skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not a finite list of rules. It is an explanation of the values (eg, respecting diversity) and a list of examples of things that are obviously prohibited. It is explicitly "not an exhaustive list of things that you should not do", and although it does list some _examples_ of things that are prohibited - it provides examples that are "not limited to" the ones provided.

This clearly reduces the ambiguity in the community. And even if some ambiguity does remain - which, as you point out, is inevitable - having examples of obviously impermissible behavior and a framework for conflict resolution is requisite for a community.
There was a now-defunct attempt at this called MetaMed: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaMed

I'm curious if any others have succeeded.
Can you blame people? Who doesn't want to be the next Bill Gates or Elon Musk?

The recipe is to grow exponentially and dominate the market, then to do fun world-changing ventures.
No one else is saying this but wouldn't this essentially have been against the law under net neutrality?
> They don't

They do, or at least that's what they said.
“designing missiles might have a lesser human cost than working on AI at FB”
Ok, probably you will agree with the "Speed of light through glass is ~2e5 km/s, but photons are still travelling at 3e5 km/s."

I guess you object to the "The speed of light, that is the speed of a photon, is a constant" part, where he identifies "light" with "photons".
sure, within reason. I wouldn't try to build a product in a language where the available labor pool is tiny given the problem domain. For example, don't build an enterprise SaaS platform in pure x86 assembly; don't write device drivers in Delphi.
How do you contact these places?
What is crazy about the the situation in SF is that even 5 or so years ago if you asked me what the "echo chamber" there was echoing I would have said libertarianism and some kind of techno-utopianism. The takeover by the proscriptive far-left has been astonishingly rapid, and it is absolutely real. I also know people who have left, and many more who absolutely keep their political and even philosophical views to themselves, especially after Damore.

It's been an extraordinarily fast takeover and I'd really like to know exactly what happened those 5 or so years ago to precipitate this seismic shift.
All images you click on are fully loaded, images you don't click on are Google-hosted thumbnails. No exceptions.
You are really limiting your hiring pool, yes. And for that matter discriminating against parents with small children.
The following is from the very top of a random file in the removed set I clicked:

A bad little girl in Madrid,
A most reprehensible kid,
Told her Tante Louise
That her cunt smelled like cheese,
And the worst of it was that it did!

Wat!? Good riddance.
The leading text of Parliament sovereignty is Dicey, and its principle are considered to form part of the uncodified Constitution. It succinctly explains that:

> Parliament means, in the mouth of a lawyer (though the word has often a different sense in conversation) The King, the House of Lords, and the House of Commons: these three bodies acting together may be aptly described as the "King in Parliament", and constitute Parliament. The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever: and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.

Note the use of the phrase "King in Parliament" - all law making authority derives from the historical powers of the Monarch, whereas the Lords and Commons guide and use that power. This can be seen in how UK Acts of Parliament begin "BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons" - the Act is _enacted_ by the Queen, with the two Houses advising and consenting to the use of that ability.

Now it's possible that the role of the Monarch could be removed from the process, but it would arguably by one of the biggest fundamental _technical_ (not practical) changes to the British constitution in hundreds of years.
I think these lessons are so profound that they actually extend beyond technology to most business or social concepts.
Doesn't sound bad. Most communities survived 20+ years, and even thrived, without any such rules.
do read on https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/05/americ...

I grew up in Russia in the 90s, and I witnessed the effects of US interference first hand. People literally starved to death in Russia after US gutted it.

Meanwhile, US continues to fuck over countries all over the world and having a good laugh about it on TV https://twitter.com/dcentralized/status/964900521793466374
While I’ve been persuaded that the CoC trend is probably net positive, I am still very interested in this larger background problem.

“There is deep infantilism in the culture ... They want to be told, or, they want to decide and say, ‘This is good, this is bad, I’m saying so.’ Anything that in any way conflicts with that is not to be borne.” -Stephen Fry
So now we have "free as in freedom", "free as in beer", and with this policy, "free as in Stalin".

This policy itself is disgusting example of newspeak, redefining the well-known word "harassment" to conform to this groups' political agenda.

The project should be renamed to "TotalitarianBSD".

I suppose that today, to speak honestly and call things as they are in daily life, one must now travel to places that preserve those freedoms like China, Iran, North Korea, or Somalia.

Did I just get sentenced to the countryside for re-education and self-criticism? OOPS!
But a very strong taste, no?
Well, because they want to have their cake and eat it too. "Everybody has a voice, we're accepting of all cultures, everybody is welcome" etc.. until they aren't.

And believe it or not, people in the south have to (from their point of view) put up with "the liberals" too - similar to people in SF or wherever.

