skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have two unrelated thoughts.

"Chilling effect" has always been a profound term for me, because I imagine the "cold" (numbness really) sensation a human body often senses when something truly awful (disembowlment/dismemberment) occurs. The body's way of protecting itself is to go "cold", and in many ways that's exactly the effect taking place here, as well.

There's also an undeniable part of this conversation that rarely gets addressed simultaneously, and I'd like to see it sussed out more in concert; what about the folks who are doing Evil in these private channels? It's unacceptable to me that TOR gets used for child pornography, and it's unacceptable to me that my government finds out I'm gay before I come out to my family.

I don't want to provide those who would do Evil any safety or quarter. I also want to give people a powerful shield to protect themselves against judgement and persecution from the public and sometimes the law.

We should talk about achieving both of these goals, but we generally don't.
Privacy is less important than the ability to trust your government won't do blatantly illegal things like put innocent people behind bars, steal their money or property, when they actually know that they are innocent. The biggest problem with America is that the government can not be trusted to follow the rules, their own rules.

I don't live in the US, but the stuff the government whether local, state, or federal gets away with is very scary to me. What scares me even more is how the United States encroaches on everyone else's legal system. That's the underlying problem. Under such governments that are actually out to get people at times without much cause breaking all sorts of rules, that's what's scary.

The type of soft totalitarianism that exists and passes as common place is very scary. And that's really the people you should be scared of, and that's who you really want to protect your information from. Your run of the mill government that's actually trying to do a good job and not break its own rules, that sort of government like my government, scares me a lot less. Despite the fact that they encroach on my privacy. I know heads are going to roll if it comes out that they do things that are blatantly wrong or abusive with the information that they are collecting.

Not so in the US. They always have a half-ass lie that still somehow passes muster.
Some quotes to quickly understand what is going on.

Andreas Gal, Former CTO of Mozilla, wrote yesterday:
"... a curious event got my attention: A commit appeared in the Android code base that indicates that Google is abandoning its own re-implementation of Java in favor of Oracle’s original Java implementation. I’ll try to explain why I think this is a huge change and will have far-reaching implications for Android and the Android ecosystem."
Source: http://andreasgal.com/2016/01/05/oracle-sinks-its-claws-into...

Bradley M. Kuhn, in charge with the task of enforcing the GPL for Linux, wrote today:
"Thus, my conclusion about this situation is quite different than the pundits and link-bait news articles. I speculate that Google weighed a technical decision against its own copyleft compliance processes, and determined that Google would succeed in its compliance efforts on Android, and thus won't face compliance problems, and can therefore easily benefit technically from the better code. However, for those many downstream redistributors of Android who fail at license compliance already, the ironic outcome is that you may finally find out how friendly and reasonable Conservancy's Linux GPL enforcement truly is, once you compare it with GPL enforcement from a company like Oracle, who holds avarice, not software freedom, as its primary moral principle."
Source: http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2016/01/05/jdk-in-android.html
Why is there "Mozilla" in the hn title here, but not in the article's title? (nor the article body, except for a small aside about the MPL license, in parentheses)
Apparently their last test was also detected at magnitude 5.1, so I suppose that this was probably not an H-bomb.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea_and_weapons_of_mas...

>On February 11, 2013, the U.S. Geological Survey detected a magnitude 5.1 seismic disturbance,[13] reported to be a third underground nuclear test.[14] North Korea has officially reported it as a successful nuclear test with a lighter warhead that delivers more force than before, but has not revealed the exact yield. Multiple South Korean sources estimate the yield at 6–9 kilotons, while the German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources estimates the yield at 40 kilotons.[15][16][17]
Yep. Japan is marching towards peace with Russia as well...I suspect Kim is getting nervous.
You don't believe that one can eliminate poverty without eliminating upside for people to reach for? I'm not talking about handouts, necessarily, as a solution to poverty. Education/training, things to provide opportunities to help with economic mobility, and other programs would be applicable.
Where are you reading this? When he says he was writing ColdFusion, he's referring to the framework/programming language. He's not saying he wrote every single line of Linode's management interface.
We're very, very careful about wasting peoples' time. Most people who complete the sample projects spend an hour or so talking to someone about how the company works, what to expect with hiring, etc. We try and reciprocate on time spent with everyone. Some people don't want that, they'd rather just go off and do the thing, but it's important to us. It _also_ helps us get more completed projects from candidates, so there's a definite benefit beyond warm fuzzies.

