skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"All the calls for calm today are exactly the calls for calm they've always been in America -- calls from folks who are not suffering to those who are to just deal with it."

Martin Luther King Jr. and the rest of the non-violent Civil Rights movement during the 1960's were calling for calm as they were being beaten, firehosed, attacked with dogs, imprisoned, assasinated and lynched. So I guess you must think they didn't suffer?
I very much dislike media like this that tries to reduce polarization by "presenting both sides" because, at least on its face, falsely presents "both sides" as "equally valid" when that just isn't true

there are positions like trans rights, voting restrictions, climate change, etc. that don't have "equally valid perspectives" from both sides - and treating like such is foolish

I know attitude doesn't help the problem but it's my two cents
The law doesn’t care about the value of a contract, it’s enforceable or it’s not, and I don’t think you have the slightest clue how damaging it would be if I were to sue (again I never I would) and it to come out in discovery that the marketplace reversed the transaction I was the buyer and refused to reverse the transaction I was the seller because the seller the supported pays them more than I do and as a result reversed their transaction not mine. Or even a more generous interpretation of your comment that there is a non advertised fee you can pay to reverse transactions after the fact and the same is not disclosed to users and buyers of those particular domains.

I’m just telling a story of what happened, you seem to be arguing and it’s really bizarre. If you wanted to discuss the law in good faith fine, I’m happy to do that, but you are taking everything personal and lashing out with comments like my “low value domain” and just seem to want to justify what they did from error to paying for a special non advertised service that permits reversing sales...so I’ll step back.
No, we shouldn't.

Among those "privileged" people are the ones who are actually capable of leading a revolution in North Korea, and will not be outspoken about it until they have a proper plan. I do not believe in imposing restrictions on them.
Maybe, but I suspect people who actually care that Travis K. is running the ship would at least google the company and end up finding out that way.
That's gonna be true regardless of what happens, the NK regime isn't exactly going easy on the propaganda.
It's infeasible to make sure a server is only accepting "legal" content. I've never heard of a case of someone being jailed because his system involuntarily received some data that happens to be illegal. Normally what happens if there is illegal data that anyone cares about, the hoster is contacted and told to remove it.

>it just doesn’t seem worth the risk.

Well, the concern is only yours.

This does raise the point that if police contact you to remove some data you are hosting for someone, you lose money, and they will likely not give you back whatever money you lost (all the more reason it should be fully anonymous like Freenet but IPFS and co are obsessed with trying to solve every use case in the world including legal compliance).
How? I mean there are shady American transport firms.

This isn’t the result of big massive conglomerates. It’s mom and pop small firms.

People to small and broke to sue.
Take everything in the world. Every physical piece. Break it into the smallest slice you care to: (atoms, quarks, whatever). The count of those things is bounded. It's a huge number, but it's finite. Infinity is not a real concept, it's imaging that there is no number that can be bounded.
I think you need more verbiage on the front page to say what it's for and how to contribute.
Pretty the sure the Census is mostly conducted by the USPS though.
The second example sounds a bit like the citi debt thing where they accidentally paid the entire principal when they meant only to pay a part.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/02/citibank-just-go...

Maybe I'm stretching it a bit, but the element of reasonably assuming that it was intentional seems similar. I'm sure there are some differentiating intricacies in the law though.
The year was 2021, and everybody was finally equal.
Having been exposed to the internet at a very young age, I feel like an outsider in my own country and culture. There's just too much difference with others (hobbies, interests, way of thought... nearly everything), too much things I miss / don't (can't?) understand, and a lingering mental feeling that "I don't belong here". It's a really cold feeling that is always just there.

I was always lonely, but sometimes some people would be friendly towards me, and I'd feel sad... "Come play <some sport or a local game> with us," they'd say. "I would love to.... but I can't. I don't belong here," I'd think. Of course, I couldn't reply with that.

I don't really belong / resonate with foreign cultures either. The internet (at least the part I was on most of the time) is mostly Western, but there are many differences still.

My 'home' has become with individuals, instead. Some people really resonate with me and make me feel that I belong with them, that I am not a stranger, not an outsider. They are extremely rare, but they're here; parent and siblings, along with some very close friends. And I am honestly very thankful for their presence.

Communities like HN as well don't give me the "I don't belong here" feeling. I don't know why... maybe because I grew up with communities like this? (I grew up with the old forum boards of old. It's a shame that most are dead now.) Or maybe because these communities are mostly defined by their contributors, their users, and so I don't feel like a stranger? I am not sure, honestly.

