skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds very similar to New Zealand, where the term Pākehā is used to describe NZ European people, both by indigenous Maori people, as well as people of European descent.

The vast majority of the time it's just used as an easier way to describe New Zealanders of European descent, it's even used on the census form, but I've heard it used on rare occasion as a pejorative.
I always thought that presenting different content for Google Search Bot and users is bannable offence. Not so much for big businesses, it seems.
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Most times I posted on stack overflow, my question got downvoted and/or there were snide comments (sometimes). But I got the answer I needed, and my work got done. I don't really care about anything else- why would culture matter for me when I get the results I want?

Also, the problem with a lot of beginner questions is that there are often a lot of similar such questions out there already. I don't blame others, or hold it against them, for getting miffed about the umpteenth such question. But really, they should just ignore it, and/or post the duplicate post(s).
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I would assume there's a high correlation between experiencing long term pain and opioid use.

It also seems there would be a large degree of overlap between people experiencing difficult to treat long-term pain and people who commit suicide.

therefore, while it's certainly not an advertisement for the effectiveness of opioids for the treatment of long term pain, it seems unsurprising that there would be a great deal of correlation between opioid use and suicide, even if opioid use didn't cause suicide.

I mean, there are several mechanisms wherein opioid use could be the causative factor, sure; I'm just saying that even if opioids mostly worked as designed and never made anything worse, I would expect there to be a lot of overlap between the people who are prescribed opioids over long periods of time and people who commit suicide.
I refuse to create accounts on site that require even a phone number, let alone government ID. It will eventually get lost and things like passports being faked can land you in prison or watchlists if someone like Israel decides to steal your identity while committing an extra-legal assassination.
> how easy is it for a scientist ...

This is hard everywhere. I'm not sure who said, "knowledge advances one funeral at a time," but I'm sure that it wasn't Confucius.
> That didn't matter when they started, and it certainly didn't stop them from expanding their business operations to Ireland or France in recent years.

Actually, you're not quite correct on this.

EJ opened where it did specifically because it was close to what they were servicing--the logging industry.

The fact that they could continue operating without moving is probably more of a testament to inertia than value.
This is a serendipitous discovery! I'm also a data scientist working for an Irish company in the process of moving to Portugal. My email address is in my HN profile if you want to talk.
FWIW I read gp as "_use_ Google", not "_be_ Google".
It might be a good habit. If you're typing URL manually, you can visit some fakebook instead of facebook and lose your password. But Google will correct you in this case.
I agree with this sentiment and feel the same way. I also find this is a frustrating trend in our industry in where a lot of engineers seem to be spending more time learning about "services" from specific vendors than about things like network protocols and their workings and limitations.
If you want to take the plunge, jhbadger's recommendations of starting FORTH and thinking FORTH are both great. Starting FORTH covers the language itself, whereas thinking FORTH deals more with the philosophy of FORTH and programming in general.

If you really want to get serious, writing your own FORTH, which is a kind of right of passage in the FORTH community, is a good way to learn. While somewhat controversial among FORTH purists (for reasons I don't entirely understand), I would recommend Richard Jones' jonesforth as reference for this: https://github.com/nornagon/jonesforth/blob/master/jonesfort...
The incident rate of kidnappings is so low that it's not anywhere close to ranking in the first volume of "List of Things I Worry About".

The government abusing data it collected on its citizens to silence dissenters, however, is something I've seen on a daily basis. And so, we set priorities.
Cool! Thanks for the tip! :)
There are a bunch here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kunio_Shimada
> Is this actually a real problem for normal non-criminal people?

Yes, it is. Quite a few people get misidentified based upon "bad paperwork" by the police.

If the police mistake the IP address and Google identifies it as me, I'm now at risk even though I did absolutely nothing.

Making the police engage in positive identification is simple safety.
Is it just a coincidence that jakten means both hunt and yacht in Norge? (I think I unpicked that chain correctly)

Also, now I come to think about it, it is a bit embarrassing that we (en) pronounce yacht as "yot". I look forward to reading a future man page describing yacht as an archaic form of the correct usage. The man page for the ls command used to describe colour as an archaic term for the "modern" form - color!
They apply “manual actions” all the time.
Let's say we'd like to know the median time users spend on a given page.

If we leave these at an event level, in a database, we'd need to:

- Loop through all events

- Group them by user

- Figure out which ones represent the beginning of a page view

- Figure out which ones represent the end of a page view

- Subtract these two events

- Aggregate these for all users in the database

- Find the median

This can take a prohibitive amount of time for a pretty simple question. It'd be much faster if the data was already stored in a manner that is useful for such an exploration.

