skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't forget that things are the way they are for good reasons, or at least historically good reasons. At least with next-quarter-itis you're holding execs accountable for delivering _something_ relatively soon. It's an imperfect check-and-balance.

Are you excited by the fact that Mark Z doesn't suffer from this disease with Meta and is spending $25B/yr on a virtual reality platform that won't provide returns for many years, if at all?

Quarterly reporting (and the inevitable over-weighting of it) is there to PROTECT small-time investors.
Boring is best where the risk of nuclear meltdown is concerned, but I would expect operating the same system every day for years to be pretty boring vs. engineering changes to systems.
Assuming it's the Robin Buss translation - that's the one you want! Only version that was fully translated in the modern era. The earlier ones were all based off the problematic 19th century translations with various amounts of the "scandalous" stuff added back in.

Samples:

19th PD: https://welovetranslations.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/st...

Buss: https://welovetranslations.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/bu...

(Not any spoilers really...these are both the 1st page).

Even here, notice the heavy abridgement...two whole sentences axed from the first 3 paragraphs alone!

The Buss just reads so much better and more idiomatically, even ignoring the censorship issues.
But the claims are blatantly false when you look at their links

>Another CENTCOM account, @althughur, which posts anti-Iran and anti-ISIS content focused on an Iraqi audience, changed its Twitter bio from a CENTCOM affiliation to an Arabic phrase that simply reads “Euphrates pulse.”

Here’s their link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20191028194428/https://twitter.c...

Nothing simply says “Euphrates pulse” here.
That is interesting. How do you figure?
MIDI is still an amazingly simple, yet useful encoding. To think its been around since 1982 is astounding. I'm excited to see what MIDI 2.0 really brings and if its truly worth the added complexity.

The 1.0 encoding is incredibly simple and to have gone 40 years (and still going), with many many devices being compatible with the protocol, is something that should absolutely be celebrated.

Here's to 2.0 being just as long lived and successful, presuming its just as simple but expands on the field sizes, timing improvements, and flexibility in terms of non-western music as it seems to promise.
That's conflating a lot based upon the gold standard -- which most serious economists think should have been removed (including the freshwater ones). Also just look at wild swings of inflation before and after the gold standard if you think it was better then.

https://www.macrotrends.net/2497/historical-inflation-rate-b...

The true cause is that demand for labor in US has never been as high as WWII -- which created the middle class. Automation, offshoring, are both major contributors to the lack of middle class labor demand.

Further, God didn't file gold under America, so we'd no longer be in control of the value of the currency.
Straw man fallacy. Nobody is asking to reintroduce packs of wild wolves in a big city.
"A competent Java programmer is not slower than a competent Python programmer. Time to market won't suffer"

It takes 2.5x time to develop a program in Java rather than Python. It's been measured.

So you will reach market in 2.5 years instead of 1 year. Bit of a difference to say the least.
I follow this for things I truly will need occasionally, like most specialized car repair tools. But my exceptions are things I know I will use regularly. In addition to not replacing things as they wear out, my reasoning is that it's nice to have a set of each type of tool, with a storage case instead of ending up with a large mix of tools. Of course, someone else might have a different list of regularly used tools and some of the following list is from trial and error, I didn't get all of these right the first time.

- Screwdrivers: I have 2 Wera sets with many bits (small and large). They come with nice fabric/velcro carrying cases that are perfect for throwing in a bag, car, or drawer. High quality and the packaging is worth it compared to something loose or in a plastic case. I also have one full set of non-configurable Vessel screwdrivers that stays in my work area. They are a wooden composite, feel professional but are not much more than crafstman prices.[2]

- Wire strippers, side cutters, adjustable wrenches, pliers, etc: These really depend on material properties and tight tolerance, and it's worth buying quality. I like Knipex and engineer brands.

