skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Before vouching, I skimmed their "comments" page. In my opinion, 90% of the posts there were flagged unfairly.

Being incorrect or even inflammatory is not a crime. Being unable to voice your opinion just because it makes other people go "yuck" when they hear them is not something I would like to promote or support.

Regarding the nick, my guess is that the author opinions have been controversial for some time, and they probably were banned for voicing them before. After a third time I can see myself making an account with similar name - at least if I was stubborn enough to try again.

Downvote the GP and ignore them all you want - you can fold their comment along with the whole subtree below it - but don't flag the posts. As you can see, if you bothered to read, there's a lot of fact-based refutations offered by other users in this subthread. These are better weapons against disinformation (if it's that) than pretending people believing that disinformation don't exist, and moving them out of sight, and out of mind.

To be honest, I wouldn't be writing this if it was a few weeks ago. I probably wouldn't even have bothered with vouching, and definitely wouldn't spent time reviewing the comment history. I'm lazy, after all. Unfortunately, someone here linked an essay[1] by pg and it changed my mind. We need more, not less, incorrect and inflammatory voices, because sometimes, someone from the flock of crooks actually is right. And we all lose if they're right but keep it to themselves.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/heresy.html
In many US jurisdictions, police will show up if they get called with a complaint. They'll harrass the person the complaint was about, and if they don't like how the person responds, they'll escalate the situation. The number of people charged for nothing except "resisting arrest" (regardless that the arrest was unreasonable) is astounding.

And there's no "right" way to act in those situations. Charles Kinsey got shot, lying on the ground with his empty hands on the air, because the police were afraid when they responded to a complaint. The shooter kept his job, retired, and got 100 hours of community service and had to write a letter of apology.
> This is known news if you're following the situation

if you are following the situation from Western media outlets. The West has a stake in this fight and the reporting is far from unbiased.
> On the other hand, it doesn't have any sound that doesn't exist in German.

Except for gy, ty, ny, dz, also the short a sound. Plus the standard German r differs from what Hungarian uses.
And here you see the new picture compared with the 2019 picture of Messier 87:

https://blackholecam.org/
I owned and sold an OP-1. It is a beautiful piece of hardware and its analog controls and mashable buttons provide a more tactile experience than an iPad does.

That said, the sounds it ships with really leave something to be desired. My subjective opinion is that anyone who's played with a best in class software synth (i.e., equator2) is going to find themselves feeling pretty limited by the blippy tones that you get out of the box.

Sure, you can load up the sampler with tons of cool tones and op1.fun is a wonderful resource, but it's a lot of work to go curate a bunch of sounds to compensate for a lackluster palette.

I can already hear people saying that I'm missing the point and that the constraints are designed to inspire creativity, etc. I respect that point of view, but at the end of the day, my creative time is at a premium, and I'd like to use that time to create stuff that I'm proud to show friends and family.

Most of the stuff I produced with the OP-1 sounded like video game music or music for a kid's cartoon (i.e., Adventure Time). If that's your thing, then awesome! If not, I'd consider the core tonal possibilities before you make a big investment.
Strangers are always way less dangerous than people you know. People just refuse to accept that fact.
I think folks wanted to maintain that wise policy. Even in the days leading up to the war Ukraine dismissed the fact that Russia would attack as fear mongering. The problem is that Russia has now proven themselves an untrustable party. "Keep the status quo and we won't attack," they say but now they are attacking Ukraine anyways.

What do you do if you are Finland? You want to make peace, you want to maintain nonaggression and neutrality but another neutral party doing the same meets devastation before your very eyes. Seems better in this situation to get whatever protection you can.
>Clubs for nerds sounds good; is that some kind of meatspace IRC?

Pretty much, you get everything from board games to Linux meetups, and then like IRC channels, they usually collapse through drama or mismanagement and then a few more pop up lol
The Commanding Self by Idries Shah
It is a curious choice, I admit, but it takes you out of the mundane reality into fresh view of life. Expanding your view is a great cure for depression. I was also very inspired by Shah's "Thinker from the East".
> Allowing for trailing commas should get included in the SQL spec.

Yep! That would be my #1 request for SQL. Seems ridiculous that it's not supported already.
Yes, but does the number of people matter in that case?
You can certainly cut down on the number of items to scan through by simply cutting off most of it, but then you'll miss some things you would have been interested in. Even worse, making it difficult to follow a wide variety of sources can only make the filter-bubble effect more pronounced—e.g., those so inclined will still follow Fox News but will be much less likely to see anything from alternative news sources since they would need to opt in to seeing everything those sources post.

