skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not true at all. The ACLU is suing the Washington Department of Corrections to prevent them from releasing personal information about individuals. They are not on the state's side in this case, it's the state they are suing. They are not objecting to the release of statistics, only information about identifiable individuals.

It's entirely clear that the organisation you are linking to are outright lying when you read the actual complaint: https://www.aclu-wa.org/docs/complaint-does-v-washington-dep...

Allow me to quote the first paragraph:

> Defendant Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) and its Secretary, Stephen Sinclair, intend to release records to certain “Requestors” that will reveal the identities and highly personal information of transgender, non-binary, and intersex persons currently and formerly in its custody. Such a disclosure will, by purpose and in effect, create a target list of some of the most vulnerable people who are or have been in DOC care. It will deter people from disclosing information that DOC says it needs to keep them safe, it will prevent people from seeking life-saving medical care, and it robs people of their right to fundamental privacy and to live a life consistent with their gender and without the reasonable fear of harassment, discrimination, and assault. The Department’s decision to release these records, in violation of well-settled federal and state law, and despite a number of applicable exemptions to disclosure, will place Plaintiffs and the class they represent at great risk of extreme physical harm and emotional distress, and such harm is irreparable.
As far as I know, they're required to report their investments on a periodic basis (quarterly? I can't remember), so anybody trying to capture time-sensitive inside information would frequently miss the boat.
Just why? At that point just get a plain old framebuffer and plot individual pixels to it in serial code. How is it better to hack a use-case terminals were not meant to handle? They will have all the other complexities of GUIs still to solve, you just now has a hacky render path to worry about as well.
Decent article. I would just add that there seems to be a common misunderstanding about the role of skepticism and falsification in science. A prevailing idea is that one only needs to identify a single flaw in a study or piece of research, conclude that the study is bunk, and throw the entire thing in the trash. We see it here on HN all of the time, but that's not how real science works. There is also the problem of selective skepticism, which is really just confirmation bias in disguise. One can remain skeptical of a result or claim for as long as one wishes, and this gives the appearance of scientific thought, but it is exactly the opposite. A more scientific approach is to look at everything in terms of strength of evidence; what are the strengths and the flaws of every study.

So this is a PSA: please don't be Fallacy Man [0] and throw out results based on flaws in a study unless they are critical. Moreover, it's true that you may not possess the requisite background to understand which flaws are critical and which are not. Skepticism is a necessary but not sufficient element in scientific methodology, and constantly refuting things does not a scientist make.

[0] https://existentialcomics.com/comic/9
You can do your own research. Only on a few things, though, because really doing it takes a lot of time. You can't do your own research on everything.

And the article is at least partly right. Many (most?) people, when they "do their own research", are exactly trying to confirm their prejudices.
I've got an old LG V40 for this purpose.
It's got music apps, meditation, and a few other non-social things.
It's also my flashlight if I wake up in the night, and alarm clock to wake me in the morning.
Disinformation is anything I disagree with.
Her background seems legit

https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=1188980

Center for Inquiry

Melanie Trecek-King is an Associate Professor of Biology at Massasoit Community College in Massachusetts. With over twenty years’ experience in college and high school classrooms, she especially enjoys teaching students who don’t want to be scientists when they “grow up.” Several years ago, Trecek-King recognized the need for a general-education science course that focused less on facts and more on science as a way of knowing, so she created a novel course that uses pseudoscience, bad science, and science denial to engage students and teach science literacy, information literacy and critical thinking. The course, Science for Life, is now being taught at other institutions and is part of a new research effort attempting to revolutionize science education. Her passion for science education led her to create Thinking Is Power to provide accessible and engaging critical thinking information to the general public.

In addition to her work in the classroom, Prof. Trecek-King is the Founder and Chair of Massasoit’s Sustainable Landscaping Committee, which uses environmentally responsible landscaping practices to conserve natural resources, reduce and prevent pollution, benefit wildlife, and enhance ecosystem functioning. Under her leadership, the committee has replaced lawn with native gardens, edible gardens, rain gardens, and a wildflower meadow, transforming the campus into a wildlife habitat and providing food to the campus community. The changed landscape is now part of a thriving student research program that has found sustainable land-use practices to increase the diversity and abundance of native bees.

Trecek-King has a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Chemistry and a Master of Arts in Ecology from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where she studied prairie ecology, succession, the role of fire in ecosystems, and habitat restoration. In addition to her love of science, she is a mezzo soprano and a certified Choral Groupie, and has sung with some of the world’s greatest conductors and composers, including her fantastic husband Dr. Anthony Trecek-King.
Not to be rude, but this post just puts unwarranted faith in "science" and "experts".