- Sockets and non-adjustable wrenches: These tend to be sold in large sets at sale prices and at various qualities. Unless you're a mechanic you can probably go into any hardware store, do a quick google search for complaints, and buy the cheapest set of sockets and wrenches. Don't pay for "200 pieces" including crappy little 1/4" bits and crappy screwdrivers in a giant blow-molded case that will annoy you later. Bonus points if you can find a small, nice case filled with actually useful sizes (probably <18mm and/or 3/4").

- Ratcheting screwdrivers: don't buy one unless you really find you need one for some reason. If you do buy one, it will either be useless or expensive.

- Drill bits: buy house brand from an industrial supply shop or mcmaster. Make sure it's easy and cheap to replace individual sizes.

- Battery-powered tools: Pick something like DeWalt, Bosch, Milwaukee or Hitachi/Hikoki[2,3] (the name of this one varies wildly with region) with a full range of tools and good reputation

- Soldering iron: You probably don't need more power than a pinecil which is usb-c and super-portable.[4] Plus it's got RISC-V cred. It's so convenient to unplug my laptop for 30 minutes and plug this in, or plug into a usb-c battery. For benchtop, a "Hakko clone" that takes abundant and great TS12 tips is good. To be honest I never touch my clone or my much more expensive but heavy actual Hakko soldering station since I got the pinecil. Both pinecil and the clone similar price to a piece of crap with poor temperature control from the hardware store.

[1]https://www.vesseltoolsusa.com/product/screwdriver/detail/VT...

[2]I chose Hikoki because I move around and it's available globally, and because it has excellent but pretty inexpensive vacuum cleaners that use the same batteries as the power tools.

[3]https://www.powertoolworld.co.uk/hikoki-r36daw4z-36v-cordles...

[4]https://pine64.com/product/pinecil-smart-mini-portable-solde...
4 million fans celebrate World Cup win in Buenos Aires
Unions provide training, good healthcare, and safety, which very much add economic value. Employers typically have the full force of market forces to pay as little as possible. Collectivisation is the workers only means to advocate for themselves.
You claim a right to life implies a right to death, without any reasoning. I've pointed out why that doesn't follow (namely, the notion that one has a right to live is predicated on one being alive. You don't have rights after death). I've also pointed out that we have other rights that you cannot dispose yourself of to show that the right to life is of the same nature. What is your rebuttal?
Reframe the question in terms of what it really is: Is forced treatment for the mentally ill more humane or less humane than letting them "do their thing?" Is it more humane for the people who are forced to interact with them?

A lot of ethical questions could use a "trolley-fy" process in which the status quo is simply presented as another track, and then another process by which that question is re-embedded within its actual context -- the mentally ill are not off wandering some other plane of existence, they may be screaming in your alley, tonight, around three a.m.
Seeing as the USA's ultra affluent crust is grossly crowded with generational wealth, I don't think they'd like the idea of removing any of their profits, however long ago and however void of any of their own toil, regardless of the overall good it would do.
I love the form factor of this guy. But is it honestly used for anything except smoking joints?
so you come to get smashed and/or high, and then drive home for several hours immediately after that?
Trey Parker and Matt Stone land $20M in funding for their deepfake VFX studio
A true gamechanger for me. The way you all did thing - it drives me speechless. I need my time to step up to it. Thank you, brothers and sisters of mercy!
Tim Draper-Backed Real Estate Platform Launches to the Public
Turns Out You Can Turn Old Blu-ray Players into Microscopes
> at the end of the day, copyright is about protecting the ability to generate profit

That's what is has turned into, but it was never the point. The point was to promote the creation of new creative works. That's it. The way to do that was making sure that creators had a limited time where they could exclusively profit from their efforts, but the creation or protection of profit was never what copyright was all about.

Today, creating/protecting profit is what it's been abused to accomplish though, often hurting the creation of new works, and most often not even for the benefit of the actual creators.

