skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mastodon is a federated system like StatusNet/GNU Social.

So, in your opinion, Mastodon nodes - by virtue of being federated - would be better equipped to handle the spam and harassment volume that Twitter is subject to?

I find that hard to believe.

ActivityPub (and OStatus, and ActivityStreams/Salmon, and OpenSocial) are all great specs and great ideas. Hosting and moderation cost real money (which spammers/scammers are wasting).

Know what's also great? Learning. For learning, we have the xAPI/TinCan spec and also schema.org/Action.
Not subsidizing, I was talking about the income tax on the researcher. Something which affects the whole population. It’s like someone finding a bug in a paracetamol and government rewarding him by not taxing the money he received from pharma companies. Not a great analogy but you get my point.
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Stop trying to manipulate people with morality based taxes. Actually try and solve the problem. These people don't care about the environment. Otherwise they would completely cut subsidization to wheat & corn. Then farmers would stop feeding their cows those things, thus reducing mono-culture pollution.

Make feeding them corn illegal. The cows would be healthier and they wouldn't need to subsidize pharmaceuticals for antibiotics to keep cows alive.
Kind of a straw man argument isn’t it? You don’t have to run a company to understand how to value businesses, or that when we are in a bubble Wall Street will try to push out any poop thru an IPO.

In this case, they are nowhere near profitability. They need the IPO to forestall bankruptcy, they are 12 months from running out of cash. Their profit margin is still a massively negative -35%. There are no signs this business can ever be significantly profitable.

And if that’s not good enough for you, companies I’ve founded have raised over $20M in VC funding, and one was 2 months from an IPO we pulled because though we were profitable our growth had fallen to “only” 20%. We sold that business for $100M to a public company.
http://sfdhr.org/benefits-overview

https://mysfers.org/wp-content/uploads/Plan-Provisions-Misc-...

Working 20y covers 100% health benefits when retiring. Working 20y allows you to retire at 53. Pension calculated averaging only the 3 best years.

Regarding

Do we just expect government employees to not be able to live in the city they work?

Do they have more right than others to live in the city they work in? Because thousands commute to SF every day because they can't afford it.

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They haven't released webpack 4 yet.
It's the indefinite funding of a fixed obligation that seems weird to me. If my manager said, "I'm sorry I can't pay your $5000 bonus next year because we don't have $111,000 set aside in a fund earning 4.5% in perpetuity" i'd be a lot more upset. Honestly there's probably something about the accounting that I don't understand.
To disable this class of exploits (bugs in unprivileged bpf) without installing a new kernel:

echo 1 | sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_bpf_disabled
That's a slippery-slope argument. Guns can be used to silence dissent. Violence can be used to silence dissent. Targeted facebook ads and social-media emotional warfare can be used to target dissent. Skilled orators can be used to silence dissent. So can political distractions, wars, etc. All of it can and does, so I wouldn't quite call that an effective measure of whether something should exist in our political sphere or not.

Those laws/codes that you mention are there for a reason. We shouldn't be breaking them, is what we're told. If the whole thing was built on the predicate that only a fraction of people would be charged with them, what sort of criteria do you think those lawmakers had in mind as to when to apply that charge? Well, silencing dissent, for one.

But more to the point, either they're valid crimes and we need to do everything that is reasonable and cost-effective to enforce them. Or, we don't really consider them a crime, but we work on some funky as yet-undefined honor system about when to apply those laws. I.e. Let's use them to stick it to the bad-guy™. Usually, it's at the whim of whoever is deciding on whether to charge someone.

You are absolutely right that government can use these laws against you if they dislike you. But they can do that with a whole host of other things that we consider pretty benign. Being a white minority and a foreigner in an majority black country, I am constantly singled-out and harassed and at the whims of whatever government official I interact with. Usually police, but desk-clerks and the like also have their fair share of it. Government, and their agents can ruin your life on whim, even with existing non-surveillance-like laws.

We need to get past the point where vagueness and subjective criteria are used to enforce whatever laws we deem as a society to want to have. The vagueness and subjectiveness is the problem, not the laws.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing
I don't think you understand how international commerce actually works. If your warehouse is in the USA and someone from the UK orders from you, you can ship the product to them tax free but they will pay an import duty on that item based on the UK value of the item. Google has to pay tax on the advertisement to the UK buyer. This is because the revenue (aka the user clicking on the ad to buy your widget) was advertised in the UK and thus generated revenue in the UK. That's what the 3% tax is on. It doesn't matter if you hosted the ad in the USA or Thailand or on the space station. All that matters is that the consumer "purchased" the ad. The advertiser pays google the ad fee and google pays the state the tax. Simple and straightforward.
May I recommend you check out Trello with the "Trello Card Repeater[0]." Trello without the repeater is a really powerful way to organize your life, turning your life into a series of big cards with tasks in it, that give you a sense of accomplishment when you close one.

