skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now the most interesting is that there are many reports today (with screenshots & screenrecords) by Twitter/X users on disappearing own likes and thousands of likes has been removed during a day from counter under original thread tweets[0].[1,2]

[0] https://nitter.net/P_Kallioniemi/status/1674360288445964288 (original thread header tweet)

[1] https://nitter.net/RpsAgainstTrump/status/170925475877763097...

[2] https://nitter.net/GlasnostGone/status/1709243280431493592

[3] https://nitter.net/sternenko/status/1709248947645018197

[4] https://nitter.net/IAPonomarenko/status/1709216833214001204

[5] https://nitter.net/Neyasit_alt/status/1709254624085954911
Thanks, and no problem! It's a touchy subject and there's lots of shitty takes on it so I get the reaction. Definitely agree that the best solution is simply decriminalization, maybe with the addition of improved support services for the populations that do find themselves turning to sex work out of need.
> His job is to be a gigantic neckbeard. That he is uncouth and pedantic is not only expected, but the reason that many of us have jobs.

His job is to give talks about Free Software, its ethics and benefits. Being uncouth and pedantic and a giant neckbeard is not at all required to do his job. In fact as time goes on and the programming community diversifies beyond being primarily composed of people who look, think and act like him and share his proclivities, his personality and behavior hinder the cause more than help.

But of course, many of his supporters only see though the lens of culture war, so there's really no point in doing anything but wait for him to die so the free software movement can move on from him and his cult.
If we really believe in the basic principles of individual liberty that are hypothetically core American values (or even just the idea of "first, do no harm"), then it would imply that these tools should be optimized for 100% precision, even at the cost of terrible recall.

But if you're trying to market your stuff to law enforcement agencies, I'm guessing you're instead incentivized to optimize for recall, even at the cost of terrible precision. Because, probably with the best of intentions, that's what they think they should be doing. But we've got basically the entire history of forensic "science" to demonstrate just how poorly the police tend to understand some of these basic statistical principles.
Developers Behaving Badly
SBF aside, I don't think it's true that a scapegoat must be sinless.

It's an Old Testament thing, the original meaning can easily be looked up. Some take the scapegoat as a metaphor for the New Testament Jesus (who is viewed as sinless by most followers). Ergo, we lay the sins of the community upon the innocent goat, and send him out in to the desert.

Regardless, I'll give you that goats can be ornery little fuckers, but I don't think they do a lot of "sinning" in the biblical sense.
[Current Autodesk CAD user] Thanks! Nice to hear their employees are well treated; atleast some good is coming from the yearly subscriptions.
Something I've learned from a career of watching cryptographer flame wars: Don't bet against Bernstein, and don't trust NIST.
Depends, some graph databases have some support for graph algorithms.

I’ll also say I think graph algorithms are overrated, I mean you know the diameter of some graph: who cares? Physicists (like me back in the day) are notorious for plotting some statistics on log-log paper, seeing that the points sorta kinda fall on a line if you squint and decide that three of the points are really bug splats and then yelling “UNIVERSIALITY” and sending it to Physical Review E but the only thing that is universal is that none of them have ever heard of a statistical estimator or a significance test for power law distributions. Node 7741 is the “most central” node, but does that make a difference? Maybe if you kill the top 1% central nodes that will disrupt the terrorist network but for most of us I don’t see high quality insights coming out of graph algorithms most of the time.
I thought this was a good analysis of Patrick Brown's claims:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXZUXQPqY3k
Introverts also say that because it’s the socially acceptable thing to say and they want to appear “engaged” even if they feel differently.
You have to choose between:

- accurate and politically incorrect

- inaccurate and politically correct
When they do, just wear a mask and you will be "safe"
> It seems like reducing consumer harm should be the primary objective of regulators.

You're not wrong, but the definition of "consumer harm" used in practice hinges on short-termism and is price-centered right now. "This won't raise prices...for now, at least" is, by itself, an alarmingly strong argument in this arena, irrespective of market health or sustainability of competition.