20 years was more than enough time for people to profit from their works when worldwide distribution was basically impossible, advertising was a joke compared to what we have today, and it was a massive investment to publish at all. Now you can publish for close to nothing and advertise and distribute worldwide in seconds. 20 years is at least 2x too long. 10 years seems far more reasonable to me.

If we're reworking the system we also need to make sure that DRM doesn't prevent works from being useful after they've been returned to the public domain. That's a consideration they didn't have to worry about when copyright protections were being drafted, but it's increasingly going to lock us out of our own culture.
> Pocahontas

> This is a slur and should not be used to address an Indigenous woman unless that is her actual name.

How dare they assume this name is exclusive to people who choose she/her/hers pronouns.

They already conflict with their own rules below!

> she

> Unless you know the person you're addressing uses "she" as their pronoun, it is better to use "they" or to ask the person which pronouns they use.
I was lucky enough to tour a lot of hydroelectric dams around the western US as a child, thanks to frequent roadtrips and a dad who could talk his way into nearly any place, and a more permissive security culture[1]. As you say, a lot of the control rooms are beautiful in a certain functional way.

[1]Another thing ruined by 9/11.
On one side of the transaction you see cost of business in these fines, on the other side I see governments deliberately sizing the "fines" so these businesses can keep hurting citizens year after year, and the same governments bailing out the same banks when they compeltely mess up the global economy with their unlimited greed (see the 2008 crisis, and the upcoming debt crise*s*).

At some point these are not fines, they just represent the governments' way of taking their share on the criminal revenues of these banks while they are guiding us straight into the next iceberg. And there is no incentive on either side to make it stop.

When it comes to solutions, I'm reading that the system has to burn to the ground or worse even on HN now... I'm personally of the mind that systems can only change when incentives exist in alternatives. As much as HN dislikes crypto, Bitcoin is one which has taken a principled approach from the start and its community and incentives always presented it as a way to opt-out of the current financial system backed by central-banks/governments (powered by traditional banking). If banks stop being provided with ways to infinitely create debt with politicians behind them promoting it to be able to pretend that everything is fine economically under them, you might see things change... but for this we can't continue playing their game by their rules. We need to opt-out.

If other radical and non-violent ways to solve this exists I am willing to listen and study them... crisis after crisis, I'm becoming more and more cynical about it.
What's special about 1938?
And even after the civil war was ended, over 150 years ago, there's still significant portions of people in the modern day who don't act as if the matter is settled.
Hard to follow the law without a certain amount of cash, unfortunately.

If it comes down to it, I'd definitely recommend trying to get your hands on a van before going full homeless.
There is a great - and probably out of print - book called 'Men, Women and Pianos', by Arthur Loesser, 1954. Highly recommended to get better insight into how the piano was invented, worked its way into society and how the various composers rose to the spotlight and/or were forgotten again. It's the best researched book on the subject I've read.
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Yesterday I posted a satirical post. I understand it was flagged

I did not intend to spread misinformation, but to question software organizations.
Prop 15 failed because people were worried that if it passed prop 13 would be repealed next election. It had nothing to do with people wanting commercial properties to have tax breaks and everything to do with signaling how devoted the voters are to prop 13.

> If it included homes, the vote against it would have been much higher than 52%.

Source?

No matter though. Even if 70% of voters support prop 13 it's still the wrong policy in the exact same way 70% support for enslaving minorities is. Laws that exist solely to siphon money from poor people to rich people are bad. Doubly so when they destroy economic value to the extent prop 13 does.
Just goes to show that "value" of a company based on market cap is a highly fickle and unreliable metric to compare companies with
I've been using APT for this with great success for the past 17 years! I guess it's also saved me quite a few hundreds of hours.
Took Amazon 25 years to go from a $0 market cap to a $1T market cap. Took Amazon 2 years to go from $1T market cap to $2T market cap. Took Amazon like 6 months to go from $2T market cap back to $1T market cap.