You then tack on automatic cards which appear on a schedule (e.g. "take out the trash," "clean this," "fix that," etc) and you have a even more useful productivity tool. You could of course use a traditional digital calendar for these with reminders, but pop-up reminders can be distracting/overwhelming, or ignored. A Trello card can sit in a bucket waiting until you have time in your schedule.

You can then combine it with something like the Pomodoro Technique[1] to help with uncontrolled procrastination.

Best of luck!

PS - There are other competitors to Trello which offer a great list experience (e.g. KanBanFlow, Microsoft Planner, etc). They're all good. Unfortunately few offer the Card Repeater. KanBanFlow offers built in Pomodoro timers tied to particular cards which is a huge win (Trello has third party support for Pomodoro timers, but that doesn't follow you cross-device).

[0] https://blog.trello.com/trello-card-repeater
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
> I mean Oxy is super profitable and it’s literally refined cocaine, which is as vegan as you can get.

Opium poppy != Coca plant

As for your other statements, there's actually an abundance of medicinal plants and herbs which are not commercialized due to having dose:response curves too unpredictable to be productized and sold to a litigious public.

Medicinal value != commercial value
Why should ease of substitution be a factor? If the goal is to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, a tax on natural gas would give people an incentive to improve insulation or build smaller homes or just turn down the thermostat.
I think the implication is that Japanese companies in Japan pay generally less than American companies in Japan, which seems true at least when comparing Japanese and American big names. It's also the case outside engineering/tech. It's fairly common knowledge among Japanese workers and foreign residents living in Japan. One hypothesis (which I like) is that Japanese companies offer a higher non-monetary compensation (I am not talking about flex-time).
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isn't that supposed to be how church works?
I like this idea, a simple tag on an account that says "we have verified this person is real" and a filtering mechanism in the UI would do wonders.
I hadn't checked this, but noticed the reply now. I never spent more than I could afford, but I did spend much, much more time than was healthy. I've since gotten it under control, as I've realized that if I kept doing that, I would never accomplish any of my life goals.

The problem with the indie games is that there are simply too many to choose from, and the ones I like tend to be just as addicting as the F2P games.
This isn't about morality or feeding wheat and corn to cows. It's about the greenhouse gas production inherent to raising beef. There's no way you're going to sustain the current volume of beef production on free range grazing alone. Industrial feeding techniques are required.
Along same line. With wolves, the aggressive ones were likely shooed away or killed. Either way it’s selection or a learned then taught behavior pattern change.
Why are the pensions unsustainable? The actuaries should be able to estimate how much a cohort will need on average reasonably well. The wage share has been decreasing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_share.

I suppose it is not sustainable to increase earnings and maintain pensions forever.
Apex Up does something very similar along these lines.
... which would require getting your hands on a toolchain able to compile for this decades-old Windows on a pretty rare architecture.
They didn't used to require this, unless I'm mistaken that started post Microsoft acquisition.
One interesting aspect is the idea that more than just natural selection is at stake in the evolution of our gene pool. That some genetic features may be dropped or changed if not required anymore without the pressure of a higher death rate / lower reproduction. Another example is wisdom teeth, which aren't really useful anymore given that we cook meat. They are slowly disappearing but not as a result of natural selection. Darwinism doesn't seem to explain everything, there must be other mechanisms involved.
Plenty of people have made their billions in Seattle. Gates and Bezos obviously but plenty more besides. Maybe it's time to support the community that gave them their opportunity?
> Facebook users are slowly learning that almost anybody can use Facebook to collect detailed information about them, and that — at least some of the time — Facebook cannot control where this information flows, or how it is used. Using Facebook is like writing your life story down on a piece of paper, then taping it to a lamppost.

> For the time being, advertisers are grumbling about Facebook and warning their clients to stay away from certain ad products, but they're still putting their money there — with an audience over 2 billion and some of the most accurate ad targeting available, Facebook is still impossible to ignore. But if usage continues to decline, advertisers will start eventually follow.

Unless the definition of "failing" has changed drastically, this is clickbait.

There is no evidence of a lack of on-the-ground leadership; the argument seems primarily based on divestment by executives. And one of the two anecdotes used to justify the "trend" that Facebook's executives are selling stocks faster than normal for technology leaders was Dorsey's purchase of a mere $9.5 million of stock last year (a lot of money, but two orders of magnitude less than the ones in the article and hardly a comp).

