skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's wrong with that sentiment?

1. US/nato didnt send military so close to Russian border at this scale before

If a country that I had a cold war with amassed military near my border I'd be rightfully paranoid (I am not from us or russia btw)

2. Deescalation needs at least one side not amassing military there else its a never ending spiral into war.. and due to #1 us/nato should take that step, not act like russia, rather be better

3. Like others said, the same sources that lied about Iraq, Afghanistan etc.. yeah, it's come to it that many comments that said that are (or looks like) from us citizens
Corrupt carriers in other countries splitting the money, etc.
I certainly agree that certain aspects harm its own adoption, primarily from choice anxiety which can be overwhelming. That said, there is limits to what I think should be standardised. Nothing stops standardised approach being incorrect, and inertia allowing problems to fester.
I've noticed that is a a problem in open source video games. To be fair it doesn't easily translate into the FOSS realm but maybe we think too much of converting existing commercial methods of development to FOSS. An open source dreams like platform, where there is standards could be more effective.

That said that doesn't mean everything should be unique. We should allow time and experience to generate good robust concepts then allow those to be easily utilised.
This problem would not exist if the price of a call would be known before making the call. But we live in a world where "it's cheap, just use it, we will the exact bill later" is the norm.
I thought about expanding the "Killed by" concept to other companies and doing precisely that "Awesome"-style project, but it takes a lot of time between researching and verifying old, mostly broken internet links to compile that data.
Just what I thought! When someone's a sufficiently bloody nuisance, ban them from the airline for some time. What is it with people who think everything must be done by gov't?
This article has already been flagged so will die soon but anyway, you might want to look into Russia's Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
For consumers at least, it's the law in the EU. Every phone network has either a pricing document or a webpage where you can type a number and it tells you the price, and if you were charged something that isn't that price, I guess you could demand a refund, and escalate to a court if the refund wasn't forthcoming.

Note that these documents frequently list some numbers at ridiculously high prices (eg. €25 per minute), presumably to deter such fraud.
> But does that mean I automatically believe the opposite of anything the US government says from that point onwards?

It means that you can't trust governments when it comes to major political conflicts. Lies for the "greater good" have always been a standard thing in such situations
And the Budapest Memorandum means nothing to you? https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%203007/P...

Every country can make their own decisions regarding their international treaties and alliances. The NATO expansion is also not something that’s happening against the will of the people in eastern countries. After the Crimea annexation, most countries in that sphere of influence turned anti-russia and more pro-nato. The majority of Ukrainians is currently also pro joining the NATO.

> Since June 2014, polls showed that about 50% of those asked supported Ukrainian NATO membership. Some 69% of Ukrainians want to join NATO, according to a June 2017 poll by the Democratic Initiatives Foundation, compared to 28% support in 2012 when Yanukovych was in power
There is no method of accessing any good or service that the rich can't take more advantage of than the poor, because the rich can pay someone to do things for them. So by this logic, the entire economy shouldn't exist.

Very convenient for bureaucrats nostalgic for the License Raj.
I do think that there is a certain mob aspect to it which is... uncomfortable. And when the affected people don't really have agency unlike in this case (i.e. some 20-something posts something dumb on social media that embarrasses their employer and they get fired because that's the easiest thing for their company to do), that's even more uncomfortable.

But ultimately individuals can't and shouldn't be prevented from doing anything they want within the bounds of law.
templeos could be interesting if you make it kid friendly
As a manager you need to help set up a culture where showing unfinished work is ok. On my current team I will often make a quick prototype and ask our TL "Can you take a look to see if this is a completely off base approach? This code is not done yet but before I put more time in it I want to validate it's direction." My TL says that this behavior wastes his time and I should only show him fully finished work. He'll often say there's no tests or linting errors instead of looking at the approach. Same thing happens with design docs. If I'm even editing for spelling he'll refuse to look at it. "Ping me when you are finished editing".

It's a complete waste of my time to completely finalize something, have him take a look at it for 2 seconds, and then say it's the wrong direction.

And yes, we have tried to specify tickets more but he wants more general stories to allow the engineer to identify and approach. He just wants us all to identify his approach without him telling us.
It is irrelevant and a red-herring. Great power agreements are written legal documents. There was no agreement and thus the question of continuity of the non-agreement is meaningless.
I would like an mp3 player that plays music from your (almost any cloud drive) but instead of streaming them, keeps local copies, preferably in mp3 format, and preferably smart enough to not to just copy the entire collection, have configuravle max cache size, etc., cache is literally the mp3s instead of obsfucated.
Neighborhood Electric Vehicle
have you found an alternative?
I support the right of the company to do what they want, but that doesn't prohibit me from disagreeing with how the exercise that right. I just think their decision to cancel Rogan is ethically and morally wrong, my issue is not with the legality of the move.
Agreed. I see this as a result of Spotify avoiding risks:

1. to not lose as many customers as possible who are outraged with Rogan — maybe they did the math based on advertising profiling.