For example, experts apparently collect evidence in "an unbiased, objective manner". What? Says who. Those "methods have to be available to other scientists for replication." Seems like an odd thing for an article with no author and two citations.

Frankly, there is no objective research, and fetishizing authority and "experts" (a group of people where, e.g., African Americans are underrepresented) is both harmful and dumb. There is a ton of literature on how science often does not follow it's systematic claims at all, check out Kuhn's work for an intro.
> The internet revealed that facts are real, but interpretations are extremely up for grabs. I mean is is really a “hard left turn” to stop defending the KKK

Speaking of strawmen...

It is a hard turn to stop defending everybody's rights though. Where everybody includes the entire spectrum from Robert Byrd to Mother Teresa.

> or is the author just living in a world where people don’t grasp how truly outside of contemporary society that the KKK operates in?

Speaking from authority as a KKK member, what I have seen of the contemporary society that the KKK operates in is that there appears to perhaps be a tiny core group of people who voluntarily become KKK members. These people are largely viewed as sideshow freaks and circus clowns who (aside from perhaps Gov. Ralph Northam? /s) have basically zero power as a group . And then you have the other far larger cohort of us who have been unwittingly "volunteered" KKK membership by various "experts" who don't like our opinions but are otherwise incapable of rational discussion of them.

It's a great system. First you make some group so abhorrent that their rights should not be defended. Then crown yourself the sole expert and arbiter of who does and does not belong to that group. The best part about it is that you get to be the one defending the marginalized from bullies and discrimination, and defending human rights and democracy from fascists.
I'm only somewhat versed in networking and proxies - how is this different from something like SquidGuard?
> The act of inserting a key is familiar, though, and the fact that it doubles as a way to power it is nice.

One annoying issue at least with their older keys were that there was essentially certain speed you had to use to insert the key. If it was too fast or too slow it simply didn't work and you had to re-insert the key.

Not completely sure about revocation, but I think it requires using kind of "setup" key to update (i.e. ends up requiring physical visit to lock). https://www.iloq.com/en/products/iloq-s5-en/programming-equi... https://www.iloq.com/en/single_product/programming-device-p1...
What about the personal growth that comes with doing my own research?
Even taking that line on face value (although I would argue that the rest of the quotes portray a different story), the distinction between "standard service" and "custom work" is nigh-useless when divorced from the content of the custom service, which weren't discussed ("Craig and Mullins promptly left Masterpiece without discussing with Phillips any details of their wedding cake."). If a diner said "we'll make you a hamburger, but we won't make one without onions", and said that only because of a customer's race, that would be transparent discrimination.

In other words, you can refuse custom work that goes against your principles, but you can't refuse custom work to someone that goes against your principles. And in the Masterpiece case, the content of the custom work wasn't discussed.
It's not, strictly speaking, a bill of attainder, which is prohibited. It is written so that the number of 'persons' affected would be very, very, small. It is written so that Hawley can make a noise knowing the bill will go nowhere.

Here is the actual text of the bill:

https://www.hawley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/2022-05/Co...
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Compare to https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/magazine/free-speech.html (by Emily Bazelon, the sister of this article's author).

Bazelon family Thanksgivings must be interesting!
Don't do your own research. Ignore the evidence of your lying eyes. Believe only my expert, whose statements are the official truth in all things. Anything but what my expert says is disinformation.
PyScript is built on top of Pyodide! But it's probably the first well-supported way to build frontend apps with it. I imagine the fact that Anaconda is backing PyScript means that there will be increased investment into Pyodide as well.
Relatedly, why can't I get a simple USB-C hub? I have four USB-C ports on my laptop and I need six. Back in the USB-A days, I'd just get a $30 hub and four new full speed ports at the cost of one on the laptop.

But now if I want three more full speed ports, I have to get a four port dock/hub that costs $179 and has to get plugged into the wall.

Am I not looking correctly or is there some technical limitation I'm not aware of or ...?

Edit: It seems like the consensus is basically "people wouldn't read the specs", which is a fair criticism. USB-C supports so many different types of devices that it would be impossible to make one that supports them all, and if you support a subset people would get mad that their device isn't in that subset.
People know I like old devices, and I often save other people's abandoned machines. If I can find a home for them I do, as was the case with a 2013 MacBook air I just got rid of.

I have a few old laptops of various makes, a g3 iMac (graphite), a really old windows desktop that I'll never use, and a stack of raspberry pis.
Yeah, it's a bull market. I don't know shit about shit and my portfolio is up like 50% since Covid.
Price of LUNA/USD doesn't matter so much - the issue is liquidity. Without a market maker offering sufficient liquidity to the LUNA/USD market the peg will break down.