That said, we don't have a high acceptance rate. We've noticed that there's a break point for most of these, if you normalize the scores there's a clump of people with >80% and then most are way below that. Depending on the role, and the intensity of the work sample, I think we probably select about 25-30% of completed projects to continue.
The slow sidelining of over-the-air radio
Agreed. I've looked into the data in the past and this is not at all clear. You don't see anywhere near the same incidence for murder or violent crime among impoverished whites or Hispanics in America. These sorts of things are much more correlated with IQ than to poverty or nearly anything else.
Swimming with Oliver Sacks
I'm curious what could be done to reduce firearms suicides (and even better reduce overall successful suicides, and ideally suicide attempts.)
It's more of a negative reaction to HuffPost than the author I see a story like this one, that I might normally read and then seeing it's on HuffPo immediately it's value is squashed because of their immature partisan drivel day after day. I'm convinced they are hell bent on driving as big a wedge they can between everyone in modern western culture.
Where there are limits, there is art.
The constitution is a document that was written well over 200 years ago. And while the document has held up extremely well there's part of it that didn't. For we got rid of things like having slaves be counted as 3/5 of a person of representation.

I think the gun provisions have not. For starters it's crazy to think that a militia equipped with a stock pile of firearms can overtake a intrusive government with tanks, choppers etc. It's just not realistic.

Guns were much more important for protection back then. There were parts of the country that were the frontier with no policing ability. Nowadays places around the world when gun ownership is substantially restricted are generally safer places. Just google Australasia before and after.

Gun ownership as touted by constitutional nuts is an idea that had it's time come. Sadly, I think give the political climate a amendment that could fix this (put in wording that lets the government legislate gun ownership) is untenable.
Hydrogen bombs may not be harder to design because the fusion step has so much room for error; IIRC, André Gsponer and Jean-Pierre Hurni's technical report _Fourth Generation Nuclear Weapons_ http://web.elastic.org/~fche/mirrors/www.cryptome.org/2014/0... says that hydrogen bombs are actually much more reliable and hard to get wrong to the point where it's surprising that recent nuclear states like India or Pakistan don't start with h-bombs and work their way down to the trickier a-bombs.
The conclusion I think one can draw from your charts is that increased gun control does not correlate with reduced murder-rates.

So, anybody who claims to support data-driven decision making--you know, the A/B testing so in vogue right now--should find themselves having to say "Yeah, well, okay, this is really a non-issue".

Instead, we see continued political sniping and popular manipulation and twisting of the very idea of certain inalienable rights, all done for political and not numerically-proven policy reasons.

Sigh. :(
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10843473 just an hour earlier
Most of the energy from large H-bombs still comes from fission.

You can surround the fusion stage with natural uranium. While natural uranium has to much U-238 to undergo a runaway chain reaction, the fission reaction emits enough high energy neutrons to induce a significant fission reaction.
Maybe wiser, not smarter.
Why is administrative writing so bad?
They could, but millions in Seoul would perish.
Not to be rude, I have no way of judging your skill level, but are you sure you understand the implications of 20-100khz bandwidth and a tuning range of 1-10mhz? Here is the table at top with the zeta included. I'd _strongly_ recommend going with the rtl-sdr over the zeta as a first radio.

Source	Device	Price	Max.	Bandwidth Resolution
Name	EUR	GHz	MHz bit
0 zeta-sdr 30 .01 .002 16
1	rtl-sdr	25	2	3	8
2	rad1o	200	4	20	8
3	hackrf	400	6	20	8
4	bladeRF	400	4	28	12
5	usrp	700	6	60	12/14
6	warp	7000	5	170	14
I'm just curious what the murder rates are relative to violent crime, relative to population in countries with stricter gun control.

Also, given the number of guns, how does that relate to say cars, and car deaths. Nobody is suggesting banning cars, or heavily restricting licensing.

What this comes down to is a fundamental, natural right... Yes, it means that people can do bad things, and can be dangerous... people are/were dangerous and did bad things before guns, and still do. In a free society bad things will happen. I find the entire discussion fairly irritating because most people seem to be in favor of some polar extremes... And though, I'd lean towards freedom, I can understand the idea of registration. For that matter, you were once supposed to register for and train with your local militia, and provide your own firearm as a matter of law in this country.
Exactly! Look at my home state of Massachusetts where you need a license to own a gun and a permit to buy a gun...well, now that I look into it... actually you are 3X less likely to die from a gun in MA than the US average and 6X safer from gun violence than the worst states:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_death_rates_in_the_Uni...
what about the folks who are doing Evil in these private channels?

Evil is agnostic of location. Your question is of no significance. You might as well be perturbed over "Evil" people living in houses or eating food. Unsurprisingly, evil people are people and will tend towards the same activities people generally engage in.
This is mostly an IBM process problem. Employees need to have "in country managers". We didn't have anyone in Germany, thus we had to scare someone up to have the new person report to on paper despite working with us. IBM itself can hire in basically any country, but for a lot of really irritating and well entrenched reasons, we're further limited by internal org structure and finance.

