skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s no dishonor in bartending. Failed business owner turned agent provocateur on the other hand…
> can't think of a single reason why the Israeli government would oppose an extradition request

Because they want to foster such companies, and not deter people from founding them by showing them that they will be extradited to the US?
On the flip side, if you're putting enough money through your account PayPal will give you a VIP account manager who will make sure everything is great and will go to any lengths to keep your account working for you, regardless of whatever the fuck it is you are selling. Even if you were running one of the world's largest TV show torrent sites. PayPal would ask for an account so they could look around and then they would be like "All good! Keep going!"
To quote one of my favorite movies, "big bada boom."
>I too have watched Numberphile. Rest assured, there's little to no risk of their extremely popular videos being bad.

No, I wasn't talking about Numberphile. I was actually talking about videos from Institute for Advanced Study:
https://www.youtube.com/user/videosfromIAS/videos

Last month, every one of those videos that had a young female professor in the thumbnail had the "men of culture we meet again" spam and other rude comments. All the comments have been recently deleted and disabled.

>Hacker News, a website providing nothing but informational content with no visible downvote ratings?

The HN (net) downvotes are visible because the posts are greyed out. For tech topics (not politics), I don't scroll to the bottom to read a bunch of greyed out comments. Downvotes lowering their visibility are saving reading time on HN. Same idea as Youtube dislikes.
it's likely that not every Congressperson has some deep dark secret that makes them blackmail-able

You don't need to control every congresscritter directly, just to control them by proxy is enough. The nomination committees have a lot of power on who stays and who goes, for example, and so do subcommittee chairs.
> i think somewhere along the conversation i either misrepresented myself or you missed something though...

I don't think you misrepresented yourself, nor that I misunderstood what you meant.

> The compromise is to cede the word "marriage" from a governmental legally defined word to a word that can be used by each person...

But I do think that's a bad idea. Language belongs to everyone, not any religion. If they want their own separate word for a societal concept that has no basis in any religion, let them come up with their own new word for it. Marriage existed long before Christianity or Islam, and I'd guess before Judaism too. Ancient Egyptian pharaohs were married, weren't they? And I doubt even they came up with the idea. But society, and probably even "government" of some kind, existed even then. In fact, AFAICS at least "society" must have -- the whole idea of marriage makes no sense except in relation to the rest of society: "We're in a long-term exclusive relationship; please treat us, in many respects, as a single unit." If a couple are the only two people in existence, it makes no difference if they're "married" or not; it only starts to matter if there are other people around.

To extend the message I usually advocate giving to religionists: Just as you keep your pecker in your pants and out of my wife, you should keep your sexual mores in your bedroom and out of mine; your faith in your church and out of society as a whole; and [new addition] your ideas about marriage among yourselves and out of everyone else's language.

Who the fuck do those nutjobs think they "are,* to decide what everyone else understands as "marriage"? And why do you advocate ceding this power over what separates Man from the rest of the animals, namely language, to them?
Unforced Errors
Fwiw I think what's good about breed rescues, when they are good, are virtues that shelters could also have, in principle (and some shelters do). I would rather rely on robust, publicly funded and publicly accountable shelters that emphasize foster programs of their own than fall back on a ton of random, breed-specific, donor-funded organizations. Seems like that would be better for dogs of mixed and unpopular breeds, as well as more convenient when it comes to locating a dog for adoption.

I wonder whether breed rescues have an easier time finding fosters to volunteer for them than shelters do. I could imagine they might, because of emotional attachments people have to breeds that look like dogs they remember from childhood or that they've had positive experiences with or whatever.
I think Python still has a place for CLI tools, both internal and external.

If you can get away with a zero dependency Python script then there's no struggle. You can download the single Python file and run it, that's it. It works without any ceremony and just about every major system has Python 3.x installed by default. I'd say it's even easier than a compiled Go binary because you don't need to worry about building it for a specific OS or CPU architecture and then instructing users on which one to download.

Argparse (part of the Python standard library) is also quite good for making quick work out of setting up CLI commands, flags, validation, etc..

There's a number of tasks where using Python instead of Bash is easier. I tend to switch between both based on what I'm doing.
Yes, I stand corrected.

Or more like 'How much stuff/value is created with what amount of money per hour'
Not sure what your definition of "rarely" is. Normal well-liked videos have a 10 views to 1 like ratio; that does not fit my definition of rarely.

When the dislike count was available, videos in the same category I mentioned above would get 100 likes to 1 dislike, perhaps that I'd call somewhat rare.

But either way, I also don't care about the removal of the dislike count at all, one can still access the ratio via views to like count.

