jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Are you reporting it? Is something happening when you do?

The content isn’t the issue. The question is: would Twitter moderate that content when it breaks their ToS? Apple and Google consider Twitters moderation efforts good enough.
I was discussing this with my partner today, we came to a big 'dunno'. On the one hand, we're trying to be optimising and give y'all the benefit of the doubt in learning from mistakes. On the other hand, it's not out of the realm of possibility.
The Netherlands is crowded, especially in the randstad (Amsterdam-Utrecht-Rotterdam). There are some big natural areas in the east of the country. And houses with more space in the less populated farming areas of Friesland.

But still not real nature. I grew up in Australia and my idea of nature is seeing virtually noone for 50km in any direction :)
A good bar might be the definition of terrorism in the United States, which includes:

> ... acts dangerous to human life ... [intending] ... to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion ...

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2331
Remember that HN consists of millions of people now. There are plenty who would agree with you, myself included. But unless you put in effort to write substantive, thoughtful comments, your points will be lost. I encourage you to; it's worthwhile.
If there is a significant enough demand, it will eventually be produced.
No worries—since the author posted it now, I'll move the relevant comments thither.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26108039
I also use SVG from Elm for my simple games. Zoom and click-and-drag translation (and things like parallax) become trivial. And I love how you can put event listeners directly on objects.

Perfect for, e.g. board games!
A common way that bots are detected on twitter is that they re-use other users' avatars. This is pretty quickly being replaced by https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ (and others).
I think there's a faulty premise in there somewhere. An architect or an engineer is not a candy salesman. A candy salesman really shouldn't have a say in what flavor, texture, sweetness, etc. is appropriate for any given client.

However, the way the poster you're replying to sees this issue is not as a candy salesman; but, as a public engineer. There's a problem, like "what should web be", "how should web work", which is akin to "how to build a railway over this valley", "how to minimally disturb the ecosystem", etc. That's not a realm of likes and dislikes, but of practicality.

One of the realities of today is that the average user is extremely distanced from the technicalities of Web, whether that's desirable or not. That puts a lot of burden on the informed and on the developers, which are often the same people. The few are obligated to make decisions for the many.

Do you deliver a box-shadow, but increase technical debt? Do you migrate to a more energy efficient platform, but alienate some users? Do you broaden the scope of your system, in turn increasing system complexity, or do you delegate to a dedicated third-party system, having the user possibly learn to use that third-party system?

It's a question of which compromise best serves the user. It shouldn't be a question of likes and dislikes. This is a complex situation rife with miscommunication, ignorance, conflict of interests, and inertia. Any simple solution, such as disregarding the opinions of developers, should be regarded with great suspicion.
I don’t understand the point of “white” and race in this conversation. In fact the concept of “white” may be a rather recent phenomenon.
Try https://perspective.finos.org/ (example https://bl.ocks.org/texodus/77fb8ef87155b3a7fe341932bfc33382 )

WebAssembly engine can handle 1mm+ rows, and can be run virtually in node.js, Python or C++. Does filtering, pivoting on multiple axes, sorting, linking, click events, and more.
What's an "observable process model"?
I looped back and setup a docker-compose.prod file that utilizes host networking (and addresses some of the other issues raised in these comments). Thanks for the heads up :)
You know that was a typo.
You're right, he's right, but your analysis is not helpful, actually.

"I make no pretense..." means "I don't claim to..." For example, "I make no pretense at being an bitcoin expert" means "I don't claim to be a bitcoin expert."

So here's some more helpful analysis:

"I don't claim to despise BTC" means I like it.

"I don't claim to not despise BTC" means I don't like it.

Thus,
"I make no pretense to not despise BTC" means I don't like it.
> For me, Firefox seems to be making decisions with user's security and privacy in mind, and I see that as a net positive. As a long time user, it is the only reason I use Firefox.

