skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, LambdaConf has every right to define its community in the way it sees fit.

While their explanation does have a lot of logical appeal (see: https://www.facebook.com/notes/satnam-singh/dr-spock-vs-dive...), it's important to remember that prospective attendees and speakers also have the right of free association.

The fact is, I do wish to exclude myself from any community that deliberately includes Yarvin and his ilk. I would encourage others to make the same decision. I will happily discuss or debate ideas with them on any topic, in any forum where it makes sense to do so. They are human beings and deserve all the rights and privileges thereof.

But I'm not obligated to drink beer and break bread with them, pretending nothing is wrong.

This isn't a free speech issue, this is a "who do you want in your community" issue. In the light of a community, you can't, and you shouldn't, pull one aspect of a person's character and isolate it from the rest of their identity.

I hope people give me the same treatment. I am more than the content of my technical talks, and so is Yarvin.
Low tech chatroulette.
its funny reading him moan about it. the internet was already a difficult place for written word as the attention spans necessary for more than a page/screen are just not there. Then came twitter. Will it be long now before tweets come with tl;dr ?
The first two components he removed (the filter Y-capacitor and the opto-isolator) are supposed to be open-circuit to direct current. And since they were not at fault (ie, they were not shorted), removing them from the circuit didn't change anything.

The fault probably stopped after he removed the transformer because in the process of desoldering and yanking it from the board, he caused enough strain/vibration that whichever wire was shorting the primary and secondary windings moved and was no longer causing a short. That sort of intermittent fault is common in hardware, and quite annoying to debug.
I would love to hear a speech by Hitler. Regardless of his actions, he was a master persuader and accomplished (affected the world) in a decade more than most people couldn't in 1000 years! We could all learn a lot from him - which of course doesn't mean that we would have to use the skills for the same means he did.
But would you have suspected the existence of a tor node if nothing in the warrant suggested it? Would you have stopped the investigation to call some experts?
If Hitler were alive and giving a speech about art, I would either expect he were giving a speech within the confines of a prison, or else I would try and tip off the Mossad as to when and where he was speaking. I think the operative difference here is that Hitler actually conspired to kill a few million people, whereas a neoreactionary blogger just spouts kooky stuff on the Internet.
As someone who is new(ish) to Linux systems I found this pretty useful - was a bit surprised to see cURL used for some of the network stuff like checking external IP and pinging sites.

Not sure there is any clear indication as to the advantages or disadvantages of something like using cURL for ping rather than just using ping? Unless the other was just trying to show flexibility and I missed the point.
I appreciate the fact that you posted links to both perspectives on the issue.
Believe or not, I did get that.

That's why it says

"If you can't find one, there are tools made to build that sort of thing"

Meaning, perhaps if you couldn't find a trustworthy 3rd party that would host it, it might be worth $5 a month to host it yourself, and make it available to others.

Edit: On your other points:
There's nothing stopping you from buying a generic sounding domain like "pastethings.io". Not sure why that doesn't separate it far enough.

As for "code in a post", not sure what you mean. Javascript that runs in the browser? Formatted source code for viewing? Server side code that actually runs, but embedded in a post?
Apropos of anything else, the 'lawyer' example is a bad one, and contrived for the purpose of example.

If an attorney "knows" that their client is guilty, they are duty-bound as officers of the court to make that knowledge known.

Obviously that doesn't happen as much as it should...
>The question arises again, can psychedelics have lasting effects or is meditation the only way to create permanent positive change in that direction?

Wait, how is the second settled? E.g. about "meditation" being a way (and much more, the "only" one) "to create permanent positive change in that direction"?

I've known a few ex-monks that have been doing meditation for decades, and that have become as anyone since they've stopped, or worse, alcoholic etc. So I wouldn't call that a "permanent positive change".

And also, though I don't hang with such crowds, I imagine lots of people doing "medication" of the western lifestyle type (think californians), that are just as jerks/selfish/psychotic/etc as anyone can be, even while doing it.
> In the light of a community, you can't, and you shouldn't, pull one aspect of a person's character and isolate it from the rest of their identity.

Isn't this exactly what you're doing?
>> If the law isn't keeping up, we've just hired some bad judges

The real problem is that we can't ever fire them, no matter how bad they are (see FISC)
Ask HN: Long term storage for personal files?
I have many files I don't use often, but would like to keep forever. They are mostly personal photos and videos, which cannot be replaced, and a small volume of personal records (old bank records and budgets).

