skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I install Firefox + uBlock Origin and tell them that if they have specific issues they can hop back to IE.

That being said, I'm trying to think, and I honestly don't know that I've ever seen any sites break due to ad blockers (it may be that I'm guilty of not recognizing the source of malfunctions myself). Regardless, the web is a big place and life is short. If a site can't get it right I just move on. Mental bandwidth is a limited resource and (IME) ad-blocked pages consume less overall, despite possible issues.

Oh, I have seen the ones that throw up anti-adblock walls. I hate those.
C isn't typed strongly.
how long you think that hole would've stayed open if that were happening?
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I take "dumb" to mean a simple program as opposed to a product, as described in The Mythical Man Month by Fred Brooks.
I’d be surprised if there was anyone on Google’s board who didn’t support repealing the second amendment. Why would they need outside encouragement to ban something they hate when a plausible reason for doing so comes up?
But that distinction makes Google no longer a DMCA safe harbor. Once you start censoring content not actively illegal, you are now liable for any copyright infringement on your site.
I don't think employers should be forcing employees to get treatment - that's between the employee and their doctor, psychiatrist, etc. If it's OK for HR to force employees to get treatment for alcoholism, is it OK to force an employee to get treatment for ADHD, anxiety, obesity, etc?

If the employee is performing their job properly, HR should not have any problems with them. If not, their work performance should be addressed.

That said, for companies in more conservative lines of business, there could be issues with getting drunk while attending a trade show. Employees on business trips are representing their company to customers, who might also have been present at that dinner. But getting drunk in front of customers indicates a lack of professional judgement, not alcoholism.
> I feel I have a social contract with them where they use me and I use them.

Right -- Google tracks you to target ads, but that's about it, and in exchange, they make useful things like search and Gmail. Facebook tracks you to target ads, but all they make is a website designed to keep you clicking and staring as long as possible. They have somewhere between zero and negative value to their users.
Is it / was it known that other potential candidates were barred from doing the same or was the Obama election campaign the only one granted such permissions?
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Don't forget to encrypt before uploading. Best to only sync `encfs` directories. You never know what will become "illegal" or "undesirable" content in the future.
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The thing about AI enhanced propaganda is that it will learn exactly what to say to push your buttons and drive you further down a road away from reality towards something people want you to believe.

No one is impervious to this and I’ve seen many articles on both left and right that are completely false. We need to be very careful to do proper research on the likely correctness and fact checking of articles, images and even videos before they are shared, but you can go too far the other way if you try to automate this. Social media should probably warn you with algorithms if you share something likely to be false.
Other people have noted that 2007-2012 is notably absent from the timeline in Zuck's post.

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10104712037900071
Although I don't disagree, I suspect you are driving away a very interesting group of technically literate, even being small.
Ah, so no legal tests all. All keys straight to the government, for always-on, total surveillance for the entire population?

I personally wouldn’t hope for that.
Then take ownership and communicate so that they know.

If there's a better way then suggest it, or at the very least document the time and effort spent on these reports. If they are that critical (which they usually are for decision making) then it shouldn't be an issue when planning future work.
There is a big difference between actually going out and shooting people, and merely filming videos about guns, it's true. There is very little difference between two particular types of speech, as they are both just words. If we take the speech to be a precursor to action, then that is different yes. But banning the speech won't stop the action.

No matter what someone is saying, banning them is a form of social signalling. It says, "we disagree with what these people are saying". There are many many things that the majority doesn't like the minority saying, and the world will be worse off if they manage to ban it all.
On point 2: people forget which service they signed in with, accidentally make multiple accounts and think their data is gone, and sometimes APIs are down (mostly LinkedIn) or throw errors, all of which lead to customer service headaches without an email/password reset backup.

On points 3 & 4: I've seen more fake Facebook and LinkedIn accounts than I can count. Some users have dozens. I haven't looked into how they create them so easily, but they do. While it's certainly more hassle to get one than a fake email, there's still a ton of them.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mozilla_Thunderbird... Thunderbird 31.7.0 was released on 12th May 2015.
Do have evidence of intentional deceit? Could it just be that those you accuse of lying are just wrong?
Their data are very similar, to the extent your brain can tell.
I think you'd be surprised how much more similar Google is to these things. They absolutely bought and bribes their way into their monopoly reach, by paying to be the default on everyone's browsers, having other software bake Google Toolbar into their install wizards (later replaced by Chrome), etc.

Also, given the HTTPS Everywhere push (mostly led by Google), usually only sites like Google and Facebook get to see your traffic, ISPs get cut out of most of the deal.