I agree that that is a good thing. However, the more firefox breaks compatibility with sites people use, the harder it will be to regain marketshare. And if Firefox keeps losing marketshare it will have less ability to influence web standards, and could potentially die altogether, which would be bad for privacy and security in the long run.

Fortunately, state partitioning isn't enabled by default on Firefox yet (it is part of "strict" ETP), so only people who are ok with it potentially breaking sites will turn it on.
I wouldn't describe late Rome as "not big" on cavalry. Certainly they were not cavalry dominant, but they had their share of cavalry units. See the cataphracts in the Eastern Empire. In the West, there's the famous/infamous "mobile cavalry reserve" that Gallienius setup.

I think it's very much worth considering preservation bias. For example looking at wikitaneur as a whole (so mostly one on one, on foot combat), there's basically no material from before the 1400s.
That's odd.. may I ask which ad-blocker you were using? I visited it with both Privacy Badger & uBlock Origin running (on FF) and it loaded for me.
Doesn't the icons on the bar limit the amount of accounts the user can have?

Also note that Apple has some kind of regulations (and they're very strict) regarding the UI.

I personally love the fact the docked mail listing expands to the right since I have a dual 27'' setup. So it would make me sad if they changed this.

The preview part basically breaks what Gmail has polished over the years, and to me it doesn't feel that useful to have the title on the messages, since most of them are RE:

I like the easier access to "tags"; but I'm concerned that the approach you're using would become problematic since I have many tags (I'm a gmail power user who gets around 50 mails avg. which get filtered through different tags via regexp).

But overall good job! I like when people expose their ideas. It's a good way to get lazy people like me to debate on decisions.

Kudos.
> Amazingly enough

Not so amazing when you look at DNC backers, July 30, 1975, etc. More radical unions (e.g. IWW) tend to look at the 'mainstream' unions as 'bosses unions' or 'controlled opposition', and the more libertarian minded often similarly view the relationship between unions and capital as power plays by big corps to raise the 'free market' price of labor and consolidate power.
I think for companies like Activision, EA, analytics drive a massive amount of their decision making.

I would even go so far as to posit that Blizzard (a master of psychological manipulation), most decisions are driven by analytics based optimization for engagement FIRST, then mechanics and creative design get to come play.

I have no evidence, nor am I an insider, just an observer and scholar of games.
but... have you ever gotten anyone useful and able to do anything for you on AWS exorbitantly priced support?

in almost a decade, i havent. actually gotten more done tech related by calling the billing support, then i have through calling paid technical support.

That said all my experiences with DO support were much worse.
As philosophers keep saying, over and over, the trolley "problem" is just a thought experiment in normative ethics about different types of moral judgment — it's not an actual problem demanding solutions or recommended behaviors, and it's not designed to make claims in cognitive psychology, behavioral economics, etc.

The way people actually behave is of course interesting and important, but it's not the issue at stake.
If I’m reading this right, this is saying, given:

diff := abs(a - b)
prod := a * b`

Fine `a` and `b` by doing:

temp := sqrt(prod * 4 + diff^2)
a := (temp + diff) / 2
b := (temp - diff) / 2

That was a lot of words for something that (I feel) is easily expressed with symbols. It took me a minutes or two to figure out what you meant by “slot”
I agree with you. We have these amazing devices in our pockets, but we can only install things on them that are approved by enormous, faceless corporations whose incentives are often misaligned with our own well-being.

I don't advocate removing all safety checks from phones, but making somebody jump through 15 hoops to install a non-corporate-approved app is stupid.

Secondly, these companies stop a lot of badware, but they also act as gatekeepers to stop anti-establishmentware that may be for the public benefit at the detriment of the gatekeepers' stranglehold on power.

In other words, these devices are systems of perpetuating the status-quo and safeguarding the profits of the ones making them. This in itself I'm not upset about: of course capital seeks to cement its own power. The real issue I have is how much potential is destroyed as collateral damage.
That's just a place to gather junk. People rarely use rj-45 these days, that's why it's not present on most laptops.
A modular laptop that doesn't offer an AMD module? So, so close.

