skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The next month he reviewed a different player. He basically retracted his opinion of CDs but said the player from the previous month was obviously terrible, at least the particular one that he did his review on, if not the entire brand.

He could have been right both times. Many early CDs were just plain awful. Same with the first couple of generations of CD players, even some pricy ones. The early development of MP3 and other lossy audio codecs recapitulated the history of digital audio pretty well: lots of truly crappy recordings got passed around.

Like do you really need $50,000 of equipment and sand weighted speakers that weigh 700 pounds each to play 1968 bachelor pad music?

I've never understood audiophiles. How can it make sense for me to spend more money on my equipment than the freaking recording studio spent on theirs? Do these people think studios use $10,000 power cords on their sound boards, and atomic clocks to drive their ADCs?
Alex's sworn testimony during the trial. He was asked how many employees he had, and he gave these estimates. 75 * 150,000 = 11,250000. I quotes 10 million because it was a nice round number.
> The KKK was thoroughly defeated as a power in the US thanks entirely to the US system of freedom of speech; the KKK had a very large, potent base at one time. They were not outlawed as a group, sunlight-as-disinfectant overwhelmingly won out

While the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 didn't, you are correct, outlaw the Klan as a group, it did authorize a whole lot of measures—including authorizing federal military force and suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, and new federal civil and criminal causes of action—to combat their actions and those of similar groups, and those authorities were liberally used in suppressing them. Describing the successful strategy as “sunlight as disinfectant” rather than massive application of force is... not grounded in fact.
It doesn’t really matter at this point, because he signed a binding agreement. He’s the one that made that move. Specifically why is just speculation now.

But, hey, we’re all here speculating anyway! My take is:

1) He’s a history of making impulsive decisions without thinking (or caring) about the consequences.

2) It forced Twitter’s hand because they couldn’t act like it was it a non-genuine offer.

3) He’s so rarely held accountable for the consequences of his decisions he knew it didn’t matter because he’s above the law.
Lex has been very open with how he is still finding his own in interviewing.

I agree that there are obvious opportunities for following a more in-depth rabbit to hop into...

And, there are times, when there is _such_ the obvious question/followup/conclusion that is clear, and it gets missed.

At the same time, He does a good job keeping people talking. This Carmack one so far is really good.

I highly recommend this particular episode:

--- Ariel Ekblaw is the director of the MIT Space Exploration Initiative. ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW8Vjs84Fxg

Ariel's ability to clearly express and convey such an amazing vision for space colonization... Talking about how to make self assembling space station modules.
Turtle Geometry is still worth checking out. The value is in working through the ideas, and details of Logo take up very little of the book.

(I've only glanced through CS Logo Style and haven't seen the other two.)
What I wouldn’t give for a reproduction of certain issues like this one.

The Amiga issue was probably my all time fav. I held on to it for so long, but now I have no idea what happened to it.
Sounds like maybe the only research you did was listen to what the convicted liar is saying.

The reality is that Jones was given ample opportunity to comply and blatantly refused to cooperate with lawful court orders. Add to that, some of that information that he claimed under oath didn't exist, was accidentally sent to the plaintiff's attorneys by Jone's attorneys in a subsequent trial thus providing proof that said information was being withheld purposefully.

In other words, this is exactly what justice looks like.
The answer is not to base your beliefs off of every tweet that comes across your feed. Don't buy in fully to every rumor you hear. If it is too much effort to form an educated opinion about something, you don't need to form an opinion at all
He doesn't have the money any more...
While perhaps accurate, I find it absurd that this wasn't only a ruling class thing.

Massaged with oil? Water tanks?! Hot water? Come on, you can't tell me the poor, barely able to feed themselves, lucky to have fuel for cooking food, lucky to get porable water, barely a roof over their heads, had these luxuries?

I find it the same with how the west views its history. People viewing lords and ladies in castles, as how the would have lived 500 years ago.

No.

You are the peasant. No lands for you, you aren't a lord or lady, you're a peon like 99.999% of people. Almost no middle class, and you aren't upper! You're lower class.
Almost all contracts concern promises to do something in the future (e.g., deliver goods, perform services, pay money).
I was a teenager, desperately looking for the cheapest possible system (because I couldn't afford any of them). And I would longingly read all the ads hoping a miracle wold happen. Later on I learned that one of those companies was named after the college dorm where the computer was conceived. So cool.
I think it is more of an issue with not able to effectively model your data to suit the DDB paradigm.

DDB absolutely shines when you have to scale. I mean, have you ever tried setting up a cluster of SQL servers. It's a nightmare.

DDB is breezingly easy, as long as you know how to model your data effectively.
With New Study, NASA Seeks the Science Behind UFOs
> Want to tone down the number of people that believe in conspiracy... More Facts, less Spin...