And for most people, Google or Facebook is, in fact, their gateway to the Internet: They get everywhere they go through one of these two captive environments.

Finally, telecoms are already subject to significant regulation, even with the recently repealed privacy rule, no, ISPs can't just go selling your search history, marketing by certain political groups to the contrary. (Whereas Google and Facebook both, effectively, can.) Meanwhile, tech companies have operated with little to no regulation at all, and unlike telecoms, which have a whole federal agency dedicated to regulating them, tech companies' reach isn't restrained by much outside of the FTC, which isn't even fully staffed, and definitely isn't doing their jobs.
I hear so many people talking about this like there's literally no way about going around these issues.

Is it that unimaginable to use an alternative search engine like DuckDuck go? To use tor? To use a VPN? To disable javascript? To block ads? To put some IPs in your /etc/hosts? To use OpenOffice instead of Google Docs and MS Office? To use Proton Mail instead of Gmail?

These products even have nice user interfaces these days! Privacy isn't that hard. These companies offer a service for free (mostly). If you can't do it, I think it's mostly because you just don't care.
There is `rclone`, a command line tool a little similar to rsync, that supports many cloud storage providers. It does diffs too.

https://rclone.org/
> There is no "compromise" - the goal is ban and confiscation. We've seen it time and time again.

What makes you say this? Even in heavy gun control countries, some forms of shooting (e.g. pest control, hunting, target) and gun ownership are still generally legal.

Exactly what gets made legal and illegal is precisely what is being debated, but I'd be incredibly surprised if you ended up with total ban and confiscation. I think a compromise is exactly what everyone wants.
> Except when sensible restrictions on gun buying are propsed [sic], that same lobby loses their mind and immediately opposes it.

My understanding is that they don't think the sensible restrictions will stay sensible, but rather they'll be stepping stones to heavy restrictions or outright bans. That's not an unreasonable attitude given that ultimate goal of gun control advocates tend towards the latter.
The frog metaphor is false (in the sense that frogs do actually jump out, regardless of how slow the water is boiled) [1].

But I think it’s also false in many of the contexts where it’s applied. People do notice change, even if it happens slowly. They’re just not always able to do anything about it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
Yes it is. I've been using that script to create 360 photos which can be fed into Google's web vr view. [0]

[0] https://faa-aviation-data-portal.github.io/routeDemo/camera/...
> Why should we expect there to be any mathematical foundation to this stuff?

i would be surprised that "this stuff" would be exception to the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics. mathematics underpins virtually every observed phenomenon, including theoretical physics, computer science, economics. in fact, the mathematical structure of any physical theory often points the way to further advances in that theory and even to empirical predictions.

to not expect that "this stuff" should not have any mathematical foundation is a fantastically naive view.
Google also has Fiber and Fi, but in reality, I think the likelihood any given user has land and mobile access through the same company is relatively low, and you usually have the option to switch at least one of them.

AT&T is probably the biggest player in succeeding at being the ISP for you everywhere though.
$40-$60 an hour typically.
I didn't write this article. I just found it interesting and wanted to share it to see what counter-arguments and discussion it would lead to.
Let's not forget about diaspora.
Thank you for your answer, but what about my specific example with pointer swapping? I‘d need a way to control memory handling in a procedural way in between pure state transitions. It probably goes further than that still - FP in general hides from me what happens with intermediate results on the hardware - I‘d need a way to have it use preallocated memory pools, because these operations are repeated in a very regular pattern (once per timestep or solver iteration) and thus always occupy the same memory. Versioning of previous states can (due to hardware limitations) only be done by file output. I‘ve never seen a pure FP language covering this because it seems to fundamentally go against purity principles, but as long as this is the case I reckon it‘s simply unusable for any but the smallest scale numerical applications.
It's derailing because rather than address the concerns under discussion, it discards them by punting to a different level of abstraction. It's toxic because it has become so damn prolific, probably because on the surface it seems edgy.

I'd often make a similar point to argue against this centralized communication technology being adopted in the first place. But now that it has become society's main form of communication, pushing this point on its own does little but condone censorship.
One good deed does not absolve them of other misdeeds.
I'm in this minority as well. I don't want Google, Facebook or Twitter to control my identity on other sites and won't use social login unless something is very tightly tied to a given social platform.
Somebody (and most likely a team of somebodies) needs to own it. If nobody at the top is willing to champion the project and carve out a budget and people, then they need to fold it.
In Thunderbird. Most of the HTML email I receive is mostly formatted text which Thunderbird's plain text view works well on.

