skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The complete original title is "Clearly, you should really avoid adverbs."

Ironically, when I'd typed that in to submit the link to Hacker News, the site auto-discarded the word "really."
Is it not appropriate to say "capitalism has failed" when the central bank continually inflates the money supply so the finance industry can centrally plan the economy? Is it not appropriate to say "capitalism has failed" when most industries are dominated by two large market makers that move in lock step? Is it not appropriate to say "capitalism has failed" when the supply of essential goods necessary to have a distributed economy, like home ownership, has been priced out of reach of most people? Is it not appropriate to say "capitalism has failed" when it's easier to get investment money for outlandish throwaway subscription bets rather than long term development? Or topically, is it not appropriate to say "capitalism has failed" when it has paperclip-maximized its way to ignoring our human concerns?

Communism deviated from its ideal model, precessed, and collapsed. Capitalism can, and is, failing similarly. If you're truly interested in preserving capitalism, then it behooves you to take criticism of it to heart, and examine how it is falling apart. Your failure to accept criticism as "anything but collectivists kvetching" will only further its demise.
Yeah it is a subjective and configuration-dependent thing for sure.
The restriction on MSR writes from the kernel people is just nuts. It's like they are saying: we know better, you're stupid and shouldn't be doing this so we just won't let you.

I'm still fuming.
I agree that is unlikely for them to succeed. But just because a demand is futile doesn't mean it wasn't made.
Some problem, I have no information, but would also like an answer and/or fix. I've taken to Ctrl-C on the title before clicking the bookmarklet so I can Ctrl-V it into the Title field.
Just ordered it. I've read a parts of it when it was still being worked on and it was a delight. Can't wait to read it all.
if we're gonna start playing by the "if it has nothing to do with your country then keep out of it" rule then it's a great idea to establish this now before the 2024 US elections, ideally before the upcoming midterms as well.

I'm fine with this development as long as we all agree to play by the same rules and remain consistent.
Are you comparing the cost of everyone in the world who uses dryers to dry their clothes versus the cost of everyone in the world who's using Bitcoin?

What's the ratio of people?
What about using those cheap vacuum cooler attachments like the ones sold on Amazon? https://www.amazon.com/laptop-vacuum-cooler/s?k=laptop+vacuu...
Why would a game, especially one targeting children, encourage the buying and selling of virtual items? Why not just make all virtual items clonable/sharable by anyone?

Instead of teaching children to share, roblox is training a generation of hustlers and grifters.
Unrelated, but I did want to thank you for Game Programming Patterns; it's made game development much much less stressful for me.
> The order finds that BIAs are securities under applicable law
This is a bit removed from your point about foreign support, but the flag thing appears to have been exaggerated for political purposes. The Confederate flag guy was shunned by the protestors and stood out like a sore thumb to begin with: https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1487834109678395392. (I'm not endorsing that Twitter account - it's the only link I know of to the video, and the video is interesting.)

It has also been commonly reported that the protestors are Nazis carrying Nazi flags, but this reporting is also excessively politicized. Here's a first-person account giving a completely different picture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtN4VqBeCMg#t=6932.

There are hundreds of hours of livestreams on youtube showing the protests. Anyone can dip in at random and get a sense. That's how I ran across that last link of the guy talking about the swastika flag. From the livestreams it seems clear that this is an authentic and peaceful working class protest, not some far right "insurrection" (a word that has also been chosen for political reasons). The most fascinating aspect of this event is what it reveals about the class divide in Canada, and the West in general, since each country has its own version of this right now.
If they want to be a podcast company, that's fine. What I don't appreciate is the soft bait-and-switch. I subscribed to Spotify for the music. I enjoy podcasts too, but I have my own preferred way of listening to it (Pocket Casts).