As questions become more complex - so do queries. They become hard do think about and the time it takes to process them explodes.

One related concepts is "Entity-Centric Indexing", which talks about this problem in terms of ElasticSearch.

Anywho - that's a long-winded reason why I'm taking this approach!
My point is that people get offended. No object nor any person nor action can have an inherent property of offensiveness.
It's like an RSS reader but for people & products. At least that's how I use it.
As opposed to the service that litterally has "twit" in the name? Or the nonsense that has been search engine naming conventions (Google, yahoo, bing, etc)? I think you overestimate the ability for society to accept a name.
Reducing access to methods is a key part of suicide prevention work.

In the US the main methods are guns and opioid medication. Reducing access is politicially difficult, but would save tens of thousands of lives each year.

If you have a stockpile of medication please either keep it locked away, or give it back to the pharmacist. A disturbing number of children die after taking their grandparent's medication that's been left out because "we don't have children around".
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Exactly... I'm in favor of free trade, but only when it's reciprocal. I'm also in favor of breaking down regional locks or limits in sales... if you as a company are allowed to produce in a cheaper country, then I should be able to buy/import at the price you sell in those countries.
We have such an astonishing amount of laws and codes that everybody is guilty of something. And the more data is available on you, the more you enable the government to go on a fishing expedition, should they ever dislike you.

But that's only the selfish motivation.

The wider reason is that mass surveillance can easily be used to silence dissent. And if you think that's far-fetched for the US, I invite you to read up on e.g. COINTELPRO.
Have you looked at ScaleFT? https://www.scaleft.com

They apply BeyondCorp style management for both server and web access.

There is also Teleport by Gravitational: https://gravitational.com/teleport/
I tried to make Twitter work for me by only following people I am genuinely interested in. (Founders, CEO's, etc) but even after that I am not engaged.
In the early days of twitter, Trust&Safety was considered the second-lowest team on the totem pole of engineering career advancement possibilities (sorry Internal Tools aka Developer Productivity).

I'm sure that's changed recently, but IMO a lot of the trouble that Twitter/FB/Reddit have had with bots has to do with trying to get good engineers rationally interested in being part of T&S organizations.

Now T&S is sexy, but there's got to be lag time effectively changing the leadership and team structures of these large, established teams.
HN probably doesn't fall within the material scope of GDPR, unless they perform business activity that falls within the scope of EU law that I'm not aware of.

That would be different if they marketed/promoted/sold in the EU, offered European language or currency support, or somehow otherwise took action to position themselves for the EU.

As a thought experiment, if HN was regulated by GDPR:

1. Yes, all kinds of user generated content can contain GDPR Art. 9's special categories of personal data. HN would probably rely on the exemption in Art. 9(2)(e), which permits processing "personal data which are manifestly made public by the data subject." The purpose of HN is to let you share your own data on the Internet, that's the entire point. That's fine under GDPR.

2. HN would still need a lawful basis for processing under Art. 6. For a paid service, a Terms of Service would normally be fine. I don't think HN has or wants one of those, and they don't track users at all before registration, so they could collect an explicit consent from users on registration. If they did track prior, a cookie popup could collect the consent. Also, under Art. 8, the default minimum age of consent is 16, so we'd want to consider age confirmation too.

3. Archiving posts on the Internet forever is not a problem, if that's the intended use of the site, which it is. My guess is that deleting a user and their posts is feasible at the application/database layer. The problem would be deleting personal data from backups of the site if the user withdraws their consent and requests Art. 17 erasure. In that case, only retaining the backups as long as necessary and documenting that justification internally is probably sufficient.

4. Article 22 restricts "automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning [the data subject] or similarly significantly affects" the data subject. Ranking, voting, and anti-spam probably don't qualify as weighty enough subjects to be restricted. Recital 71 ("Profiling" https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-71/) sheds some light on what the EU is trying to prevent.

5. They'd have to get a data protection agreement or other Art. 46 agreement with hosting vendors. Cloudflare is on top of this: https://www.cloudflare.com/gdpr/introduction/ Not sure what other subprocessors are involved.

6. Being able to see most of your own data on HN means you have Art. 15 access, which is nice. I think they'd have to also give you any hidden metadata as well. Not sure what that might be (vote weight score?).

6. There's a bunch of other stuff they'd probably do, like appoint a data protection officer, publish a privacy policy, add the ability to delete your account, etc.
Criminal organization? Just like Microsoft, Ford, Google, Apple, Goldman Sachs and most Fortune 500 companies? Also, Volkwagen is the #1 car company in the world, I think they’ll manage to hire top execs with their €11 billion profit.

