skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I regularly visit Hungary on vacation and for work, and every time I try to get into a bit of the local language, I fail miserably. Its the sort of language I think you really, really have to prepare to learn - with books, media, movies, etc. - long before you try to speak it with others.

That said, it is indeed one of the most beautiful languages I've ever heard (and I've travelled around the planet 3 times so far) - I have to say that it is also very, very interesting to travel Hungary with zero understanding whatsoever of the road signs and other public information. Thank goodness a lot of Hungarians speak German ..
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"European Commission prefers breaking privacy to protecting kids": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31341249

"Chat control: EU Commission presents mass surveillance plan on May 11":
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31329368
True that the Syntakt is not battery powered, when needed I run it on a battery bank (allowed to bring on the airplane) + PD cable. The point is being able to use the same gear I use in the studio but for jams where electricity available is not great, or being able to bring it wherever I go, as I consider the device itself portable, especially considering its larger cousins (like the A4, AR or even Octatrack).

Yeah, not being able to 100% customize the synths on the Tracks is bothering me as well. Luckily, my workflow is usually two parts that I do separate. One for sound design (with the Tracks hooked up to the computer) and one for everything else. For that, it does just fine, although the UX could be better for editing the synths.
> soft on crime

I think he funds some groups that advocate criminal justice reform.

There is a case to be made that the sky-high incarceration rates are indicative of a wider problem.
BTC's 30-day correlation with the Nasdaq is at its highest level since July 2020. Its correlation with gold is at a low point.
Removing all the Australian idioms from Bluey would have been a travesty!
Increasingly powerful privacy rights? Do you live in opposite world? Surveillance is growing rapidly, police and other entities have orders of magnitude more data on us than they could have dreamed of a few decades ago, but because there remains an extremely narrow category of data they can't collect in bulk (the content of encrypted communication, but not the metadata), you call this growing privacy?

And all of this while rates of child abuse are falling: https://u.osu.edu/zagorsky.1/2014/09/18/adrainpeterson/
Cloudflare is really fast putting the pieces together to become a modern simpler AWS. By focusing on edge networks and programmability from the start they've been able to outmaneuver AWS in product development and pricing.

AWS today is stable, reliable but expensive and rigid. A lot of their products feel like they've been taken out of the oven 15 minutes too early. AppSync, API Gateway, CloudFormation and others all feel lethargic, stagnant or not fit for purpose in the current world.

I don't think AWS is in a position to compete with Cloudflare's strategy without massively slashing bandwidth prices and improving their product development. They also aren't really a credible edge platform. Lambda@Edge is really bad, CloudFront is slow and terrible compared to Akamai, Fastly and Cloudflare (and Amazon's retail business doesn't even use it -- because it sucks).

Super interesting to watch. ($NET shareholder)
I've used 11ty and quite a few other static site builders (Hugo, jekyll) and also wordpress and Craft CMS. But by far the best I've used is Astro, similar to 11ty but much more simpler to build with and much more powerful IMO
I'd argue the decimal separator is more important and should therefore be more visible; the comma is larger than the dot and extends below the baseline so is easier to see.
> Why not?

Because they can't, the moment they do, they'll be roasted for doing it.

Those who tried, failed miserably.

Justice system here is not run by governments, it's a completely separated power.

> Wait you think Russia is in control of it's citizen? Oh man, western propaganda seams to work even better then the russian counterpart.

They control everything in the control rooms, which is not even the case oin EU democracies.

Do you really believe EU governments will control every communication over the wire if this law is approved in the 26 EU countries?
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I think the best part of Casey’s critique is pointing out that trends indicate that those blind spots are only getting bigger. Individual/personal corrections are absolutely possible, but they’re not going to stop this accelerating blind spot growth problem (especially if just as many individuals are turned off by the tenor of the critique as are convinced by its substance — this aspect is where most of my many qualifications about his critique come from).

Personally, even taking his caustic critique as given, he’s more criticizing MS than the MS developers. If you know Casey’s opinions on FAANG companies, you’d know that when he says what a MS employee “should” know, it does not come from a position of holding MS in high esteem. He means, “how is this multi-billion dollar company getting it so wrong” not “how are these pitiable developers letting down the honorable MS corporation”.
#whynotboth?

Grifters should be punished for their scams, and it's also acceptable for "investors" on these scams to lose their money i think (that's a hard punishment already; no need for anything extra). Thinking of it the other way around: as a society, it wouldn't be nice to bail out or compensate these "investments", as doing so would encourage people to keep doing throwing their money on things they don't have any clue about and expect to be compensated if it turns out bad.
> His argument about digital watches did not age well.

Didn't it? I think it remains true. Time is a continuum, not discrete; analogue watches demonstrate that, while digital ones do not.