Are the problems you're describing due to content within the images themselves, or due to placement of the text relative to the image?
I see a difference between suicides and accidents vs murders when it comes to gun restrictions. If I chose to own guns (I don't), then I'm ultimately responsible for avoiding accidents and not committing suicide, just as I would be responsible for any other risky activity or sport I partake in. Murder on the other hand involves the criminal act of taking someone else's life. In my opinion, we should only focus on acts of criminal intent when discussing banning or restricting gun use, and only include accidents or suicide when we discuss laws that improve safe use of guns.
From what powers? The 4th amendment does not protect you from "reasonable" searches. A corrupt government wouldn't care about the constitution, like during Watergate. I am not a US citizen nor in the US (so the 4th amendment doesn't cover me) and I have already spent a fair amount of time in China. But thanks for offering.
That is true, but it is less obvious of an example. I could see a very careful person actually taking issue with some of his videos. Less so with the other videos.
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No, I didn't say that either.
It's sad. The original mission implied nothing was going to get lost and abandoned. So much for that.
The day I heard of it was the day it passed :/
It's going to be important and relevant to learn whether autopilot was engaged.

I know that location pretty well. There are side-by-side HOV lanes. The left lane enters an up & over bridge to head south on Hwy 85. The right continues south on 101. It seems likely that this driver was traveling at high speed, either realized they were in the wrong lane, or were not paying attention and drifted into the collapsible barrier[0]. They'd have struck the median barrier from the end. It's about a foot wide concrete. One factor in this type of accident is that the X is much heavier than the typical auto (5,500 lbs for Model X vs. 3,500 for a Camry for example) and at high speed would have collapsed the safety barrier with much more force than it was designed to absorb, thus destroying the front end of the vehicle.

I'm speculating, but from the video, that appears to be what happened.

[0] https://goo.gl/maps/NqpxHaLsopQ2
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Thanks!

I've had a few parting tools explode on me before, haha, which had left me afraid of it.

I'm using a bridgeport for most manual stuff and a CNC converted ACRA mill for the CNC work. I don't do that much CNC, since manual is a lot faster in my experience, so three axes is plenty for me.
> but I'd be incredibly surprised if you ended up with total ban and confiscation.

Haven't some heavy gun control regimes in the US ended up as de-facto total bans? IIRC, one city "allowed" legal gun ownership (or maybe just legal handgun ownership), but it required police approval, which was almost never granted.
This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a long time. Do you work in a machine shop to have access to that type of tooling?
"Barred" isn't exactly the right word, in that it implies that Facebook actively took steps to prevent other candidates from doing so. Instead, Facebook had standard data collection limits in place that were enforced automatically by the platform for all apps. When the Obama For America app hit these limits, Facebook explicitly removed them for that app. It is the only publicly known case where this was allowed for a political campaign.
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"BUT HER EMAILS!!"

Dude, there is absolutely no monopoly by lefties on a lack of critical thinking.
I work at Google, we have a hobby machine shop for engineers to play around in :D
If its for storage mostly, HubiC has 10 TB for 50 euros per year. Their up/down speed is pretty slow and their web interface looks unpolished, but so far it worked pretty well.
But everybody just uses some library for that stuff, I wonder why there aren't visible "Log In with [list of 80 OpenAuth providers]" sites or services.
$300 / hour
Not really.

$500 SLAs gives you LCD SLA printing with medium resolution.

You will need at least $1300 for a Moai kit(with Laser Galvoes):

https://peopoly.net/

Or at least a $1500 DLP kit with a good resolution for creating small parts.

Fo really small parts you need the strength of steel or titanium. But you can made then in plastic, metalize the plastic and use something like EDM(electrodischarge) to make your parts.
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Personally I've settled on ExpressVPN, largely because about 50% of their endpoints work with Netflix. They are also very popular, meaning more protection of anonymity, and I have never seen any evidence to counter their claim that they don't keep logs.

As a bonus their software works very well, better than most generic VPN clients.

I previously was using my own private VPN servers set up with Streisand, but those provide no anonymity, only masking of the endpoint.
Why use paid privacy-by-policy systems when you can use free privacy-by-design systems like Tor and i2p?
Slightly more qualified is anything so slight as to make not hiring the person simple based on race make me feel unconfortable. Is that subjective? Yes. Do I care? No.

My expertise is no greater than my expertise in selecting people to hire. I make no claim that this effort should be enforced by regulation. I enforce it through my hiring and recruitment efforts.
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> What's with the reservation?

I phrased it this way to avoid outcry from people who disagree that we’re on the slope — but who cannot disagree that we must at least be near the slope.
Banning porn sounds great until you realize it means you lose HBO's The Wire, House of Cards and a long list of other iconic media because they contain scenes of sex acts and naked women in strip clubs.

