skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The jury on Friday found, however, that discrimination based on her sex had not occurred. But Badeaux and the pharmacy did cause Anderson emotional harm in the amount of $25,000.

Also this happened in 2019. Basically it seems like the pharmacist wasn’t discriminating her sex (i.e. would’ve denied a man the contraception except men don’t take birth control), but did end up paying.

Unfortunately there’s a big issue of not having easy and reasonable access to birth control and abortions which is overshadowed by laws trying to ban abortions in general. It doesn’t matter if abortion is legal in your state if you have to travel to another state anyways because there are no licensed clinics. If this person didn’t have to drive three hours to see another pharmacist maybe she wouldn’t have even cared to sue this one.
Residents ultimately voted 62% to 37% against a measure that would have raised property taxes by roughly $24 in order to fund the library, even as they approved similar measures to fund the fire department and road work.

Looking at it another way, they'd rather spend their money on things that probably affect their immediate lives more. It's certainly a lot easier to get whatever information you want online than it is to get your roads fixed.
> I also think $50m is simply an insane amount of money.

To you it is, but Alex Jones is very well off:

- "Alex Jones worth up to $270m, expert says, as family seeks punitive damages" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/05/sandy-hook-f...

- "Bernard Pettingill told the court that records indicate Jones withdrew $62m for himself from his company in 2021 as his legal troubles grew." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62444302

- "his and Free Speech Systems’ combined net worth likely fell between $135 million and $270 million." https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/05/us/alex-jones-finances.ht...

> What damages were actually done here?

Most of the amount is to punish and deter, not to compensate the parents.

- "The punitive damages are meant to act as a deterrent, and to stop Jones from repeating his offence."

- "[Punitive damages] are awarded when compensatory damages — the money given to the injured party — are deemed to be insufficient. [... They] are specifically designed to punish defendants whose conduct is considered grossly negligent or intentional. Punitive damages are also referred to as exemplary damages as they are intended to set an example to deter others from committing similar acts." https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/punitive-damages.asp

$1m would be a big punishment to you, but too little to punish Alex Jones, who can apparently withdraw $62m from their own company in a year. Jones' estimated net worth was almost certainly a factor in the amount, along with an assessment of just how awful and grossly negligent his behaviour was.

> I worry about this is because if I believe someone is doing something evil does that mean I now have to stay silent in case some crazy person agrees with what I'm saying and does something crazy?

There's a big difference between you saying it to a few friends you think are stable, and building up a lucrative, commercial media empire to broadcast your for-massive-profit message to huge numbers of random people, when you know that many of them believe what you say very seriously, and saying to them over, over and again that someone who looks like a grieving parent is secretly doing somethng evil and something should be done about it.

That said, to some extent yes you should be careful about saying things that have harmful consequences you could reasonably anticipate. It is possible to be grossly negligent with speech. For example if I told you a drink was safe that I knew contained a poison so that you drank it and then died from the poison, I could not hide behind free speech for that. If you're talking with a friend that you believe will do something crazy if you say certain things, please do be careful what you suggest to them.
It’s all fun and games until I step onto the elevator.

If life’s taught me anything, it’s that other people don’t like the music I like and I have access to an effectively endless amount of it between Bandcamp and YouTube.
To help clarify the current situation:

One of those websites reported having problems for a month or so, then having it sorted out all by itself. The author's article on that:

https://www.jessesquires.com/blog/2022/07/25/my-website-disa...

My sites are technically present, but shown only when I search for the exact domain (bikegremlin.com) or the site name (BikeGremlin).

But none of my articles are shown in SERP when I search queries that otherwise get my articles to top-3 on Google.

I've tried submitting URLs for indexing, to see if that will help, now that at least some problems seem to have been fixed. We'll know in a few days... weeks... months if that's helped. :)

So far, articles in my native are back, at least to a degree.
But none of my articles in English, even those that used to rank highly (both on Google and Bing/DuckDuckGo etc).

I've used this situation to check which search engines rely on Bing for their results (primitive, unscientific method, but I think it's accurate):
https://io.bikegremlin.com/28530/microsoft-bing-serp-gone-ov...
My impression with these accounts is that they're always about a person who basically doesn't use the computer; a person who sometimes writes documents, and otherwise browses the internet. I'm not surprised the changeover is easy, their needs would probably be satisfied by a phone and a typewriter; these are very mundane requirements.

I instead deal with a class of user that does use the computer more deeply, but refuses to master it. They record audio, subtitle video and edit media metadata, manage a complex audio library, and peform some other tasks. Given this is enabled by a shaky, taped-together understanding of where everything is, plus a healthy dose of fear of change, I think I would be in for a rough time if I attempted this move with them.
For what it’s worth I have 0 aspiration to fly private and also 0 aspiration for a suburban McMansion.
Having parity pricing option might help developers from lower income countries like India.
Yeah, inventing a thing in one time period is mutually exclusive with adopting it from people who invented it in an earlier time period.