It does sound actually crazy that people are up in arms about this.
Mumps cases in vaccinated people increasing, reason why is unclear
Sounds like you might be interested in the best of both worlds - programming some graphics! Maybe check out things like shadertoy and libcinder -- I find these relaxing ways to program while also having creative graphical output.
I'd suggest Glycine but if you are not allowed sugar for medical reasons, consult a doctor first. Glycine like many chemicals play many parts in the body and combine with other chemicals, like other amino acids. Its one of the ingredients of creatine, now creatine gets broken down into creatinine which is a gram positive and gram negative anti bacterial, and bacteria in the brain & body can also affect personality so there may be other factors at play contributing to your mood. If you want to study this, then you should know the answer to your question!
So add it?
You're painting things with too broad of a brush. Not only do things vary by professor and institution, the issues you raise aren't particularly relevant ir prominent to a course on Shakespeare's Tragedies, Ancient Rome, most of the field of linguistics... I could go on.

Critics in this area have latched on to a few prominent outliers or bad actors and used that to create a false narrative about the entire system.
Wait, what about that one time NSO's malware was used to hack Jeff Bezos? Pretty sure he'd have used a +1 ... number.
> it’s obvious that, despite exceptions, most stories portray “goody-baddy” dynamics

This is simply not true. At all. Sure, good vs bad is a very simple narrative and so is commonly used, especially in things like children's stories.

But the whole form of Greek Tragedy is based on the idea that bad things happen to good people. That there are no "goodies and baddies". Fortune gives and fortune takes away.

Some of the most popular and retold stories in Western literature are not good vs bad. There are no "good guys and bad guys" in Romeo of Juliet, To Build a Fire, The Gift of the Magi, etc

There are, of course, challenges. But those challenges are not evil or bad. They are just the human (or natural) condition. Childlike minds might demand a good guy vs bad guy narrative, but it's not universal.

In fact, I would wager that many of the hunter-gatherer societies that the author hand-waves away as simplistic have very complex story-telling mythology and cannon.
> I feel like people who make comments like this have only experienced NYC/SF and the deep suburbs of those areas.

Agreed. I don't understand the false dichotomy of either ultra-dense NYC/SF or else having to drive 20 minutes to the nearest shop. That doesn't fit my experience at all.

I live in a small town (~10K people) surrounded mostly by forest and mountains, so relatively rural. This is in California.

But I can walk to just about anything I need (multiple supermarkets, pharmacies, hardware stores, many restaurants, movies, etc). On my bike I can easily get to the far side of town (about a mile away) for even more choices in restaurants and shops, breweries, pubs.

So it is entirely possible to have a house well outside a large city and yet have everything within walking distance.
Thank you for this comment. So beautiful.

Similar experience three years ago, including Mom's Alzheimer's, and falls for both. Dad lived long enough to see Mom out. It's all he wanted, then he was ready to go, and did two weeks later.

Couldn't agree more with the following line:
>I don't think anything wrong or tragic happened.
> We simply seem to have too many STEM grads for our economy to support.

No, we don't. STEM grads makes way more money than most other grads, hence there is no glut of them if it were then STEM grads salaries would fall until they make the same as business grads or even literature grads or other fields where there is a glut of people to do the jobs. Engineers go to software since it pays more than their main field, but their main field still pays way more than a typical grad job.
How is that actionable? Who defines what “good attitudes” and “the goals we have in common” is? Also “difference of opinion over efficiency” seems to indicate that it is better not to make progress, and be outcompeted by the competition, than to value one opinion over another. In other words, eventually the company will fail and everybody loose their jobs. People disagree all the time. You need a mechanism to pick one opinion over another to make progress.
A lot of those "start buttons" will pop out, leaving a 'keyhole' for your remote to fit into.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6SMcElAwtE
It is mainly a side grade, if you are a 3D modeler by trade then I would tell you to learn it anyway because blender is being developed at a *far* faster pace than any other dcc packages maybe other than Houdini
This opinion feels to much like a cliche. Management needs to know what’s going on, even in well run companies. You might not like giving progress reports, because you feel like it takes time away from your job, but it’s possible that management is using the progress reports to better the company as a whole. For instance, if you’re behind schedule they can allocate more resources to your project, etc. I’m sure you have many anecdotes where management wasted peoples time. That happens often too.
> By turning off dislikes, users will be forced to engage with additional content.

Why?
I wrote a tool specifically for this, mostly inspired by the Snippets tool at Google. I've been publishing my weekly log in it every week for almost three years:

https://whatgotdone.com/michael/2021-12-03

The code is all open source if you're interested in playing around with it:

https://github.com/mtlynch/whatgotdone
You could use TLS notary perhaps.
This is ridiculously. Major changes like this are decided at the top.
Vagrant is written in Ruby but is currently getting ported to Golang.
Paypal doesn't, however. I wanted to switch bank accounts associated with PayPal and just... couldn't. That account is now dead, and I've switched to carrying a checkbook with me to settle up dinner with friends.
I find AWS Amplify is good for smallish projects, things like blogs, portfolio websites, basic ecommerce sites etc. The config is super easy. 1 click integration with github, protect autodetection (e.g nextjs) and CI/CD pipelines are ready to go.