Really? More facts will change their minds? Who will they trust with those facts?

This is bordering on cult-like behavior and it shows no signs of improving -- I'm not optimistic about this at all.
I've built a small side-project to discover the best commencement speeches. Here's the link - https://commspeeches.softr.app/

Will add Reed Hasting commencement speech too. Thanks for sharing :)
Gorillaz or targeted advertisements?
The existence of an average citizen of the Culture always seemed terrifyingly vacuous and stagnant. 99.999% of the trillions of individuals that exist are not talented or interesting enough to produce any artistic works or scientific research (particularly compared with the vastly superior intellects of the Minds) of value so they simply amuse themselves any way they can, under the gentle care and supervision of the Minds, until their body stops working. I am reminded in particular of the ship's crew who gave themselves colds simply because they wanted to experience being ill and the Minds' "Infinite Fun Space".

It is a very comfortable dystopia to be sure and possibly even the best outcome any sapient species could ever hope for but there is something very bleak about it.
Jones did not have a jury trial for determining guilt, the judge gave a summary judgement to the plaintiffs because Jones allegedly did not fully comply with discovery. She accurately explained, as a matter of law, that he was guilty. That had been determined at the point of the summary judgement.

What happened recently and in the news was just the jury determining the size of the punishment.
266 pages of well-written, edited, fact-checked electronics and computer programming. Monthly. Let that sink in.

There is so much good info packed into this one issue, it is worth terabytes of crap on stack overflow. Clearly there was less information back then, but it was far higher quality.

I'd like to understand how C came to dominate the world when LISP could replace all of the scripting languages we used today. Was it tooling on cheaper machines that made C so popular? Or that it was closer to ASM than LISP? I never really formed a good opinion on this, I'm missing lots of history.
There is no gap, you just tell the person they stink!

Some things are awkward no matter what, mostly because the perpetrator made it so, not you.
I sold the rights to my songs to buy a farm and revolutionise food production
Depends on the gait
Seems odd to me a crypto blog isn't using https these days.
Twitter's response to Elon Musk's countersuit [pdf]
I think you're misinterpreting that and/or quoting it out of context.

He was going on about how many different languages were in use. The "horrible thing" he's referring to is the variety, not that they aren't all C++.

The "real work" he's referring to is performance intensive work and I think his phrasing makes it clear that he like C++ but he gives a lot of credit to modern languages for their ease of use as well.
Ask HN: Best Forms of Digital Detox?
What's the best forms of digital detox that you are following to reduce digital consumption?
While the large majority of people were peasants, the ratio obviously wasn't 99,999:1.
I see and acknowledge your username, but I don't think your last statement is correct. The intent of reciprocal licenses is to enforce "share and share alike", to resist situations where companies suck up freely available code, repackage it, and then sell it back to you as binaries. If you want to make sure that everyone plays by "share and share alike", you need some legal teeth. A free-for-all with no copyright will not achieve that.
See that's the thing! You're looking for the furry (and especially trans) / queer communities, especially the Freedom of Form Foundation or the "digital self-identity" simulacra folks. All of these communities are grounded in imagining existing the ideal versions of ourselves, and making that work actually happen
Federal Court Upholds First Amendment for Student's Off-Campus Social Media Post
Standards are for people who are not experts in the field or don't have the time and energy to research the existing crypto and actually sift through them to try and decide what to trust and what not to trust.

Lack of standardization might just make it harder for Joe to filter through the google searches and figure out what algorithm to use. He may just pick the first result on Google, which is an ad for the highest bidder on some keywords which may or may not be good.
Serial con artist doing con artist things, or malfeasance from the judge who has been extraordinarily patient with lies under oath, grandstanding, and dealing with someone with the morality of a carnivorous weevil.

What is frightening is you seem to be a true believer, how can a public figure so easily debunked enthrall you so easily?
sorry, where's MTV?
It was an attempted insurrection -- there's plenty of evidence to support that.
> and only complete idiots think his misinformation has power.

You do realize that the Jones Sandy Hook thing caused the parents in question to be stalked, harassed, and even shot at because Jones platformed this nonsense? And before you say "Well then why won't those people arrested?" the ones that could be identified were, like Wolfgang Halbig: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wolgang-halbig-charged-sandy-...
Ethernet Inventor Bob MetCalfe in 45 Seconds with Noah Kagan
One of my favorite elevators is The Standard Highline in NYC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYOrgZN2CtQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tyn02-auMU

http://art-nerd.com/newyork/brambilla/
I don't think so, because elevators played licensed music... in fact, the term Muzak is actually a brand name, and they produced music for use in elevators and businesses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzak
> The judge implied, and outright told the jury during the trail that Alex was guilty before the jury deliberated

The judge issued a default judgement against Jones for persistent refusal to meet discovery obligations. The jury trial was about damages, not liability (“guilt” is not strictly at issue, since it is a civil and not a criminal case.)