In the past, I would burn photos to DVD-R after each trip. Nowadays, I'm not doing this because:

- I don't often use DVD-R, so no longer keep a drive on my desk

- I'm less confident that DVD-R disks will still be readable in 10+ years

- The size of storage has increased due to taking more photos, and each photo being larger

What do you do, to be confident you'll have your files in 10 or 20 years?
Yeah, it's going to drive people nuts.

Edit: (people on both sides)
I think the policy to ignore social media is a valuable innovation. For a couple of years, I have hoped to see companies adopt this policy to protect their employees from being capriciously let go.
From the article:

> Someone with progressive political views might feel emotionally threatened in the presence of rabid and well-known Trump supporters who are openly contemptuous of progressives in their personal lives […]

Ugh. I’m not sure how I would have selected examples of potentional emotional distress but a laundry list of caricatures of political, sexual, and religious attitudes wouldn’t have been my first choice.
Feels like that too :-)
You are allowed to apply as a non-profit; however, very few get selected (I think 3 to 4 last cycle). The money is received as a donation since 501(c)3 organizations allow a tax write-off.
Maybe in Euro-land. In the US companies with data breaches are the hapless victims of those nasty hacker types. You wouldn't want to blame the victim would you? Never mind that they have a column of plaintext passwords in a web accessible server.
After moving to Hawaii, I've discovered that IKEA products are largely not appropriate for tropical climates -- all the fiberboard stuff has gotten severe mold infestations.

In CA, I loved going to IKEA to stock up on some swedish foods they have. I was very sad when they stopped carrying the foam cars, now it's mostly IKEA-branded stuff...
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How Instagram Links Photos to Credit Card Purchases
Anyone undertaking a ketogenic diet should look into potassium citrate to reduce the chance of developing kidney stones.

http://kidneystones.uchicago.edu/citrate-to-prevent-stones/
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> How exactly do you reach this conclusion

Ev was the founder of Blogger, co-founder of Twitter and now is the founder of Medium. If he's reached the conclusion that people are dissatisfied with content/media on the web it's probably because a lot of them have told him so (it's still just his opinion though, doesn't mean he's right).
Not Turkey - Anatolia asks for this!
Not too hot :(
I just moved downtown actually. I work here, I hang out here, etc. My commute is like 3 minutes in a car. A nice 30 min walk if I want.
The best way to do that is to actually read their little bio, assuming they put one in there, and look for typical indicators for that kind of alignment: talking about guns/shooting ranges, pictures of them at the shooting range, pictures of them with a dead deer, etc. Finally, if that fails, try just asking them when you have a match and start chatting.

I like the idea of being able to filter people too, and I find I can tell a lot about people from their OKC profile. The problem, however, is that OKC is basically a big waste of time because everyone desirable has moved to Tinder, and the few decent women on OKC don't respond because they get too many messages, and I end up spending way too much time writing messages with zero return. With Tinder, I don't have to waste my precious time 1) reading through a profile to see if this is someone I should spend time writing, and 2) writing a long, thoughtful message, only to get no response. If a woman matches me on Tinder, there's a decent chance she's actually going to respond. It's probably something like 33% chance I'll get a response on Tinder to a match. On OKC, it's probably less than 1%. If that means I have to spend a little more time text-chatting to learn about them because the Tinder profiles are so sparse, that's still a giant time savings for me.
I'm not a part of LambdaConf, nor would I plan to (not because of the controversy, but just because I don't have the time/money to attend any US-based conference)...

But these discussions remind me a lot of the "censorship" discussions that have been had both on places like reddit or twitter.

For the longest time, code of conducts were a thing that were accepted. Don't be a jerk, don't spout racist stuff at people. Loads of forums had it, and the places that didn't basically became 4chan (which is interesting in its own right but filled with pretty rude people).

Sometime between 1995 and 2015, we started thinking that rules that basically say "don't be a jerk" stopped being the norm.... I really wonder why. Now it gets classified as "censorship".

That being said, my understanding is that this guy's talk wasn't "How FP advances the causes of Stormfont", which makes it pretty hard to say outright "gotta kick him out".

But I wouldn't want Marine Le Pen or Trump at my FP conference, no matter how subtle and developed their views on FP are. My opinion does not entire conference submission guidelines make, but I can understand fighting against that. Social interactions don't work in a vacuum...

Glad I don't have to participate at this
> In this case it means giving a voice to a racist advocate of slavery.

The alternative is to give voice to an almost-militant group of bullies bent on oppressing opinions of people whe don't think like them.

Only one of these positions is logically internally consistent.
That wasn't the point of protesting his presence at LambdaConf. The point was so that people who want to go to LambdaConf and feel threatened and humiliated by someone's enthusiastic support of racism and slavery don't have to associate with such a person.

