skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you're giving a great summary of these stories.

The first two are related to personal defamation:

* Police horse and dog: people could be arrested for "threatening, abusive or insulting" speech in public at the time. The police, being wankers, overused their discretion on "insulting" speech and so the law was changed in 2013 to remove "insulting" as a criterion. https://newsfeed.time.com/2013/01/16/you-may-now-call-a-poli...

The rest fall under hate speech:

* Seig Heil dog: fined £800 for hate speech for posting a video of the dog to YouTube. He said "gas the Jews" to the dog 23 times. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dog-nazi-salute-sentence-mark-m...

* 19 y/o Snoop Dogg lyric: 8 week curfew, fined £600. She added "kill a snitch n** and rob a rich n**" to her Instagram bio. https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/woman-wh...

* The guy repeatedly left the cartoons in airport _prayer-rooms_. "Other [images] linked Muslims to attacks on airports." 6 month suspended prison sentence (not sure about the length of the pre-trial detention), fined £250, 100hrs unpaid work (community service?). http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseyside/854961...

I don't necessarily agree with the criminalization, but these 3 instances were all people doing shitty things I don't think they should have done. Downplaying the parts people actually got angry about makes it seem like you're complaining about the people getting angry about the actions rather than the trials and punishments.
People also forget Roblox is 15 years old, it predates Minecraft. During that time there has been constant development. The founder has a lifetime of building educational software, and had a full career before Roblox.
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> So my theory of the sequence of events in a nutshell is this:

1. Engineers write code to get around a difficult design problem in order to keep the project moving forward.

2. The design team runs out of time to fix the problem and faces a classic dilemma: delay the program, at a cost of millions, or bury the code to buy time to work on a solution.

3. Once the timeline passes the point at which metal is cut, the die is literally cast and the engines are destined for production, no matter what. At this point, the only career saving option for the engineers involved is to say nothing, and just hope they can get away with it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/14/business/the-engineering-...

> The two men who have led Volkswagen and shaped its culture much of the past 20 years are Ferdinand Piëch, the chief executive from 1993 until 2002, and Martin Winterkorn, the chief executive from 2007 until his resignation after the scandal became public.

Mr. Piëch, a grandson of Mr. Porsche, is an engineer who made his name shaping Audi to take on BMW and Mercedes-Benz. His tenure came to be defined by his toughness and willingness to demote or dismiss people who were not performing well.

> Some critics argue that after 20 years under Mr. Piëch and Mr. Winterkorn, Volkswagen had become a place where subordinates were fearful of contradicting their superiors and were afraid to admit failure. “There is a self-righteousness which led down this terrible path,” said David Bach, a senior lecturer at the Yale School of Management who has followed the Volkswagen case.

Bernd Osterloh, chairman of the Volkswagen workers council, wrote a letter to the staff suggesting flaws in company culture. “We need in the future a climate in which problems aren’t hidden but can be openly communicated to superiors,” he wrote.
M1, E-Trade, Trading 212, Interactive Brokers, TD Ameritrade/Schwab and WeBull halted options as well.[1] There are a few more I'm missing.

I wasn't happy about it but I don't blame them. As much as people were talking about over 100% of GME shorted, I can't imagine how much margin on top of margin people were trading while there options had yet to be settled. If anything the issue should be how long it takes a trade to settle.

[1]https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/robinhood-we...
How do you make a username non-transferable?

It sounds like all you've actually invented is "identifying people by their bank accounts", only with more steps.

I suppose if the NFT could be registered using an anonymous cryptocurrency, it might end up being a more privacy-preserving system than getting people to pay for an account using traditional methods.

It also might be cheaper than paying to join multiple services, if you only have to pay once and can use your NFT username across them all. On the other hand, a single malicious admin could try to extort you by threatening to ban you from all those other services.

A better approach would be a blockchain-based anonymous identity system, which is apparently what BrightID is:

https://www.brightid.org/
No, we know the difference between damages and settling.
UI that's incomprehensible even to the people of closely related professions is more or less the norm for 3D-modelling software. Blender is not even the worst, there are lots of pretty expensive commercial editors out there that are worse (take a look at ZBrush for example).
Isn't the authoritarianism in the fact that the hardware you buy doesn't let you just install your own firmware?