Hopefully the AMD board will ship late Summer 2021. Lack of AMD support is a showstopper for some.
Are there any sites to let people collaborate while working through these courses?
A few years ago I used to pine for an E-Ink (or later, a Mirasol) display so that I could have sunlight-visible portable computing, but sadly the iPad basically wiped that market away.

While the standalone monitor is neat, I think the biggest use-case would still be for a portable/outdoor terminal. That being said, with MEMS-IGZO devices finally coming from Sharp/Qualcomm (Pixtronix) this year (they've been showing it off since 2013 [1], but have announced a 1H 2015 release in JP [2]) that boasts some impressive specs [3]: 220ppi, 120% NTSC color gamut, 8000:1 contrast ratio, 50% power consumption of an LCD. It is also sunlight readable and has switchable low power/low refresh grayscale and color modes.

It's not bistable, but is looking like a really good e-reader/tablet option. Personally, I'm still looking forward to the revamped SMI Mirasol [4] but that's probably years out... (basically, the perennial story of cool display tech)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGVKRTosykg

[2] http://www.sharp.co.jp/corporate/news/141006-a.html

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBkIRil7f_A

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMDaJB2y4vc
> You can always make the memory do exactly what you want it to, and there's always a clear path to get there from wherever you are.

Only if you write your own memory allocator, otherwise relying on the compiler provided allocator is no different.
Like I said, all evidence I know of is anecdotal. Which—for sure—is indicative, but by no means conclusive.
Can Facebook block access to users refusing the tracking consent?
In this case the incentives led to an action with a positive impact for the user, so we should keep up those incentives regardless of which corporation ends up capitalizing on them.
"Ninety percent of our customers are finding us because of Facebook, because of those personalized ads, so if something was to disrupt that, it's going to be a problem,"

Why is it so hard for people to understand that if your business relies on unethical practices, they're the problem - not those who pursue privacy. If your business relied on breaking into people's homes and reading through their personal file cabinet, it wouldn't even be a question whether or not that business should exist. Taking people's digital data without consent is okay though? Plenty of small and large businesses thrived just fine before Facebook. Sorry/not sorry that not everyone buys into surveillance capitalism.
ChromeOS (rather, Chromebooks) can run more-featured Linux distros like Ubuntu, ArchLinux.
So? Why does do you need science's permission to do anything?
Exactly. Japanese style work ethic is a pandemic spread across east Asia, in which, devotion(even pretended) wins over efficiency. It also leads to a paternalistic company structure, where your workplace is your home and your boss is the owner.

Ultimately, this sacrifices the employee's personal time by blurring the boundary between life and work. Sadly, a lot of researches show long working hour doesn't necessarily leads to actual output, but the ideology is still largely respected and practiced.
Gates built a close relationship with Epstein over years (and knowing what he was convicted for), while on the other hand Gates Foundation worked to address human trafficking. Philanthropy is a cheap way to launder reputation without engaging with real powers at play.

>Over the years, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation had poured millions of dollars into anti–sex trafficking groups, among many other causes, including $5 million to the evangelical group International Justice Mission, which is perhaps most known for conducting dramatic brothel raids in Southeast Asia. At the time, international sex workers’ rights groups condemned the grant and IJM, but nearly no one else drew attention to the traumatic arrests and threats of deportations alleged by sex workers whose workplaces were raided.

Gates Foundation targeted workers and clients while Gates used an actual trafficker to help build his own reputation, hoping Epstein would help help himself to the Nobel prize. This is typically neoliberal philanthropy - address the worst effects (through surveillance tech for cops at that) without addressing the structural problem. Let's not get too excited about a billionaire technocrat's repentance.
I wonder how's that compares with a priority-on-the-left intersection, when the diameter of the roundabout's island < 1.5m.
I simply don't see the potential. My anecdotal experience has been that the target demographics for these apps simply aren't as social as investors think they are. Is there room for growth? Probably. Billion-dollar growth? Not even close.