It is so exasperating that so many people who aren't denigrated and targeted by his hateful politics think this is a matter of abstract principle. Somehow, letting my and others' humanity be a matter of political opinion is the mature, apolitical position. Utterly frustrating attitude. It's perfectly fine to be tolerant of Yarvin's views, it is completely unreasonable to ask others to associate with a person who envisions a world where their humanity is forfeit.
Your statement is factually incorrect, at least in the US court system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney%E2%80%93client_privil...
What does "almost-militant" mean?
Would it be good for me to eat more fats if I'm not willing to go all the way to ketosis? I'm healthy, maybe 5 pounds overweight, I run, cycle and rock climb. I eat a good amount of vegetables and fruit, eggs, meat, decent amount of fat, and less carbs than the average American (but I still eat some: sandwiches, beans, corn chips, occasional pizza and dessert)

Would it be healthy to eat more fats and less carbs? Or does it only help if you are very strict with it and get all the way to ketosis?
I believe many USB3 devices emit noise in the 2.4 GHz spectrum, jamming nearby WiFi and Bluetooth.
Inside the Group That Secretly Helps Expose Human Rights Violations
This violates everything I know about hash functions, so it's amazing that it works. Has anyone tried this for industry standard hash functions?
Someone should make a plugin that counts the number of times a brand is mentioned in an "article" and uses ML/crowdsources votes to show a "sponsored content" or "submarine" score. Even if there is some interesting point to be made, I hate being manipulated into reading longform ads.
Why You Should Enforce Dangling Commas for Multiline Statements
Clearly the missing step is for the judges to announce their tech cases on reddit and ask for ideas.

Only half joking.
His next sentence explains his point - the food you get at Cuban restaurants is nothing like the food you actually get in Cuba. Most of the food in Cuba is simple and quite bland
Beamdog CEO: 'We never thought a transgender character was a big deal'
Sad that German prosecutors are serious about investigating if they can prosecute satire.
This tells so much about lack of humor (even if the satire is in bad taste) by authoritarians.
Wonderful graphs at the bottom.

I hope that this passes. It was too bad that an article like this had to be written.
As an early-40s man on Tinder, I don't look at other men my age to see if they're looking for hookups or not, but I very, very rarely see women on there who are, and those who are tend to be younger (less than 30). Most women, especially the 30+ crowd, specifically say "no hookups" in their bios.

However, I don't get many responses or matches, but I think that's mostly because of my distance. I only look for women who live over an hour from me, because that's where all the desirable women live, but they don't seem to be interested in dating a man that far away. So I guess I'm stuck being single until I can relocate myself closer.
So not this stuff?http://www.physicscentral.com/explore/poster-nobelprize.cfm
I did ecstasy and i did LSD. Ecstasy is like a lie in this quote comparison. You get high in the beginning and it brings you down at the end, really awful feeling at the end.
LSD is different, i experienced world differently even for couple of days after i took LSD. World seemed different. I knew what was important in life and what not, very clear.

I can't describe how you feel on LSD, and people that didn't took LSD or ecstasy are not aware what their brain is capable off.

When i first took ecstasy i didn't believed that you can feel that way. So different from alcohol, weed. You feel love. LSD was even weirder experience. On LSD you can shape reality, you can feel reality so well, like you are part of it, connected. I saw snail on the road, everything was blurry around him, but he was visible, so sharp, i could feel him as part of me, connected, in this journey called life.

Everything was so obvious, answer for question "why?" was known, even if i couldn't say it out loud, i could feel that answer for this question was somewhere in my mind, but i just couldn't access it. Feeling that it's there made everything clear, i felt peace.

Everything that i did in life before and what i would in future seemed such trivial and not important. That connection with reality, understanding different forms of it, changed me. I feel like LSD can give you answers, answers for questions that you would not find without it.
Yes and no.

First every new social and/or blogging platform is praised as some deity that will unlock the path to fame, fortune and a life time supply of cheese puffs, and so the hype should be taken with a very large grain of salt.

That said Medium is a solid platform that has a few advantages:

1) It's got a great asethic both for readers and writers. It's clean, flows nicely and that holds true cross device.

2) It's managed by someone else. As a writer you don't need to worry about plugins, updates, themes, etc. You just write.

3) It's managed by someone else. As a reader you don't need to worry about malicious code, horrible pop-unders or aggressive ads.

