things they don’t like. Or, in a functioning US government, pulling funding from colleges because they’ve got students protesting over the current situation in the Middle East.
That's damn crafty

I recently learned that QEMU has built-in support for virtual machine migration which sounds like something close to the trick this is using https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/interop/qemu-qmp-ref.html#c...
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Your best argument is that journalists should look the other way when serious problems land in their lap?

> As a company employee that's what you're supposed to do if copied wrongly on an email. In fact that's the usual disclaimer that appears in many email footers.

This analogy would make sense if the messages went to an employee of the federal government, but they didn’t.

It’s mind-bending that someone could be so bought into a bad situation that they try to shift blame to outside parties like this.
> free speech absolutist

An unfortunately overloaded term. 1) free speech absolutist meaning the government should not be censor private citizens speech in any way, 2) or twitter/similar is breaking the law by censoring X speech, 3) or twitter/similar should be considered a defacto public square and therefor the company twitter/similar can not legally censor speech on it, 4) or "I align with Elon Musk who calls himself a free speech absolutist", or etc.

Likely sapphicsnail was talking about the less principled, or not understood by principles by me, variety of people calling themselves free speech absolutist, who seem to dominate, or least be the most vocal, the conversation around "free speech absolutism" in reason years.
Full song on YouTube:
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Song with music video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU-wH8SrFro
I agree, soon systems of agents will be trained with good engineering practices not just locally-good code. Already when I work with current SOTA agents I find myself basically pair programming with them, providing senior guidance and cutting off directions of development that will be dead ends while they type all the actual code.

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Venezuela claims zero were members fwiw

> Venezuela's Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said on Friday that none of the hundreds of Venezuelans deported by the U.S. to a Salvadoran prison is a member of Venezuela's Tren de Aragua criminal gang, the reason Washington gave for expelling them.

> "I believe with absolute responsibility that not a single one appears on the organizational chart of the now-extinct Tren de Aragua organization, not a single one," Cabello said on a podcast, saying he had names of the deportees from U.S. media and his own source.

> Venezuela says Tren de Aragua was effectively wiped out in 2023, and that the idea that it still exists is based on a claim from the country's political opposition.
This is a case of things must get better before they get worse… Basic right in america have been declining for years now. And now its happening all at once.

The question is how bad does it have to get before the average Americans start to unite and fight back against this billionaire friendly legislation.

This country started by revolting over taxes on tea.
What's the point without a political pathway to remediate anything? We haven't done basically anything to fix what we were complaining about 50 years ago.

At least in prison they'll feed me or kill me, two things they'll otherwise refuse to do until you commit a crime.

Frankly, I would prefer a world where everyone agreed the government was shit but nobody could complain. It's better than people openly defending evil people and calling it the height of democracy. If that's democracy give me the PRC any day.
> Part of this problem is also because courses have (in my experience) rarely rewarded actual knowledge or understanding

It doesn't matter. There is literally no assignment you can give students that they won't cheat on. In an intro college astronomy class, "Look at these pictures of planets, what do think is interesting about them?" or "Walk around your house and look at the different types of light bulbs, what kinds do you have?" Both of these will include 20% ChatGPT responses.
I don’t feel demoralized.
Congratulations on going back. I've considered it from time to time, but honestly it just seems like too much work :)

And yes, especially the first couple years there's a lot of work. Especially if you "have a life" outside as well.

It helps that you enjoy it - indeed I suggest it's necessary to succeed. Well done.
The Saudis have oil cash for all—controversial, but it beats arguing politics with broke friends.
> By not discussing issues objectively

The article discusses issues objectively.

The article is about current events. The discussion is objective.

Your desire to bring past events into the discussion is irrelevant. That’s not what objective means. Comparing things to other things is relativism, not objectivity.

You’re just grasping at straws, but your arguments aren’t even logically consistent. I really don’t understand how someone can get in so deep that their thought process starts trying to rationalize things away like this.
Many cases during the GWOT. People in the wrong place at the wrong time accused of being terrorists, rendered, tortured, held without trial, or tried in secret courts with secret evidence.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/most-guantanamo-detainees-are-...