The Biden administration has made some steps to counter that, we'll see if it's really a thing.
> C'mon, this is hacker news, what happened to "information should be free"?

We've had an infestation of "pay me or I won't share" types.
From what I understand Ken killed the idea of using cheap commodity parts and moved PC division hardware design inhouse thus turning profit making venture into huge money sink.

Part 1 doesnt exist in video form :(
hey yes, we will probably launch it this month. work in progress
https://www.starlink.com/ is not available where you are?
I think a more precise way to phrase it “it’s not hybrid work”, at least not the kind of hybrid work that is being discussed.
Welcome to the clown show. 15 ballots in January for this. Republicans need to get their house in order. Its embarrassing. Or, at least, it should be. First time in history the Speaker’s been ejected like this.
Yes. All of those should have required proof, they are required to require proof. In the normal world, it is not possible to commit even 10k$ fraud without the signoff of 5 people, so why is a billion dollars in the hands of a 26-year-old different.
that isn't a bug lol, just open arc preferences and go to shortcuts and lookup developer tools
Google was the first CLI I ever learnt now that I think about it. A term and then a bunch of switches that would modify the results. A powerful tool that one could master.

The web has changed (even without SEO) but using Google used to be about knowing the invocation for the box. Now it’s about knowing which results to ignore.

Stallman was right.
There goes whatever interest I had in Arc. Must we shoehorn this junk into everything?
Was really glad the article you linked mentioned Robert Bork, because it's important to realize (a) this shift to the consumer-welfare standard is relatively new in US jurisprudence, like since the late 70s, and (b) if you consider, like I do, that Robert Bork was a Grade-A Turd for numerous reasons (can start by looking into the Saturday Night Massacre), you can see how this reading of the law is well in-tune with lots of other shitty ideas from Bork.

For more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Antitrust_Paradox
To some people, all things everywhere at all times are bad.
The pump itself is the least secure piece of technology in existence. They keys to open them are common, the communication is all serial based and hasn't changed at all in 40+ years.

It wasn't more than a decade ago that I was swapping 3des pinpads out. If you had really old pump all you needed was a small screw driver to stop the meters from turning after you popped the front panel off.
Is there evidence that Nessie was used to sell items below cost?
Your first sentence is regrettable in an otherwise informative post.

There are tons of laws, and part of the problem is that many laws are just, well, stupid and poorly-implemented.

California has some kind of review process for guns themselves, in order to go on the "Roster" from which normal people can buy them. This is a highly restricted list that excludes most new models even if they are functionally the same. It serves no useful purpose and does nothing to reduce the danger of guns in any way, it's just to interfere with lawful gun owners who want more modern models, and cause trouble for manufacturers who need to keep producing old ones.

If you were a gun owner, you'd probably think that they really are out to get you, and you may question whether those who passed the law even care about bringing firearm deaths down. That makes it a lot harder to work on legislation that's actually useful.

And laws that are actually useful, like those that put violent people in jail (and put them back again if they are caught with a gun after they get out) have been tried and they do work. But a lot of cities are not enforcing those laws consistently.

Could more be done? Yes, I think so. But compromise is a two-way street where both sides are trying to create a better balance. As long as "compromise" always means a one-way ratchet of gun restrictions, the other side will resist it with whatever they have.
It's in the 'Daily Fail'. The newspaper for gullible people.

I predict that it will turn out to be be bullshit, as most of the 'Daily Fail' stuff is.
Somewhat related, a couple years ago Swiss police wanted to use AI software to predict burglaries. However, there were not enough burglaries in the country to get enough training data, so the project was shelved.
I can assure you that every single Swede agrees that it's failing. People are horrified at what's happening.