Default judgement is a sanction available for that kind of persistent misconduct in civil cases. (And Jones has two more of them in Sandy Hook cases for the same reason, one in the same Texas court, another in Connecticut. The default judgements in both Texas cases refer to the noncompliance in all three cases in their factual background.)
Ah, so it is! I must have made a typo, then.
The thing that you and sibling miss is that this only applies to the one direct dependency on a package, but not on dependencies required by that package. For that you have to work with any build and dependency resolution system that the package or its author uses, and you're up a creek without a paddle if the author doesn't care to help you debug your own system.
She should have brought a gun, and forced this asshole to put aside his self-righteousness and do the job for which he was being paid on pain of death. Give these fucking Christians who mistake mockery for persecution something to cry about.
Weimar Germany already had extensive laws regulating and restricting speech. Those same exact laws were turned against the early opponents of the Nazis.

I don’t know if the First Amendment would have stopped the totalitarian takeover of Germany. But it certainly would have made it harder.
Normally comments like this would unleash a joke from me. I'm happy to keep HN on a serious note. I think maybe the austere interface has something to do with the solemnity.
As I was reading the title, I was thinking...Phoenix web framework...Elixir...record store, database? influenced the audio world?

Had a read it a couple times til I realized it was talking about AZ, and literally a record store.
Animals also use things akin to soap. Birds love to bath in the ashes of a fire, the lye burns parasites, the dust chokes them.

I've watched many a bird do so, after a fire.
Read the Mueller report. Read the Report on Russian interference in the 2016 elections from the Republican controlled Senate Intelligence Committee. The difference is that one has a tremendous amount of supporting evidence. The other has none.
Mainstream America is absolutely vindictive and cruel towards criminals.
History is written by the upper class, especially in past times when only the upper caste could read or write.

Even if what the author says is true about medieval upper caste people (I don't doubt it), I have trouble believing that peasants could afford the cost and time required of regular bathing. Water didn't come easily unless you happened to live next to a river or have a well next to your house. We've all seen women in third world countries carrying water for cooking and drinking on their heads, often long distances. And we haven't even gotten to the costs of the other things she mentions. Poor people rarely ate meat because they couldn't afford it; where are they going to get animal fat to make soap?

The author doesn't provide any evidence, just makes claims using words to imply you're stupid if you doubt her. All the "photographic" evidence she provides all pretty clearly DO NOT depict poor people.
By personal experience, it's a shame those customs didn't continue.
hmm that's odd as I explicitly remember a moment when Alex himself complained the had been declared "guilty" by the judge without a trial and he said "I believe I am innocent until proven guilty". The judge them reminded him that it was a civil matter and not a criminal matter, therefore there is no "guilty" and "not guilty" there is only "liable" and "not liable" and he was deemed "liable" by default when he failed to respond to the plaintiff's lawsuit.
FWIW I just tested a somewhat complex query using HAVING vs a sub-select as you indicated and Postgres generated the same query plan (and naturally, results) for both.
I don’t think you’re aware of how much any capable person can procure for themselves and their peers, throughout almost all of global history.

Peasants may not maintain secure access to everything, but historically it doesn’t take wealth to have a sturdy shelter, water, warmth, and food, and even some luxuries. It’s a little different in modern times, but those basics were mostly available to everyone just through labor and time, of which peasants have quite a lot.
1) Latency. 2) Ease of data manipulation.

Using Dynamo for a small data set is overkill. You can manipulate the data way faster on a local server, where it is basically in memory (disk cache), and not have to deal with any modelling issues.

I guess some people like the DynamoDB API? I find it incredibly awkward.
Child pornography isn’t illegal because of the contents of the speech. It’s illegal because it’s an accessory to the original crime of child molestation. That is why the Supreme Court has consistently ruled that virtual child pornography, even photorealistic, is Constitutionally protected speech.
Gonna tag onto your statement here because I like it.