Anyone taken prisoner must be given an opportunity to be heard, to be able to give evidence that they aren't the right guy.

(To be clear, there's no indication the subjects of this story have been so detained)
Strongly agree. One should question tradition, not uphold it because it tradition. (Sure, tearing everything down for the sake of it is unproductive, but I’m not advising that.) Every time one does something because “that’s how it’s done”, they should pause and think why it is done that way. Don’t break fences blindly, but try to learn is there actual reason this fence is still standing.
Visa holders have all of what most would consider "foundational rights" as any citizen. They have freedom of speech, assembly, religion, due process, etc.

The government revoking a visa based on categories of behavior which are protected by those foundational rights is appalling.
I like the virtual clips feature because it does a better job of getting out of the way of how many people think. Before, I was just telling people 'here's your entire video file, good luck.' If you had 5 hours of footage from a sports tournament but your kid was only doing something interesting for 10 minutes total, you were stuck with the whole file.

My perspective is all those hours of raw footage are just raw materials waiting to be shaped into stories, highlights, or presentations. The value is concentrated in a few hotspots.

Jellyfin and Plex appear to have been built on fundamentally different technical assumptions than Video Clip Library. They expect media to remain connected and accessible to the server at all times - when drives disconnect, they often purge those entries from their databases, requiring full rescans when reconnected. It appears Jellyfin only fixed this in Oct 2024.

The reality for many isn't sleek network storage - it's often just a plastic container filled with labeled hard drives sitting in a closet.

Video Clip Library is architected specifically for the archival cold storage workflow where most media is physically offline. The database maintains complete metadata even when drives are disconnected. When you search for 'soccer highlights from 2018,' it not only tells you what file contains that footage but precisely where that physical drive is located: 'in the blue SSD in Alice's desk, bottom drawer'. You can upload pictures of each drive, print out barcodes, write detailed notes. Organization stuff.

This workflow doesn't necessarily make sense for full-time professionals with dedicated workstations, but it's ideal for the long-tail use cases that originally drove me to build this software - normal people with occasional video projects. Of course, as is often the case, people bring it to their day job and start pushing for more business-oriented features. But the genesis of this software was for the individual creator, the freelancer, or small teams of auteurs collaborating on creative projects. A tool to accommodate the stop-and-start reality of passion projects. A poor man's editing with Proxies.
Can you give some examples about this assertion?

> quality of life is falling for majority of people
let me paste the source for the fifth time in this conversation:

If you ask Grok, it will point you to the source. But let me do that for you below.

Original Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/2v8g39z2ab1jo0waj6tn4/AJhMeQd...

MR. BILL WHITAKER: And yet Prime Minister Netanyahu seems to be charting his own course. The Biden-Harris Administration has pressed him to agree to a ceasefire, he's resisted. You urged him not to go into Lebanon, he went in anyway. Does the U.S. have no sway over Prime Minister Netanyahu?
VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: The aid that we have given Israel allowed Israel to defend itself against 200 ballistic missiles that were just meant to attack the Israelis, and the people of Israel. And when we think about the threat that Hamas, Hezbollah presents Iran, I think that it is without any question our imperative to do what we can to allow Israel to defend itself against those kinds of attacks. Now, the work that we do diplomatically with the leadership of Israel is an ongoing pursuit around making clear our principles, which include the need for humanitarian aid, the need for this war to end, the need for a deal to be done which would release the hostages, and create a ceasefire. And we're not going to stop in terms of putting that pressure on Israel, and in the region, including Arab leaders.

Edited Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/2v8g39z2ab1jo0waj6tn4/AJhMeQd...

MR. BILL WHITAKER: And yet Prime Minister Netanyahu seems to be charting his own course. The Biden-Harris Administration has pressed him to agree to a ceasefire, he's resisted. You urged him not to go into Lebanon, he went in anyway. Does the U.S. have no sway over Prime Minister Netanyahu?
VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: The work that we do diplomatically with the leadership of Israel is an ongoing pursuit around making clear our principles.