And yes, schools have to teach one how to use a clock, but at the end of the process one actually has enhanced one's understanding of time. Much like using a slide rule teaches one far more about numbers and maths than using a calculator.
> Unsexy sells.

Not for me; it has to be sexy, world and life style changing. I’d rather build something like one of the top used apps or just be an employee at a tech co.
Tulip mania. See also: Cryptocurrency.
> It's recommended to understand both the background and the event on January 6th to get a clear picture.

As a non American who watched the summer of 2020 riots in absolute awe I will never understand why people even mention the 6th. It just doesn't compare.
Nationalist, perhaps, but seem to have replaced it with several other varieties.
Never put your personal phone number on any business documents ever. You’ll regret it forever.
> It is much easier for lobbyists with deep pockets to influence policies on the continent.

I don't know what you're comparing it with (i.e. easier than what?), but in my mind one advantage of the "bureaucracy" of the EU is that you have to convince way more people to get them to execute on your wishes. You can influence a Commissioner (the Commission is indirectly elected, i.e. appointed by the member governments, which are often appointed by the majority parties in a government, which are elected), but then it also needs to be approved by Parliament (directly elected) and the Council (the governments, usually appointed by the elected majority parties). And then I assume there's also a whole bunch of roadblocks that civil servants can throw up if a plan is really inconvenient.
Doesn't that just mean $600M was redeemed? A reduction in the outstanding USDT sounds like a positive sign.
The lack of swimlanes was a reason for me to not use Trello before. Very nice.
>>omeone in a different state with the same name was recently arrested. I've gotten 5-6 alerts every day for the last week from various local (to him) newspaper and television station websites announcing his arrest. Name, address, age, alleged offenses, etc. How many will I get if he's found innocent two years from now?

That sounds like a problem that's very unique to the weird justice system in US(and UK to an extent, unfortunately), where the law allows publishing the name and other details of an arrested person. In most(if not all?) EU countries that is strictly forbidden - until the trial is done, any arestee can only be reported on by their first name and with the face hidden. Avoids runining innocent lives like American media do.
Comparing Strict and Lazy
I'm glad the submission title has been updated, as from the page I had no idea what this was.
Compare 'Torture and Plea Bargaining' https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...

> In this essay I shall address the modem American system of plea bargaining from a perspective that must appear bizarre, al though I hope to persuade you that it is illuminating. I am going to contrast plea bargaining with the medieval European law of torture.

> My thesis is that there are remarkable parallels in origin, in function, and even in specific points of doctrine, between the law of torture and the law of plea bargaining. I shall suggest that these parallels expose some important truths about how criminal justice systems respond when their trial procedures fall into deep disorder.
We didn't get Medicare For All, Green New Deal, Housing For All, $15 minimum wage, etc. under Biden, also we never got a federal law protecting abortion under Obama when he had a super majority. Hillary had more opposition to Sanders than to Trump. Manchin and Sinema regularly vote Republican on topics important to Democrat voters. So you could say it's the opposite for Democrats. This is called the Ratchet Effect.
Again, you're being pedantic in an attempt to dismiss people.

People could interpret the comment in question as "name examples in Europe", as if commenter was trying to imply "European countries aren't as crazy and totalitarian as the US / the remainder of the world". Several commenters gave examples close to home.

But somehow the EU, as in European Union, will be the exception, and we can't be skeptical of that. Get real.
This announcement was released simultaneously with 6 papers that use the newly released data. They are linked in the bottom of the press release and are definitely worth checking out.
https://nypost.com/2021/12/16/how-george-soros-funded-progre...

Oh come on :) You can't tell me you haven't heard of this?
Everyone involved in crypto is either a con or a mark. There isn't a middle ground.
One can only wonder why had it taken so long.
it's not novel or new, just a simple usability improvement that really makes you question -
Was it there from the day-1 roadmap and just wasn't implemented?
Are we starting to see the decline of the extremely-poor-UX-friendly flat trend?

glad to see a step in the right direction, hopefully 90's cloths comeback will go in the same path.
Why do you think they wouldn't? They did it for the US with the "Patriot Act"
VPNs are pointless if this breaks end to end encryption.

VPNs are pointless if end to end encryption isn't broken.
Agreed.

Despite the author namedropping some other places, the whole piece is struggling to gain the validity it seeks due to pretending the US is the only country on earth and no one else could have figured out some solutions.

Also, the wrong use of "gerrymandering" makes me wonder how much the author actually knows about the topic.
When we argue for you to view things from Russia's perspective we aren't condoning their actions, we're trying to prevent an escalation in response to misinformed policy. No one here has stated that they should be allowed to invade Ukraine. What many are trying to do is tamp down the calls for further military engagement or even all out war with Russia. Diplomacy is the only way we get out of this without piling up more dead bodies on all sides.
> whatever happened to living in a shithole for a few years

In other words, "I had to suffer (or grew up with an expectation that many people had to suffer) this way, so no one else gets to complain about having to suffer this way, even if it's very possible to eliminate this kind of pointless suffering from the system."
I don't think so – France uses this exact model, and their party system has just in the last 15 years or so transitioned out both of the former top two parties (PS and LR).