What Spotify is doing now is providing sub-par experiences in both. The home screen is cluttered by podcasts when I just want to use Spotify for music (especially infuriating on CarPlay), and the podcast UI is years behind what Pocket Casts offers. It's like they're not even trying to keep up the great service that drew in their customer base in the first place.
"lenient criminal charges."

"face no criminal charges or loss of driving privileges as long as they stop and dial 911."

I don't think this is necessarily true. Criminal charges generally require some form of intent. That could be recklessness. Most driving doesn't constitute reckless driving (per case law and customary enforcement). The police do investigate. I would imagine that many of the fatalities include drivers following the law and exercising reasonable care (as based on society's expectations), as well as pedestrians and cyclists not following the law. I would love to see the data to show the breakdown one way or the other.
The whole country has been aggressively pushing the virtues of selfishness for the past 30 years. The eventual outcome shouldn't really be a surprise.

I don't know what its going to take for half the country to finally wake up and realize it can't continue along this course and the philosophy of selfishness has failed.
BTW it was through one of those "we'll help you buy this domain" agencies the buyer hired and took forever as those guys are way too evasive when it comes to price.

I don't have time to waste on tons of back and forth emails these days and my policy now when one approaches me unsolicited is to tell them not to contact me again and have the buyer get in touch with me directly.
I actually got a great insight into marketing from Fahrenheit 451.

So what you should know is I spent a long time dedicated to creating algorithms, and in doing so created enough different material to make a portfolio: https://github.com/daniel-cussen/portfolio/blob/master/portf...

And I got that idea from Bradbury, at one point--in my recollection of the book, I can't find the part I'm looking for--what I remember is the antagonist (Captain Beatty) saying there's ten million soldiers, but reporting it as one million is more impressive, so that's what's claimed. But a million was the magic number of the twentieth century. Now it's a billion.

So in my portfolio I describe an algorithm that beats the state of the art by a factor of a billion. It's a rough way of communicating it, it's not actually a fixed factor except in specific situations. And really it was about 1.07 billion. So, that's pure marketing--it's the truth, it will be faster by that much--but there's a reason it was about a billion and not more. I could have kept improving it, but it would have been counterproductive to its real purpose, which was talking about it to people and getting exposure as an algorithm writer. For those purposes, a factor of a trillion would have been much less impressive. I'd have to explain what a trillion is, it's such a big number you can't write it down because it's got twelve zeroes behind it, which confuses people. And it leads people to believe it wasn't a meaningful achievement, like I optimized something that didn't really matter.

So there you go, sometimes the oppressors in dystopias can have good insights.
The "extreme left" is not doing this. Those of us who are over here are deeply concerned about civil liberties even of people we don't like. Just like the ACLU used to be, defending Nazis because if you take away their speech, who's next?

The suppression is coming from "moderate" liberals. They're the ones who captured the ACLU when they suddenly got lots of money and grew and became the anti-Trump league. I'm not a Trumper, but he's much less of a threat to civil liberties than those moderate liberals.

In the same way the ACLU has flipped, perceptions of a simple left/right divide need to change. Old labels don't make sense.
I think by "absorb" the poster meant "Pay the fine and still make a profit from the fine inducing activity"
The source(s) of the yield they were promising were extremely dubious and unsafe, the same can be said for Celsius.

When they tell you your crypto is being lent to "institutional investors" what they really mean to say is they're gambling with your crypto in defi protocols, and you can see this happening on-chain.
I believe txtify.it bypasses paywalls in some cases. Also, you can share the generated links.
Right, but nothing prevents you from closing the loop. If I (project developer) purchase a copy of their application or convince another customer to help, I can then request their changes and either merge it or cherry-pick parts of it into upstream if I wanted to.

None of the licenses require work on the part of downstream to collaborate with upstream, only that a user of downstream can get the changes made to components the license applies to.
It's not just about misleading claims, but also that BlockFi broke regulations by doing "unregistered offers and sales of the lending product" and "operated for more than 18 months as an unregistered investment company".