"Memory safety" has the word "safety" in it, but really it's just a tool to help developers avoid bugs. I want to be able to install whatever I like on my hardware, but I certainly don't want other people to be able to install whatever they want on my hardware.
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Daring Fireball isn't worth this level of analysis and hand-wringing. This is an overreaction to what's at best an issue about access journalism. Who cares what a blogger thinks about the values of an enterprise size company's work from home decisions in the wake of an historic pandemic? The answer is: no one important. Enough said.
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He explicitly states his motive for playing the music on tape.
How do these downvotes arrive so fast?

HN is clearly a forum where big companies have their guys monitoring to downvote an adverse opinions.

I ought to join lobster.
Also the cash - liabilities calculus not looking good.

$8.8B in cash - $7.7B in liabilties = - $1.1 billion

I'll pass.
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the playing of the song doesn't make the recording of the video any less factual or truthful.

it would just be harder to publish on youtube itself and there are other social medias
> I recall reading about a console game for one of Sony's competitors using the console's DSP to decompress game data during loads instead of synthesize audio.

Maybe Burning Rangers for SEGA Saturn? That game uses alpha transparency for rendering fire instead of the usual (for the time) SEGA-style mosaic transparency, but it uses the sound processor to do it and has very sparse audio as a result: http://segabits.com/blog/2011/06/05/retro-review-burning-ran...
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He didn't play it for himself.
You're the one making the affirmative claims here, and you haven't provided anything real to back them up. It's not our job to do research for you.
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Perhaps we already have disrupted the traditional employer<->employee power dynamic and the re-invention of employment bargaining doesn't look exactly like the old unions?

SWEs have more bargaining power than ever right now (at least in the US, which is the market I'm most familiar with) .
There are two aspects to the story. One, the shoe shine boy probably heard a lot of stuff. Two, he definitely had no business in trading stock. And two is the important one, once "dumb money" shows up in droves it is maybe time to get out.
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This alone:

>>The deal also reportedly includes a framework to eliminate digital services taxes, which targeted the biggest American tech companies.

>>In their place, officials agreed to a new tax plan that would be linked to the places where multinationals are actually doing business, rather than where they are headquartered.

Was enough to address this concern:

>>If widely enacted, the GMT would effectively end the practice of global corporations seeking out low-tax jurisdictions like Ireland and the British Virgin Islands to move their headquarters to, even though their customers, operations and executives are located elsewhere.

Not only can the concerns that are being used to justify a global minimum tax be addressed through other means, the tax agreement itself is a terrible policy, because it freezes the evolution of tax policy for the whole world, presupposing that an income tax, and specifically a corporate income tax, is ideal.

There are structural problems with the corporate income tax, and many economists argue for eliminating it altogether, and replacing it with other types of taxes (e.g. a transaction tax, a carbon tax, a land tax, etc). But this locks it in place as a constant for all countries.

It's exactly this kind of homogenization of governance that Europe had to get past to prosper:

https://aeon.co/amp/essays/how-the-fall-of-the-roman-empire-...
Why? If it were applied across the board, then every business would just treat it like any other business expense and price accordingly. On a theoretical zero-margin business it would translate dollar-for-dollar right to the customer, yes?
that’s a big oversimplification
The tail of an off-by-one error in GHC's linker
Modern Java (11+) has jshell, which has interactive goodies like tab completion, documentation display, paren/bracket matching, etc.
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Some (Sony) pop up random nag screens in the middle of the movie or show you're watching. Even if that show is being streamed on a different smart device or you are watching OTA TV where internet is completely unnecessary.
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Underpaid workers generally know the pay going into a job. I don't think that makes it fair or unfair.
> In the US I know as a fact that some banks like Charles Schwab have also made retail investing accessible for ages…

I was helping a friend open an IRA with Schwab the other day. After you sign up, it just plops you into their dashboard with no instructions at all. Search function was useless, actually took tons of clicks for me to figure out how to fund the IRA and invest it in an index fund (for example, the list of target date funds isn't found anywhere on their menus, I had to google and use their secondary fund site to find the symbol).

Basically they sure didn't make it easy or accessible for new users, where as with Robinhood it is immediately obvious how it works (I know Robinhood doesn't have IRAs but the patterns for regular investing with other brokers are similar levels of clunkiness)
I think it is one thing to have regulatory risks(of course those are always present), but another to have a recent history of investigation and to be wrapping up the largest fine in history.