If anything, I would expect this model to reduce duopoly. An unpopular republican might be overtaken by a candidate from the libertarians in the first round, giving them a shot at victory which they could hardly get if the ghost of "wasted votes" on third-parties was haunting them.
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It's the government version of instrumental convergence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence
> I'd say there are some very weird things about the language. I had to wait until my second semester to be able to say "I have X". There's no such verb as "having" in hungarian, but you use possessive + being to indicate you have something. And we only learnt possessive suffixes in 2nd semester.

The same is also true for Turkish:

Bende elma var = I have an apple

Bende = Ben (me) - de (possesive),
elma = apple,
var = exists.

Turkish also has a lot of common words with Hungarian and no gender also like in Hungarian. Even the politics look as bad as each other, hehe. Sometimes I think there must be some more connection to these 2 societies than what you can find in Wikipedia.

I speak little to none Hungarian, and a lot of Turkish, and this broken English you can read here but I disagree, learning German wasn't that hard and for all the errors I make when speaking, nobody bats an eye.

Edit: I realize you said Berlin. Oh man, what can I tell you... There, I also had hard time speaking German, and the first mistake you make they directly switch to English to be friendly. There's something like overshooting it when you are being helpful to foreigners :) I tried to order beer and said "Bier bitte!" and the waitress asked, in English, "You want a beer?", same happened when asking for directions. This never ever happens in Hessen and I sort of like it that way.

Disclaimer: Author is a person of somewhat Turkish origin living happily in Germany who also loves the Hungarian language and culture.
I wouldn't consider 56 late in life to learn something new. I intend to keep learning until the day I die.
This is turnkey, UKR isn’t
No, equivalent. It may relate to a different, more intangible object (website vs. car), but it strips away the same rights.
We need more democracy - pan-EU elections for the President, pan-EU parties for the Parliament, etc.
I don't know man casinos have a legal duty to cut off compulsive gamblers. At least in my country.

Which leads me to an idea: classify crypto as a casino.
I wonder where one-button database upgrades are on their roadmap. Currently still a manual process [0], and that's something I want from hosted datastores as a baseline these days.

[0]: https://render.com/docs/databases#database-versions--upgrade...
OP also has a history of mental illness, so I would take their conception of sanity with a grain of salt
I find Google’s iOS apps to be thoroughly mediocre and frustrating to use, whether they’re Flutter or not. They just don’t behave like iOS apps.

It’s even worse when you’re in a less common set up, like using an iPad with a keyboard case. I can’t even use the arrow keys to move between search results in the YouTube app.

I know most people don’t care, but it’s the endless little details that make me thoroughly dislike cross-platform toolkits.
What Developers Need to Know About the Strategy of Security
None of them had anything to do with UNIX terminals.

Ironically you even list one that is a RDP server, completly unrelated to CLI.

Random Google search without diving into details?
The latest OS update added a new synthesis method (wavetable) too, which is really fun and exciting for those of us with a huge wavetable archive to harvest.

Definitely a killer workstation.
Also same, this seems to be related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyscalculia
> Because the black hole is about 27,000 light-years away from Earth, it appears to us to have about the same size in the sky as a donut on the Moon.

I'm still sad we can't post donut emojis here. This place sucks.
I've never found any suggestion algorithm to be useful, YT is no exception. I think if you are watching anything trending like Ukraine war news, etc. you are going to get a constant influx of suggestions for those because they pull more ad revenue.

If I'm using a web browser I will use incognito mode to view things I don't want them to suggest and searching for specific topics (tool reviews, workbench designs, etc.) helps discover channels.
> I know a multimillion £ business that probably gained hundreds of thousands in productivity by simply introducing shared mailbox.

Good if someone can pull it off. But, I believe that company might have sold that feature as an add-on to their existing customers. Otherwise, you know “Sales” are the hard part
My window is big enough to see the whole modal, however it didn't show the bottom link, but when I opened it in a private window it did, but then when I closed and reopened my private browser it did not show again.

It's worse than a dark pattern, they are A/B testing a dark pattern.
Discussed less than two months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30720876 (151 points/55 days ago/175 comments)
Serious question, how can you sue over this kind of thing?

I thought the whole point of crypto is that it's not regulated. And that also meant that if you got screwed then you are SOL.
Yes! The world needs more ePaper dev boards. I've been playing with an InkPlate 10[1] which is a similar concept and I'm very excited by the potential.

1. https://www.crowdsupply.com/press/inkplate10
Keep in mind that comp for Dutch software developers is probably an order of magnitude lower than what you can get in the US.
Not sure what your point is other than a snarky comment.

