skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this is a notable problem in all of such conversations. Classifying people based on the opinions they express is a prime example of a logical fallacy.

But it's somewhat understandable why this happens. Those in a position of power want everyone to see a convincing enough reason behind their actions so people won't be opposed to them, be more obedient and just don't dissent. So they resort to elaborate logical fallacies, portraying everyone as never changing simple minded static blobs that can be classified into categories in order to judge, ban, punish and police them. Ironic, given what the article classifies people for.
As has been pointed out a couple of times, it's not a question of left vs right though, it's a question of liberal vs illiberal. The number of people who have lost their livelihoods for mere speech (on both ends of the political spectrum) goes to show that the illiberals do have significant political and financial power, and toleration is declining.
That is the difference between a model and the reality. It "should" be fair, but in reality (with all the factors you see, and maybe several others that you don't) it seem to not be working that way.
Meanwhile: after the EU budget talk all representatives of the dictatorship boasted that they could avoid the provision which ties the budget to rule of law.

Basically they were proud that they won't have to be lawful.

And the EU just let them.
To be fair, they could be asking for the identities in order to summon them as witnesses against twitter. I don't hold much faith that this is the intention though...
Russians did the same in SF a few years ago in the same circumstances.
Both myself and my mother were diagnosed with ME at one point.

And I agree, even when my tests came back weird my primary care doctor would say, "What do you want to do now?"

Argh
There is an argument that the black plague was one of the driving forced behind the rise of British democracy causing a labour shortage that added fuel to the rise of the middle class.

Now I've got no idea if that is a convincing argument, but it is plausible enough to say that a counterfactual world without antibiotics might have turned out better.
...paint 1 of 6 predetermined shades of brown.

You've answered some questions I've had about Dallas...
I am highly impressed by the production values as well as the research quality here. Edited in an attic studio, facilitated by Google Translate.

The YouTube auto transcription is brutally bad with Callum’s Scottish accent, though. Do uploaders have the ability to manually edit subtitles?
Thanks for posting this. Every time I hear of someone saying that there should me more Internet services based in Europe, I cringe. And I say this as a European.
True (political pro tip: don't send your army on "vacations" in bordering countries)

At the extreme, this is the base for civil disobedience: it is a disruptive breaking of the rules, but in a morally conscious and thought through way.
For me personally, it's the volume. If you concentrate on your local area, particularly if you live somewhere smaller than a city, there are crimes and tragedies, but even if some of them are horrible they're relatively few and far between, and can be processed mentally. If you take the entire world of 7+ billion people you could spend your entire waking hours reading about brutality, tragedy and horror from around the world and not run out. Many of us - particuiarly new addicts - have psychologies that are tuned to stories which provoke emotion, so we're drawn to those them. Until relatively recently, you wouldn't be able to get many of those stories outside of occsaional TV programmes and "World's Grisliest Murders" books. But now there's a firehose of horror that you can tap into and it's both fascinating and debilitating. I've found the only way is to do what Charles Simic's dad did, and not read it. I hope that there's some kind of a resurgence in online local journalism that's not driven by advertising, because that feels like the only thing I should read on a day-to-day basis, unless there's something of national importance going on (which, unfortunately, in these days does actually seem to be every day).
I don’t use SQLite on a server for the simple reason I’m to lazy to look after it. There are cloud managed sql server or psql databases. AWS backs me up by default. Why mess around with SQLite.

Not knocking SQLite - great for desktop apps or maybe local dev environments.
Well said.

pg might be interesting again if he said what "unsayable" and "aggressively independent-minded" things he actually wants to say, and I wish he bloody would - we've got no choice but to read it.

"independent-minded" is such a cliche now - it's often a euphemism for something else. Surely more truly "aggressively independent-minded" people are homeless addicts, not rockstar founders. What's the right balance between conformism and independent-mindedness? In what areas of life? This 2-axis system is way too simple. Start there, dude.

By implication pg (and YC) recognise and value independent-mindedness - but as you say, from the outside YC appears to reward conformism to their well-understood creeds (as well as just playing the odds of an enormous number of companies, rather than being clever pickers).

(edit: removed snark, however deserved)
Well, we also have quite high obesity rates in the United States...
When I read this part I thought it really resonated:

> In adulthood we can recognize the four types by their distinctive calls, much as you could recognize four species of birds. The call of the aggressively conventional-minded is "Crush this essay!"