Obviously some or even many people will take these risks as a possible promise of greater returns and for the sake of Rh, I hope they get better and better at navigating the regulatory waters. It would be interesting to see the financials if and when another prolonged downturn happens.
Very upsetting the mindset of a police officer (sergeant!) who will harass someone while listening to a pre trial hearing for an officer who murdered a man having a mental breakdown, and then upon being recorded will attempt to interfere with that recording. Police officers are given extraordinary powers by society and yet they can act like spoiled brats (or worse). Not cool!
Important to remember that sheriffs are elected, so the constituents like it that way. Some people here may think that this particular sheriff is corrupt and inhumane, but the good citizens of Etowah County disagree.
> Crucially, the number of tokens burnt per name would increase as more and more usernames get registered (or as more and more time passes)

This is just a tax on the young.
What were the economists saying in 2007? 1999? 1987?
I would say critical thinking, learning to distinguish good information from bad is a valuable life skill that is only getting more valuable with time. Something we should try to teach people about from a young age.
Although they weren't built into the language, conditional expressions were first used in Fortran in 1957 by John McCarthy: "I invented conditional expressions in connection with a set of chess legal move routines I wrote in FORTRAN for the IBM 704 at M.I.T. during
1957-58. This program did not use list processing. The IF statement provided in FORTRAN 1 and FORTRAN 2 was very awkward to use, and it
was natural to invent a function XIF(M,N1,N2) whose value was N1 or N2
according to whether the expression M was zero or not. The function shortened many programs and made them easier to understand, but it had to
be used sparingly, because all three arguments had to be evaluated before
XIF was entered, since XIF was called as an ordinary FORTRAN function
though written in machine language. This led to the invention of the true
conditional expression which evaluates only one of N1 and N2 according to
whether M is true or false and to a desire for a programming language that
would allow its use." From http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/lisp/lisp.pdf
Back in 2003 I was chatting with a Dutch guy who was ragging on the US because we hardly used SMS. I guess we will eventually catch up to what the rest of the world is using now as they move on to something more spectacular.
Yeah, I get that cops aren't very popular these days, but this is a very clever hack, and I like to think that the HN crowd is logical enough to appreciate it, regardless of the perpetrator.
I'm not sure how it being recorded makes a difference. If I'm listening to a CD and someone walks up and starts filming me, would I need to stop listening to it because the filmer might post it on youtube?
Lots of people on Unix systems prefer the much more permissive guessing zsh offers.
OK, since you asked: Why did their membership in a union not preclude this outcome, given that one of the purported benefits of unions is to prevent such outcomes?
>Here's a rule of thumb: exercise very hard for one hour (swimming, running, or racquetball) and you'll lose about one ounce of fat. Light exercise for an hour (gardening, baseball, or golf) will lose you a third of an ounce. Want to lose a pound of fat? You can work it off by hiking to the top of a 2,500-story building. Or by running 60 miles.

https://muller.lbl.gov/TRessays/22-ThePhysicsDiet.htm

Caloric restriction is the way to lose weight. If that knowledge is not enough, and a book doesn't fix the problem, the solution is likely a regiment, program, club, routine, or subscription. Enter Weight Watchers. https://health.usnews.com/best-diet/weight-watchers-diet https://health.usnews.com/best-diet/best-weight-loss-diets

If paying money to a service to help you count calories does the trick, it is the answer. Food consumption routines and subscriptions should be allowed, because despite being profitable businesses, they also are beneficial to society. It may or may not be hard for WW to deliver its message around this ban. I would hope that Pinterest has somewhat flexible rules, and makes good judgement calls when something is close. I personally would err on the side of allowing WW to advertise, without letting it be a slippery slope back to snake oil.
Imposing taxes on a legal entity always seemed fishy to me.

Politically, it sounds great to say, "Make the corporations pay their share!", but who exactly are we targeting with these taxes? Is it the rich executives? Why not just raise taxes on the rich directly?

I suspect in most cases the tax burden is just shifted onto the lower-income workers or the customers somehow.
How are developing countries going to catch up with developed ones if they agree on the same tax policies?
It's almost like there is a systemic problem within the department...
Spam on matrix tends to be racist gore images which is 1000% worse than irc text spam
It's not ironic because they aren't the same thing and that isn't the only difference. In one case, you're banning someone over something they can't change about themselves and didn't choose. In the other case, you're banning someone because of an opinion they hold, that you disagree with. I do not consider those to be the same thing.

(Is the above also an argument that religious affiliation shouldn't be a protected class? Yes. Unpopular opinion that I hold, and I'll take the heat for it.)
Do they disagree or rather do they prefer someone corrupt and inhumane for the position?
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Think or Swim is awesome if you're technical or putting a lot of time & geeking out into this world.

Robinhood is awesome if you're new or want something much simpler.

If I was daring, I might compare it to Linux/MS vs Apple on here but I don't dare because people would take that the wrong way.