I have been wanting to write about this for a while in full detail, but I haven't had the time unfortunately.
It's baffling to me that no one has mentioned about jpeg-xl here yet.

It solves most issues mentioned in this thread https://jpeg.org/jpegxl/
Yeah buddy. The security service is just like internal affairs for the USPS. It's actually pretty creepy inside the USPS they enter through different doors, they have catwalks with two-way mirrors, etc. The SSF and DCF or whatever they're called (been a while) are super creepy to observe. You are CONSTANTLY being watch when you work there, but unseen faces. There is a reason 'going postal' became a thing. Imagine that atmosphere!
Nope. A textualist, maybe, but originalists would very much be looking towards English law for guidance on what the Constitution meant.
YOLO: You Only Live Once
Why Lichess will always be free
> You seem quite upset about this subject, but I'm not really seeing what's got you up in arms.

Because icons make things pointlessly harder to use. Instead of teaching children 26 letters, do you want to burden them with learning thousands of "standard" icons in order to read?

Are you really helping tribes that have had no contact with the rest of the world?

As for Unicode, a boatload of these things gets invented and added to Unicode every year. Where does this stop? Do we really need an "alphabet" with a million symbols in it?
Yes it's powerful, I agree about that. At the same time, it's not type safe (but Deno + Typescript would be), and the syntax is a bit funny, like the differences between `( (( [ [[` which I annoyingly often forget. One day, when I saw code like this:

if [[ ${1:0:1} = '-' ]]; then
...
set --

I got a bit annoyed, and said to myself that Bash scripts almost should be forbidden. I didn't know that syntax `${1:0:1}` and there wasn't really anything to websearch for — just different symbols.

Websearching for "bash bracket colon colon" something actually worked but it took a while. In a typed language, I'd just clicked a function and would have seen the docs, in an instant.

> from zero to a script that's production ready in like an hour with option support, help text, man pages, shell completion, signal handling that's portable to any system.

It seems you've been used Bash for quite a while. Then I'm guessing in your case, it's a good choice. Agreed that dependencies for Python or Deno or whatever else is annoying to have to include (the Deno runtime is sth like 50 - 60 MB if I remember correctly)
I'm going to directly rebut/address some things that I disagreed with, I'm going to to try to do so calmly and in a way that furthers discussion, let me know if I don't do a good job. This is obviously a politically charged topic, so I'd ask folks to use their votes on how effective I am on articulating my concerns and furthering discussion rather than if you agree/disagree with my political opinions.

He discusses the response to Chauvin's trial --

This... misrepresents a lot of people's opinions. I don't say, "Derek Chauvin's sentencing was good but not enough." because I'm appealing to my tribe, I'm saying it because I genuinely feel we have significant improvements we need to make to policing. A single conviction is a watershed moment, but it isn't the same as doing the hard work of reforming or abolishing policing. It's not nothing, but it's also not enough. It was necessary, but not sufficient (assuming you believe policing should be reformed.)

He says, "I never thought I'd use the word sectarian to describe US politics" --

US politics have been FULL of historical examples of violent conflicts over politics. From independence, abolition, the civil war, the bombings of unions, the civil rights movement (and the murders of their leaders), the handling of the AIDS epidemic -- there are many, many cases where sides have resorted to literal violence against individuals and leaders on 'the other side'. He goes on to say we were founded to be a democratic society free from sectarianism, but this seems like a very hagiographic view of our history.

People vote against candidates, not for candidates --

Yeah, this makes sense. I'd agree with this. I don't know anyone who voted for Biden who was excited about it.

"The emotions of feeling under assault are powerful, but if we succumb to them, then we deserve our violent fate" --

This needs to be challenged more. There are communities that exist that are under assault. Trans women, for instance, face a rate of violence that is unbelievably high. What are communities under assault supposed to do? There's a material difference in my mind to communities that are suffering violence at the hands of majorities, and telling them "don't feel under assault" when they very much are is counter-productive.
Ask HN: Why can't the NBA have promotion and relegation?
Watching this week in European football, it made me realize the power of fans in sports. Why are we forced to endure the boredom of the current NBA cartel? What would it take to fashion a proper basketball pyramid here in the States?
Tilting Trains and Technological Dead-Ends
Some people think that knowingly exposing someone to HIV should be a serious crime (I don't know if it presently is in any jurisdiction; I'm fairly certain there have been attempts to pass such laws at least).

Is this an example of the positive right that you say never existed and leads to all manner of evils?