Frankly, what is interesting here is that instead of the United States becoming more culturally similar with the advent of planes, mobile phones, and what have you it would appear, at least on the surface, that we're becoming more different. I live in the Midwest and when I hear somebody from Vancouver saying that explaining something to someone automatically is "mansplaining" and "placing an emotional burden" on that person I find that just as idiotic and incompatible with my way of life as some bible-thumping anti-climate change person from Mississippi. Now, both of these are of course generalizations, but the most pervasive noise, if you will, is this instead of the most likely interaction I would have with most people which is just a hey how are you, thanks, yes I like XYZ as well.

What we need to do is police the most radical people if we want the United States to be a united country. If we'd rather break it up or something then that's a different story.
Nashville as you know is actually pretty liberal, but the biggest difference is that people here live their lives, are friendly to others, and that southern charm is a real thing. People in San Francisco are always so outraged and angry (mainly since Trump took office) and the media constantly feeds them things to be outraged about that they are perpetually angry. People
in Nashville for the most part don't let politics engulf and polarize them (I'd even say radicalize some) like the bay area.
But isn't "serverless" fundamentally a restart-the-world model, which would make it more like CGI than FastCGI which is a application server type model which isn't fundamentally that different to putting a reverse proxy in front of a HTTP speaking application server?
once you money is converted from fiat, you don't have to deal with that kind of trouble anymore....
Rules existing doesn't say that you aren't trusted, it just says that there are some people that are not. Are you insulted by laws forbidding you to do bad things?

I'm more concerned about rules that I think might apply to me in a way I'd consider unfair than about rules that I'm already staying a safe distance from violating.
Damn, there goes another good theory. Perhaps I should change my example to the English getting sunburnt lying on Spanish beaches.
Looks like it is $200 and a t-shirt: https://developers.google.com/actions/community/overview#pub...
You probably just weren't civil enough? I've been shadowbanned but it is because I lost my shit and became rude. I mean it is understandable to lose one's shit here sometimes but also understandable to not allow it.
Ask HN: What should I do with my side project?
A few years ago, I developed & launched www.last10k.com as a side project while working full time to fulfill a need for individual investors to easily use SEC Filings / financial disclosure documents for researching stock investments.

Over the years I added some unique features including sentiment analysis but aspects in my personal life have now changed where my job + traffic + being newly married is where my time is spent now so not much has been put into the site lately.

The site is fully automated and is receiving just under 3K users a day via SEO with an average time on page at 5 min. It used to make over $1K/month in ad sense revenue but Google just started penalizing us for invalid click activity but the site could use a redesign anyways, particularly mobile.

What are your thoughts on what I should with this side project? Should I leave the site as-is, sell it, quit my job (which I'm not happy with) and re-launch it or just work on something else? Any insight on this is appreciated. Thanks!
Or "anyone not familiar with the fashionable norms du jour, here's a list of potential thought crimes as derived by one country's culture (and its internal conflicts, cultural politics, and religious and post-religious baggage) and imposed on supposedly global communities".
I left SF before the election, I could tell early on that Trump was going to win and figured free speech clampdowns in SV would follow and I knew my work was going to be affected. I worked in search and I remember the scandal within the industry when Yahoo accepted money from the Chinese government to censor pages on the 2008 tainted milk scandal. They charged $10K per link. At the time Google was seen as a beacon of free speech and 'do no evil' which was a nice contrast to Yahoo which is apparently OK with killing babies for a small buck.

Now Google, Twitter, Facebook etc. are all finding excuses to allow various meddling of the search results. There is too much money in it, it is inevitable.

Free speech is important to me because without it we quite literally end up killing babies for very small amounts of money.
You might want to look into the theory behind fiber optics a bit ... I left out the deviation due to path length (bouncing) as that obviously has a lot of variations (including wavelength). I've also ignored SBS and other unrelated sources of scatter.

It's pretty common to hear people refer to the "speed-of-light in a vacuum". If the speed of light were a constant, why would you need to specify the vacuum? It's also worth noting that electrons don't move through conductors at the speed-of-light either - in the cable television industry, the best hard-line coaxial cable was about 0.85.
Feel free to look up Strongyloides if you want eye worms.
I know quite a few people employed working on Clojure. It's true that none of them are spectacularly large corporations, but there are quite a few companies out there using it day to day.
Then leave, you can drop a pin on pretty much 95% of America and end up in a conservative place where people will share your values.

Don’t like being conservative in the Bay Area because you feel ostracized and judged? Cool, now you know what it feels like to be gay in 95% of America.

Get over it.
Thanks for the questions.