He chose such a prescient example.
Exactly. Or just lower vendor search rankings.
I could add so much more to this about the state of affairs which claims the problems in the present era were seeded almost 300 years ago and that the supposed freedoms of today enshrined in that hour were not, as it were, a byproduct of the age of enlightenment, but rather, an insideous plot concocted by masonic and conventionally minded globalists planning a society that would protect the issues they cared about and protecting their assets against outside exploitation. I could say that america needs to die, and in truth, although most of it will survive, it will go through a rebirth, and become a new thing, not like the phoenix, but rather like the butterfly, which shares many pieces of the old but is a design of the new.
I'm so sick of this "both sides" garbage. I'm not R or D, I'm not even an American, but one side, the R side, has simply gone insane, and the other has barely changed at all, except to move to the right.

> They will actively try to ruin your life over wrongthink.

In most cases, the wrongthink is someone saying something so horrible that most people are disgusted.

A small number of these cases are definitely an overreach.

On the other hand, the Republicans have allowed 140,000 people to die horribly, with hundreds thousands more on the way, and most of these deaths were completely avoidable: https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/19/faster-response-prevente...

This is what baffles me about Americans. "Well, the Ds were rude to some people, and the Rs killed a hundred thousand American. I can't see the difference!"
Or they knew all along that the government would bail them out, so they were playing a very different game than everybody else.
This is true, but I regularly get recommended good non-fiction books by friends which don't suffer from that, so they are out there.
That’s an entirely different claim than the one I am highlighting as incorrect.
I'm surprised this is the only mention of Hack in this thread so far.
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Process can be automated depending on how the account needs to be verified. Might be that say for a brand account it is connected to a domain ownership/verification model, where 1) email address must be in a particular domain, and 2) email must be able to complete a challenge/response process that demonstrates they control the company website - eg some random value is sent to the email address and they have to make it available via an https resource on the company domain.

For personal celebrity accounts maybe verification is just that the email address must send in a scan of a government photo Id, and sure maybe that triggers a manual check, but it’s not just a ‘two keys’ solution - it’s a verification process.

Sure, the same admin console might be able to go in and change the verification mode and rules on a verified account - but that’s something that would happen rarely, and a flurry of activity changing the verification process for a bunch of accounts would definitely merit a red flag.
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> The press doesn't have to be a centralized, edited company. Citizens can report news independent and locally.

Citizens can, but the quality and length would for the most part be short and incidental (outbreaks, viral videos, etc.)

But in-depth investigations, into corruption, into nation-wide, critical issues, will usually require dedicated staff with budgets. Can't place that on a citizen's shoulders
Full-time in Clojure since early 2014; the jobs found me even before I had professional Clojure experience. There is definitely work out there... we have been hiring nearly continuously in Chicago for the past few years: junior, midlevel and senior alike. This took a pause for COVID-19 but I expect that to end soon.

Your mileage may vary, and I don't think the language is for everyone, but it is very satisfying to work with and it's putting groceries on the table for lots of people. (I'm happy to discuss more; contact info is in my profile.)
I think it's a good summery. Just remember that, when interpolated more widely, it applies to everybody in all kind of settings. Getting into a position where they can worry about paying the rent in Bronx is the dream of many people who have much more serious things to worry. It doesn't even need to be about material things.
It is worth mentioning that /cdn-cgi/trace doesn't only work under www.cloudflare.com. It works for any https?://DOMAIN_WITH_CLOUDFLARE/cdn-cgi/trace . It is an easy to determine whether a website is using CloudFlare or not too.
The problem is that it isn't really the "news". It is infotainment. I'm not talking about the fact that truth is subjective and every story has a lens.

The truth of the matter is that the story (and "updates") are all crafted specifically to be addictive, to be click bait. It isn't about sharing information or exposing the truth. All that matters is ad revenue. I do get it that we need to pay journalists. It has become clear we need a new system. I guess NPR kinda has a solution via patronage. If only we could now get more different viewpoints this way. God knows we have enough multi-billionares to fund it.
The aim is to have a spec that is much LESS complex than the code, written at a higher level, abstracting away details. If the spec is 5x more complex than the code then indeed there’s no point.
If that is your position I would refer you to the myth of thamus[0] and the writings of Neil Postman.

[0]https://bearskindigital.com/2015/01/20/the-myth-of-thamus-an...
I've been fascinated by this one since visiting the Natural History Museum in San Diego:

"A 130,000-year-old archaeological site in southern California, USA"

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature22065
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Twitter knows how to check a signature though.
Caveat is I’m talking about the Tim Ferris claim! Yes it’s definitely a once only trick.
I don’t know of any opportunities, but if anyone’s taking ideas for products in this domain then I would like an app or website that links volunteers with animal shelters, farmstays and other places that could use a few extra hands.

It could be like a combination of Airbnb and Couchsurfing etc. that serves a specific niche.
If you spun up a VM in 200 locations like Cloudflare, that $3 VPS suddenly becomes $600
> If you are about to answer "Copyright", remember - you can't Copyright facts.