Yes there is still a price on the LUNA/USD pair, and this price has not collapsed completely. But there just aren't enough buyers on the USD side of the trade. The market isn't big enough to handle the demand to exit LUNA to USD. And so the UST peg breaks down.
Agreed. Better filtering would be helpful. I'd also like to add Usenet and book searches eventually as well.
> creators were ignorant/lazy/negligent/drunk/lost a bet/etc.

This is not a well-intended comment, but then why didn't they add generics at the start? It's not like it was a surprise to anyone even remotely familiar with PLs that they will have to retrofit it sooner or later. Also, function-scoped defers instead of surrounding braces-based one? Come on...
I would say one major difference between those two categories of systems is that Druid/Clickhouse are designed to be deployed in "user-facing" settings directly where you can put queries to them in the critical path of your app, whereas I've never head of anyone doing that for Snowflake/Redshift. I'm sure you could, but I bet the cost would be prohibitive and I'm not sure how well they'd handle the concurrency without a lot of safe guards in your application.
I almost swear I heard and distinctly remember this event.

I live in Atlanta, and that very spring I recall hearing a single thunderclap that echoed as if from another dimension. It was loud, ethereal, bellowing, deeply reverberated like nothing I've ever heard before.

I then saw several /r/atlanta posts that pointed out the same phenomena. (I'll try to dig these up in Google and link them.)

When I mentioned it to my coworkers -- it was that remarkable -- they thought I was crazy. My proposed hypothesis at the time was that lack of pollution in the air due to pandemic shutdowns had changed the particulate matter in the atmosphere, changing reverberation physics. But that was stupid, and my coworkers just nodded it off.

If I can corroborate the timeline, this is pretty neat.
If you don't want to buy a book, gitaigo/giongo (onomatopoeia) sites are quite common, e.g. https://onomatoproject.com/
Subverting browser trust by installing a mitm root is not a good way to implement network policy. Many have tried to do this, such as AV vendors, and it generally ends badly.
Do I trust your TLS and certificate trust implementation over a mainline browsers?
Do you understand the nuances of implementing webPKI for browsers?

I think asking the user to give up traffic authentication and confidentiality for a privacy features are best be implemented as a browser extension without this trade-off.
I think that's one of the great things they got when they bought Waze. Pre-pandemic, I had to do a cross-town trip right near the peak of rush hour once a week. I would use Google to get a sane route but their time estimates never seemed to account for increasing traffic volumes and it would take 5-10 minutes longer than estimated at the start of the trip.

Waze would send me down residential streets to save 10 seconds, assuming I was able to make a left turn without a light at the next major road. But they always nailed the arrival time. I would go with whichever app suited my mood.
They also have to plan these things out ahead of time. They aren't making day by day decisions. Politicians and inside trading is not the problem people make it out to be.
Look up the f-audio devices on aliexpress.
I bought one a few years ago, it plays flac and drives my 600ohn headphones as well as my 8ohm iems
Another take: too many posts on HN about languages, algorithms, start-ups, fund-raising, etc, etc. I'm here because I like to read through lots of that stuff! But it has also made admire it all, maybe a little too much.

As I'm in the late stage process of potentially joining a start-up, I am doing so much what-if and what-about-that analysis and it is completely paralyzing my decision process! But it reminded me that I was once a 20-year-old sophomore in college that created a business plan with a friend for a start-up without once wondering what else might be out there. Times have changed.
PowerShell is great, period.

Microsoft should acknowledge that PowerShell 7 built on .NET Core needs to be the default with Windows 11 and Windows Server.

That is the greatest PowerShell failure by Microsoft, why build a new PowerShell and then not make it the default.

Yes, i know there are issues surrounding support for .NET Core vs. Windows. I hope that Microsoft will come around and fix this problem in the near future.
> The achievement of powered flight on another world is one of the great spaceflight feats of the last decade.

Really? Could someone with more knowledge about this outline how different the Mars copter is from a run of the mill quad copter?
> Its notable to me that as concerned as you are about prisoner safety, I don't see you or other advocates of males in womens prisons mention the safety of the female prisoners

Strange that despite the much higher rates of sexual assault (inmate on inmate and staff on inmate) for women in the sex segregated prison system we have, the only time safety of women prisoners gets brought up is as an argument for preserving sex segregation against the fairly minor tweak of gender-identity segregation and not about trying to figure out why a system adopted specifically to isolate and impose harsher punishment on women because they were viewed as incapable of rehabilitation once they had fallen into crime continues, despite recent retcons of it's supposed justification, to disproportionately sexual victimize women.
> In all of this, I’m suggesting a simple principle, albeit one that will not be simple to apply: Our collective attention is important. Whoever (or whatever) controls our attention controls, to a large degree, our future. The social media platforms that hold and shape our attention need to be governed in the public interest. That means knowing who’s truly running them and how they’re running them.