PS: The above transcripts were linked from CBS site: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-publishes-transcript...
You are thinking of the Great Wall of China.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0KGvMgRE5k
I would find a lanyard attached to my belt or around my neck awkward I think. I do use a wrist lanyard through--not som much for this purpose but because I worry that I'll be taking a photo from a bridge and someone will jostle me or I'll otherwise drop the phone in some particularly inconvenient location.
Those links are the same.

How do either of those help or hurt Trump?
If there were notable cause for their actions they should shout them from the roof tops and please define support? She even as a green card holder can lawfully support verbally or in writing anyone she chooses.

All the ways such support would be unlawful would be unlawful for citizens as well. That said we know that the support she has given is writing against the gazan genocide. If they had better cause they would have already spoken them.
try using an LLM then.
The Paradox of tolerance almost never means what the person invoking it as a rebuttal to free speech thinks it means. It's not some moral axiom that demands action to shut down problematic speech whenever it happens. It's a concept that has varied views on to what extent should tolerance of intolerance be extended and to what response is appropriate when it extends beyonds that threshold.

The most frequently quoted text I've seen is Karl Popper's writing, where he states that we must reserve the right to suppress intolerant philosophies, not that we should always suppress them.

Now, some people might have the opinion that we should be completely intolerant to intolerance and that might be a defendable position in its own right, but the paradox of tolerance is not intrinsically condoning that sort of response.
https://github.com/pokulabs/twilio-frontend

I threw together a UI for sending & receiving Twilio SMS messages. Was surprised by the lack of free options, FOSS or otherwise.
I'm guessing this was submitted as a follow-on to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43524673 which was recently sitting on the front page

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While neat, I would love to see a desktop that has similar design to either Windows XP/2000, classic Mac OS, or mac OS x cheetah.

Turns out they do have Windows XP: https://github.com/winblues/bluexp
> Free Palestine protesters have been shutting down roads with their protests, this is illegal.

If someone does something illegal, they can be charged with a crime and the legal process (access to a lawyer, courts, etc). It's not complicated and should not have any exceptions.
I guess it depends how Europe responds to Greenland being invaded.
Can you explain what that's supposed to mean and provide some examples?
> if an application steals focus while you're typing your password

Definitely. Bitwarden does this ironically. It will pop-up "UPDATE AVAILABLE!" half way through typing a passphrase. Why not suppress the pop-up if the user is typing, or make it non-modal? Every few days I am interrupted just trying to unlock a vault.
I don't understand how you think this is a smoking gun?
He mentioned military aid in the part you cut out of your quote of the transcript. She responded to that by characterizing the military aid and why it was necessary, but they cut out her response to the mention of military aid because they wanted a response to only the second part of Whitaker's statement (ie the "no sway" part). Seems reasonable for a TV interview that needs to fit a tight schedule, no?
> I don't think science should be used that way: who would trust it eventually?

There's no single party controlling 'science'. It's all just individuals many of them under 'publish or perish' rules.
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I'm working on MailTrigger — a customizable SMTP server that turns any email notification into a message on platforms like LINE, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, SMS, or pretty much anything else.

The idea is simple: if your app can send an email, it can trigger notifications across multiple channels with no extra coding. Think of it as "SMTP Server to Anything."

One of the cool parts is MailTrigger supports WebAssembly (WASM), so you can customize your own notification logic and automate workflows. I’ve used it for tasks like monitoring internal systems, forwarding alerts to different chat platforms, and even adding basic decision-making logic before sending notifications. It’s been a huge time saver.

I’ve also experimented with using LLMs to assist in rule creation — you can configure notification rules using natural language instead of writing manual code. It’s like giving your infrastructure a smarter way to handle incidents.

At my company, I’m using MailTrigger for real-time price drop alerts and server health monitoring, along with integrations like Jenkins and Sentry to forward alerts to our DevOps Telegram channel.