2. to not lose Joe Rogan, one of the most popular shows they have, and thus, customers/users.

3. to not spark further outrage from other popular artists who might leave.

4. to protect their name and brand.

5. to avoid being removed from the Apple App Store when Apple eventually lays the ban hammer down because "their app is spreading misinfo", just like the Alex Jones debacle that empowered Apple to assess app availability based on their political whims and agreement (abhorrent by the way). This goes for other platforms.

6. to avoid banks who manage their funds from canceling them for supporting a show, person, or stance the bank disagrees with.

We are truly in an ugly mess of global political wars where even the slightest wrong move in speech/expression will completely ruin a company or person's ability to survive—well, maybe survival isn't the issue, but undue harm is.

This is especially on the Left, who are too ready and willing to spark that ruin, viewing legal systems and power only as a tool to control their opposition, who has valid stances on myriad topics. On the Right, they complain a lot, but at least they aren't using any means necessary to actively change the fundamental course of people's lives, livelihood, and futures due to what boils down to a political disagreement in the realm of speech/expression.

We can't pretend that science is inherently fact just because it leads to forming facts later, when it has always been described as a a fallible process of discovery, leading to theories, which are either supported by evidence or amply refuted.

In this case, the doctors Rogan hosted, along with 100k+ other doctors globally have refuted the mainstream claims around vaccines and the handling of treatment — enough to require panels of discussion and enormous scrutiny towards the likes of Fauci and others who are claiming to "be science," in nothing other than pure dripping hubris and condescension towards anyone who dares to question them.

This is one problem we should be addressing, in addition to the censor-or-fail mentality affecting nearly every publishing platform.
In that scenario, the content creator’s free speech hasn’t been affected. They can publish their content on their own blog or anywhere else still.
Do you want to list out the reasons why china's social credit score is bad, and whether they're present in the american credit score system? As far as I can tell the similarities are "score to incentivize behavior", but that's about it. China's system allegedly dings you points for "spreading misinformation", FICO doesn't.
"Please use your phone to verify that you actually are a bad actor"
I think the most important part here is - does the spotify deal make JR unhappy? Does it make his audience unhappy, and thus himself?

For example, if too many episodes are deleted, he will maybe not at all feel the fulfillment and happiness of doing the job he previously enjoyed. That factor ultimately decides if keeping the contract or breaking it is the better solution in the long run.

Fans of JR want him to be able to publish what he wants, since it's a proxy for having fulfilling job and successful podcast. Getting paid a lot is a forgettable factor - once that money is already safely streaming in :)
The company began to censor because people complained. Also, the federal government threatened them just days ago (I’m not sure if this sounds like a free market mechanic to me, what do you think?). People are free to call for censorship. People are also free to complain about the censorship. It’s part of the whole free market process.

What is the issue here? It sounds like you only like half the coin.
I love ebiking around Seattle, we’ve determined it’s faster than our car for 2 mile trips too. Also feels like cheating because you can always park right outside wherever you’re going. The “utility” ebike with cargo basket was the game changer since we can now do all our grocery and errand runs comfortably by bike.
you write an ECN (Engineering Change Notice). these stack up against a given part number (controlled by a drawing). then the drawing gets updated. this is where any conflicting ECN's get discovered.

Note: ECN's were how things worked when you had a draftsman. Most engineers do the CAD themselves nowdays.
Dewordle: A Chrome extension to remove Wordle posts
Why were you buying gift cards for more than they are worth?
I am one of the Volunteers -- It's mind bending to observe how everything is going on with relatively little to no chaos.

I hope I do not jinx it by saying this :)
Cambridge has some really good bike infrastructure
I would say a physical paintbrush is Turning Complete and, doesn’t the fact that you can write anything with it (therefore any code) make it Turing Complete too in some way?
> but given that the average TCO of a car in the US is $950 a month

FWIW, the average TCO of a car reflects what the average person can afford, not the minimum. I’m also pretty skeptical of that figure because my brand new Tesla payment + insurance + electricity costs about that much. So (1) I don’t think the average car is as expensive as a brand new Tesla and (2) even for my Tesla, the monthly TCO will be far, far lower because the payments for the car would need to be amortized over its lifetime.

I’m sure you’re probably saving money by cycling, but I don’t think it’s anywhere near $950/month unless I’m mathing wrong.

Note also that rideshare, car rental, delivery services, etc also cut into your savings. Further, if the car is shared between several people (e.g., a family) switching to cycling + supplementary services might not make sense.
That's a fair point. I grew up in Washington, where I believe it was not defined at all. It was a bit of a hobby of mine to look up vehicular RCWs when I began driving, and the Internet was available.

