jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I just reviewed this US law:

CHAPTER 115—TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title18/par...

It's quite explicit about what charges may be levied under these laws, and the penalties. There are many necessary limitations on free speech, and these 'social media platforms' no doubt have lawyers that recognize their peril (from the law, public opinion, monopoly charges....)

Yes, "giving such power to social media platforms sets a dangerous precedent". But then, so does allowing unlimited 'free speech' that at the least borders on sedition.
As someone who spends about equal time in the fine arts and tech worlds, I also have things I find tiresome and uninteresting.

But over the years Vasarely[0] hasn't gone away and neither has Hirst[1], and the Art World even still has some love left for Richard Prince[2].

So rather than thinking in terms of cliché I've found it more useful to just say there are other things in art that move me a lot more. If someone else is moved by op art, or spin art, or stolen Instagram photos, I'm not gonna rain on their parade. Well, unless it's Richard Prince, that guy's evil. ;-)

[0]: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/victor-vasarely-2095

[1]: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=damien+hirst+spin+art&t=h_&iax=ima...

[2]: https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/30/8691257/richard-prince-in...
So, `@realDonaldTrump` was suspended at least from Mastodon.social.

How many instances left?

How many also suspended `@realDonaldTrump`?
I was on a call with our Future Electronics reps yesterday and they more or less said the same. Every CM is booked to capacity as well. They said it's a combination of stopping production for almost 3 months and then an explosion of latent demand for consumer devices + WFH demand.

Btw, another interesting ramification of both the trade war with China and the travel restrictions is that a lot of low/mid scale electronic manufacturing is being moved to Mexico.
I just fundamentally disagree with the equivalence between social media bans and the topic at hand. I strongly support the recent bans and strongly oppose the Domestic Terrorism Act.
The part about "fear", or the high pay and low benefits, shouldn't be surprising if you are familiar with Netflix's values. They place employee performance above all else and strive to create a place where high performers want to work - which means getting rid of anyone who isn't one. Their values are to give employees huge amounts of freedom and responsibility and to let the individual's decide what to do with that, for the good of the company.

See the slideshows at http://www.netflix.com/Jobs.

As for the validity of this review, I find it hard to believe that even all the way back in May 2010 someone could think that Netflix's streaming business wasn't already a success:

So you guys did one thing well, a long time ago, and you've been marginally improving that business (DVD rental) ever since. Your astoundingly high turnover rate worked in that world, because all the processes were in place. But now you are trying to get into the streaming business, and that business only runs with knowledge workers at the helm.

edit: I think it's certainly possible to mistake "a culture of high demand for high performance" for "a culture of fear" if your only experience at the company is one in which you were deemed to not be a performer. But as an outsider, I can see why Netflix values and wants to create this culture and I admire them for striving and sticking to it.

I'd also like to point out that of the majority of reviews posted with the word "software" in the title, the majority seem to rate working at Netflix a 4 or a 5, although with a few 1's and 2's in there.
Just in case you're living under a startup-free rock, here's Netflix's culture deck from last year which could potentially jive with the Glassdoor-er's view.

http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664
I've always believed that it should be legal to audio and/or video record any government employee/contractor during the performance of their official duties (and I say that as a govt contractor). If we can't be accountable to the public, how can we expect to serve the public?
I think I understand what the poster was talking about. I live in a decent neighborhood where it's mostly on street parking. The way my street sets up, even though it is a 2-way street it's mostly one way traffic. This leads to people parallel parking on both sides of the street while facing the same way (it's a fine to parallel park facing opposite of traffic). When I moved in over 18 months ago everyone was parked incorrectly. I parked incorrectly for 13 months before one night on the last day of the month we all received $30 parking fines at 3am.

I talked to a few of my neighbors and this was the first time they had seen fines given. I along with others parked the wrong direction for at least 13 months without a fine. So, either police never patrolled our neighborhood during that time or they decided to apply the law only when they feel like it, i.e. to meet their quota. Revenue generation at its finest!
So? "Some things" is nowhere near the astounding amount of secrecy that is currently being maintained.

There's no jury to judge states; states don't have as much on the line as citizens. Individuals are different from the state.
How about, "Walk and you'll come"?
Year One Labs is still accepting submissions as well.

http://www.yearonelabs.com/
my understanding that basic setting of Stalker was influenced by the massive WWII Japan Army fortifications in the Far East where Arcady Strugatsky served right after WWII.
They didn't wait for the end of HPMoR to publish this book - they made an extra effort to have it ready in time!
From my email:

We are writing to let you know that there may have been unauthorized access to some of your Twitch user account information, including possibly your Twitch username and associated email address, your password (which was cryptographically protected), the last IP address you logged in from, and any of the following if you provided it to us: first and last name, phone number, address, and date of birth.