I am very unlikely to take on visualization. I don't acutely need it for what I do, and I am some-but-not-nearly-enough interested in visualization for its own sake. I started to read about the grammar of graphics stuff at one point and decided it was too far down the rabbit hole.

I have looked more into gpu stuff, and agree specifying a compute graph (and then implicitly optimizing it) is more likely to be the future. FWIW, this is basically what XLA (from TensorFlow) and whatever it was FB announced on Friday are doing.

I wrote my thoughts up recently on the Breeze mailing list here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/scala-breeze/_hEFpnI...

I'm starting to think it through but I'm not sure I have time for that either :(. A 4-month old and a startup take up a lot of time.
I like swag with blinking lights. A buddy and I used to go to the big embedded systems conference in San Jose and compete to see who could score the most development kits. You'd have to chat with the reps a bit to show that you knew how to use their gear before they coughed up anything good. We'd walk out with a thousand dollars of free gear on a good year. How loose the reps were depended a lot on the economy that year. It was a lot of fun.
just search on Twitter “<company name> tshirt” and you will find the right person to contact.
Asking you not to relate your religious opinion of fat people is not the same as oppressing your religion.
Never forget: causation does not necessarily imply correlation
"Free Tacos for Everyone in the Solar System if Mir hits our Target on Venus!"
There is a reason why laws are not drafted as specific as this code of conduct.

If someone can think of another way of harassing then making "Harassing photography or recording, including logging online activity for harassment purposes" it's allowed? I doubt that's the intention. So why the oddly specific rules?
Reading the article, I'm a little bit curious - I've heard a lot that more productive languages become less productive over a certain team size, since productivity typically comes from a lesser degree of strictness. Does lisp have similar problems?
Perhaps NetBSD ==> OpenBSD is an instructive example as to what happens when the bureaucracy is taken too far.

I hope similar things still can take place today.
Hetzner? Online.net/Scaleway?
There's a lot of people, both here on HN and in our industry who roll their eyes when issues of diversity and inclusivity come up, but companies and spaces like WeWork are the result of not having those conversations.

I spent ample time in these places during my "startups are amazing!" phase, it ultimately was disheartening. The people are kind, and they make some gestures towards D&I, but those are limited, and the end result are places like WeWork. The end result is a bland, upper class niceness. The beer is craft, the sandwiches are tasty, the countertops are marble and the bulbs are always Edison. But the ideas they generate, they're just... normal. They're not really strange or weird or delightful.

Furthermore, it's hard to escape the notion that places like this consume more resources than they create. What's the cost of hundreds of well groomed people with impeccable design? I'm not sure, but I'd suspect their carbon footprint is through the roof. But the real cost is that our society has to bend to support them, and that society has fundamental inequities.

I wouldn't expect any meaningful revolution to come out of a WeWork, not because they're not smart people, but because they're people for whom this society works well already, so there's no need for a revolution. What ideas do come out of these spaces? We've seen them already, they're ideas titled towards optimizing your life, because of course, your life is already about as well oiled as you can get. Fine for a small subset of people, but hardly world conquering.
No you're thinking of submarine pieces. Fake news came to prominence as a term when conservative clickbait from random domains started popping up in early 2016. The left started using the term very prominently, but then when Facebook tried to crack down on it all, the right appropriated the term as a general term of derision towards non-conservative news sites.
Maybe a zoom lens that does.
Supporting any US President of the last century or so is morally dubious(if you consider mass murder and toppling democratic regimes morally dubious). Like Chomsky likes to say, if US Presidents were held to the standards of the Nuremberg principles, they would all be executed. In that regard, Trump has so far done less harm than most recent Presidents.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BXtgq0Nhsc
I have no idea what SF is like, so in these discussions I never can tell if there really is an influx of insane, insufferable far left crazies, or if people who insist on remaining racist and keeping gays in the closet are mad that nobody is having that anymore. The latter is what I see in my own circle of humans but I live in Texas.

I can say though that I've moved further to the left as I've gotten older, from a libertarian tech-stereotype when I was younger, and in large part it has been from seeing the conservative half of american slide slowly further into insanity and horribleness, seemingly driven by fox news, at least among family.
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I don't understand the argument you're making with the Google trends link.

What I see is that a term which entered the common lexicon specifically to describe things such as Pizzagate is correlated with searches for the thing it describes.

Is there some other point you're trying to make?
Everyone Hates Silicon Valley, Except Its Imitators
Open source software is as much a social endeavor as it is a technical one. As such it is important for people to get along if a project wants to get anywhere. There are far too many developers that use their technical prowess as an excuse for their lack of basic social skills. Unfortunately the same group of developers is also almost entirely comprised of men.
>I’ve just bought a new 3 series and it really bothers me how neuterd most of the apps feel. I have what’s equivalent to a desktop PC from 2005 on my wrist yet there is no web browser, decent games, or anything else actually pushing the hardware.