Anyway, bringing up Scandinavia as one unit doesn't work anymore when there's such a big difference between Sweden and for example Norway where restorative justice is still successful.
X.org Hit by New Security Vulnerabilities – Two Date Back to 1988 with X11R2
Wow. I opened the triangle demo and I felt like I was transported back in time to when I had an Acorn Electron and would type in BASIC programs from listings in magazines.

I was about 10 then. I hope my son (7yo) starts to find this stuff interesting soon.
Click your fingers and talk to navigate a website
Women Who Wrote Andy Warhol’s Novel
Probably they are less efficient at retail operations than a retailer, so have higher overhead. Also wouldn't want to undercut the retailers, who are providing valuable shelf space and marketing.
Strandbeest Evolution (2013) [video]
I paid $983/sqft for my apartment in the city, so unless my company wants to give me a $25k tax free bonus, and pay for a desk, chair, monitor, keyboard, mouse, and my internet, it’s a bad deal for me. Glad it works for you though.
Banning the import of personal computers would be absolutely disastrous for any possible economy anywhere.
With the Republicans in disarray and the Democrats fielding Joe Biden, it seems like a good time for a 3rd party candidate for the 2024 election. Possibly the most realistic context for an actual shot at a 3rd party presidency that I've ever seen.
State-sanctioned murder is still murder, whichever way you cut it. It is an interesting intellectual thought experiment, but I'll leave it at that.
Anything to do with Powershell/Azure is this x1000. It constantly recommends libraries that do not exist, to call API endpoints that were deprecated or never existed. It's maddening.

I wish more interfaces supported intake of PDFs/URLs/HTML content as domain material. Then at least we'd be able to point the bot at the most current docs and have it most-heavily weight that information.
If you do Rails or are interested in learning it, Ruby for Good has a bunch of great projects with non-profits (e.g. legal aid, animal shelters) that are easy to jump in and contribute to.

https://rubyforgood.org/
Yep. They will ask some questions they can prove the answers to, and those will usually be the ones that implicate you. If you lie, they'll call all your other testimony into question, as well as get you at least one perjury charge! If you don't lie, you admitted to the crime you committed, and could have saved a lot of hassle by pleading guilty to begin with. If you plead the 5th, it's officially the same as if you'd never testified to begin with, but juries may still be biased to see that as you attempting to hide something you're guilty about. Better to avoid testifying at all.
Hmmm, IDK much about euro pricing, other than that the G14s tend to be horrendously priced over there.
This might be confusing my point.

The initial goal of drug laws may be in the vein of stabilizing society, while poor implementation strays from that goal. Both can be true at the same time. Poor implementation begs for better implementation, not the nullification of the goal. I am not defending current drug policies, I'm guarding against the notion that the "solution" is just to make consensual crime legal.

This side-steps a relevant discussion about how you measure societal stability, but that would be a long digression to itself.
Microclimates exist. If more crime happens when it's warm and sunny, it pays to patrol the sunny side of the city and not the rainy side on days where there's partial sun and partial rain.
> Physicists (like me back in the day) are notorious for plotting some statistics on log-log paper...

For people who've missed it: So You Think You Have a Power Law — Well Isn't That Special? (http://bactra.org/weblog/491.html) :)
This looks seriously cool. May I ask how old your daughter was when you started working with her on this?
It's pretty crazy to me that the FTC targeted Amazon in particular because they had a bone to pick, have done massive discovery, and just gone fishing with that discovery to find anything that sounds vaguely bad.

I think this is probably normal for large gov agencies and prosecutions in general, but it just shows how arbitrary and political this stuff really is.
Just be glad you didn’t spend those years in a prison cell :-D
May I say your writing style is very beautiful and easy to read!

Extra points for advocating for playing/exploring video games!
It used to be you had to physically show up, or mail in a form to apply. That tends to put the brakes on mass applications pretty effectively.