In other words, BlockFi failed to do the bare minimum to run a financial investment service, and are now getting punished for it. That doesn't sound like a overreach to me.

And yeah, in general, laws are usually interpreted subjectively, as laws usually give some wiggle-room to make sure it covers enough ground without having to write 1000 pages about every single edge-case.
To be fair, the US has roughly 10x the population of Canada. So any support from the US is going to appear outsized unless interpreted on a per-capita basis.
> How is truckers struggles any less valid than any other?

Far be it from me to downplay the plight of others but it's a vaccine. Literally takes 10 minutes. Every baby in Canada receives a bunch of vaccines on a regular schedule. Many (all?) provinces have laws that state children must be vaccinated before attending school. This is nothing new. Transportation employees that cannot be vaccinated for COVID due to medical contraindication can have a medical exemption.

Any struggle here is completely self-inflicted.
According to the Canadian Trucking Alliance, 90% of truckers are.

Also your wording is very confusing

"only 10% of truckers".

You realize it's not anywhere near 10% of truckers actively involved right? That it's a much lower number, with estimates putting them at most hundreds to a few thousand out of hundreds of thousands of truckers total
Promise: It's like having a computer in your pocket!

Reality: It's like having a smart TV in your pocket!
> It’s like a game made only for speedrunners

JJ doesn't require you to make it in time, the only thing it adds is the bonus score.

Also spamming fire button works most of the time.

I was pretty fond of it back in the day exactly because it didn't require to blindly run.
Exactly! The media portrayal of the events is so incongruous when you actually watch the videos and see the pictures of the protestors. The headlines do not match what these people are actually doing at all. They are playing hockey in the streets, walking around waving flags with "freedom" on them. Yes they're noisy, but that's what protests are all about right? Making noise to be heard.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/politics/trucker-convoy-organi...
Two seconds is a very standard rule of thumb. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-second_rule

And if you've ever actually encountered a queue behind a slow vehicle, you'll know that leaving too much of a gap will cause undertaking luxury German cars to magnetically be sucked into it (no fault if their drivers of course, its all done in the engine control software I hear), suddenly leaving you with 1 second of gap, until you can ease off and grow the gap gently without having the car behind you pile into your rear end.

Either way, the separation in free traffic is hugely greater than in any queue.
I don't agree that censorship means "totally restrict". Your argument there is tendentious.

> Restricting content on a single, privately-owned, non-monopolistic platform and total censorship (suppression) are two wildly different things.

Yes but they both fall in the category of censorship. I'm not saying companies shouldn't be allowed to censor (I wrote: "sometimes, perhaps, censorship is called for"). I'm just saying it's still censorship.

My view is that, in general, companies should not censor. Free speech is good.
>an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government

Which protest does not meet that criteria?
Perceptions are not exactly glowing in 2022. Currently, the popular public face of involuntary custodianship is Britney Spears, and even I'll acknowledge that the justice system's relationship to mental health seems catastrophically broken. I would honestly rather be sent to prison than an institution in most situations, for a shorter term sentence situation.
CDNs are still useful if you (can/do) put everything on the same one. They’re just not useful to serve static dependencies off-site in hopes of users hitting a primed cache from another site, because of cache partitioning. That’s okay, that benefit was fairly limited anyway. You’re better off focusing on reducing page weight and optimizing loading (order, inlining critical resources, tree-shaking/code splitting, preloading to avoid waterfall, etc) anyway.
You've chosen maybe the worst example to make this particular point. When you are responsible for the brand image of a company, making unauthorized media appearances is absolutely actionable, regardless of the reaction on Twitter.
I stopped listening entirely when he moved to Spotify because a) I don't use Spotify and/because b) their app nor web will run on the "old clunkers" I use for these purposes which tend to be off-line when I'm out in the woods or fields. The recent brouhaha around Rogan piqued my interest to find out why what he and his guests said that was so deplorable as to cause a media storm. Spotify still won't run on my potato, hence the need for this tool.