For your protection, we have expired your password and stream keys. In addition, if you had connected your account to Twitter or YouTube, we have terminated this connection.

You will be prompted to create a new password the next time you attempt to log into your Twitch account. If applicable, you will also need to re-connect your account to Twitter and YouTube, and re-authenticate through Facebook, once you change your password. We also recommend that you change your password at any other website where you use the same or a similar password.

We apologize for this inconvenience.

The Twitch Team
You are mistaken. The term was not used with reference to available software source code before February 3, 1998; it had a mostly unrelated meaning in espionage.
It is difficult to keep 4-5 people perfectly aligned which is necessary early in a startups life, especially if all of them have equal say.

Losing days to arguing over what the best course of action is a startup killer
Hah, yeah, nothing to rebuttal there lol. We're forever facing problems with that kind of stuff.
Compared to smaller solutions this project needs some hefty investment in order to get started. It might be useful to start building solar farms in the north african countries for their own needs and then they can start exporting excess electricity to neighboring countries in the south and - at one point when it's economically viable - via DC transmission lines to Europe.
As you can see, that isn't talking about software.
Has anyone tried https://milacares.com?
Some childhood anecdotes...

One xmas when I was less than 5yo I jammed a knife into our 240v socket and blew the fuse on the Electricity Board side of the fusebox.
They had to send an engineer out to turn the power on so we could continue cooking the turkey.

The other is from a sibling comment.
With primary school, 10 years old, we went to the Lake District and were introduced to electeic fences by everyone holding hands with the person next to them, and the teacher explaining that he would touch the wire with the back of his hand to avoid muscle contraction.
Because I was "that kid" I was placed at the far end of the chain, where I assume it tingled more.
That was fun.

We used to put PP9 batteries on our tongues for tingles.
Just for fun.

I do recall dangerously letting .22 blanks off with a brick and a piece of brick making an entry and exit wound through the outside fleshy part of my hand.
Couldn't let mum know that I was even bleeding in case she asked why!

Touching the wires hanging out of the wall where the clock hung was fab, until I flew across the room and sat on the sofa unexpectedly.
You really do learn respect for insulation at this point.
I have not logged on to LinkedIn for years. And when I do, it is only for its search engine for work. 75% of the ads forward you to the company's website where I actually apply.

When I get my next piece of work, I add LinkedIn back to the AdBlock/PrivacyBadger and leave it out the door. That "platform.linkedin.com" (and the share button) tends to pop up in other corners of the internet.
So what? Your voice is a unique fingerprint. Your writing style is a unique fingerprint. Your gait is a unique fingerprint. Who you are friends with is a unique fingerprint.

Why should I be worried about a company knowing what music I listen to?
Absolutely. See my reply to the sibling comment and shoot me an email (in my profile). Happy to share what I found out.
Because I build furniture now and I'm much happier for it.

Why am I not doing that right now? Because I'm waiting for some of my mistakes to get enough heat into the wood stove so I can leave it to its own devices and head to the shop.
Daunting task ahead, little progress in sight.
Why not just do a direct link and just shorten the anchor text? Bypass all this t.co crap.
IRC. Setup an IRC server, turn on logging, install a web IRC client and there you go.
It doesn't block other ads. It blocks analytics from competitors. So you are free to run analytics and ads from whoever you want... unless they are own by a device manufacture that directly compete with the iPhone.
You mean, except for the part where ORM-based applications are usually still injectable.
Without dragging out the whole "Ruby is an acceptable Lisp" thing, I feel that your choice of Ruby was appropriate, though. With the obvious exception of Arc, I feel that Ruby is far closer to Lisp than any of those other languages.

Then again, maybe it's just because I'm reading Metaprogramming Ruby right now.
I think the important distinction here is that you're not just saying "Hey, Internet, what's wrong with me?" and leaving it at that. You've been under the care of (many?) physicians and continue to be. So you're not taking the Internet's word for it and rushing off to try some hair-brained "cure" (Trying a gluten free diet, even if that's not the issue, certainly won't harm you. I'm sure if the Internet had said "drink a bucket of Draino" you'd have drawn a line). You're just looking for information and ideas beyond what you and the doctor have already discussed/tested for. You're just exploring other possibilities and then following up on that with your doctor. I'm glad to see you're finally starting to get some answers and I hope you're able to, at least, get to the bottom of all of these problems.