I like the idea of profiles for a personalized taxi service, but not because of the possibilities for social connections.
Yess, and a local Facebook group and/or subreddit can work really nicely in coordination with a LocalWiki. To share local knowledge you totally need that conversation part, where the oldtimers and newcomers sit around and chat (or comment) about what's interesting today and what happened a while ago, in a casual and amusing and timely way. But then you also need the reference part, where bits and pieces slowly get collected and organized and cross-linked to tell a more comprehensive story, and to make sure individual memories don't get lost if people move out of town (or get busy, or die) and aren't around to tell their stories anymore.
Except that this case is completely different from that in every way? This isn't evidence -- this is a rendered judgement of sorts.
He could be describing O'Reilly books here :).
Having to anticipate implementation problems kills my creativity. Instead of developing the application and solving problems as they arise, thinking and worrying in advance about potential roadblocks, showstoppers and lack of acceptance can be a cause that I don't even start a project, or be reluctant with it.
sad.
I think that anyone on the mainstream-media that read that post is scratching their heads wondering what a WHOIS record is.
I don't think you can make the statement that "everything matters so we need to model everything" until after you've figured out how the brain actually works.

Until you've discovered how it works you won't know which features of the system are actually essential to its functionality and which are mere evolutionary artifacts which can be drastically simplified.

I think the problem will be solved, like other scientific problems have in the past. People will have ideas about what is essential and they will construct hypotheses and build and test models based on those ideas.

I think that arguing that the problem is too complex therefore there's no point in people having ideas until we can model everything is not a productive approach.
While Ceph is a cool project (in my heavily biased opinion), it's in a completely different realm from Dropbox.
If you forget your password, can Dropbox reset it for you? If they reset your password for you, can you still read your data? If the answer to both of these is "yes", then dropbox can read your data without you providing your password.

(Honest questions -- I don't use Dropbox, so don't know.)
From the article,

> Two weeks ago, a Citibank representative called Ms. Rodriguez and said that her refund would be restored. Ms. Rodriguez said no apology was offered.
This is decent advice tarnished by an ad-hom, you can do better than this!
The worse culprit of this I have seen is DSW.

They have color coded stickers that correspond to 30-70% off each item. So if you want to figure out how much it actually costs you have to do the calculation in your head.

What makes this so obscene is that they actually individually print the original price on that colored sticker; it's not like it would be any less convenient for them to put down the actual new price.
“Visuals are nice but can be improved. wooden board, 3D pieces etc.”

You would call that improved and I would call that tacky.
It doesn't bug me at all. I've been logged in with the same cookies for months now and haven't seen it since the very beginning.
I'd forgotten about that. IIRC, they required a "star" headed screwdriver with a long shaft, to access a couple of deeply recessed screws.

There was also a... "cracker", or spreader, I seem to recall, to aid in getting the pieces of the case to separate. One inserted it into the narrow seam, which it then widened.

EDIT: The important part was to discharge the CRT, before you did so inadvertently.
You will benefit a lot more from HN if you post your resume here for review.
Thanks for the correction. My opinion came from my own experience living in the US nearly a decade ago. In my entire 20 years there I saw a single Goodwill and no Salvation Army shops (though I'm sure they existed). Perhaps I was unlucky, or unobservant, or things have changed, but at any rate from that environment the UK was a revelation.
Go for it. Just remember it is a huge amount of code.
Once I had children, my breaking point for getting annoyed with other people's children skyrocketed. Now, I mostly feel bad for the parent.

You're right in that you can usually tell by the parents reaction the type of person they are. My emotions adjust accordingly to that, but I do still hear from people how annoyed they are when a child acts out, regardless of the parents reaction.

You still need to do stuff in life and with children, doing stuff becomes substantially harder. I'd bet a lot of parents with kids who act out don't want to go to the store with them, but simply have to because they don't have better options.
When will the US DoJ hire a decent PR firm? Again and again during these three years they've made cock-ups that push people (like myself) towards supporting Dotcom even if we don't particularly like the guy, and even if we think for the actual charges he's likely in the wrong.