There may be reasons to be worried about Facebook's long-term viability, but this article makes a poor case for someone to be worried.
Didn't HTTP once have this cache thingy feature?
The big concern from the forum post data was that the machines hold water near boiling in a brass boiler. In a coffee shop, the flow through the boiler is much higher than at home, so buying a brass boiler for home use may not be a great idea. I don’t think this contradicts the linked study (buying small, cafe-grade machines for home use is kind of a corner case...).
That sounds like UBI.

You're just giving an equal handout (that's equivalent to cash) to everybody.
If you turn off continuous background location tracking in Android, Google maps will bug you every time you use it. Even though foreground location is on and set to use all available signals.
Wait does Azure Storage finally have events? Personal project of mine I moved from Azure to AWS simply because Azure Storage didn't have events...
Those few years of overlap were epic.
It’s a cycle
Depending on where you start your argument, one can be the commodity or meta commodity
Your point is sort of moot
Cloud for next 10 to 20 years, is still about killing old it vendors and make people not worried to put everything they own on cloud. Container or serve less is but major milestones.
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Plus a base image, Docker build system, image registry service and Docker runtime.

Not to mention the load balancer and container orchestration to run the containers.

It's not all bad. Container tools and services are ubiquitous, pleasant to use, and support literally any workload you may have.

But throwing a zip in S3 and having API gateway send it requests is far less moving parts (at least that we have to worry about).
This brings back so many fond memories from the late 90ies. I dual booted Windows NT 4 and Red Hat Linux for many years on an old Pentium 166 with an Adaptec scsi controller (remember that?). It was wonderful. Could never afford an Alpha machine though. WinNT was good stuff, miss the good old blue boot screen.
I've found the IANA to be quite good at collating this information and producing best practices.

Personally I think the actual messaging protocols are usually relatively straightforward (all things considered) with sensible backwards compatibility. It's all the other stuff surrounding it that can get really complicated and break things.
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It's also possible that the Linux chntpw utility might be able to change the password in the old registry file directly.
I don't see why Pinterest does this to themselves. My main exposure to them is through Google image search and links to their site.

So my first several experiences were like this. It left me with a terrible first impression. It makes me wonder if the whole site plays games and tries to waste my time.

I usually don't sign up for an account the first few times I encounter a site, so in my mind it's a pretty critical time to make a good impression. Instead they annoyed me so much I've practically decided never to create an account.
>Do you have proof that Twitter bots influence opinion?

Demanding proof of effect is an oddly defensive response that seems aimed at exonerating bad behavior. The GP didn't even assert anything about influence; just stated a fact.

But what difference does it make? Are you saying we should just accept it if we can't definitively prove it had a certain influence?

Sounds an awful lot like a certain U.S. president.

>If Russian bots influenced elections, what about the millions of real live humans

False equivalence. A concerted effort by one person to use technology in amplifying a specific narrative against an adversary is not the same as actual human beings rendering their frequently diverse opinions. Surely you see the difference.
It's "to the point" in the sense of being a more concise basic introduction. But MDN hits the right balance of being comprehensive yet accessible in a way nothing else does.

Plus W3Schools' very name is an SEO hack, so their Google rank is built upon fundamental dishonesty.
One modification to the backup bullet... “backup, backup and restore”

I’ve seen more than one day ruined by a backup that wasn’t.
> I'm tired of it and want the system's rules to be enforced.

Won't happen because, let's face it, minorities are going to predominantly be affected by enforcement. SF's far too progressive to let that happen.
Company blogs with badly written articles about something completely unrelated to the business are just great.
Yes they have, webpack 4.1.1 is the current version.
> I think more people that go to Ivies are hard workers then have so much natural ability that it doesn't require much work.

Or not. I've been told by someone teaching introductory courses at an ivy, that a major challenge they face is that their students have had such good teachers, presenting ("spoon feeding") information so clearly, that their students now have neither the skills, nor the inclination, to wrestle with a body of knowledge and extract understanding.
i love stuff like this:

* Goodui.org

* enterpriseready.io

* ixdchecklist.com
I think it's the glitch/vaporwave style of this app

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ss.android...
worth noting that this is the theoretical maximum capacity if the DWDM chassis at all ends were fully populated. Likely using 100, 200 and 400Gbps coherent (QPSK, 8PSK and 16QAM modulated) optics in a 50 GHz ITU DWDM grid. It's not as if it's going to have that capacity at the beginning. And no single circuit will have that capacity.

The math probably looks something like this:

Per 2 fiber pair, 80 channels x 200 Gbps per coherent wavelength = 16000 Gbps
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He Swiss army knife of smoke screens
this is fantastic. Bookmark this if you plan on starting a SaaS business, though...these seem broadly applicable for other models as well.
The Third Age of credit
It's been a while since I've done database stuff, so maybe this is a naive question, but how do you find the reusability of using primarily SQL/redshift to answer these sorts of questions.