Do you think the proponents of it are uniformly politically aligned with the people in favor of masks for COVID?
Interesting, I read that more as a call for more union power and worker ownership. Our biases are showing. :D
Another example is std::mem::swap. In the world of affine type system which Rust uses, swap is a primitive on an equal footing with assignment (which is actually called move). So naturally, move was written <-, and swap was written <->.

But <-> weirded people out, and people complained why Rust has so many special and strange operators. So Rust developers made it look similar to a library function. But it still is a primitive: it is impossible to implement swap yourself in safe code.

The result is that people use swap much less than they should, either because they are not aware of it, or because they think it is a specialized library function for special cases. This is significant and large cost. But it is still less than cost of looking weird. All because people won't even try languages with <->. Alas.
Facebook Failed to Prevent Stop the Steal
A few years ago, I made node.js packages to do this for MySQL (by reading changes from the replication log) and Postgres. (using triggers) Both require specifying cache invalidation functions for each dependent table.

https://github.com/numtel/mysql-live-select

https://github.com/numtel/pg-live-select
The real world also privileges confident speakers.
Yeah. FWIW as a white British/Irish guy, I've felt comfortable in Japan. (I've had racism here, but I got it in the UK too).
The question "where are you from" is vague. I think it always depends on the context and your current location. Like if you are living in Toronto and took a trip to the US, I think it's appropriate to answer Toronto. If your in a bar in Toronto and someone asks you that, I think it would be misleading to say your from Toronto as that would imply you grew up there.

I just think of the question as a conversation starter I guess, give as little or as much info as you want to give the asker lol
What’s the chance this story gets flagged? It always seems like the people in favor of forced equality try to hide their actions.
Kids are not robots and learn at different rates in different topics and it is functions of genetics and experience, it is wrong to very large extent to train everyone equally outside basics of reading, arithmetic. Objective of education should be to maximize kids learning opportunities in topics they are interested and display some predisposition from age of 4 and beyond.

Standard that one size of 10+ years of education fits all is false. Yes, some kids my have no interests and/or predispositions, it does not mean they failed in any meaningful way, eventually they find something given opportunities (similarly but less strict/competitive education is today) they are passionate about.
I'm surprised income and wealth inequality didn't enter into the discussion. That seems like a significant contributing factor to sectarianism and the culture wars.

Economic dividends concentrated in a smaller group coupled with technology that is accessible to everyone and amplifies the differences between the two groups seems to portend a bad outcome.
A better solution would be payment based on a minimum GB and bandwidth where the data is constantly being streamed back over the network with a payout period of ~5min. This way you can guarantee that you will get all your data back at least once a week. You can also guarantee via network latency that your data is not being collocated. Sounds crazy but it would be more energy efficient than bitcoin.
If you re-read my statement it doesn't justify or praise Saddam. "Saddam did nothing wrong" in the eyes of the US.. like Salman did nothing wrong that is worthy of punishment in the journalist murder case, from the US point of view.

It merely states that the US will happily create, fund and tolerate monsters, but the moment their are political enemies they suddenly become devil incarnate. Happily fund and arm bin-laden, and extreme fundamental ideologies and then turn around and claim the high moral ground. Today KSA can do no wrong and Iran can do nothing right. Tomorrow if KSA switches sides, then they will suddenly become evil tyrants that have regressive views and torture their people.

It's not A vs B is a flawed comparison. It's A makes B, both are evil and roll around happily in the mud. A then claims moral superiority and is called out on it's bullshit.
"imagine the reaction from their advertising customers"

Imagine the reaction from their viewers!

The sad fact of the matter is that the media strategy you describe would be worthless if the viewers didn't lap it up and ask for more.

The media's just giving most viewers what they want.
Well, that could also be related to openbsd barely being used...
A sqlite database observation system in swift:
https://github.com/groue/GRDB.swift#valueobservation

I don't believe it includes any efficiency magic to know "which rows" are affected. Even knowing what tables are affected required some... creative coding. A little insight into how it's implemented:
https://www.mail-archive.com/sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlit...
Speaking of extra characters, I'm pretty far in with the `git` commands. `git checkout` -> `g c`, `git status` -> `g s`.

I usually do `g c -` but I guess `g back` wouldn't be bad.
Where are the exploits for TempleOS? Come to think of it, where are the users, and where do most security researchers direct their attention to?
FYI for 2. the “compliant with US labor and tax laws” part isn’t going to happen how you think. If overseas developers use unlicensed stuff or break a US NDA, the blame will still fall on you. Foreign citizens aren’t bound by US laws, so you would need to contact a lawyer in the foreign country to figure out how to cover your bases.

Not trying to advise against it, just laying out the liability explanation that a lawyer told me.