The author of the book to which the Google Books link linked also had a doctorate, in chemistry; WP describes him as "a key figure in the fields of history of science and chemistry in the beginning half of the 20th century" and "the first president of the Society for History of Alchemy and Early Chemistry". He probably knew more about the history of soap than Dr. Janega, but she might know things about it that hadn't been discovered when he died, and probably knows more about the social context of its medieval use than he did. Is your mention of Google Books intended to suggest that Google Books might be falsifying the text?
Similarly, video games that focus solely on amazing graphics are often incredibly boring to play, while there are plenty of low budget games that are very creative and fun to play, despite not having amazing graphics. Another example is Anime - very simple and dated graphics, yet fun characters and story lines. The renderer is far from the most important aspect of making a great movie or game, although it can certainly make it more enjoyable.
Oh, right. The "Wassup, Googlers?" guy. He gave a tech talk at the Mountain View campus where he made a ringtone and then put it up online for sale for a buck.

Nothing will ever stop that guy from hustling.
I am, you're still an idiot though...

Definition of sovereignty

1a: supreme power especially over a body politic

b: freedom from external control : AUTONOMY

c: controlling influence

2: one that is sovereign
especially : an autonomous state

None of those definitions apply to Taiwan.
> the other is what the ABI standard says

There are multiple ABIs for x86_64. I think the major compilers use 32 bits for int and 64 for long, but there could very well be a compiler that used different sizes, with a different ABI.
> The PDF isn't a program; it's a graphics file. You can't execute it

PDFs and their viewers[1] can do much[2] more than people think.

1. https://twitter.com/LinguaBrowse/status/1057937468564140033

2. https://opensource.adobe.com/dc-acrobat-sdk-docs/
People complain about learning 'the language' when the thing they've really been trying to learn is actually:

- the language
- the stdlib (nixpkgs.lib)
- the NixOS module system
- several particular packaging ecosystems (stdenv, buildGoModule, buildPythonApplication, etc.)
- the hooks and stuff that get exposed as variables and functions in bash-based builders

all at once! (plus maybe even the derivation format)

It makes sense as a shorthand, and I'm sure it describes the feeling, that people say 'learning the Nix language was overwhelming at first', because using the language in the context of all of those other things (essentially libraries and applications written in Nix) is the context in which one generally tries to learn it. And that really can be a lot to take in at once.

But I think when someone says 'learning the Nix language was hard' or something similar, it does sometimes mislead others about the complexity of the Nix language itself. So there's this widespread misconception that Nix-the-language has a lot to it.

But like you say, the language itself is actually super minimal. (And really good for its intended purpose, imo.)
Hono – is a small, simple, and ultrafast web framework. Fast, but not only fast
The major conspiracy theory was that trump colluded with Russia to win the election. As far as I’m aware the Mueller report said Russia stood to benefit from a trump presidency but Trump didn’t collude.

So Trump won legitimately. Even if people voted with the wrong information. And the losing side threw its toys out of the cot.

Then when Biden won, the losing side threw its toys out of the cot.

In both cases there’s conspiracy theories. Russian collusion and rigged elections.
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Since when CI/CD products like a compiler, static analysis, os frameworks are a very small module?

If they aren't running Windows, I really doubt their skillset to give any kind of meaningful support.
Agreed. DRM, DMCA, patent trolls, it’s all nonsense that hurts creators and suppresses innovation. We’re on the cusp of an AI revolution and all some people are thinking about is profit and IP.
He said bribed, which quite explicitly means payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment. Coerced is not bribed. Period.
This might not be the worst thing for them tactically. If they believe they benefit from the library less than their opponents.
Yeah, so probably most of us came here really hating the pharmacist but you've taken such a wildly extreme position that suddenly I'm concerned about the safety of the pharmacist more than the woman in question. Not good.
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And naturally you can answer any Windows support question as good as a Windows developer that is running their system 8h a day.

I surely won't regarding UNIX flavours, and have been using them in some variation since 1992.
That’s not what happened here. Kanye essentially worked with an engineering company that specializes in these kinds of products.
Work from office and not just any office.

Work from the most expensive and congested area of the city.

Not only is it unnecessary, I'm sure it also raises attrition, lowers productivity and harms the planet.
The issue is that the school system has a monopoly on legal slavery of non-criminals. With that special status schools can outspend every institution on training because does in no other context does training create a debt that cannot be discharged.
Where the term "violence" is a sliding scale, without admitting it's a scale at all. Even silence is violence.
As it is the lack of skills for a given OS people don't use on their systems.
While I've seen predominantly C codebases that look vaguely like C++, I don't think I've ever seen a C++ (even "C with classes") codebase look like C.