Nope, US law was changed over a decade ago.
I would guess it's the same mechanism as used in gambling , gaming and social media to addict the user: variable reward.

For some reason if you are given a reward with unpredictable interval in some specific context, this will create a dopamin kick in your brain.

So I would say you are not addicted to the news as such, you are addicted to the dopamine kick that picking up an occasional interesting news-article from the endless queue creates.

Slot machines, games with surprise reward loot-boxes, doom-scrolling social media - they all utilize this simple neurological hack.
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SQLite is incredible. If you are struggling to beat the "one query per second" meme, try the following 2 things:

1. Only use a single connection for all access. Open the database one time at startup. SQLite operates in serialized mode by default, so the only time you need to lock is when you are trying to obtain the LastInsertRowId or perform explicit transactions across multiple rows. Trying to use the one connection per query approach with SQLite is going to end very badly.

2. Execute one time against a fresh DB: PRAGMA journal_mode=WAL

If at this point you are still finding that SQLite is not as fast or faster than SQL Server, MySQL, et.al., then I would be very surprised.

I do not think you can persist a row to disk faster with any other traditional SQL technology. SQLite has the lowest access latency that I am aware of. Something about it living in the same process as your business application seems to help a lot.

We support hundreds of simultaneous users in production with 1-10 megs of business state tracked per user in a single SQLite database. It runs fantastically.
The charity Turning the Page runs Carpe Librum pop-up used bookstores in Washington, DC. When one opened downtown some years ago, I walked in and saw 30+ (I counted) copies of Eat, Pray, Love on the discount shelves.
To me, this is the most important line in the article:

> SQLite scales almost perfectly for parallel read performance (with a little work)

They aren't using stock SQLite, they're using SQLite wrapped in Bedrock[1], and their use case is primarily read-only.

SQLite is fantastic at read-only, or read-mostly, use cases. You start to run into trouble when you want to do concurrent writes, however. I tried to use SQLite as the backend of a service a couple of years ago, and it locked up at somewhere around tens of writes per second.

[1]: www.bedrockdb.com
Great service, thanks for running it!
Yes, this is the book I'm referring too.
He should really come out of his ivory tower and put a comment section on his blog.
I recently bought a Nintendo Switch from Amazon (not a third party seller) only to open the box and find the switch itself missing. Baffled at how this slipped through.
> One really unfortunate side effect of this is that Japanese Wikpedia has very few images compared to other Wikipedias. Things that would be fine in an article, like book covers, are excluded because their Wikimedia file page would not have commentary and, so the thinking goes, would be infringement. (I remember reading the discussion that came to this conclusion on a Wikipedia discussion page years ago, but haven't been able to find it since.) This is why the Japanese article for Anpanman has a photo of a mural, for example, while the English article has a book cover.

Where would the violation occur if the Japanese article also showed the book cover? We've stipulated that the article poses no problem. But the Wikimedia file page already exists. Does that page violate Japanese law? Would it violate Japanese law more if a Japanese article legally displayed the same image?

> Practically speaking, if you license a work for use it's pretty common to have a clause saying you will not exercise these [moral] rights

Huh. I thought the idea of moral rights was that they were inalienable. If you can contractually waive them... that seems like a conceptual contradiction?
Part of it is systemic though. Those that do have professional curiosity are unable to explore it due to constraints by insurance companies. Overall cost is the primary motive instead of quality of life. I imagine working in the medical industry is very disappointing for people that entered it with the intention of helping people.
How is independence defined? In France, every big newspaper is funded partially by the state. The total amount is close to 2 billions euros, with big news paper getting from 5 to 7 millions a year. Without this they will close. Sure, on the surface they criticize some government action, but the real control is more about the questions they don’t ask, the topics they don’t cover and the not-so-subtle political orientation of every article published. Control by big entreprise is the second factor that make they not really independent. Again, this make the newspaper not challenging anything when is comes to corporate interests. In a way it’s better in the Hungarian case because things are really obvious so it may trigger people to take action for a change.
I am in the U.S. and I am lucky because I am white and my OCD kept me from using any drugs to cope. But I was hospitalized several times and had a few suicide attempts, plus my family history. Those are all big factors in getting disability.

If you are homeless and do not have an address there is zero chance to get disability. That is why we should house them first without any qualifications. Or maybe they justneed to set better goals. :)
Probably more expensive to train some warehouse workers to analyze returns to the extent of plugging it into a computer and seeing the size than to just deal with this happening some time.
Thanks, I thought I understood it, I was just hoping someone else would also reach the same conclusions. I delve into these types of thing only as a pass time, so I wasn't sure if I was reading it correctly. It just seems so bizarre.