But it's also possible it's something that puzzled me pre-Internet, and I never bothered to look up post-Internet. There are plenty of those as well.
>But, the idea that "non-experts" shouldn't be able to you cannot question climate scientists on a large platform gets your right back to the Iraq war situation.

I'm not saying you cannot question climate scientists though. I'm not saying you cannot question any expert.

The difference, and my complaint, is that this isn't just questioning experts but taking an expert and a non-expert and treating them as if they are equal experts in the subject. People listen to these non-experts in a subject (because they are an expert in some other subject) and accept what they are saying as correct.

If you want to discuss clinical psychology then by all means have Jordon Peterson on, after all he is a clinical psychologist.

But don't ask a clinical psychologist about quantum computing or climate change or any other subject they're not an expert on and present what they say as if they're an expert.

Imagine inviting a race horse breeder on a show to discuss horse racing and then the conversation pivots to Formula 1 engines and race car physics and you treat what they say as expert advice because well horse racing and Formula 1 are both racing sports aren't they. Surely this persons knowledge of breeding a horse transfers over right? That's about the same level of "transfer" that Jordon Peterson's clinical psychologist background has to climate change science.

As for Iraq and WMD that is a far more complicated discussion and the comment section of Hacker News is not the place for it.
> Previously, the "open web" was all there was, before the online walled gardens.

This is revisionist bullshit. Before Facebook et al AOL was the major walled garden. After AOL's star began to fade they and everyone else focused on becoming "homepages" with integrated search. They even provided helpful search toolbars! Social media is just the latest walled garden on the web.

Don't pretend the majority of web users have ever been bravely exploring the corners of every dark nook of the web. The majority has always been on some curated site with little deviation.
Without proper studying, there is no way to properly gauge their “welfare.” So yes, the welfare of the Artic hare as a whole is more important than the inconvenience that a collar and ear tags provide to individual members of the species.
For older kids, the Microsoft MakeCode platform is great.

They have a microbit IDE, including emulator: https://makecode.microbit.org/

And a dedicated gaming device like a gameboy, including emulator: https://arcade.makecode.com/

Can code in Blocks, Javascript, or Python.
Well, that's Joe's non-issue or issue.

There's also another issue: the customer wanting to listen to those podcasts and who valued them as part of their Spotify subscription.

And that's not due to free market "those didn't were listened to enough, so we took them off" (that wasn't the case, and even if it was storage and distribution costs are negligible anyway, they could still keep them in perpetuity).

Instead that customer got shafted because "some" forced Spotify's hand.
Yet he is wrong about nearly everything else.

If you want a deep dive on Alex Jones and all his lies and schemes, the podcast Knowledge Fight has been documenting InfoWars for years.
Me too. My paints and brushes are laid out and ready to go. I think a future is coming where digital art making can be as granular and intimate as real life, I hope I live to see it. Imagine being able to really paint with watercolor, with the power of Photoshop layers, all in 3D space. It's just out of reach right now.
Is there really nothing between "just trust us" and betraying sources/methods?
Are the US intelligence "demanding to be blindly trusted" ?

Or - hypothetically - if the US intelligence is only 80% reliable - isn't it still worth signalling to their Russian counterparts that "we see you, don't try it" ? That might be the real intended audience.

Isn't this also a fairly plausible accusation about Russia, given previous operations, e.g. "little green men" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_green_men_(Russo-Ukrain... and apartment bombings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_apartment_bombings
Creepy municipal surveillance cameras are everywhere in my city, ostensibly for our security. If they were used for the enforcement you describe, my opinion of them would change completely.
If by "anything" you mean "anything on a screen or coming through speakers"- sure, but that's an exceptionally limited subsection of potential artistic engagement. So much visual art is just raw visceral awe, which is just not possible with a screen. The memorable amazing/sublime/unique auditory experiences I have had have been in the presence of the artist. Even the best speakers are a poor shadow. Can't do smell with technology at all. Touch and physical engagement is possible but still extremely limited. And technology usually completely obviates the going-to/work/energy expediture to experience something, also a negative.

The really unique artistic opportunities (speaking personally) enabled by software are those based on human interactions that heretofore were impossible. A lot of these have been automatically commoditized and commercialized as games or social network apps but there still is plenty of vein to mine.

I thought Wordle was a great example of interactive-for-the-joy-of-it-social-art-in-the-small uniquely enabled by technology, and its charm for me was completely lost when it was sold (for which I of course don't begrudge the author at all).