I recommend it, especially if you just wanna knock out a project without wasting time with ops
Additionally, and not to split hairs here, but buried in the middle of the article is the fact that it's a Technic set, not actually a normal Lego set.
Wow, are you me? I had exactly the same frustration for that specific cannon after seeing a friend's shoot across the room. I wrote them a letter also, my parents helped me, and I included the "defective" cannon in the envelope. They sent me it back with the same reasons (safety concerns). Hah!
>>Smallpox, rabies, tetanus, and tuberculosis are practically extinct in Western Europe because of vaccines. Let's try to add Covid to that list, please?

This shows an an extreme ignorance as to the type of illness we are dealing with, also the seriousness of them.

While COVID is serious, it is not where near the level of a Smallpox. Covid has somewhere between a 5% (in the elderly) and a 1% death rate for the working age population. Small Pox was over 30% fatality rate. Small Pox was so bad that before the vaccine was wide spread people were willing getting an infection of a "lesser" illness (that was about the same lethality of COVID) that then made them more immune to small pox itself

Further due to the nature of COVID it is highly unlikely we will be able to eradicate it do to the fact there are spread vectors that are not touched by the vaccine (namely domesticated animals) and the fact that the mRNA vaccines does not "kill" the virus in the same way the SmallPox vaccine did, instead it simply allows your immune system to respond to the infection making you less ill so you do not need hospitalization

100% vaccination would mean it becomes a common cold, or annual flu, not that it is extinct
It's easy to imagine the next logical step - Google only shows you targeted comments - if you're right leaning, you only get right leaning views etc.

(I'm guessing Facebook has already experimented with this).
Ouch, right, I borked the name of the GNU kernel - sorry and thanks!
+1 for Emacs Org-Mode.

But of course you'd have to have bought into the Emacs ecosystem. Then again, Org-Mode may be a good first step!
I was just going to ask, how does Lego possibly have a claim on the brick design when they ripped that design directly from Kiddicraft?
I really like Blender, especially as a modeler. The only major downside is the nightmarish user interface, which doesn't seem like it's gotten better in this release. They reverse most UI best practices, for example they had right click to select by default up until sometime last year. Their panel UI system is kludgey and painful. There's lots of hidden and non-obvious functionality. The benefits of Blender far outweigh the pain of learning the terrible UI though.
There is such a thing for payment processors, which includes PayPal and maybe eBay; it's https://www.consumerfinance.gov/complaint/.
I've been curious - has the warrant canary idea been endorsed by anyone's legal counsel? I can't tell if it's a real legal loophole, or a letter-of-the-law thing that a judge would treat as equivalent to revealing a warrant.
If you have pleasure doing this, then the time is not wasted even if nobody ever sees your artwork except you.
The only other way to engage is to leave a negative comment
> With white text on black, there is some blooming effect that makes reading more straining.

This depends heavily on the display. White text on a black background is a joy to read on an OLED screen.
I just use Amplify as a CI/CD pipeline tool for handling distribution, Etc. I don't use the actual framework in my applications.
> It baffles me how much people claim to care about a metric that seems only to be legitimately useful in the edgiest of edge cases, and has literally never been of any use to me.

Different use cases for YouTube, presumably? If you're listening to music or watching well-established content creators, then dislikes are basically irrelevant. But if you're looking for a "how to" tutorial, dislikes and comments are the only way to quickly sort the good from the bad.
I think the vaccine is probably as effective as two doses of a laxative.
Any 75+ year olds that survived the two doses of the laxative, will now have better outcomes against covid.

Keep in mind the effectiveness is measured in tens/100,000. An there are some very sick people given the vaccine, that die before the 14 days of the second dose.
Then they are setting up a constitutional challenge with the ECJ, just like Poland. They were on the brink of it recently, when it got hushed it 'because Poland was doing it', but this kind of thing will highlight the fact that Germany doesn't accept ECJ Supremacy either. Interestingly enough, they may back off just enough so that the Germany-ECJ '40 year dispute' doesn't get inflamed, hoping that maybe after a few more decades it will just 'go away' with a German Judiciary, Parliament and Population that just accept the ECJ Supremacy, even though it doesn't actually say that in any treaty.
Start Me Up: The Story of Windows' Start Menu and Taskbar
Inventors Killed by Their Own Inventions [slides]
All the vaccines you mentioned were not declared as mandatory after one year of use, or better said trial. All these vaccines combined in the whole decades of their existence had less registered side effects than only BioNTech in one year. All these vaccines provide lifelong sterile immunity.