There is no objective standard to distinguish them from "bad" porn.
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Hopefully it will also change the "move fast & proper security is an afterthought" model of startups.

Years ago(in CS degree before professional work), I used to wonder & be amazed by how fast new companies(mainly U.S.) moved so quickly.

It wasn't because they had some secret sauce or 10x devs, it was because all they did was focus solely on features & take shortcuts. Their customers data security was an afterthought - e.g. production DBs open to anyone in company(even the world in some cases(mongo)), no auditing or logging of data access.

Maybe YC(& other accelerators) will make a security expert available to these people...because young adults with 0 professional experience will probably not consider security & rely on the defaults of whatever stack they're using to be good enough. Even less consideration will be given when they're fed & surrounded by a grow fast at all costs mentality.

Good security in their products needs thought & critical analysis put into it & I'm not sure new devs appreciate it.
> Yet Facebook and Google at least built products you wanted that you willingly gave up privacy to use and at least got something for it

I never agreed to FB collecting data on me. I have no account with them. I do not use their services. Yet here we are.
I'm curious. You say we're flying down the slope. That's something I hear often, how our civil liberties are being rapidly threatened.

Is this actually the case? Removing firearms videos from YouTube seems perfectly reasonable to me. The internet is big; I'm sure you can find elsewhere to host your videos. Is a company taking steps to distance themselves from such a contentious issue equal to "flying down the slippery slope of authoritarianism"? As always when I hear these panicked comments, I fail to see how this is true.
I've written in the past about C2[1]. Nim is aimed at bit of a higher level than a "c replacement" should. I don't really know much about zig, but from what I do know, I like it.

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7ugm8e/c2_c_wi...
I agree. Killing capitalism will result in a massive amount of dead people.
Ughh I’m totally not incredibly jealous.

Really cool to see it being used for interesting projects, kudos!
I don't know how I could constructively express my disappointment with this ruling, so instead I'll leave everyone with this lovely musical discussion of the ever popular "4 chord song", by Axis of Awesome. They make my point far better than I ever could.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I
Why use paid privacy-by-policy systems (VPN) when you can use free privacy-by-design systems like Tor and i2p? In fact, even if you use a VPN browser fingerprinting is still an issue unless you use something like the Tor Browser.
It's legal speech. It's being destroyed because Google doesn't like the content. In this context, there's no particular difference between video and a book.
> convenient location

Uber and Lyft don't even have taxi stands, drivers have to come from a much larger distance than even cabs, yet their usage is some multiple of taxis even with the inconvenience.

With SDC, having access to monopoly power locations will be less of an issue. And with Mercedes and BMW already sprinkled throughout an area, cars are usually close.

I think there is merit in someone having learned all of the issues with running a transportation company, but it isn't a billion dollar lesson, it is a low tens of millions of dollar lesson.

But I don't think being first has much merit, I think the margins will quickly shrink to zero within 5 years of SDCs and we will see a couple major auto manufactures go bankrupt. Ironic if the self driving car of the future is a bipedal android that makes any car a self driving car. Turning a 15k Hyundai electric into an autonomous vehicle.
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$50/hr. But all I do is Google Apps Script stuff.
The issue is that youtube is not just 'someones site' just like facebook isn't just 'someones social media'.
These platforms are ubiquitous these days, they are the de-facto place for content and thus become an important part of the forum on which we discuss.

If that forum is censored with too broad a stroke, that actually harms society. I think everyone can agree that too broad censorship is bad, and if it hits large swathes of society, is really bad.

The difference between youtube and hacker-news is scale and near-monopoly. There is also an important difference of human and machine censorship. Not a difference of appeal, but a difference of unintended consequences. A human censor will notice when certain rules have unintended and too broad of an effect. There is a baseline of human oversight built in because there is a human somewhere.
Automated systems do not have this property, if they have rules that seemed reasonable but aren't in practice, or aren't anymore, the system won't notice.
Reddit also has been banning many sub-reddits lately (that didn't do anything illegal)... Almost like someone is pushing all those companies. like /r/gundeals
Depends on the total population, I'd say on the order of 30% would be getting there.
tresorit requires typing your password into a webpage to update account info (including your payment method, so its unavoidable) its encrypted in javascript, but some security experts frown on javascript crypto: https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/about-us/newsroom-and-events/b...
The "purpose" clauses of laws and constitutional provisions are explanatory, not limiting. (Sorry gun control advocates.) Judge's don't get to decide what "promote[s] the Progress of Science and useful Arts"--that is background policy to inform Congress how to write the law.
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