Keep in mind, too, though, you may not have one definitive diagnosis. You could have _______ and also ________, or ________ caused by ________, which then makes ________ worse. The body is a complicated thing.
I agree. One of the biggest benefits of a proper type system (and by saying "proper" I immediately exclude C and Java, so don't even bother mentioning them) is that you get clean semantics for both nullable and non-nullable types. Hoare called null a billion-dollar mistake, and I completely agree.
YC startup? ;-)
If management drinks the MS Kool-Aid, they're probably hiring people who drink the MS Kool-Aid.
Can I create an infinite energy money machine by doing this: BTC is held by MSTR, MSTR is held by ABC, ABC is held by FGE, FGE is held by XYZ? Eventually all companies hold it, and SP500 will be BTCPrice * 500. Everyone is rich. It's just a matter of time before it goes to the whole market. Everyone is rich.
By "do the same" I meant you could put "checked <date>", of course you'd have to have a human do it. Which is why I proposed to generate a list of entries that need checking (by humans). Sorry this wasn't clear.
FastMail, Firefox, DuckDuckGo, iOS
Not in my experience.

Good researchers are not necessarily good teachers. Good teachers are not necessarily good researchers. But the best teachers in my experience are fiercely interested in their subjects, which they share with the best teachers.

Everybody likes sharing their interests, right?
to give a comparison:

PM951 NVMe SAMSUNG 512GB
SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 52 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 50%
Percentage Used: 4%
Data Units Read: 30,314,686 [15.5 TB]
Data Units Written: 35,402,028 [18.1 TB]
Host Read Commands: 601,326,085
Host Write Commands: 793,617,758
Controller Busy Time: 17,248
Power Cycles: 3,897
Power On Hours: 9,506
Unsafe Shutdowns: 343
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
Error Information Log Entries: 5,351

This is from my daily driver 2016 Dell XPS13 9350.

Used for years with rolling-release linux + windows for gaming. multiple reinstall of every OS and since a year, hackintosh.
This morning I had a dream where someone named "Beepliani" was trying to talk to a lady who was tired of being hit on while she was just trying to make a train journey. And then I wake up and write that down in my dream journal and pick up the tablet next to my bed, and here's... this.

Well okay, fuck it, I got rent to pay and I got a bunch of art lying around that's had a lot more love put into it than what I'm seeing on the front page of Nifty. I'm hitting that signup button despite my general misgivings about the huge energy cost of crypto.
The salaries were not more competitive than they are now. Families who raised children on one income back then quite simply expected and did with much less than single income families do today, not to mention with how much two income families make today.
I believe network calls are a looser contract than function calls that would be checked at compile time, so it allows a softer decoupling between multiple teams. Compatibility or intermittent failures are handled with different strategies (rollout, rollback, deadletter queues) instead of impacting release cycles.
Agreed. MLK, in retrospect, was more idealist. Today there are some groups which would think his take is too mild. I think he had it right. It’s the blind take. The just take. I’m not sure everyone is looking for justness these days.
Is this the same Robin DiAngelo that wrote White Fragility?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Fragility
After spending a lot of time in London, I am glad Americans don't embrace diesel like they do in Europe. The place just reeks of diesel and 2 strokes.
I generally think that should be the case. To do otherwise is pretty much intentionally misleading customers.

I'm in Wisconsin, don't know how other states / nations handle this sort of thing.
People can make all kinds of noise, but unless people put their money where their mouth is and begin to put real economic pressure on the airlines, who would in turn pressure Washington to do something about the TSA, I don't want to hear it.

On the internet, no one can hear you scream.
I would strongly recommend you do NOT use OpenX. I used it for a few years, but eventually got fed up with the constant security problems. They do not promptly release patches for known security problems, so after seeing a particularly widely available remote exploit go unpatched for months early this year, I had to replace it with DFP.
He would have wanted you to move onward and succeed. In fact, that is the only way to do his memory justice.
I believe there's a law in California that requires grocery stores to put that stuff on the price labels.
This disgusts me, but I totally believe it, as a college student seeing these kinds of numbers do not surprise me at all.

Where I go to school though, the test is given at one hour on one day. The whole you have 52 hours to take the test thing. It seems like whoever takes it first could still help others study.
Brian Eno wrote talked an unreleased album of his, My Squelchy Life, in an interview:

What happened was, I finished a record and as nearly always
happens to me, in finishing the record I started to get a
glimpse of the next step. There's always a cutting edge and
a trailing edge to what you are doing. Well, when I
finished that record, I knew what the cutting edge was.

The record was due out in September 1991. And so I went
straight back into the studio and had begun working on some
new material, which followed what I felt was the cutting
edge of this soon-to-be-released record.

Then the company said, "Well, September is a terribly bad
time to release; can you leave it to February?" And I said,
"I don't mind leaving it to February, but I won't release
this record then. I'H release what I've finished in
February, which is likely to be quite a lot different."
So that record just disappeared in the mist of time and I
carried on working with the new material, and that's
what became Nerve Net.

http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/interviews/audi...
Well, for one, it treats poor people like criminals who need to be punished for being poor. Granted, we do that to a large degree in the US now implicitly, but this would be very explicit -- and, I feel, tremendously mean-spirited.