I don’t like Volkswagen that much, but your perspective is kind of skewed by the Musk Distortion Field, in my opinion :)
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Literally never visite the whole site.
This is correct, actually the reason the rating on the charger is 72A is to fit into a 90A circuit with 25% overhead for continuous loads.
It’s also a trap if you forget you’re logged in and the user immediately gets notified you viewed their profile.
When searching for things like that, I usually prefix my search with MDN, or even better, just use ddg for technical searches. These days, ddg is getting pretty good at showing results of typical coding/technical questions. If my search is for a very fringe/specific/new topic, I fall back to google (which you can from ddg with the `!g` prefix)
> AWS Lambda itself isn't vendor lock in.

Can I call my Postgres deployment on Azure via AWS lambda?
> Its had a number of folk remedies, [...] but none of these have succeeded in scientific testing.

All the scientific studies that show up in Google show that it has antifungal activity.
And before Deming, there was Sarasohn (http://honoringhomer.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/cringely...). In fact, Sarasohn recommended Deming for the job.
It is certainly viable. I follow an interesting group of users and unfollow anyone who becomes problematic. There are some "Promoted" tweets that are essentially ads, but they are easy to ignore if not interesting.
It's just not good for the world that a single company controls a basic fundamental function of the internet. It needs fixing.

Google Search needs to be replaced by an open source decentralized system. And then users themselves can control which sites do well and which don't.
This looks like the mirror image for the requirements document for protecting PII. You may not need to be able to respond directly to every demand in the letter, but you should be able to have a watertight explanation of why not. "Burdensome" won't cut it.
Never been to London and I see it is up there, but the most diverse city by various sources is actually Toronto.
I don’t know why public sector workers should give ground on benefits simply because private sector workers have rolled over to corporate interests.

If you don’t want a union, cool, but don’t complain about the outcome then. Comparing to private sector workers is disingenous.
The difference is a lot of people never imagined Trump could be elected and many people for the first time are shocked to see what the other half of the country thinks. Imagining that they were manipulated by superior technology not previously available lets people hold to the idea that half the country really didn't vote for trump deep down - if only they hadn't been duped and knew what he really was.
I remember playing with a MSDN copy of Win NT 3.51 in my cousin's cubical back at AMI in the late 90s. We had NT4 on a Pentium Pro I got to admin back in high school. I even tried to see if I could get the library computers to login off a Samba PDC instead of the NT4 Server. A lot of stuff didn't work, and group policies were pretty janky.

I like how the author also has an SGI and two Sun machines next to this one. We got a hold of some old Sun Stations in University back in 2001; paid like $12 for a crate of them. They were made in the 80s and had dual 100MB SCSI hard drives, tons of ram slots (I want to say 32 or 64MB of potential ram), and those crazy optical mice that needed the grid based mouse pads. I think I got RedHat running on mine and didn't do much with it.

I'd love to collect and work on old stuff like this, but I started to do some hard core backpacking in my 30s and my parents threw out nearly everything while I was over seas for a few years. I'd really like to stay minimal with a room full or less of stuff, so I don't see myself getting into old computing any time soon. I'll just read posts like this and read The 8-Bit guy to get that nostalgia fix.

Oh and if you're ever in Seattle and love old machines, check out The Living Computer Museum. They have actual Altos, HP UX, TIs, Apples, and DEC Alpha machines you can log into and play with. It's pretty amazing.
I see you're not interested in having discourse. I genuinely don't see how you don't find this confusing. Is just having a co.uk web address a reason to pay taxes there? There are many locations associated with you these days. The one you're living in, the one your business is in, the one where your goods are manufactured in, the one you store the goods, the one your website is hosted in, and the one that you declare tax residency. Please explain to me what proportion of your taxes should go to each one.
I actually do the same thing. Do the dependency install inside of a docker container in order to build the .zip. This is absolutely essential for compiled libraries in python or anything that involves postgresql. If you attempt to install psycopg on mac and then deploy that on lambda it will fail. So you either need a prebuilt version for ubuntu that you keep around, or you need to build in a docker container. We just build inside a docker container.
And how about Google finally do something about Quora's aggressive abuse of their quality guidelines:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769?hl=en

Quora presents a very different site to Google than it does to the reader ultimately. Google intentionally, knowingly ignores this fact and has for years. They could manually penalize Quora for breaking Google's search quality guidelines in numerous ways and they choose not to.

A user can't freely browse Quora page to page, whereas Google can. Presenting a different site to Google than you do to the user, is about as direct of a violation of their guidelines as you can get.
I wonder how many people can pinpoint where the boundary between the two communities lies.