Yes. An increased scrutiny on the algorithms that dictate what gets seen or unseen on each of these platforms. Otherwise it creates something like this: [0].

What is shown in [0] is in fact the nadir of social media algorithms and the worst I have seen and the algorithm is to blame. Other readers have went as far to claim that this platform is 'the best thing to have happened to the Internet'.

Absolutely it is not.

[0] https://www.nrk.no/osloogviken/xl/tiktok-doesn_t-show-the-wa...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28135484
HERE's web map has the strangest approach to not supporting Japan where it shows the country as if nothing but its major highways and some rivers exist. It'd be better to show a "sorry, this is all wrong" sign.

It is great in many other countries though.
Corollary to this is that Conferences are judged not by their overt content, but by their curation of the un-conferences / birds-of-a-feather meetings that they facilitate.
> Conversely, when someone says they’re “doing their own research,” they mean using a search engine to find information that confirms what they already think is true.

Strawman, no? At least that's not how I do research.
My biggest gripe is how I know when I need to stay on a road for say 20 miles. It used to say, “continue straight for 20 miles” but almost always now it

“Continue straight for 2 miles”

“Continue straight for 3 miles”

“Continue straight for 5 miles”

……

Then at some point I have to wonder ok when exactly is my exit coming up. And I have to zoom out on the navigation to see oh I still have a few miles to go. The progress it shows is always based on whatever fractional random segment length they’ve got me on at the moment. So I can’t quickly tell that I’m halfway into that 20 mile section
If it truly were nonpartisan, I would have absolutely no ability to guess which way you lean politically. Right? And yet I can tell with a near 100% certainty that you lean left. Can you explain to me why is that, and how that's consistent with your claim?
I did. Rob Pike said that Go was purposefully made similar to C (and by extension other languages similar to C), in order to be familiar and get new engineers who are already familiar with C or C-like languages to become productive without having to learn too much.

And while I can totally understand how that makes sense in the intended setting, I don't consider that pleasing at all. "Pleasing" for me implies that I like a thing because I like the thing itself, not because external constraints impose (perceived) limitations on other choices. Especially in this context, where we were talking about learning and using a programming language by choice, instead of assembling a team of programmers from an already common pool.
> A more scientific approach is to look at everything in terms of strength of evidence; what are the strengths and the flaws of every study.

And unfortunately, much that is called "science" does not do this; it presents results as much more strongly supported by evidence than they actually are. Then everyone acts surprised when the results don't replicate or something turns up in a few years that shows the results were wrong or predictions based on those results don't pan out. Those results should never have been called "science" in the first place.

My view on learning to do one's own research is that, unfortunately, in our current information environment, you don't have a choice: you have to do your own independent research because there is no information source you can trust to always be honest with you about the strengths and weaknesses of claims and evidence. Of course that doesn't mean you can just believe whatever you want, and doing your own research is hard. But there is no alternative in our current society.
Parse and evaluate MS Excel formula in JavaScript
As a business owner, Apple doesnt make it easy to update hours. There’s a whole approval process, so even if I wanted to update them if we decide to change day of it won’t be reflected in the App

As an app developer, I’m not aware of any API either. Google has a My Business API where I can integrate to update my business info/hours
This post just 10x’d Apple Maps’ engagement.
You can't. This is public information. Details about you do not belong to you. These are the things that your friends, neighbors, relatives remember, and perhaps more importantly, that your enemies identify you by.

These are the things that are on the lips of the people around you. They are the memories of you, and do not belong to you. Like that photo at Disneyland where you're randomly in the background, they depict you but are someone else's property. You can choose not to exist in these databases by not interacting with the world - go hide in a hole somewhere.

That these bits of random trivia are used to verify your identity is the fault and problem of the banks. It's a real problem, and one that needs to be legislated away.
> not there to be any part of the point of the Second Amendment

Given how few words the Constitution uses to describe things, I have to assume there is a point of some kind to every word in the document. We've chosen to interpret all of these words in 2A to be irrelevant, but if the writers of the document intended that, why did they put them there to begin with?
The player corporations and alliances are one of the game’s greatest strengths, and weaknesses.

The big alliances are empires that control many aspects of the game. The downside is that if you want to play casually and don’t like all the boot-licking and drama that comes with player corporations you miss out on a lot of the game.
DIY NAS / Router: 2-bay, low power, ARM-based NAS and router (2018)
Ok let’s skip ahead. Can I, as an ISP, refuse to show you pages I don’t agree with?