None of that holds true for any of the COVID vaccines, that barely protect some of the people for a few months and yet people and German government want to make them mandatory? For „the good of society“? If that is not totalitarian I don’t know what is? Even worst dictators didn’t try yet to push a needle and inject some chemical substance into human body without consent.
Can you explain why that is for us who aren’t well versed in geopolitical issues.
I should also add that there is a duckdb fdw, so you could have DuckDB read from your parquet files and do faster transformations before you pull your data into Postgres!

https://github.com/alitrack/duckdb_fdw
My append-only system for *nix, sits in my .bashrc:

# Open Personal Logfile at end, optionally appending log entry for today if it doesn't exist
function ed ()
{
local _cur_date _most_recent_date;
_cur_date=$(date +%m/%d/%Y);
_most_recent_date=$(grep --color -o -E "^# [0-9]{2}/[0-9]{2}/[0-9]{4}" ~/${LOG_FILE_NAME} | tail -n 1 | cut -d' ' -f2-);
if [[ "${_cur_date}" != "${_most_recent_date}" ]]; then
echo -e "\n#\n# ${_cur_date}\n#" >> ~/${LOG_FILE_NAME};
echo "Command Comments" >> ~/${LOG_FILE_NAME};
printf "%0.s-" {1..81} >> ~/${LOG_FILE_NAME};
echo >> ~/${LOG_FILE_NAME};
fi;
$EDITOR +$(($(wc -l ~/${LOG_FILE_NAME} | awk '{print $1}')+1)) ~/${LOG_FILE_NAME}
}

>>>

#
# 12/03/2021
#
Command Comments
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<some cmd> # My description of what cmd does, in my own words
Murder of Wilbur Wright
Better link: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mobile/aws-amplify-studio-figma...
We can agree on that, yes =)

I was thinking about this and when you look at the top keyword searches on Google, it's dominated by people searching brands each year, so I think Google is just naturally optimised for this. I think any Search Engine designed for the masses would probably have to behave like this too. https://www.siegemedia.com/seo/most-popular-keywords

I agree, I think the early web was used more for general information rather than specific brand information (and was more useful for people like myself). I'm not sure what is needed to get more results such as university papers or personal web-sites as I think that people use the internet differently now and that the link structure reflects that.

It's interesting that Google isn't used to search for people anymore (I couldn't see any people in the recent top 100 keyword search data).
Show HN: Alt JSON Schema – shorthand to validate/shape any JSON
I have rehosted!:

https://deepdreams.stavros.io/

dang, if you see this, could you repoint the URL to the article? Thanks!
Idea Maze [pdf]
> they want to foster such companies

If that's true (which would be disappointing when you consider what "such companies" means in context) I assume the Israeli government already have "entrepreneurs" ready to jump into that market if they haven't already. "Showing them that they will be extradited to the US" if they fuck up in a conspicuous and public manner that is problematical for Israel and her allies might be considered a win by everyone involved except the NSO executives involved.

Of course, politics is complicated and NSO might have powerful friends in government. Or the Israeli government might be complicit in some ways that they really don't want to become known. So who the hell knows?
They will comment instead, which is a more valuable form of engagement. A quick dislike and then moving on is less time spent on a video? People return to see responses to their comment, end up in conversation or reading other comments. My guess anyways.
I definitely see your point. At the same time, I think a lot of "tech" has really derived value by circumventing regulation and norms - easy examples are Uber and Airbnb which seemed great and legitimately "disrupted" tired industries, but it turned out a lot of stuff in those industries was the way it was for a reason, and when companies mature and end up putting that stuff back, their competitive advantage evaporates. That could also be true for ecommerce (broadly defined) - if they can't viable run a business without having x% of customers get shafted because they have an issue where they can't even talk to a person, is that still OK? Maybe it is. Is it OK that a company is able to destroy any competition by not offering personal service, so the people it screws have nowhere else to go? I'm not sure. Maybe it's not 20 minutes (I picked that because I know that if the regs just required a phone number companies would have a 30 hour wait time, or an infinite one pretending you're almost there) but there needs to be some standard - or a credible threat of competition that isn't there with platforms
But I'm Not sure it have file sharing and collaborative whiteboard?
> Lots of officials and government agencies to your local fire department uses Twitter to communicate to public exclusively.

Speak to policy makers directly and demand they publish directly into publicly owned infrastructure.

we live in a world where the interoperable social web exists. Gov bodies could shoehorn those protocols into their content management systems and bypass commercial social media directly. no ponzi blockchain necessary either.
There's obviously no requirement that you must be US citizen. The requirements are known as KYC -- know your customer -- and simply require a certain amount of due diligence. It means you've verified that the customer is who they say they are, and that the account is in their benefit and not someone else's. It's part of the wider AML framework -- anti-money laundering.

It sounds like Privacy is falling into KYC territory and is not able to farm it off to the host banks. But then any limitations around requiring SSN are due to their implementation, and not to the KYC requirements.
The Parable of the Disheveled Dev