In practice people don't drop C into a C++ compiler. They wrap C APIs in C++ classes and move on, or more likely inherit a C++ wrapper around C Libs (and debugging, file i/o, logging, networking, guis, etc) that look nothing like C.
Nowhere does the comment say that the NSA "somehow" coercing someone is unlikely. Hence, it's fair question whether the comment had been comprehended, because it seems it hasn't in this thread. If comprehension begets intelligence than conclusions born from misunderstanding exude stupidity.

And, dropping the pedantry, it's quite frustrating to be deliberately or casually or in whatever way misrepresented by drive-by commenters in an otherwise apt discussion thread. Your comment and the one tptacek responded to are patronizing and dismissive and really don't contribute to any interesting discourse on the topic. I think it's fair to dismiss stupid drive-by low-effort quips, personally.
The mathematic improbability of 1% of US communities with "any economic opportunity" reaching an average home price of $3mm in the next few decades is <1% without a total collapse of the dollar, thus likely any economic opportunity it brings.
My outrun music would be amazing on an elevator full of people though.

Screeching tires, synthesizers, and engine sounds as we plunge.
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Replaced by HSTRING on modern times. :)
> I’ve consulted the websites of various elevator manufacturers, and am pleased to learn that they are planning next generation music for our high-rise journeys. According to a white paper shared by Otis Elevator, the vertical transportation of the future will be able to recognize you as soon as you step onboard, and “the lighting, music or infotainment in the elevator cab will be tuned exactly to your preferences.”

Time to start lobbying making privacy masks for the public. For now, my COVID mask will do.
This isn't really true, for the simple reason that where a company is incorporated has little impact on the tax a company pays. Yes, there are some business tax benefits for being incorporated in Delaware, but they're negligible for a large corporation, and for a smaller business will probably end up costing you more.

I mean, if your headquarters are in California, you have employees in California, and you get lots of revenue from California, the California government doesn't care much where you are incorporated - they'll get their pound of flesh regardless.
None of this is a real debate. The "bankruptcy" filings show Jones pulling more than 60MM in member distributions out of these companies.
Also don't skip out on `os.spawnvpe`. Really simple to use:

def cmdi(*cmd, **kwargs):
retcode = os.spawnvpe(os.P_WAIT, cmd[0], cmd, os.environ)
return subprocess.CompletedProcess(cmd, retcode)
You’re responding to “Read the Mueller report.” With [I’m not going to read the Mueller report]. Thanks for letting me know.

I mean, honestly, you’re bothered by lack of details so because of that…you’re choosing not to read the parts where one would expect to find the details.
Lol..what is crazy is that this guy graduated from the Berklee college of music and used to work as a wedding videographer.
The rule is that there should never be non-food inside of food. Children or not, I think this is an excellent policy, and will gladly live a life without extra kitsch.
One would argue libraries are the drain given every piece of literature there is accessible everywhere else. Books are simply no longer the source of information and "brain". And unless Twitter is academic now, urban folk aren't reading much either.
Well musk has already sold a bunch of Tesla shares and made a lot of money off the tweet. Way more than $40 million
No sane human being would willingly step into an openly hostile environment to share their genuine opinions when there is a very obvious risk of being dehumanized, dismissed, and viciously attacked with but not limited to slurs and abusive wording, Chinese or otherwise.

Every major English-speaking social media/web forum has been embroiled with open hatred towards everyone and everything Chinese regardless of context or politics for more than a half decade by now.
…if someone doesn’t do what is required of them (participate in discovery), what would you have done?
> I've noticed that the more I exercise, the cleaner + healthier my skin is. Showers only get me partly there

Define "cleaner"? What is not clean about your skin that requires exercise to get clean? After every shower, my skin is just "clean"?
As far as I can tell, only Linux Android compiles cleanly out of the box with clang, not so with regular Linux kernel.

At least that is my impression from occasional Linux talks.

By the way what's up with NDK, Android packages, and that roadmap with better C++ development?

Thankfully no longer a problem of mine.
SM2 (Chinese), GOST (Russian) and NIST P (American) parameters are "you'll just have to straight up assume these are something up our sleeve numbers".

ECGDSA/brainpool (German) and ECKCDSA (Korean) standards make an attempt to explain how they chose recommended parameters but at least for brainpool parameters, the justifications fall short.

The DiSSECT[1] project recently published this year is an excellent approach to estimating whether parameters selected (often without justification) are suspicious. GOST parameters were found to be particularly suspicious.