Think about it the other way around - if you were a contractor for some business in Poland, it’s not like you would be worrying about being dragged into a Polish lawsuit in the same way as you are in the US.
Hmmm. While I likely agree with you on many of the issues you’re highlighting.. what your response highlights more is exactly what the hosts are identifying as the real problem. Which is kind of ironic.
It the same issue but with a slight of hand to shift blame.

There is a sentiment that at a macro level the economic system is geared to advantage those at the top.

What I see mega corps are doing now is try to shift that frustration from a discussion of class to a discussion of race.

Suddenly the white working class outside of major economic centers, the same ones who have seen their economic prospects erode over a generation due to deindustrialization can be painted as the villain and racists.
No.

The point of the thought experiment is that innocent people are being murdered by the state from time to time for crimes they did not personally commit.

The purpose is essentially "if you are willing to put enough trust in the state to get it right every single time in capital cases, then shouldn't it follow that you be willing to put your own life on the line in the even that the state turns out to be wrong?"

They don't believe it would ever happen to them. Support for the death penalty is support for the state to have the power to end your own life, too.
Personality and Political Attitudes [pdf]
King did not call for calm, in fact often the opposite. Here's a quote from him:

“Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored. . . . I must confess that I am not afraid of the word ‘tension.’”

King was non-violent, but he did not avoid conflict. King regularly called on people to break laws because they were unjust. He specifically called for increasing tensions. And he was called an 'agitator'. He specifically chose not to condemn riots:

“But it is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard.”

And he famously objected to calls for calm and order:

“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice”

Edit: Removed my judgement of the parent poster's understanding of King from the comment.
Strange! Sadly I don't remember the experience of learning about scope myself (I was too young), now I find it hard to see the "mind state" that makes it hard to understand.

Isn't it a feature of natural languages to have the same word assume different meanings depending on where it's used? The concept translates nicely, and in PLs it's completely explicit whenever this happens.
But then you lose all the space saving advantages.
But if no party has the majority, they will be forced to form coalitions on issues to get anything done. As it is now, whatever congress does is basically up to one person, the majority leader/speaker.
Is it remotely plausible to believe a group of unarmed protestors were seriously attempting to gain control over the most powerful superpower the world has ever seen with their barehands? This narrative strains credulity, counselor.
Can Someone ELI5?
A Symbiosis with God
Smart is how well your brain works. Education is the things your brain knows. Wisdom is the combination.

Smart does not imply having knowledge.
Is knowingly exposing someone to an STI without their consent in fact uniformly legal everywhere? Have you ever heard of anyone suggesting it be illegal before?

I'm not expressing an opinion here; I'm trying to understand why you would take for granted that everyone thinks such behavior is ok or inevitably legal, setting aside the specific context of COVID and current partisan conflict.
Job applicants for junior trading (market making) roles are often given similar questions. An example question might be:

"Make me a market on the height of the empire state building."

By this the interviewer means: what price would you buy at and what price would you sell at?

So for example I might respond 1000/2000. which means I'm buying at 1000ft and selling at 2000ft. Presumably, I believe the true height is somewhere between these two numbers (ideally 1500ft), at a certain confidence level. The interviewer might ask you to quote a spread given a confidence interval.

The interviewer might then lift your bid or ask and then ask you to make a new market. There's a couple factors at play here:

1. The interviewer has more information than you (presumably), so whether he bought from or sold to you is valuable information. You might want to raise your quotes if he buys in order to capitalize on the new information.

2. You want to decrease your risk. So for example if he just lifted your bid, you might want to lower your quotes: offer a lower price to buy and a lower price to sell. A good market maker capture the difference between the bid-ask spread: the price for which you buy at and the price that you sell at (like any other middle man). By lowering your quotes, you are increasing the probability that you will flatten out your risk (you are not trying to speculate on the height of the empire state building).

These two things are in contention, and the interviewer wants to see how you think about it/deal with it.

Also the interviewer wants to ascertain whether your confidence levels are correct over multiple questions. ie if the confidence level is 80%, then you should be wrong (true value lies outside your range) about 20% of time. It is not good to be either under or over confident. Accurately dealing with uncertainty is what they are looking for.

Anyways I thought this was a very similar process that you were referring to, except you are dealing with money. Which always helps to clarify things!
There is a domain name I wanted and the minimum offer price is 140k. I don't know even know who will pay for it, it's not like it can be used for a company name.
Even the mail man is glowing now.
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...And you think there'll never be an M2? Or M1X, or whatever branding Apple decides to put on their 32/64/128/???-core version that supports terabytes of RAM?