The problem is not that the feed is algorithmically filtered. We should use algorithms to automatically gather useful information from a wide variety of sources. The problem is who controls the filters, and whose interests the default algorithms serve.
It should be pointed out that casinos are only required to post odds for perfect play in games that have skill (e.g. poker, blackjack). Therefore, your poker odds would be based on the rake.
It is possible to create an alliance against an external threat without defining the threat in advance, as you seem to assume. If Russia wanted to join NATO, they could, and this was an imaginable possibility in the 90s, and could be an imaginable possibility again in the future, in a post-Putin era. A defensive pact is just a pact against anyone who attacks; if the US attacked a NATO country, it would be a pact against the US.
Because Finland wasn't willing to push all the way to Murmansk to cut off Lend Lease supplies.
On related note - I wish we had a diff view of all the laws/bills that get passed: showing who contributed what language.
As someone who has written a lot of music using Pocket Operators I disagree. They have been part of my songwriting tool chain for years and have pretty much worked their way into every recording I've made since I bought them. They are the perfect accompaniment when sitting down with a guitar to write music either acting as a metronome, a groove to jam over, or a complete drum/bass/synth backup with an arrangement (16 patterns and 128 measures is enough to write a good song). Also, Pocket Operators are cheap as hell, most under $100.
I think you just described VisiData:

VisiData is an interactive multitool for tabular data. It combines the clarity of a spreadsheet, the efficiency of the terminal, and the power of Python, into a lightweight utility which can handle millions of rows with ease.

https://www.visidata.org/
In the interest of full disclosure, I am more or less an atheist who thinks the Bible is largely fairy-tales and gobbledygook. So take what I'm about to say with the appropriate sized grain of salt.

New International Version

The NIV, as I understand it, was translated not by "neutral" scholars who were interested in a 100% accurate translation as their primary goal. Rather, it was translated by people who were "true believers" and were focused on making the Bible more understandable to modern readers (possibly at the cost of some literal accuracy) and possibly - if you buy into some of the harsher criticisms - glossing over some of the "problematic" parts of the Bible.

Anyway, I'm not passing judgment one way or the other. I have an NIV alongside several other translations, so I found it worth spending the $$$ to buy a copy for one reason or another. Just wanted to point out that this translation is not free of possible concerns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_International_Version
> what benefits Orban

Orban’s party won reëlection. Orban is popular [1]. We can crib about disinformation and this or that, but holding Hungary accountable for his decisions is perfectly acceptable.

[1] https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-viktor-orban-europ...
Speaking of weird ways to name something, why did you write it as $WORK? It doesn't look like it's publicly traded.
Which is why non-localised US media can be so successful in other countries, even places where English isn't the first language.
I think it's more subtle than that. If you are the city council member, doing something about it is a lot easier than not. Saying "I don't think we should make our children safer" is politically difficult. So the rules slowly ratchet up.
I may have very different uses for my PC than you (I use it primarily for gaming and my job as a game developer), but I find the notion of having to upgrade your PC to run a browser-based application very strange.

I am not saying that electron-based apps are generally good or efficient. Most of them are frustratingly slow and awkward. But this inefficiency rarely seems to be constrained by local resources: the apps often stand still, consuming barely any resources (CPU time, memory, etc.) and taking ages to load each page. At the same time you can often visit the same page in Chrome and it will load almost instantly.

It is frustrating and I have no idea what is going on, but it doesn't seem like upgrading the PC would solve the issue.
The over abundance of useless people with stupid amounts of money has got to be the greatest social malaise of our time.
I kind of hate the dramatization in newer nature documentaries, rife with cuts of sweeping landscape views set to loud, epic music. I'm probably just getting old, but it feels like they're trying too hard to keep my attention. I don't need blaring horns and pounding timpani to keep me watching.
I was just yesterday exploring DuckDB and it looked very promising but I was very surprised to find out that indexes are not persisted (and I assume that means they must fit in RAM).

> Unique and primary key indexes are rebuilt upon startup, while user-defined indexes are discarded.

The second part with just discarding previously defined indexes is super surprising.

https://duckdb.org/docs/sql/indexes

This was an instant showstopper for me or I assume most people whose databases grow to a bigger size at which point an OLAP DB becomes interesting in the first place.

Also the numerous issues in Github regarding crashes make me hesitant.

But I really like the core idea of DuckDB being a very simple codebase with no dependencies and still providing very good performance. I guess I just would like to see more SQLite-esque stability/robustness in the future and I'll surely revisit it at some point.
This too was a media driven hysteria. You can see how the news amplifying a few rare kidnapping and molestation cases, if it bleeds it leads style, is directly correlated to the public intrigue. A lot of movies and tv shows took on these themes as well. Much like the red scare and more recent mass hysterias driven by an unscrupulous news industry political complex.
> plenty of countries are unhappy about banning Russian hydrocarbons

But only one is blocking.
By the same logic, are social media companies somehow obligated to never shutdown as long as they have users?