It’s still super early, and things like the docs, pricing, and overall user experience are definitely a work in progress. But I’m iterating quickly and would love to hear feedback from this community!

Check it out here: https://mailtrigger.app/

Curious to hear your thoughts!
Inappropriate by whom?

Do you have a list of those books so I can check if I see the same kind of inappropriateness?
People voted for Trump because the democratic party is THAT bad. Instead of keeping attacking Trump maybe it is time to ponder what is it about the current democratic party that made so many people disapprove of them.
Yeah, not prosecuting serious violations of law like war crimes, tortue, and mass surveillance was a serious mistake that lead to this situation. It reinforced a culture of impunity for those in power.

Because people allowed this to happen, the current administration is now more emboldened than its recent predecessors ever have been.
I'm not sure what your point is? Coding works well on linux, games work well on windows. Neither works as well on the other.
How do you recognize a fascist, or whatever you call people who want less rather than more democracy?

I think a good rule is this: They won't agree to disagree with anybody.

Why? Because they have to suppress free speech of others, to gain and stay in power.
Weed is much more intoxicating than alcohol in my experience.
The reason you don't see "free speech" used for those causes isn't because they don't rely on free speech. It's because advocacy for them is so clearly protected as free speech that it isn't even a question. There have been times when that protection was a question in the U.S., like when protesting wars or segregation laws.

Without the right to say something, there is no legal way to organize or to demand any other right.

Edited to remove an unwarranted statement at the beginning of this comment.
If you lack purpose, you need to find purpose.

You could try getting deeply involved with a local club or group. See if you can find a local hacker space, gardening club (one where you rent a plot in a community garden so you have the “pressure” to do well), pottery, sports (kickball, pickle ball, casual), volunteer, bee keeping, indoor rock climbing, the list goes on. Whatever it is, go to all the meetings. Push yourself to become involved and not just a participant. These groups almost always need more active members.

If you don’t have a close friend group, joining a club is also an opportunity to get one or add to your current one.

Also, don’t try to search for the purpose too hard. I stopped gaming for years because there was “no point”, because after 100hrs in a game, there’s no tangible benefit. The journey is sometimes more important than the destination.

Also, you’re on month 2 of a very long journey. You won’t feel like yourself for a very long time and may never feel like your old self since your existence was likely intertwined with that other person. That’s OK. The greater the joy, the deeper the loss. I think you’re on the right path. Good luck.
That's speaks more to your social and news circles more than anything. I see plenty of condemnation of the Trump administration from free speech activists for their actions against Gaza Protestors and LGBTQ book bans.
Wouldn't it extend our day?
There is never a time where it's appropriate to give up benefit of the doubt in general toward an entity. If your starting position is that they most likely did any and every bad thing you can think of, you quickly reach absurdity.
I don't 100% disagree, but...

Consider how Obama got piled on for a minor tweak to healthcare laws, and gets called a socialist for ever mentioning that maybe the rich aren't helping out enough.

I've gotta be skeptical that Bernie's policies were majority supported at the time, and any investigation would have to look at the evidence, and especially the polling questions, really carefully.
I think what to do is a more personal thing, from which one takes care of others and the world:-

Smile, be kind and have compassion, don't judge others unfairly, do what is good and right, say only good things of others, and don't remain silent or inactive in the face of true injustice or cruelty. Respect all life. This is the human challenge and journey.

To this I would also add in these difficult times… Understand that much of what we are told is opinion rather than fact. Our own formed opinions and views based on them should be considered potentially unreliable and should be questioned.
> there is a very tenuous relationship with the right to petition. perhaps we should create an amendment enshrining those values

The USA already did: The first amendment literally includes the right to petition one's government, along with the other rights listed in the article as section headers.

> just because the president is president does not mean they must relinquish the right to legal redress for existing protections that the rest of us enjoy.

Libel of public figures literally requires a higher standard than "the rest of us".