Totally healthy economics.
Its the Mickey Mouse problem. Disney doesn't want Mickey or related works to enter public domain, because it would be a huge knock to their current empire.

Still, this seems rather easily solvable to naïve little old me.

20 year copyright by default, with a 20 year review cycle process an individual/company can apply to to ask for extension, on the condition that they can prove harm to newly generated IP, if the copyright is not-renewed. Still using Mickey Mouse to generate new works of non-derivative IP, and copyright of Mickey Mouse isn't causing damage to any other competing agencies (the way holding IP to a new drug or invention would)? Fine, renew granted.
You would be surprised at how much family help those families often have. I’m not talking generational wealth. Often just upper middle class parents who saved prudently and did well in the real estate market who can afford to gift $500,000 for a house.
I wonder if anyone is keeping score of the fines levied for all their fckery.

Hey, there is!

https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/wells-farg...

Current Parent Company Name: Wells Fargo

Penalty total since 2000: $22,081,458,643

Number of records: 229
Throwing my hat in the ring for Justfile. It's basically a streamlined make.

https://github.com/casey/just

Where it really shines are in places like monorepos where you may have many inter-related setup scripts, build commands or helper utilities.

You define all of your commands in one file (or multiple if you want a hierarchy) and can run commands from any subdirectory.

eg. You have a monorepo with a web server, and also a react-native app in separate directories, you can call `just build-app` in the web directory, or call just `start-server` when your terminal's current directory is 7 diretories deep in the mobile directory.

The amount of time I have saved cd'ing around has honestly been amazing. It's worth it's weight in gold, especially on large projects.
Any 5/16" wrench for loosening. For tightening, ideally the appropriate torque wrench for the particular connector (material & grade) should be used.

https://www.centricrf.com/torque-wrenches/sma-torque-wrenche...

Or other stores. RF connectors should be torqued to a specified torque listed on their data sheet. Improper torque can cause damage. Usually for equipment using SMA connectors this isn't a big deal (just replace the connector, they're cheap and the torque wrenches are expensive), but for the really high frequency stuff like 1.85mm connectors the connector itself is $70-300 so spending $100-400 on a torque wrench is reasonable.
Sorry to talk shop:

* All time King keeps on giving: MS Excel

* MS Visio… last good Sequence Diagrams etc

* Adobe Illustrator… keep visual scrapboards

* Perl one liners with cygwin getclip/putclip

* DBeaver SQL gui

* StreamDeck with Autohotkey custom actions

* SimpleNote - your notes everywhere when you need them for creation, reference and search
docker compose is like using cheat codes
The cool thing with all these links is that I can pick whichever one I want to talk about!

> Don't use assertions. BairsLaw applies - what will you do if the assertion fails? (Fix the bug, perhaps?) If you don't like the parameters you're given, throw an IllegalArgumentException. If you don't get a correct result, your UnitTest will tell you. There is no room left for assertions.

Disagree. How does the “law” apply? Yes, I would like to fix the bug if the assertion uncovers it… not unlike a validation error.

Assertions are only turned on in Java if `-ea`. Which means that you can fail fast for local development and maybe just log things in production.
The reality is, we provide (admittedly crappy) mental health care in prisons, so we already have a program of forced treatment. We just wait until a serious crime has happened.

Almost any non-prison option would be better than the current way of doing things.
> America and the west as whole is not actually significantly different from China with stuff like this.

As someone who has spent many years of my life living outside "America and the West": this is not remotely true.
I wonder if it would have been eaiser to make a cartridge that lets you use the gameboy controls as a controller instead? This is still really neat of course but maybe that would have saved the emulator step.
You should know who wants to use it before you build it. That market probably has a community, often one that revolves around a hacky fix that your solution is properly fixing.
If you are looking for an excellent ratchet that compliments the Knippex Pliers, take a look at Proxxon ratchet sets. They are a pleasure to work with and come in a nice metal case.
I never said a single word about Python. Whether you contribute to packaging or not has nothing to do with whether you're posting false information. If anything, it makes what you've said worse. You should know better.