What does this division help to achieve? The two communities are in exactly the same format.
LinkedIn is one of the top sites for dark UX patterns. It is 100% purposeful, just like Pinterest, and designed to increase the all important "engagement" metric.
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> The most popular sites are showing up in search results. Pinterest is a popular site. It seems like that's the way search engines are supposed to work.

I disagree. Search engines are supposed to find _useful_ sites. Every time I have come across a Pinterest link, I have either been presented with the image devoid of context or (much more commonly) asked to log in and just been presented with a generic list of Pinterest images. That isn't useful (and in fact actively frustrates what I'm trying to do).

Edit: typo fix.
This is one of those discussions where I almost feel like the comments are deliberately trying to be provocative.
Here's what I use to remove bad results:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...
I think it's wild that the browser has become the UI layer in so many applications... CSS + HTML simply make things more consistent in a way that no other toolkit ever has. On the flip side, it's sad that every app now packages the entire jungle (so to speak).

I know that this is what Adobe Air was supposed to be, and part of me would love to see something akin to Chrome's autoupdate mechanisms for an Air-like platform around Electron's base that could be shared. That doesn't get around performance issues, but would at least mean some reduction.

I think it's a great option to have, but still concerning in some ways. I also think that React-Native will probably grow to be easier to create more native-like cross platform apps over time. Definitely interesting times.
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I use the personal blocklist extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...) just to block w3schools.
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The dragon book is not recommended. It is very out of date. I write (among other things) high performance compilers for a living. And the Dragon book is not useful at all.
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This is a pretty fair point about service discovery. Without proper service discovery, Lambda is pretty useless IMO.
This could be how the robots in Westworld got their power!
Would it be wrong for someone to catch stray puppies and slowly torture them to death in his basement? Why or why not? Can you not only convince yourself with your answer, but others? And yes, ethics is a part of philosophy.
Even if that's true, that means LinkedIn is presenting a different site to the reader than they are to the search engine spiders, which breaks Google's guidelines and should be heavily penalized accordingly (as it would be for any mortals).

Google can spider every page freely, going from link to link without having to sign up. A regular user can't. Where's the penalty from Google for that? Why is so much LinkedIn content indexed when the user can't have the same experience as Google does? It's very blatant hypocrisy.
Exactly the same here!
> This is not how the world works; if you are in a group with differing opinions it's a bad strategy to think that everyone who do not share your ideas are colluding against you.

This is fine advice, if I personally did that I would certainly take it under consideration.

> I doubt they live a frictionless life

Considering no one leads a frictionless life, you're probably correct. However, you may have noticed that criticizing Jewish people is generally frowned upon moreso than other groups. Or, would you have me believe that all groups are treated mathematically identically by all other groups across all cultures?
> So for the sake of pretending that the remote team members are able to contribute as much as the local ones you hobble those who are local?

Even when everyone is local, I have found the best communication occurs when forcing everyone to pretend they are remote. So many times person A talks to B and they make some incorrect decision or assumption that person C would have been able to head off if they were involved.

Having the same conversation in group chat or group email does two things. First, it lets others engage if they need to without being actively interrupted. In my example above person C could have stepped in when noticing the conversation in group chat.

Second, the conversation is now perfectly documented. "What was that decision we made 2 weeks ago? Oh yeah, it's in chat/email." I also find that writing really makes people think. Bezos is famous for forcing people to write their ideas down in memos before meetings[1].

The missing person scenario above can be worked around if everyone is in the same office, but people hate sharing open spaces today. It also does not solve the documentation issue.

[1] http://www.qcommservices.com/blog/jeff-bezos-writing-memo-im...
It will change as SF's credit goes down the tubes. Unlike the federal government, there is a chance that SF could default on its loans. If they can't get a loan and they squeeze the rich out of the city, there won't be any money left.
There are acceptable amounts.
I don't know why the public should be forced to have a reduction in public services because the public sector rolled over political interests to their favor.
congrats to the Nginx team and contributors! some of us have been waiting anxiously for this release- this will be great!
Back when I was writing a lot of C++ professionally I felt the same way about cplusplus.com vs. the (IMO much superior) cppreference.com. I'd love to be able to teach my search engine simple rules like "if a Wikipedia article matches my search, show it first" or "never show results from linkedin".
Civ V's combat is frustrating in a lot of ways, the unit-per-square system makes ranged strength overpowered and takes away all value from numerical superiority.

But I still hugely prefer it to the doomstack approach - wars actually involve doing something now.
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