If you already have an environment capable of running Python and PHP setting this up comes down to the following command:

$ tar zxf spodcast-0.3.1.tar.gz
$ cd spodcast
$ pip install .
$ spodcast -c /mnt/audio/podcast/spodcast.json --root-path /mnt/audio/spodcast -p -l /home/exampleuser/spotify.rc
https://archive.is/J2x72
Agreed. The xinjiang intern- uhh... vocational education and training centers are an issue that that's specific to the internal affairs of China. The U.S. has long had a dominant power relationship with the rest of the world. The way that Americans have imposed their views on both sides of this internal conflict is both patronizing and deleterious to the self-determination of the Chinese people. It would be as suspect if one was to donate to the Shining Path, the Contras, the Medellín Cartel, or any other faction.
For the love of God, critically think about your database schema and object model at a very detailed level, taking into account likely future requirements. I can’t emphasize enough how important having the correct data shape is from the beginning. This is something you cannot ‘iterate on.’ You have to nail it from the get go, especially the parts central to your application. It’s either right or it isn’t and as soon as it is baked throughout your entire codebase it is too late to change.

I am currently refactoring a giant system that had a badly normalized object model that couldn’t be extended and have been doing so for over a year.
Agreed. It seems as though they've adopted a never-surrender mindset and will continue down the current path regardless of circumstances.
Ask HN: When did PayPal reach $500M/yr in trasaction volume?
This feels like a strawman to me.

I can only speak for myself, but I don’t conform to your statements above. Surely I’m not alone.

I want to see schools opened.

I oppose state and federal mask mandates, but if a school wants to mandate them, that’s their business.

One of the big takeaways for me from COVID is that we should be doing more as a rule to consider airflow and ventilation in all public spaces. I’ve not gone to great lengths to validate my instinct with data, but I strongly suspect doing so would result in a significant decrease in the spread of many airborne illnesses. Schools should absolutely work to improve in this area.

I oppose mandatory contact tracing, but if an individual wants to opt in to one of the schemes, by all means go for it! I wouldn’t even be philosophically opposed to a scheme implemented and/or “blessed” by a government - as long as it’s opt-in.

> None of these people care about safety, they just want a babysitter to get their annoying kids out of their hair for 8 hours.

Yeah, about that… we homeschool. Our children have never been enrolled in a government school, and they will never be - with the possible exception of is they decide they want to be and have a reasonable justification for it.

That doesn’t mean that I don’t have opinions about government policy.
I built a system like this, and loved it enough that I built an app to do what the author describes: http://parsnipapp.com/

Totally free, with no plans to monetize it. Having an easy system like this adds enough value to me and my friends who use it to continue to develop and maintain it.

I love the author's automation for sending an email digest, I think that's a great feature that I'll add to the roadmap. Up next for development I'd like to add reminders for specific days (eg., birthdays, trip reminders, w/e).

If anyone gives the app a shot, I'd love to hear from you. Feedback is appreciated!
Lack of affordable housing is a major underlying cause of homelessness in the US, moreso than lack of mental health support.

Early on in the pandemic, I saw some people saying things like "Housing is healthcare." And it's true.

I just don't know how to get anywhere harping overly much on that, so instead I'm making sketches and notes and if I don't end up homeless again and dying on the streets, maybe I can do a pilot project.

Probably not, but we all need an occupation (as was said in The importance of being Earnest).
Yes there are serious problems with smartphones. And smartphones are here to stay. So how do we fix these issues?
MPAA ratings are voluntary not law.
https://angusreid.org/omicron-incidence-restrictions/ - scroll down to "Part Four: What now? Majority want restrictions to end"; 54% of Canadians want the mandates to end.

OTOH, this poll https://abacusdata.ca/ottawa-survey-freedom-convoy/ suggests that about 22% of Canadians support the convoy and 67% don't.
This blog post does not do a good job of communicating the status of these PEPs, for example the first one "PEP 671" is in Draft status and it has not been accepted by the Steering Council.