If not, can they shut down and then only come back for users using non-grandfathered terms?

If so, can they shut down for only users using grandfathered terms?

Aren't we now back to where we started?

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I disagree pretty fundamentally that you have any right to have a company continue to host content for you (which is equivalent to having a right to having a company repeat what you said to anyone who asks - which is clearly a free speech violation) short of them signing a contract with you guaranteeing that.

I agree that as a user it's very frustrating when something you use changes what it is, but I don't see how a social media platform is any different from a bar in that regards. They both derive a lot of their value from their users, it's frustrating for the users of both if they fundamentally change who they are, but it's their right do that anyways.
TIL he's not Trump's son-in-law.
> people are not (and we do not expect them to be) experts in investment.

So then they should stay out of the game. I totally disagree that we need a bunch of bullshit laws protecting people from poor decision making.
Since Windows Terminal application doesn't care about Concurrent DOS ever existing, and Windows Terminal Server is actually the Windows version of X Windows based on DirectX and grown out of Citrix networking protocol, they don't apply here.
Because people got super freaked over the risk of pedophiles, though they should worry more about their family members perpetuating sexual abuse than a random stranger.
Let me go point by point.

"A good manager knows to give a layoff speech without creating legal liability."

No, this is not true. Many good managers, even nice managers can mess this up. It is not always obvious. Being a good manager is different than (sometimes somewhat arbitrary) things that generate legal liability.

"The liability comes in how they select who they lay off and the actions taken prior to lay off."

Again, this is totally false. MUCH legal liability is created AT THE POINT OF LAYOFF/TERMINATION. I happen to see this over and over. It's weird / scary to hear folks here deny this so brazenly. If you deal with wrongful termination cases a common first source of dispute will center around what was said / claimed at termination both too the employee or employees affected AND to others about the termination. Sure, you can get into statistics around groups and how selected etc, but practically if you can show the lies / inconsistencies in that good managers explanation for layoff provided right there (and there WILL be inconsistencies if they go on for a long time trying to justify / avoid hurt feelings etc) you can "skip to the good part $$$". I'll note that some of the biggest issues comes from nice to very nice managers, they often are sloppier with employee files, sloppier with boundaries and more. They are often liked - so the cases can be a bit of a bummer.

My point stands, some companies have a relatively scripted layoff for these larger layoffs that has gone through legal and other reviews. They don't always allow for a lot of back and forth discussion. Not all of course.
Assuming this was an American school this really surprising?

America has school shootings regularly. Children have to perform regular active shooter drills in American schools. Like a fire drill.

There are also significant pressures put on a shrinking number of underpaid teachers and staff to care for an increasing number of children. More kids being cared for by fewer adults.

With this mindset why would school staff not err on the side of caution and ask an unknown person to move along?

It's a sad state of affairs, but it is not the fault of the teacher or school staff that America got here.
I still blame John Walsh for this. He scared an entire generation of parents and now everyone lives thinking everyone is a murdering pedo. Look, what happened to him and his family, his son, is awful and I can't imagine what that was like, but he fucked America up.
I'm sure that framing your comment as a narrative is due more to pretension, but part of me wants to see it as a brilliant stroke of irony. I mean, sure, you're grossly mischaracterizing her quote, but at least it's presented as fiction.
That's a bad faith argument that talks past everything that GP said.

Ironically the most accepted replies here are emotional knee-jerk statements.
Tell this to Booksy.com (valued ~1B)
Sure Comcast's "X1 Entertainment Operating System" is technically just a suite of applications that run on top of an actual OS, but at least it comprises everything an end user will interact with. It's much closer to an OS than WorkOS, that's for sure.
You can see the exact rules of poker, and you can calculate exact win rates for any given strategy against the house since they play a fixed strategy.
Friend of mine runs a local eatery. She told her 9-year old son to walk across the street - literally to the candy shop where she knows the owner, and told the kid to do some homework for an hour. Police brought her son back and threatened to charge her with endangerment or abandonment or something similar. This was... 2018 IIRC.

They live about 1.5 miles from the eatery. She would let her 9 year old walk home sometimes in good weather - low crime with actual tree-lined suburban streets. Police apparently threatened her over that as well - that's somehow endangering the child too much, and she might be charged with some misdemeanor.

I don't get it. Really. As someone who grew up in the 70s/80s... I can't say 'nothing bad ever happened'. Obviously it did. But the pendulum has swung far too much the other way now.
No problem! Just reply to my latest comment on HN if you are. Should be fun! Exciting times right now.
You should check out Gravity Falls, and the 2017 DuckTales.
Point of clarification.