More practically, it removes the poor as a voice in their own governance by using what amounts to a bribe. And in practice, it would probably remove most poor people from the voting rolls, because short-term, taking the 10k or whatever to make ends meet is the rational decision over pulling a lever that may or may not have any affect on your particular situation.

I think my main objection here is that there is no real guarantee that the extra money, generally, will push people out of poverty and back into enfranchisement -- and if it doesn't work, what you've done is institutionalize bribery and legitimize an explicit oligarchy of the rich.
Ugh. This kind of thing is the last thing this person needs to hear.

Emotions are real and powerful. Although they certainly affect thoughts and can be affected by thoughts, they aren't reducible to thoughts, and can't just be waved away with a flick of the mind.
Back when our diet was 54% carbs and 12.6% fats & oils, we were a lot thinner than today (43% carbs, 24% fats & oils).

I'd say there's too much fixation on "carbs" and "fats" and too little on the source. Would you agree that eating a fresh apple gives a different effect compared on eating a couple of teaspoonfuls of white sugar, even if the carb and caloric content is equal? I wish there was a breakdown for the source of micronutrients somewhere.

And of course, the total amount of calories and sedentary lifestyles contribute greatly to people being overweight.

But what does contribute to the growth in rates of cancer, diabetes, heart diseas and other "diseases of civilisation"? This is not so easily answered by just breaking down the food by carbs/fats/protein.
> For instance, I don't know whether your comment is something a lot of people agree on (it has a lot of upvotes) ....

That highlights a major problem right there. I would hope that upvotes are for worthwhile contributions to the discussion. You (and others) seem to assume that they are for agreement. Different things. I would like to know whether lots of people think a comment is worthwhile. But except in the rare case of polls, I'm usually not much interested in who agrees.

So as long as lots of people think in terms of agreement, I say counts can stay hidden.
It isn't directly, but on the censorship/P2P continuum, it moves a step toward freedom. Using Internet you did not pay for helps voice dissent and helps whistleblowers. It just might be a first step towards the P2P/mesh decentralized utopian Internet of Doctorow is enamored.

"Whining"? … I think that is grossly unfair, but it's not a real accusation, is it?
Agile software development principles state that the needs of your project should drive the artifacts developed. Need to explain something complicated to a group of people who will implement it; then create the minimal set of diagrams to help convey the idea. Then talk to them and see what questions they have. If as an architect you want to create a class diagram because you are worried that the developer will not select the ideal class names or create your nifty inheritance hierarchy; then you are most likely wasting your time.

I believe that a majority of UML diagrams are create after the fact, just so engineers can try to convince people that they know what they are doing.
Generally, the risk/benefit is fair because the chances are that the startup will fail. If the startup succeeds, then both parties would be fairly compensated. But, by not paying upfront then the startup could save money and hopefully gain time to be successful.

(I'm neither for or against the idea, but thusfar it seems that most people are against it)
Don't forget road deterioration goes like something between the 3rd and 4th power of mass. If one of your concerns is environmental impact, then minimizing the amount of road being torn up is something you care about. Whether that's on the actual list of reasons is unknowable to us.
Well, FWIW, Bucky considered himself to be working on behalf of all humanity. As an engineer he saw that working at the larger scale gave him the greater efficiency. (I.e. instead of heating and cooling individual buildings he proposed putting domes over entire cities!) In his lifetime he traveled the globe (~80 times around!) and was one of the most famous Americans in the world, in part because he was working on everyone's behalf.

- - - -

Anyway, you're right that standards of living have been going up globally, often with environmental degradation, but not always. For example, the revival of the Loess Plateu:

> the Loess Plateau Watershed Rehabilitation Project was launched in 1994[7] to rehabilitate the land and improve the people's livelihoods. The project guided the people living on the plateau to change animal husbandry practices; encouraged natural regeneration of grasslands, tree and shrub cover on slope-lands previously used for farming; and land restoration through terracing and replanting. These efforts allowed the perennial vegetation cover to increase from 17 to 34 percent, and "[e]ven in the lifetime of the project, the ecological balance was restored in a vast area considered by many to be beyond help"; in addition, more than 2.5 million people were lifted out of poverty by doubled incomes.[6]

> Restoration has occurred over an area of about 35,000 square kilometers (about 5% of the plateau's total area).[8] Results have reduced the massive silt loads to the Yellow River by about one percent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loess_Plateau#Agriculture_and_...
So from my memory of ASL in college there was less worry about being rude or not offending. So if you were asked who someone was, you would start with their most identifiable feature. So if they are the only black guy in the room, or the most over weight you’d sign the black guy or the fat guy. Whereas in English it’s basically a joke now that we’d use just about any other descriptor besides those.
I guess millions sounded like a lot to a decision maker :)
I just want the disconnect button. It used to sit in status bar. I don't want to fetch things when I am reading downloaded articles.