I would think that translation services are a potentially interesting enabling function for social art that have been underexplored.
Most professional sports teams in the US ban fans that fight in the stadiums. In regards to banning people in supermarkets - yes, the store is entirely within its right to ban the customer: https://axislc.com/public/can-a-business-ban-a-customer/

Clearly the system has not been abused too much if you are not even aware this is how it already works.
Those facts are not the evidence that Russia is preparing for a full-scale invasion or even for a local escalation in Donbas. The pretext for those events was quite different.
The Linux community has been trying to make the first two happen for decades. As for the third, they adamantly oppose it. And here we are.
You should read the article and not comment based on the title and your preconceptions. All of your questions are addressed in the text of the article.
Oddly enough the list doesn't resonate much with me.

I'd love to see better mocking support. Doing mock.On("fun name", ...) is so backwards, confusing and brittle. It's also a great source of confusion for teammates when tests fail.

I miss better transaction management. I regularly juggle db, transactions and related interfaces and it's a continuous pain.

Then there's the "workaround" for enforcing interface implementation: _ InterfaceType = &struct . This could be easily part of struct def. rather than having it in var section.

As was mentioned by others doing x := 5 only to later do JsonField: &x is just a waste of intellectual firepower. Maybe this can be alleviated by generics but the lang should be able to make this a one liner.
Seems like the SEO people have successfully reverse engineered Google‘s algorithms.
Definitely intentional! Parent is making the point that freedom of speech should not require authorities compelling speech, even though some free speech advocates seem to be going in that direction.
As an ex Googler this has nothing to do with America, much more with anti-war. If Google helps the Chinese or the Sirian military, you get the same reaction. When I was working there, I was friends with people from 15 different countries, but for others it can be much more.

Whenever we're writing code that helps a military, we may be writing it to kill the family of a colleague, which is clearly immoral.
I disagree. It is only 15 questions so obviously can't be a comprehensive test, but it does test whether you understand various mechanisms in Python
I totally agree on the syntax, Haskell is far cleaner.

I’m not sure what the reasoning was here.
I hope the author or others can shed some light.
I doubt this bit of trivia would ever be included in a job posting :-)
For the less technologically literate twitter/youtube/facebook ARE infrastructure.
I’ve moved here roughly when you moved away, it seems. For Boston proper, it seems like things are finally picking up again after kinda falling off a cliff during the Walsh years. Wu ran on a campaign that prioritized transit, biking etc so we’re seeing some big, quick projects implemented (the temp Mass Ave bridge bike lanes for one).

Add that to the cycling ordinance in Cambridge and a cyclist mayor in Somerville and it feels like we have a chance for a comprehensive regional cycling network coming into reality.
> First, constant churn that always breaks backward compatibility forcing upgrades and never allowing any old software to be used without a permanently high maintenance burden.

Is that not what enterprise Linux is for? You just pay for that if you need it. And also what about exceptions like python and such.

> Third, FOSS has become a religion for many. All things must be FOSS because it’s a holy conquest, and if just everything were FOSS all would be perfection because reasons.

This seems dismissive since there are actually well-thought out arguments for these things posted everywhere, they are not based on faith nor worship. This dismissal is tantamount to you saying you don't care about the same things that they care about. How could this possibly effect you negatively?

> Unfortunately, I’ve seen things only get worse as FOSS has come to dominate the world. These could be completely unrelated, and maybe everything would still have been crap, but I cannot help but think that were people forced to pay for development they’d be more discerning.

That's pretty vague, care to clarify?
How does DNA half-life factor into cells and seeds that last thousands of years and are still viable? [1]

I assume seed cells probably aren’t dividing, but I guess maybe they could be using energy and slowly reproducing? And apparently bacterial spores can basically freeze themselves in time for thousands of years and wake themselves up once conditions are favorable.

[1] https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14125-jesus-era-seed-...
So good! This is awesome.
Excuse me, does not all communication carry with it the 'problem' of legitimizing or delegitimizing something?

That's like, a big part of why all primates, fucking, communicate?
any talk recommendations?
I don't recall paying more than they're worth, I was using a service called Steam Loader and it allowed me to spend my "magical internet money" on Steam which does not accept bitcoin.

Even if it was a few percent more, it's cool to be an early adopter of technology. I got all my bitcoins back then for free from mining anyway, so who cares? free games!
Because most of these emissions are for producing commodities which are generally heavily competed on price.
Are you so sure it’s not due to customers voting with their wallets forcing the change? It’s easier than ever to pick up and leave a streaming service.

I downloaded all my playlists from Spotify and will move to any other streaming service I want to (one which has Neil Young—whom I enjoy).

Who are these “pressure groups?” Are they individual musicians and customers? When do individuals morph into these straw men?
and sometimes the things you think aren't interesting, are interesting to other folks. I stumbled into the vidalia onion industry, and randomly wrote an essay on it, and wound up discovering other folks liked the story. HN is a blessing in this way - it helps expose these fringe stories that'd never see the light of day in normal print/web publications.