I remember getting these sorts of questions and having to write the sort of queries that you just wrote, but then having to write like 10 other ones to solve related questions with subtle differences(such as the event_type would change or something).
LG Releases WebOS Open Source Edition, Looks to Expand WebOS Usage
and 'disruption' as a goal is why they get lost in those mistakes.
I messed around with one of these I got in college at an off lease / salvage type place... The boot loader on those was really cool and because it was an alpha, you had a license for digital UNIX...
Outside of the top few, the amounts those doctors are receiving from drug companies is barely consequential (<25k) compared to the stable, huge incomes they can pull from their “patients” in a pain clinic.
I'm reading Brian Dear's book now, it's great.
Ledger (YC W17) Is Hiring a Front End Engineer
It may not make a good case for long term viability but CNBC is an investment outlet and it does beg the question is this the type of company that warrants a valuation of over 500 billion?

that implies massive clips of growth and strong leadership which it claims Facebook has demonstrated not to have with clear cut examples which I thought are simple but is worth considering...
Agreed. I mean, the article literally uses his nickname ("the King") to refer to him. How could anyone who isn't being properly recognized have the well known nickname "King"?
I couldn't agree more. If there are more accounts than people in a region, you know you have robots registering. They need to employ better captcha and verification for registering new accounts.

I wouldn't go as far as to require government ID, (some folks have issues getting government IDs for voting purposes) and many undeveloped nations have large portions of their populations that have no birth certificates.

I would however require that a human be present to create a new account and that it be tied to a phone number for 2FA or something along these lines that makes mass registration cost prohibitive.
Don't be so hard on yourself.

StackOverflow has saved the shit out of so many developers. What would a junior engineer do without an SO thread?
Redditor Builds an AI Assistant with a R Pi, IBM Watson, and a Whole Lot More
Ah. Well, one up-and-coming alternative is Bloom Energy fuel cells, which run on natural gas, and are supposedly inexpensive enough producing energy that it's reasonable to use them as "peaker" power production. I've never seen any numbers for them, though.
The biggest problem with that site is that it's sometimes good. Sometimes. I never know that before I click if the required info is there or not or it's good enough or still relevant. With MDN my expectations are high but they are always matched.

That's why I installed the W3Schools removal chrome extension :)
I want to downvote the person you replied to and upvote your comment. HN apparently doesn't work like that so I'll stick with a single upvote :)
This has nothing to do with skin color or racism on the part of white Americans.

The anxiety is not only among American Whites but also among Black Americans, and 2nd and 3rd generation Americans who speak only English. At least in cities like mine (Miami, Florida).

It's not just a fear but a real problem because people cannot get jobs here unless they speak Spanish. Black Americans can sometimes get hired without knowing Spanish, but never whites or 3rd generation "Hispanics" who speak only English.

Worse than that is that many businesses will not do any business in English. And they are somehow certified. At all levels. I personally have dealt with business owners, real estate agents, small retail store owners, investors, technicians, restaurant owners, and more who speak no English, only Spanish. You can't even order a pizza in English. My English-speaking son was hung-up on because he tried to order a pizza in English (I speak Spanish so I have to do the ordering).

There are pockets of Miami where English is spoken in businesses, particularly the tourist areas by the beach or downtown. Because it's treated like a foreign language. Also, government offices and libraries still mostly speak English.

There is real discrimination against non-Spanish speakers and white Americans. I don't know if data exists that shows this but it's witnessed and is common knowledge among people who live here.

This was not the case 21 years ago when I began having children. That's why I didn't think it was mandatory to teach my children Spanish. People still spoke English. Now, my kids will likely not get jobs unless we move elsewhere, which is easier said than done.
was it difficult to get distilled / purified water? I could go sprinkle some lead into Nestlē’s springs. They took the time to note that it’s spring water, why didn’t they just go “oh maybe we should use distilled” for the sake of easily ruling out a questionable impurity? Have we not learned anything from the polywater debacle?
building on this. much of the gender discrimination argument happens at the same level. it’s usually white women from elite universities and privileged backgrounds at places like Google.
This happens all the time with classified programs.

That pesky "need to know" principle.
Every problem anywhere in the world is unions isn't it? I don't think unions have the same power in every country. And in some countries they have enough power to ensure that workers get retrained.
I don't think it's about them wanting to explicitly target someone, but about one's odds of being randomly implicated increasing with every leak.
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It's not a slippery slope if the government already does it, no?

And mass surveillance can be used to silence on a large scale - that's the whole point of objecting to it. It's not about you. Or me. It's about the effect on society as a whole
That's why the piece is cute, it presents some personal fiddling as a possible solution. Twitter can't simply use a competitor's technology at scale, and if they did they would be opening a massive risk vector to their core business. The only takeaway is that Twitter has to replicate the most intelligent "ai" in the world.