Does the Constitution mention public schools at all? No. Ponder that for a while.
This is extremely true.

I think some people are "maximizers" - They will always do research to seek out the "best" for their given budget for even moderately priced purchases. Engineers tend to fit this profile, so its easy for them to get psyched-out when trying to ship a product.

But people - and businesses - aren't always like this. They will buy what's available and seems to get the job done and seems like less of a hassle.

I worked at a company that at one point had an inferior product to our biggest competitor. We survived and they went out of business. Looking back, one big reason was the fact that we were able to fly under their radar until we had feature parity. We had no fear of shipping early... or shipping half-baked features. I kind of cringe now looking back. And when we finally eclipsed them (as those half-baked features slowly became fully-baked) we were still invisible to them - it wasn't until we started poaching some large accounts of theirs that we finally landed on their radar.
Congratulations.

You just delegated the choice of winners and losers in your economy to an elite cadre of individuals, completely disconnected from boots on the ground life problems.

Symptoms of your decision may include:

Tendency to centralize.

Preferrntial treatment of large incumbents for ease of implementing regulations.

Higher barriers to entry over time.

Decreased feedback loop with regards to reigning in egregious business malbehavior.

Index investing does nothing but perpetuate a small handful of winners, and divests the majority of people from their most important role of being capital allocators.

Part of it, is being bad at it at some point. That's how you get better and increase overall world awareness.
Toby Price's firing for reading a ‘Butt’ book upheld by school board
Sometimes, you'll be faced with a situation where it seems like you have to decide if you should trust someone. A situation where you have to evaluate someone's honesty and whether they will follow through with their commitments they make to you.

Either you're dealing with someone honest, or not. Seems simple, right?

But, there is a third option. Sometimes someone will earnestly and honestly make a commitment, but then later on they will not see themselves as being obligated to follow through, or they will rationalize some reason they don't need to meet their commitments they've previously made.
Wow. Is such system popular where you live? What country is it, if I may ask?

Looks like a flatmate-like agreement for me, but on a house level for whatever reason.
I hear so much about why fiat is bad because of money printing.

So it’s wild to me that so much of Bitcoin is basically propped up by Tether printing.
are there groups in europe that plan to make a public protest ? I'd like to join.
> Enshrining the two party system in law is something that even the current power system in the US hasn't managed. By doing "top two to general" you'd be converting a de-facto duopoly into an actual duopoly.

Just the opposite, the top two candidates, regardless of what party they're from will appear on the ballot, this would allow people to vote for a 3rd party candidate in the primary without worrying about "wasting" their vote. If the 3rd party candidate is one of the top two they'll appear in the general, if not that voter can still pick the lesser of two evils in the general.
defense doesn't have to mean "wait to be attacked and then fire back". obviously defense is an ongoing process to weaken the enemy: e.g. arranging coups.

NATO even bombed countries without having been attacked (Yugoslavia, Libya); I'm sure they have no issue with launching more covert, deniable, attacks.
As a counterpoint to that, my wife recently did some genealogy work and found that her ancestors came over on the Mayflower, moved to a small Upstate NY city, and then lived right there for roughly 300 years.
Seems that's the only way people end up caring to fix things these days.
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>> But having more sales when you sales org is badly structured will make you loose a lot of money

Read the original point. The OP is not saying sales globally optimizes all things, like how your sales department is organized, rather it mitigates (i.e "fixes") the problem. All your other points are secondary, and definitely don't hurt as much if you've got lots of sales.

Larry Ellison of Oracle definitely fails rule #6 but he gets at least one big thing right. There are only two roles: You're either building the thing or selling the thing.
As I have always understood the concept of proxy war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_war there should be another party behind Russia prompting it's actions (since it attacked)
This title does not seem to match the website that was linked to. It's certainly generating interesting conversation, but I'm a bit confused.
I was very surprised that anyone at all would find digital displays harder to read than an old-style clock face. Learned something new just now. I'm 37 too.
Oh but OP is talking about his parents (the granparents) sending the photos.

And you already have received them!
On your FIDO key there's no data stored, not even the keys to connect to fb. When fb makes a request the (private) key is derived from the master secret (the only thing stored) and the signature is made.
I remember the lpsz vars: long pointer to string zero terminated. What's the W for this? I'm guessing Simonyi's Hungarian Notation was for early C compilers that didn't have function prototype decls? Younger HNers may not remember early C compilers where function declarations just declared the return type, not the parameters.
Agreed. The OP-1 always reminded me of the IIgs keyboard.

https://i0.wp.com/jdanatrent.com/wp-content/uploads/AppleIIG...
Given Tether's past relationship with the truth, I'd imagine "significantly reduced exposure to commercial paper" means "most of it is now worthless".