Just stop spreading misinformation. And the courteous thing to do is to acknowledge an error when it's pointed out instead of doubling down and redirecting as if no error was made.
I was maintaining instrumentation is similar control rooms. The man behind panel. Petrochemical industry, recorders, indicators, alarms, tranducers, pneum. controllers. Mix of pneumatic and electronic technology (thermionic valves mostly). US technology from 50's/60's and it looked the same like this. Remember Taylor 700T chopper stabilized thermocouple transducer, Honeywell, Fisher instrumentation...
Well I'm never drinking another Miller again...
Incidentally, my statement above is incorrect on a couple of levels: first, I was thinking of the law of large numbers not the central limit theorem, and second, even the LLN would only say that about the average step length, not the total time to the end of any step.
One of the symptoms can be tremendous creativity. Would you recommend to force treatment upon an artist, because she/he suffers from other side effects?

These mental illnesses are adaptions/optimizations to the rise and fall of violence that was normal human history for the longest time.

A armed paranoid hobo maybe looking like a maladjusted human being to you now, but in stalingrad, sebreniza or bhakmut, he would be very adapted to his surroundings. All those stress triggered changes had their spoke on the wheel of time.

My opinion is that people should be force treated, but only until they reach "sentience" and can decide for themselves, not under any influence.

They also should be able to make sentient "wills", specifying condition under which the state is allowed to step in and help them.

If somebody wants to return to his mental state, nobody should be allowed to stop them. Human lifes value is not there to be useful, aesthetic pleasing or comfortable for society. Its value is only defined by the person living it..

But then again, i view optimists as mentally sick..
If you look at animals on earth, they just aren't curious about many of the things we are curious about. My cats for example don't find television interesting.

Suppose there's some property of physics that looks like random noise to us (maybe like a TV looks like random noise to a cat) but to a different species they see it's something they can model and understand while our species just ignores it?
Your private property is what it is, private.

Your business place, assuming a public business, is indeed that: a place open to the public by default.

In France (and, as far as I'm aware, most European countries), there is a very clear line: either your business place welcomes the general public, or it does not.

Once you fall in the first category - and, as soon as you're selling something in that business place, you are in that category - then you must have very strong arguments if you refuse to let a prospective customer in or even if you refuse to sell to a particular person the products or services that it is the purpose of your business to sell.

Those arguments usually boil down to either (i) some law preventing you to sell something to that prospective customer or (ii) that prospective customer actively disturbing the public order or presenting a high risk thereof (eg: they're a thief, they're drunk, they can't prove that they will be able to pay, ...). Of course there are provisions for specific settings, but which merely soften the (ii) to allow filtering on public safety grounds for places welcoming more than X simultaneous guests - including eg nightclubs and such.

Anything not in falling into these exceptions is just what it is: discrimination. And actually, this seems very sound to me. The fact you own a business puts you in the public world: you may not refuse to serve someone because you don't like them.
Let's throw in a yacht as well. Why would anyone not get one of those too?
Such laws should be enforced, they are good laws that benefit almost everybody. If somebody has a mental illness that renders them unable to comply, they should be permitted to receive treatment in lieu of legal punishment. If they prefer not to be treated, treatment should not be forced on them but they should instead face the normal legal punishment for their crimes.

And of course, funding/supporting programs and regulations that reduce the scope of the problem is a good investment. This likely entails providing housing to people to preempt the issue of those people trashing up public parks. But the laws against that sort of behavior will still be necessary because some people will choose not to avail themselves of those programs and will behave antisocially no matter how much help you try to give them.
Seconded. I have one and a lot of other Knipex tools, the Cobra adjustable pliers being the most loved one. My oldest got handed down from my Dad and is 40 years old, love the W-Germany imprint:-)