It’s less the internet, and more folks using the internet/apps for processes that used to require in person physical presence. Which has been getting more and more common.
His speakership was hanging by a thread from day 1. I don't see any path to a new Speaker so long as the Freedom Caucus are intent on watching the world burn.
It's my understanding that he didn't live up to his side of the bargain struck with Gaetz & Co. to become speaker, so Gaetz acted accordingly.
on my electric unicycle, it is perfectly capable of of counteracting the entirety of my weight on my toes to come to a stop. idk if onewheels are different
Politics is a clown show for me period - both sides. I like the chaos. The government that governs best is the one that governs least - so I’m always rooting for shutdowns, gridlock, automatic spending cuts, etc.
Can we talk about actions as well, not only written agreements?
By that definition, a sociopath has empathy because they are able to demonstrate behavior we associate with having empathy. The two are not the same.

In many cases, internal states don't matter (e.g. I don't care if I get a well-written summary of an article by a domain expert or just a good copywriter, as long as the meaning is preserved accurately enough), but I'd argue that we can't meaningfully talk about empathy without considering internal states.
How much $$ an AI-tool makes (breakdown)
Stating "You get what you pay for" is a strange way to both blame the victims & attempt to absolve multi-billion dollar corporations for not including a standardized piece of security equipment, when you consider that every major manufacturer sells vehicles firmly in the same price bracket - up to half the price of your reported average (we love to forget about outliers, don't we) that have this equipment.

Pedantry about what security was advertised or not will not make a compelling case. What a strange thing to try to argue.
> On the whole people commit crime because they are desperate (for money, for drugs, etc.), occasionally because they have an anti-social personality disorder.

Most violent crime is the result of interpersonal disputes. People get angry. They feel disrespected. And some of them even just think violence is flat-out fun. The "desperate people" model doesn't really hold water with respect to the most serious crimes we care the most about.

Second, I am aware that this sounds like some kind of right-wing talking point, but you should consider that it's true: a job at Dunkin Donuts is more remunerative than stealing catalytic converters. It's not even close, really. We have a worker shortage! Fast food wages are higher than ever. Young men steal catalytic converters because it's more fun and because they don't want to work at stupid Dunkin Dounuts and wear a uniform like a nerd.

If they were genuinely just desperate, they'd take the job at Dunkin.

We'll never effectively police crime if we can't even acknowledge its true nature.
> People were not giving FTX money to lend out to others in exchange for interest

Depending on state law, if you put down a deposit for e.g. flowers, the florist is free to spend the cash however they see fit, including loaning it out to someone. Lending customer funds per se does not prove fraud. Bankman-Fried lying about it does.
But it's possible to minimize privileges across binaries with that. I think the possible preventable failure is having too much code within setuid/root bounds.
Secret society of cephalopods
I think it was clear from context. I could have said Rooms and nobody would know what I was talking about.
They either need to make peace with the Democrats and lose their primaries in 2024 to total MAGA nutjobs, or make peace with the MAGA nutjobs and lose the Biden districts in 2024. Either way, they lose the House in 2024.

Making peace with the Democrats would allow them to retain some dignity, but after 2016 that's not been a high priority for them. So I expect the clown show to continue.
probably have to look at the first derivative or second derivative of murders wrt time to get a sense for how people perceive the change?
It didn't. There are rumors it got out to a handful of alpha/beta sites, but it was never a supported product.
I wonder how many others are in similar situations? Feels like a good premise for a class action.
Hope you don’t mind answering a few questions of mine.

What’s the functional subset of JS? Any literature on this subset? I don’t really know JS apart from hacking together a few scripts for fun.

If this is purely functional, does this mean we will need to use monads for IO like in Haskell?
But this is exactly what so many of them want. How many conservatives are convinced that a deadlocked or obstructionist congress is "better" for whatever reason, as if PURPOSEFUL government incompetency is a virtue
He used blatantly demagogical language throughout his entire campaign and presidency, and basically claimed that "he alone" knows how to fix every problem.