Because you'd e.g. be web browsing on a watch if it did have a web browser?

Besides, even with the "neutered apps" and only cursory use of them, the battery barely lasts a full day. Imagine with what you're suggesting...
Only a small minority of HN users are in Silicon Valley, so your argument wouldn't apply here even if it were true.

When I see complaints like this I always look at the history. Usually the account in question has a pattern of posting flamebait and/or snark. In that case you needn't reach for political bias or 'wrongthink' to explain why the community downvotes such comments. They get downvoted simply because they break the site rules.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> "My concern with reactor operators is that it's a dying industry due to the challenges in getting a commercial reactor permitted and constructed, along with the costs of renewables driving nuclear out of commercial viability."

When nuclear power plants shut down, the ROs/SROs will not be too hard pressed to find new opportunities. The renewable energy plants that are replacing nuclear will still need to have their control rooms staffed, and operators will simply move into new roles with those utilities, or they'll get out of the generation business altogether and find a cushy transmission/distribution operator role, which isn't really dependent on the political climate with regards to generation technology.
> The real problem is that the engineer’s mindset, wherein one weighs the available evidence, and accept and incorporate new evidence even if it contradicts what you previously believed, has never been more rare.

This is the author's premise. It would have been nice to get some discussion around why that is the case (or even that it is true), but alas the article simply states it.

Ironic to provide no details given the subject matter.
> What is it that Peter Thiel said previously about women voting?

Respect for capitalism declined rapidly in the US after women gained the vote.
Indeed. I’m post new math, but I had Boolean logic in 10th grade and it was a very helpful step up.
How do you define what is and isn't a loot box? Elements of chance are a fact of life. If you remove them from games, video games will be indistinguishable from movies.
No, but it certainly makes you mainstream.
One fears that by repeating the verse here, you've stamped it on eternity.
Yes ... we could do the equivalent to echo cancellation to a very small degree. The problem is that there will be more than one echo and, with the processing power available at the time, it was too difficult to cancel the reflected signal. I should also have noted that we were able to send analog signals over these devices. Cancelling the reflected signal would have been much easier with a digital signal.
System draws power from daily temperature swings – MIT News
I don't think it's a breakthrough, I remember seeing the exact same conclusion from a different research a few years ago already. It was even a little broader since it mentioned that countries with the most gender equality also had the most stay at home moms.
What would that mean in this context?

A pretty reasonable explanation is that men and women have different interests. Egalitarian countries generally provide an environment where people are free to express these differences in preferences. A mechanism that would make it causal.
> Girls also tended to register a lower interest in science subjects. These differences were near-universal across all the countries and regions studied.

So girls are less interested in these subjects, but in more unequal countries (read poorer) they do it for career prospects, while in more equal countries (read richer) they do what they want (not STEM subjects).
I note that HN's moderating guidelines do not mention sex, gender, religion, food choices, or most of what FreeBSD's new CoC describes.

You might also note that HN regularly fills up with pages upon pages of sexist (more rarely, racist) tripe. Which might be ok for HN but the people who participate in the FreeBSD project have decided it's not ok for their thing.
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> productivity typically comes from a lesser degree of strictness

Does it? Maybe it's the way I think, but I have observed that I could move faster when the compiler is strict, because I don't have to think about whole classes of errors—they're automagically checked.

I like my compiler to be disciplined, so I don't have to.
>So, basically, a fly spit the worms into Beckley's eye?

I've never seen spit used as past tense before, if that's what this is.

p.s. I agree with the WHY HERE? comment.
I remember always getting annoyed at colleagues and Hacker News generally for being technolibertarian fanboys. And now I'm constantly annoyed at the sanctimony and self-indulgence of the "Left," even though I hate granting them that label.

Maybe I'm just getting old.
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The media "feeds" us stuff to be outraged about?

You mean factually reporting the news? There is real and severe damage that is happening to our country and our standing in the world. The regressive politics will have consequences.

Even if you are a fan of Trump's policies, the White House is chaos, we essentially do not have a president. Imagine a real crisis hitting, and what this White House would do.

It's incredible how insulting portions are at the population that they think the very real harm (this is not normal) is just some kind of media sensation. I think you are confusing the real current administration with a season of the apprentice that Trump hosted.
10x the pay, right?

RIGHT?

crickets
Can confirm this. Indians in SV are big trump supporters.