If they give you 1 USDT for 1 dollar that's fine as long as they can return that dollar when you return the USDT. The problem is when the number of coins in circulation not held by Tether is not backed with 1:1 cash or currency equivalents.
It will never cease to amuse me that Orwell intended to write a book about geopolitics and the downsides of a fractionalized world, but instead accidentally wrote a book that everyone interprets as an anti-government manifesto.
Since you started listing movies, I'll add one to this thread:

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
Considering that no serious and credible audit has ever before verified the backing of USDT, I think we all can agree it is a Ponzi scheme, through and through.
It wasn’t so long ago we had some fans of crypto on HN, lots of stories how this or that scheme was going to work.

First movers want to sound and convince others they are right and “now” is the right time to step in.

Most of it can be debunked if you had a good economy course that tells you how value is created.
Supermassive black hole at centre of Milky Way seen for first time
I'm not appointing any responsibility to either side nor am I qualified to do so. I'm just sharing the viewpoint that Soros apparently convinced other investors in private to make certain transactions that affect his own (public and legal) trade, and that that part of his move carries a risk of being labeled market manipulation.
NATO is a political entity. When you say political, do you mean culture war? Cause how can an alliance not be entirely political in nature?
Now try it as a guy.
Agreed! We track ours on GitHub, and use that as the source of truth.
I think, one factor of this is attaching your pride or self worth to the product you are building and picking wrong KPI.

This thing you are building will prove everyone how smart or [SOMETHING ELSE] you are and the only way to have this happen is to strike at once, shock and awe everyone with your brilliance. You can't simply launch an imperfect product, what that will say about you?
This just creates another “CSV” were you don’t know which format variation was actually used.
>The question is she did not where she was, guess there is no gps map. And more importantly she has to fly the thing.

I would imagine she had a smartphone. Gmaps/Amaps is no match for Skydemon but it's a million times better than nothing.
Not nearly as racist as the US where people of color are regularly murdered.
Yep, it is also one type of information warfare and influencing.
It gets harder and harder to present opposite opinions when there is huge pressure created with misleading titles.

People think that something is already agreed on when they are not.
DuckDB: embedded OLAP, SQLite: embedded OLTP. For small datasets (<1M rows let's say) either would be similar in performance.

I need to do the benchmarks to substantiate this but this is my intuition.
Apparently "trafficking children" is so wide spread and rampant that europeans must give up more of their privacy and their liberties for "security and the children". Welcome to politics in 2022!
one thing I love about DuckDB is that it supports Parquet files, which means you can get great compression on the data. Here's an examples getting a 1 million row CSV under 50mb and interactive querying in the browser:
https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/bandcamp-sales-data?c...

the other big thing is better native data types, especially dates. With SQLite if you want to work with timeseries you need to do your own date/time casting.
You would be correct. Marketing in general and advertising in particular is a villainous practice.
> if you oppose this it would be wise to find other ways of solving the concerns people like Kutcher are raising

Well if I am supposed to find other ways of solving the concerns people like Kutcher are raising, then what, exactly, are we supposed to be paying the MPs for? Just to raise their hands when the voting comes?

There are countless politicians, technology and policy experts, and government employees at all levels involved in this. When they come up with a solution and it turns out to be wrong, it's still their job -- literally -- to figure out a better one.
It doesn't matter if it's a scam or if it provides value. Lots of activity leading up to the 2007 crisis was scammy but once enough people and institutions were exposed it had to be dealt with. If Moderna says they put all the cash in Tether and now they're broke and can't produce vaccines, they'll get bailed out.

All that being said I don't actually think that we'll see anything like that. There will be some negative wealth effect but unlikely any systemic risk. Traditional financial institutions have been leery of crypto from the start and they still control the vast majority of capital.
I was a graduate student working to get left-wing groups pulling together around 1994 and that was when I heard some students talking about how they'd been browbeaten by a professor about "white privilege".

My immediate take at the time was that groups like the Olin Foundation were working hard to push right-wing views on campus (funding three separate conservative student newspapers!) and that this was exactly what they wanted: a 'vaccination' that will drive young people to vote Republican for the rest of their lives, while fooling left-oriented academics into thinking they've claimed some territory for themselves.
Illusions, by Richard Bach

The Egg, by Andy Weir
The F-Secure folks also have https://github.com/F-Secure/mqtt_fuzz - although it doesn't support authenticated brokers as of yet.
> idea is that NATO got your back if you're in, you won't get kicked out if your membership starts being inconvenient, and that the other members will act when Article 5 is invoked

None of that is violated by kicking someone out before they are attacked.
There is a big difference between "there are no provisions for removal of a member state" and "removal of a member state is explicitly prohibited."
Forgot expression for dealing with consequences of past programming decision
And it's driving me crazy. Help.