In fact I would be surprised if it did get accepted as many members of the Core Dev / Steering Council have similar reservations about extending Python's Syntax as others have expressed in comments here. As demonstrated by their recent rejection of PEP 677 (Callable Type Syntax).
This one?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_de_lib%C3%A9ration_du_...

The claim can be proven or disproven with elections.
But I think that Trudeau would win rather easily pitted against this extremist, apparently foreign funded fringe.

Even Canada's conservatives don't want to be associated with them anymore.
When I'm standing on a corner somewhere and I can use GPS, live traffic data, restaurant reviews and simultaneously make call to someone, at that moment I don't think about my beloved PC at home, sorry.

You can always use a burner phone with a fake identity if you want to stick it to the man.
Just make sure the burrito launcher looks like a gun.
If these protests become an issue for American national security and strategic geopolitical interest then yes NATO should make preparations as in other flashpoints but for now the situation has not yet escalated to such a degree. The U.S. did not intervene during the coup attempt against Erdogan in Turkey in 2016 either.
Angry about sience!
https://preview.redd.it/pj9zbnm03gh81.jpg?width=640&crop=sma...
> Isn't that just an open fact?

No, it isn't. Not in their own words. If you've only been watching CBC/CNN, well, that's a big part of the problem then.
Might be a good idea to learn what they are protesting, before trying to draw connections between what they are protesting and other things like religion.
And while we are at it, drop this MM/DD date formatting nonsense!
This is typical "big tech" that is used to getting away with anything with the worst-case scenario being a slap on the wrist, way after the damage was caused and money was earned - very common in the US.

It seems like EU regulators are starting to wake up (both this and the recent GDPR developments) and are able to see straight through the bullshit and recognize bad-faith behavior.
Social Security Administration Monthly Data Average Speed to Answer
As JSavageOne said, "What a shame that the wealthiest country can't manage its cities." which is correct. Blaming long term policies on any single politician from decades ago is a disingenuous.
> I would imagine that many of the fatalities include drivers following the law and exercising reasonable care (as based on society's expectations)

We've got extremely low expectations.
Striking how BlockFi's official announcement reads compared to the SEC's statement: https://blockfi.com/regulatory-developments/

Zac Prince, CEO and Founder of BlockFi, said: “From the day we started BlockFi, we have always known that strong engagement with regulators would be critical for the adoption of financial services powered by cryptocurrencies. Today’s milestone is yet another example of our pioneering efforts in securing regulatory clarity for the broader industry and our clients, just as we did for our first product – the crypto-backed loan. We intend for BlockFi Yield to be a new, SEC-registered crypto interest-bearing security, which will allow clients to earn interest on their crypto assets.”
Microsoft to reopen Washington offices this month
Great question!

Here is how I think about it - by doing support through Slack, you're pushing your users to another tool to get support, away from your own product :)

We'd like to make it really easy to fuse a team dashboard (e.g. Twilio Flex) with team support experience, so your users would get the same level of care they get with Slack (possibly better - because instead of a single shared channel, they have what essentially is an entire shared workspace), but without having to also sign into Slack and locate the support channel.

That said, I do wonder how much pushback we'll see because end customers simply love getting support in Slack instead of inside the vendor's product.
>I can't just walk into employment with my skillset

sure you can, give it a try

proficiency is talent on its own and being a self taught means only that you can learn (and being _very_ good at it, considering your story)

nothing's wrong with entry level job though, sounds like a solid place to start regardless of how much overqualified for that job you are - as long as you'll be doing what you love and there will be a clear promotion path for you

and even if there's none that job can still do you good if you threat it as a stepping stone - a warm up for better job to come

our past, things that happened before are important ofc
but much more important things that will be, things that happens next

so chin up, looking forward to read your follow up success story in few months, best of luck!