In theory, had the person relocated to the UK it would have been easier because we do have in country managers that know what we're up to there.
The making of Warcraft Part 1/3
Apparently their last test was also detected at magnitude 5.1, so I suppose that this was probably not an H-bomb.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea_and_weapons_of_mas....

>On February 11, 2013, the U.S. Geological Survey detected a magnitude 5.1 seismic disturbance,[13] reported to be a third underground nuclear test.[14] North Korea has officially reported it as a successful nuclear test with a lighter warhead that delivers more force than before, but has not revealed the exact yield. Multiple South Korean sources estimate the yield at 6–9 kilotons, while the German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources estimates the yield at 40 kilotons.[15][16][17]
If that was a hydrogen bomb test, it sounds an awful lot like the trigger did not achieve the intended criticality with respect to the fusion component. This would not be surprising in that their prior fission tests also had dubious yields.
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We need people to "be excellent at seeing something through to completion", among other things. That's one of the really nice parts about this process, getting one of these projects done on your own time just because you think it's important is a really good signal.
I suspect that if they developed an H-bomb it would be due to China's assistance ...
I would classify that as a murder, but I don't think it would be counted as such in this data

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Generally, the number used is homicides with a gun -- that encompasses self-defense, manslaughter, police shootings, etc.
When I read "pure Bourne shell" I expected just /bin/sh.

This uses cat, sed, rm, cp, grep, bc, sort, etc. too.

The shell part may be "pure Bourne shell" but there are other utilities involved besides sh.

I guess it was not the convention in 1987 and probably not today either but if it were me I would mention those other utilities.

As a challenge, I always try to minimize the number of extra utilities I have to use, and then I try to stick with the most common, basic ones.

As a result I get highly portable scripts that run just about anywhere, even in reduced functionality, embedded environments, especially non-Busybox ones.

In my experience, cp and rm are to be expected in any userland.

cat and sed are another two of the most common, basic utilities.

But things like grep -v... I would only use that if there were no other way to do the task; e.g., can we accomplish task with sed /pattern/d\;...?

If you're willing to include AWK you can do just about anything; personally I do not rely on AWK being present everywhere.
The host was only accessible via private key or Linode's LISH shell. That's what seems most suspicious.

There is some minor evidence remaining in the .bash_history that is curious.
>According to this website[1], the median American family has a combined income of 81k and spends about 1k of that on gifts

And some people are a bit more generous than that. Or only have 1-2 friends that they go "all out" for. Small $20-40 gifts for a few friends/coworkers and 1-2 $200-300 gifts for the close friends lines up with your estimate just fine. Especially since they said could afford to and not will do so.

I'm middle class and spent three times the average you cited because I budgeted it accordingly for the last year. This year was atypical, but was very much possible.

You don't need to be upper middle class to afford a one off large purchase. Maybe if you're struggling in the lower ends of the working class - it could be difficult. I don't see where you're finding fault with their statement... if anything you're supporting it.
If the company seems to be OK with remote employees, I'd assume you'd be fine to ask, no harm in finding out regardless. Some managers might not like it, which is why I left my first company, as I was told by my manager we can talk about being remote in a year.... No thanks :P If they won't grant it immediately, which is understandable, don't settle for "we can talk about it later", have some type of measurement and plan to get to full remote. I had this occur with 2 separate companies...

The 2nd company I joined had an hour and a half commute. I would go in once or twice a week when I first started which is what part of the deal was when I joined. Most of my co-workers were in that office, but my primary partner/senior was 2 hours from the office himself, so he also went in once or twice a week. I basically started to only come in when I had an important meeting, and would go weeks without being in the office. I'd recommend having a conversation around it prior to you doing that, as I was in a very flexible position.
I eventually asked to be full remote, and got the green light. At that position it didn't make much of a difference as I didn't even have a cube near my team and many of the resources I worked with were spread around different offices globally. The only downside was that I didn't seem to get any of the "unofficial" communications in the team, which made it harder to stay in the loop.

The first company I worked for a couple years, left, and came back as a full remote employee from the get go. I had worked in the same department but a different role prior to my departure so I had a good reputation. It helps to know people prior to going full remote, as you know who to get a hold of for what you need done, as sometimes an IM or email to the right person can save weeks. You kind of miss that at a big company when remote, or at least develop those contacts slower.

I'd start by bringing it up and working from home a couple days a week to get a feel for it and your team use to it. Personally I'm way more distracted in the office but it's more than just you, it's your co-workers as well that need to be able to handle it.