I tend to be pretty far-left (at least by American standards), but some of the "Bernie Or Bust" rhetoric has gone a bit crazy sometimes; I don't think Bernie Sanders is nearly as horrible as someone like Donald Trump (I voted for him in the primary in 2016), and I certainly don't think he's an outright fraudster, but I do feel like he (and his followers) kind of cozy up to demagogue-adjacent language as well.

I think people really really like the idea that one magical person can and will solve all their problems.

But that's about as far as I'll go towards partisan politics since I don't want to get hellbanned.
> trust me it works

I can think of a couple. limits at infinity are thoroughly hand wavy, at least at the level they're introduced in high school or lower division college calculus. And I would say this even projects backwards into geometry, and even the Blurred overloaded operations of rational numbers and simple fractions. the notion of being able to add up an infinity of nothing and get a quantifiable something is just sort of taken for granted without elaboration.

The equality operator ( = ) is also presented as an implicit expression of truth when introduced, when it clearly admits to shades of true at best. 1*1 = 1 = 1^1 = 1^2 is one kind of true and a bunch of kinds of false. and although at a young age kids may not be sensitive to this, letting it go without explanation or curious challenge can be the source of inarticulate senses of doubt about what's really going on when they get introduced to higher levels of math.
Can't we have some safety for pedantic nerds in computing of all fields?

It's also amazing to me that RMS was the only person at MIT to see consequences. All these prominent MIT people had Epstein connections, but the guy who's too weird to even get invited is the one we scapegoat? Over ill-advised forum posts?
My belief is that this is why we need a law saying no use of user information for any commercial purposes. With draconian penalties assessed per user-incident.

Bonus points awarded for legislation that pierces the veil.

So you want to play games and you "leaked" a million user records to your business partner? That's a million fines slick.

Oh, you "leaked" them to your business partner again the next week? No problem tough guy, that's a million more draconian fines.

We can play this game all the way to your bankruptcy pal.

We need to stop these tech companies from trampling privacy and the only way to do it is to hit them extremely hard where it hurts.
Any pgroll operations[0] that require a change to an existing column, such as adding a constraint, will create a new copy of the column and backfill it using 'up' SQL defined in the migration and apply the change to that new column.

There are no operations that will modify the data of an existing column in-place, as this would violate the invariant that the old schema must remain usable alongside the new one.

[0] - https://github.com/xataio/pgroll/tree/main/docs#operations-r...
This is a small child's view of how things work.
Wasn't Gaetz the one that took underage girls across state lines? Is this the guy Republican's want to follow?
You had a chance to. The gp did too. You did not take it yet and instead asked my permission. Thank you, I guess. Go ahead, you may.
I think the Romans perfected (or attempted too) some years prior to the UK's Empire. And before that the Byzantines and the Babylonians. The UK's were the largest not because of lack of desire of the others but due to technological advances in communication and transportation.
I'm somewhat in agreeance. I don't want a government that's in such lockstop that everything passes.
I just find it sad that it's things like these that make it impossible for the layman to figure out what is going on with, for example, Mochizuki's new stuff

I have no reason to doubt that a lot of math has been made more difficult than necessary just because it is known to give a subtle military advantage in some cases, but this isn't new;
I wish I could not do my job (collectively all of Congress) and somehow manage to keep it until I die.
The big demand in petroleum products is for heavy petroleum that can be processed to make diesel, the fuel that almost all business runs on.

Shale is only good for the light stuff, like gasoline, not diesel.
> Everyone agrees that FTX paid $100's of millions to celebrity endorsers and arena naming deals.

Don't forget the fortune cookies. I know that I and some others on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33599123) never will.
U2 at Sphere is the nightmare future of music
Americans will never vote a 3rd party in mass. _Everything_ is built on "us vs them", a third party would confuse people too much.
We needed a study to prove the obvious?
Why not? The money will be refunded, it'll cost X significant effort and fees, and the bank / scheme starts to accrue black marks against X. Even Musk probably doesn't want to start receiving snippy letters from the major card schemes...
Are you Ron Swanson?