I'm a little bit floored that people still believe Alex Jones and Barnes' (Barnes is an InfoWars contributor) claims about discovery. They were caught in the trial itself with evidence that they hid. The whole "cell phone" moment was a big deal because it was explicitly a piece of evidence required by discovery that was not provided. They are lying about how discovery went down to appear more sympathetic.
Hong Kong’s homeless numbers surge to 10-year apogee
Good. What a student says outside of school ought to be none of the school's business. Likewise, what an adult says outside the workplace ought to be none of their employer's business unless they have explicitly identified themselves as their employer's representative.
https://www.youtube.com/c/Campbellteaching/videos has updates on monkeypox. He's a registered nurse in the NHS. Since everybody has a bias: he's pro vaccination, pro masks, pro social distancing (when it came to COVID). He usually comments on latest studies and has done so for two years.
If there's a "high bitrate" (24-bit, 96kHz FLAC or something like that) master, often enough that will be the case. You can reasonably assume that someone who's buying that version of the track has something capable of playing it back sanely. Same with the "high def audio" formats (SACD, there was another one...) - they often did, in fact, sound better. Not because of the high resolution, so much as because they were mastered to be listened to on a competent system, not on the subway on earbuds.
Presumably you only actually recover a minority of cases while meeting every single case of fraud with a legitimate theoretically enforceable demand for payment. Joe rando might or might not pay or ultimately be sued but Bob evil committing dozens to hundreds of cases of fraud would be and Joe would be put off just a bit by Bob's ruination.
With who? Because Uber and Lyft are very much not in that group. They're losing small amounts at massive scale, while Helium is sitting at no scale.
Rare Russian ICBM Carrier Training Vehicle Had a Nasty Accident
Oops. . .
Stores continue to play music throughout without much issue.

I think the answer might be a lot more mundane. Other posters mention that department stores were a big source of elevators that played music. Department stores in the US are mostly dead, and their physical replacements (big box stores like Target and Walmart) are single-story affairs, so they're playing music, just in buildings without elevators.
Turn off the electronics. Read books on paper. Write in a notebook with a pen.
Northern Italy is like France.

Southern Italy is like Greece.

It's not actually politically unstable like Chile, or Ukraine, more like UK - their leadership just 'collapsed' they'll be a new suit soon to replace the last guy.
I'm familiar from dealing with the employee side of this situation but I mean refusing to sell to the customer in the first place not merely refusing their refund.
Great comment. Thanks!
No you're wrong on this one. What you're referencing is only specific to the civil case in Texas, it is not material to the J6 federal investigation and irrelevant illicitly obtained material cannot be used for it.

> You're ignorant of the law and unjustified in your anger about this

So many lawyers here today. I know you really want to justify abuse of the court and violation of the Constitution to meet your vendetta, but the fact is protected information was leaked without AJ's approval, and irrelevant illicitly obtained information was sent to a partisan committee. It's an abuse of the system.
Humorous comments here do get upvotes when they are actually insightful or witty. If someone wants to read pedestrian wise-cracks or wacky memes, there are whole websites dedicated to that.
Not at all because all later research was influenced by what went before. And of course all those people doing the work were not doing something else.
In ancient times, right until the attacks by Islamist marauders and "civilized" Britishers, none of what you have mentioned were an issue. Your statement reeks of colonialist attitudes of seeing natives of other lands as some sort of brutes and degenerates living in destitution in poverty.

In India, Every village was in the vicinity of a water source. Every village had a temple, with a large pond.

Massaging with oil and flour based cleansing was the staple of almost every household.

Oils and Flours were cheap. Most of agricultural products were cheap in India. Portable water was not an issue, because industrialization did not yet happen and most water sources (and hundreds of wells dug around the country) would have clean, drinking water. Did you think a thousand years ago, people used water filters? The only filter that was used was a fine threaded cloth.

Fuel for cooking food, as with any country in those times was usually wood, husk or similar material.

> barely able to feed themselves

Yeah, no. Leaving aside a few famines here and there, India was mostly self sufficient and had plentiful of food.

In fact, selling food was considered the gravest sin. It was codified in societal practices that a householder should try to feed at-least one from outside before he has his food. Food donation was considered the highest ideal, even greater than money.

> barely a roof over their heads.

Most of the population lived in thatched huts or wood beam supported houses constructed from soil based cement like stuff. I assume this was true all over the world.

>You are the peasant. No lands for you, you aren't a lord or lady, you're a peon like 99.999% of people. Almost no middle class, and you aren't upper! You're lower class.

This is just an ignorant thing to say, without having any knowledge of world history, forget about Indian history. Also reeks of extreme contempt.

If you are not aware, this was how most of the world lived. Lower class was the norm. We are now living in an age of disproportionate luxury.
Having is less understood?

After 20+ years of SQL usage (as an ordinary dev, not business/reporting/heavy SQL dev), I learned about `group by cube` from this article...

"group by cube/coalesce" is much more complicated thing in this article than "having" (that could be explained as where but for group by)
Didn't know about this. Thank you for making my day. (Disclosure: I used to work at Microsoft)
It should be noted that this defamation case is not a simple case of denying a reality thus causing trauma to the victims. Jones called out some of these parents by name, put their photos and the photos of their children on his show. Then he did nothing while his audience harassed and threatened these parents for years. Some having to move multiple times and hire private security guards because of Jone's show. He continued defaming these parents on his show even up to the morning of one of the last days of this recent trial saying that the mother was "slow" and being manipulated by the government.

In my opinion, this whole ordeal is pretty close to being deserving of a criminal trial because his speech has incited violence and harassment again and again on these parents.