4) The fact that it is a joint marketplace for publishers and supports curration supports sharing quality pieces regardless of the publisher and so for someone who otherwise would spend a lot of time trying to seed and promote their own blog content, they can focus on writing. While there still needs to be some promotion, a really well written piece on Medium can carry further.

That said it has it's downsides. While the piece may carry further, the impact may be less than your own blog where you may amass a following. You as an author can't really monetize the content on that platform as easily nor does it have flexibility if you want to show case something in a particular style, or with plugins/features not natively supported by Medium.

Medium is like any other well-designed platform. It has it's specific use-cases which it does a great job at. But it will not give you unlimited cheese puffs.
I do not, sorry :/
This is spot on. I don't believe the hype with Medium. The news will always be junk. You can centralize it and make it prettier on medium - but it's still centralized pretty junk.
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Keith Fenner is astounding. Years ago my girlfriend said "enough Keith Fenner videos, You have to take a welding class", I did and it was amazing.

As a side note, I'm starting a blog where I interview heavy equipment operators and write about heavy equipment. Anyone here interested in that?
If you look at some of bigclive's other videos you'll probably understand why it's so hard. Small, single-port chargers skimping on isolation requirements to meet the size restrictions is kind of a long-running theme, most recently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQK2Z0wRND0 A lot of engineering goes into safely fitting power supplies into compact packages and companies want to charge a premium for it.
Thanks for posting about html5up.net. Didn't know it existed.
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I'm an SRE-SE and regular do phone interviews for SRE-SE candidates.

While I do tend to spend more of the interview time talking about sysadmin tools, operating systems, networking, databases, security and troubleshooting, I still expect candidates to have reasonably good coding chops.

The difference is that the coding questions tend to be more task-oriented or procedural (i.e. log processing, building automation pipelines, implementing standard unix cli tools, etc.), rather than the algorithmically challenging or math-oriented problems that we'd usually ask SWE candidates.

Both the SE and SWE side SRE candidates need to be able to design and reason about large systems, making trade-offs between performance (especially latency), redundancy and cost.
I know this isn't the popular opinion in the modern world, but originally free speech was argued to be better than censorship, because even though negative or false ideas are present, these bad ideas can illuminate the truth.

Free speech creates a sort of natural selection of ideas--keeping the herd of ideas stronger.
> I do wish to exclude myself from any community that deliberately includes Yarvin and his ilk.

> I will happily discuss or debate ideas with them on any topic, in any forum where it makes sense to do so.

> But I'm not obligated to drink beer and break bread with them, pretending nothing is wrong.

Is a conference 'drinking beer and breaking bread,' or is it an appropriate forum to 'discuss or debate ideas'?
I think the parent comment is referring to how people have tried to argue that Yarvin will be able to sequester one part of his personality and creative output, and that the rest of us should pretend his Moldbug persona doesn't affect the rest of him.
In public life we have to - and should - encounter and tolerate people whose opinions we find abhorrent. I would much prefer a world where I feel emotional discomfort being in the presence of someone I loathe than a world where such a person is prohibited from ever being near me, because of social ostracism. It provides for a much richer marketplace of ideas.

If you don't like him, protest him. Disturb him with your words as much as he disturbs you with his.
Hah way to beat the system.

No runtime error doesn't make sense. Say your database crashes. Something should happen...
Heh, ground fault interrupters should probably be required on every circuit.
So a guy goes abroad and finds a wonderful culture, and immediately thinks of ways to destroy its culture with useless crap like the internet. Perhaps he can also import rampant inequality, junk food, greed, limitless porn, cars with designed obsolescence etc until everyone is as damaged and atomised as the average American.
If we do, then it's a very advanced one.

But does it really matter? does REAL free will really exist?
The general rule in Common Law (English speaking) legal systems is that if the lawyer knows (as opposed to suspects) that their client is guilty, they cannot let their client plead not guilty. They can still defend the client by pleading for a lesser sentence etc, or they can cease acting for the client. They don't have any obligation to tell the court, just an obligation not to lie to the court. Of course each jurisdiction will have its own rules about this.
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I consider myself educated! I believe it is different in the UK and Australian systems, however.

But how do you police it, after all the only thing revealing such lack would be privileged...
Thanks, I started them at some point, but had too much at hand to really get into them. I basically wrote the article in under 15 minutes in a mildly depressive/ruminative state. Apart from the 'Gah, Get over it!', I now have all these awesome book suggestions to indulge my existential crisis in.
Not at all! I can disassociate myself from Yarvin, and even "no-platform" him while fully acknowledging that he's a legit functional programmer with interesting technical ideas.

But I can't engage with him as a peer, in community, without denying or ignoring (or accepting) that he's a racist.