> In the forfeiture case, prosecutors will argue why Dotcom’s claim on the frozen assets should not be allowed—and therefore forfeited to the US government—under the "doctrine of fugitive disentitlement." That idea posits that if a defendant has fled the country to evade prosecution, then he or she cannot make a claim to the assets that the government wants to seize under civil forfeiture.

Hooray, a loophole in the laws that might let them seize his assets: call him a fugitive! Even though he hasn't visited America one single time in his life. And even though he is still in the country where he calls home, and has done for more than a year before this case started.

Maybe it's not the DoJ's fault, maybe Dotcom and his lawyers (and PR) are really, really good. But nearly every story in the past 3 years has made him look good and them look bad, which shouldn't be the case when you've got a government department charged with delivering justice against a guy with a track-record of being an asshole and breaking the law.
I think there are product areas in the company that lend themselves more to this, for sure.
I used to think this too, which is why I was self-hosting (I'm the OP of this thread), but as I've got older, and my interests have shifted, along with no longer needing to be at the bleeding edge of my skill-set (I leave that stuff to the younglings these days), I found that managing my own infrastructure felt more like a chore than a hobby, more so if it's a 'production' system and not a 'lab' environment.
* Get a credit card. Discover is easy for students. Pay the bill every month. Do not (even once) hold a balance. Do not do balance transfers. Do not churn. Too easy for a newbie to get wrong.

* Get a local bank account. Turn off the thing called 'overdraft protection'. It's a loan mechanism.

* Find the other foreign students in your class. They'll know where to pirate all the textbooks. Never pay for a US textbook. Extortionary and when you get your degree no one knows you used pirate texts.

* Choose a smart major. In the US, people will tell you to learn history and shit like that. Waste of money. In fact, in the US, beware of people who try to sell you a "mission" rather than pursuit of a good life. The US allows rapid individual growth. Mission easy to pursue afterwards.

* Do not work. Your F-1 will permit you to under some circumstances. If possible, the only work you should do should be TA/RA stuff or related to your major. Do not work otherwise. It will take away from studying.

* Get a cheap bicycle / skateboard. Cheapest form of transport. US transit is very bad. Even in most unis. Do not buy expensive bike + expensive lock. Get cheap used bike and cheap lock. Skateboard is better since you can carry it with you.

* Find all college events that involve recruiting, symposiums, etc. Attend all for food.

* Get cheapest mobile plan possible. Many MVNOs available. Get cheapest phone. Used preferable.

* Get internships if possible. Permissible on your F-1 / J-1. Very good experience. Live experience >>> in-school learning.

* Americans are almost universally wealthy. Beware of imitating them if you are not. It is possible to be social without keeping up with the joneses.

* Do not self-isolate. Social interaction is the biggest advantage of US college apart from the high quality education. Especially interact with Americans. They will likely spend the rest of their lives in America.
to carry that to its logical conclusion, all competition should be held barefoot. Surely some humans are better suited to barefoot running than others, hence their "response" to shoe wearing is being tested.
Site reliability engineer? The better you perform your job, the less you should need to do.
> Your 2nd source links to Hasan saying "America deserved 9/11".

Maybe it did.
For sure, and we've done that through regulations where appropriate: e.g. landlord/tenant law, utility commissions, etc.

Twitch is hardly in that category, though.
That the slippery slope is an inevitability is the fallacy, not that it exists. See also "Overton window"
>Or you completely remove that single one way lane, and good bye resupplies for the shops/restaurants and good luck to those poor folks that will move in/away.

This is not true - we have streets that have been converted to be fully pedestrian+bicycle, and resupplies/moving in is not really an issue because these vehicles get exceptions. The sign combination 'Motor traffic forbidden / Exception for authorized vehicles' is pretty damn common in my European city.