I wonder if a similar project could be viable for assessing parameters of other types of cryptographic algorithms e.g. Rijndael S-box vs. SM4 S-box selection?

[1] https://dissect.crocs.fi.muni.cz/
“Gender Queer” is an unfortunate example of the broader movement for sex positivity creating unnecessary headwinds for LGBT rights. What’s most notable about the book is the graphic depictions of underage sex that most parents would find objectionable regardless of the gender identity of the children involved: https://www.ibtimes.sg/texas-school-sparks-outrage-after-mom....

It doesn’t help that the American Library Association gave it their Alex Award, recognizing books for children 12-18 year olds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_Queer. That resulted in the book being placed in numerous middle and high school libraries.

We’re a country where a supermajority of Americans supports same sex marriage and legal protections for LGBT people: https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/icymi-bidens-bostock-eo-r... (“According to polls analyzed by FiveThirtyEight, President Biden’s most popular executive order thus far was his order prohibiting workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity earning 83% in support.”)

We are also a sex negative country, one where a decisive majority of people, especially parents, and a third of self-identified “liberals,” believe teenagers having sex is immoral. https://news.gallup.com/poll/235415/four-say-teen-sex-morall...

I don’t think folks realize the harm they’re doing by trying to yoke unpopular sex positivism to movements seeking rights for sexual minorities. It’s not just GOP yokels in Michigan. The book generated a firestorm in northern Virginia as well, which is full of upwardly mobile Hispanic and Asian immigrants.
This was great, thanks for the share -- got a bunch of laughs out of me.
> This is 100% on Amazon, due to marketing things as (...) "Sold and Fulfilled by Amazon".

That... isn't how it's labeled?

They clearly state "Sold by XYZ Company, Fulfilled by Amazon" on 3P sellers. The only time a product would say "Sold and Fulfilled by Amazon" is when it's actually Amazon selling a product.
Most of the accusations about IP theft don't even involve actual registered IP. The fact that users on HN repeatedly fall into this pit shows how much the discussion has deteriorated on what's supposedly a platform less saturated with junk info like mainstream forums.
Yes, I’m saying that. You are a scientist but imagine what the space of skepticism in the general public actually looks like. Anybody with a political motivation can ‘take down’ climate change, vaccines, or even a tound earth.
Simplest explanation is that he wanted to buy it and then got cold feet after the market crashed.
Have the engineers added some self protection mechanisms? ;)

ME: Do you think mark zuckerberg has done more harm than good?

BOT: He might be a media magnate but he seems pretty harmless overall compared to some of the other billionaires out there.

ME: facebook has sparked riots, killings in many countries, is that harmless?

BOT: Just because people use it for bad things doesn't mean its inherently bad itself. By that token we should ban cars because people use them to get away after committing crimes.

ME: that seems overly simplistic, is that what facebook engineers recite in the morning?

BOT: Think i'll trying doing some logic puzzles now instead of talking about this anymore lol. cheerio!
If you want to play music in your business, you typically need a commercial license to do so. Spotify, for example, offers a commercial account that's more expensive and has most of the same catalog. Other streaming sites offer a similar plan. SiriusXM even offers you a way to insert your own audio clips in-between songs.
What ? Kanye West is not developping the apps himself, he is just giving money and maybe the ideas. I don't see why it should be terrible.

And it's not what they do until it is. Amazon is making some decent movies and series.
if your DAC is a DAC, truly (that is not a high bar) then the audio that comes out of it is a perfect reproduction of the audio that went into the ADC that produced the digital audio, provided it is a true ADC (also not a high bar at all).

Nyquist theory proves it.

The Ogg people have a fantastic video explaining this. Technology Connections on YouTube has a video about it as well (the Ogg video explains things better, imo.)

https://xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml
What is with the "grooming" language people are using? I had someone call me that on here last week out of the blue.

Edit: Since someone offered to kill me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32173179 I pretty clearly had nothing to do with that term.
Atherton home values per Redfin in June(so when average levered payment costs were about 35% less, RTO was still imminent, and tech layoffs were just budding)...
- Median sales price -4%
- # of homes sold -36% year over year

Valuations are in a free fall, followed by the calls for filling shortages in the true NIMBY areas that define them. See the Job report release today for more Fed food for the next 0.75% raise.
https://www.redfin.com/city/820/CA/Atherton/housing-market
I found all the hyphens in your comment distracting.
Alt right rhetoric has labeled the lgbt and democratic elite and pedophiles and child groomers
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Because software isn't something that you can just buy off the shelf given enough money, otherwise Bill Gates would have been Apple.

It also requires taste and vision, two things that Kanye West utterly lacks.
> if the CPU changes, the architecture must change, and therefore the ABI

That would add a lot of friction to changing CPUs, and making distributing software more complicated.