I never imagined the Judiciary would back or merit an order that essentially infringes on the Executive's prerogative to operate. As I understood it, the Judiciary could rmdismiss cases brought by the Executive as a check, but not outright tell the Executive how to operate via restraining order. That seems a little too "legislating from the bench" for what my detectors are tuned for right now.

What a strange time.
But this is experts we are talking about. There's supposed to be some degree of translation between models and real life. The point of the fallacy is that this translation can be very debatable and restricted in many fields, and that a good observer with decent intuition can beat those models easily.

If this was about a purely intellectual roleplaying game with internal rules there would be no discussion in the first place.
Citizens are doing this with what spare time and what spare income? And with no backing of a larger entity if they get lawsuits?

There’s a need for well funded journalistic organizations everywhere. Well funded (and independent) being the key because people have to eat.
i read the title and got interested, glad I skimmed. This is very misleading. You didn't "make" a service, you used someone elses.
I get the idea (although I’m not sure I’d call it a ‘fallacy’), but the examples are horrible.
The Case Against OOP Is Wildly Overstated
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You've articulated why I come here perfectly. I've learned so much coming here and on twitter etc but I had to wade through reams of shit to find it.
Is this how this is supposed to work, then? A lot of people get angry about something and demonstrate/riot, and in response the laws get changed to pacify them.

There's a term for that: "mob rule". It's not a good thing.

I'm not for one second saying that Police brutality isn't a problem. I don't live in the USA so I don't know. I am saying that if your system doesn't provide a method for fixing this problem without rioting, then your system is probably broken, and it might be better to fix the system and then use the fixed system to fix the problem.
fits nice to my wetransfer alternative http://www.upload95.com
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> I'll assert that the only benefits of FPGAs over ASICs are one time costs and time to market.

There's one more big one: the ability to update the logic in the field.
They should build proper Linux driver first without enormous signed blobs. One of the worst companies for FOSS community.
This is true, but smart doctors know how to work the system. But I am on medicare so it might be easier for my doctor.
> the vilification of having views that are not the same as the majority leading people to feel repressed

The fact that most of these "views" are things that are false to the fact - like "climate change is a Chinese hoax" or "vaccines are bad" or "Obama is a Muslim married to a transsexual" - this doesn't bother you even a little?

What this demographic wants is to be able to have false, hateful, destructive beliefs, and suffer no consequences from their abhorrent ideas.

Sorry. The First Amendment guarantees people only the right to spew ignorant hateful shit, it doesn't guarantee that we have to take that hateful ignorant shit seriously.
Logging strategy for single user apps (desktop and mobile) is probably very different from a multiuser app such as a web service, since things can interleave and the volume is much larger. With a web service I’m usually not as interested in what the user did fifteen minutes earlier because the nature of the web usually means any information is kept on either end (a db, a request) but in a client side app you will often want an activity log that outlines what the user did, and that’s not what naturally follows from a normal “subsystem log” where different pieces of code just log what they are up to.
The reply from Amazon's support Twitter is the indication of a far larger problem in most business. Namely, it's easier to deal with the consequences of "mistakes" than it is to not make them.

e.g.

- the "fines" Google and Facebook keep getting for breaking privacy and other laws which are laughably small.

- customer support teams not dealing with serious customer issues until they get attention (viral tweet, front page HN etc)

- monopolies in most forms: e.g. the big-tech anti-poaching agreements

Generally I'm all for "it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission" but that assumes that you are acting in good faith but still sometimes screw up. It seems like "screwing up" has become a good way to ensure short-term profits and as everyone is obsessed with KPIs and OKRs at a 1-week to 3-month time frame, the incentives are all wrong.

And "mission statements" and "cultural values" are too synthetic to come close to fixing this.
Ha ha well that’s a different story more to do with bonus culture. An example of where the street smarts might come into play in modelling the modellers and predicting 2008
Your claim is made by taking a sentence out of context - context which says the reason they are told to disperse is that they are breaking the law. You made up a strawman, and are highlighting it as incorrect. I never made the claim you are highlighting as incorrect. Only you did. So you could prove it incorrect. Good job, very good argument you had with yourself, and you won it.

FYI, people don't twit in twitter. In real language, we speak in sentences, not a single sentence, to communicate an idea. The narrative doesn't end with the first period.
What happens in instances where rubber bullets are coming from another source than CBP guns?
Quick, someone make a political compass meme out of this!
More standard without all of the correctness foot-guns, less to configure and operate, and it’s usually faster. MySQL has to do a lot of work running as a separate process, handling connections, etc. whereas SQLite is just doing file I/O in your current process.