One aspect I noticed is when I'm remote, I'm usually west coast. Most days for me I'm logged in by 6 or 7 AM, for others they might not like that, but I like being behind, as nothing really picks up at the office til 9 anyway, and I'm able to have more daylight to do stuff after work. That won't apply to your case, but that's another thing for others to consider.
Sure. Just saying, the screenshot isn't misleading in that respect.
I don't think anyone disputes that. The real question is, can a digital filter provide a close enough approximation of that colouring that going through the analogue path is no longer necessary? Are Instagram and Photoshop an adequate substitute for real life film grain?

I say yes, but I'm a software guy. And I've had this argument with a serious pro audio engineer who has a Pro Tools workstation built around a Neve 8816— even though every track is digital, and dozens of digital filters are applied, the tracks each pass through their own DAC connected to this old-school analogue summing mixer, and then are re-recorded on the other side. It seems totally foreign to me, but there are definitely recording professionals still spending a lot of money to set up and maintain these workflows.
A lot of responses often focus on solitude for creativity vs. distraction and interruptions. Something that I don't see mentioned often is the need for distraction.

I'm pretty good at tuning out distractions when I'm focused, sometimes too good (you may need to wave your hand between me and the monitor to get my attention). Unfortunately, sometimes I overfocus and get mental tunnel vision / can't see the forest for the trees. I need to step away from the screen, pace around, maybe grab a clipboard and sketch a diagram, or clear my mind some other way.

In my own office, I can do that and the computer's right there when the mental switch flips, the gate opens, and the ideas start to flow again. In an open office, I have to leave the building and may be 10 minutes away from my desk (and subject to several interruptions on the way back). And of course, you always have the feeling of being watched and judged whenever you step away or do something at your desk that doesn't appear to be diligently working. So open offices (or cubicles) can be worse even when you do need distraction.
I haven't looked into this deeply, more of a productive assumption[1], but here are some related studies:

"the majority of the black-white gap (over 60%) [in violence] and the entire Latino-white gap are explained by a small set of factors, especially marital status of parents,
immigrant generation, and neighborhood characteristics associated with racial segregation."
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/www/external/labor/sem...

"Despite a large difference in mean levels of family disruption between black and white communities, the percentage of white families headed by a female also had a significant effect on white juvenile and white adult violence."

"The combination of urban poverty and family disruption concentrated by race is particularly severe. Whereas the majority of poor blacks live in communities characterized by high rates of family disruption, most poor whites, even those from "broken homes," live in areas of relative family stability"
https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3226952/Sampson_...

"Multivariate regression results for ninety-one cities showed that while total inequality and intraracial inequality had no significant association with offending rates, interracial inequality was a strong predictor of the overall violent crime rate and the Black-on-Black crime rate."
http://egov.ufsc.br/portal/sites/default/files/anexos/33027-...

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_correlations_of_cr...

[1] I have a hard time imagining a productive line of thought that leads from saying that high black murder rates result from something inherent to blackness
Ask HN: Looking for a HN that's not tech-focused
I'm looking for a site like Hacker News, except without the tech focus. Basically a HN/Reddit-like forum focused on current events, important societal issues, etc. where the quality of content/discussion is high.

8 years ago Reddit was amazing, but now it's an absolute joke (outside a few specialized subreddits). Quality of content is generally terrible (eg. memes), political correctness (ie. the "hivemind") is rampant, upvotes are based on wittiness/terseness/political correctness while anyone with a dissenting opinion is downvoted, and the demograph of the site - at least in the default subreddits - seems to consist primarily of 12 year olds.

Anybody know of any alternatives?
I'm one of those digital nomad types. Currently operating a web dev agency in HK and Australia, but planning an expansion into Japan.

Already got a small team of contractors here. Currently working through the paperwork to get my visa and company incorporation sorted here.

P.S. Situation is still notable in its normalcy.
That's the Chinese word for China too, which reinforces our point. The Japanese word for Japan has a Chinese origin too (land of the rising sun, to the east of China.)
Yours is a defeatist attitude, I think, and there is plenty of evidence that Evil can be stopped/averted in many cases. It's beyond obvious that there is no complete solution for Evil, but if you keep ignoring this question/problem, then people will continue to pick the "no Evil/no privacy" option over your "Evil/privacy" alternative, which is ultimately devastating to everyone.

We need to talk about how to create "no Evil/privacy", or at least how to approach something of that kind, even if an absolute version doesn't exist.
For we got rid of things like having slaves be counted as 3/5 of a person of representation

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... by amending it via formal, open process; not by selectively ignoring it.
Be careful what you wish for:

try {
// all your code...
}
catch (Throwable t) {
}

No Exceptions there!
Instead of watching Chinese island building in the South China Sea, they will be looking East. Can't see China being upset about this.
lots of great stuff on this bookshelf! does anyone know how old he is? this is a lot of years of reading!
Not for long.