skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You really need to read it to get the full impact, but essentially Naomi agreed to Vice running a story on the condition that they don't mention her relationship or sexuality topics - topics that are not only very touchy in China but also have no place in a technology/maker article.

Vice thought this agreement was worth the paper they didn't print it on. Things escalated from there, but I can't really summarise the following parts, dirty tactics from those in a position of power IMO.
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Previous discussion from 2 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17286770 (59 comments, some from the author)
Yes, funny how these errors seem to always work out in the big company's favor.
It will be easier for governments to shut down small instances and smear the owners. I don't think decentralisation has much security value.
McDonald's are like public utilities: you get wifi, electrical outlets, seats, air conditioning, bathrooms. All for the admission price of a $1 meal.
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Interestingly, gravitational waves might end up a good idea. We now have a couple of patterns to look for, and many giant concrete slabs might have them accidentally recorded.
The combination of scp/ssh.

dtrace, if you consider the kernel to be ‘remote’.

The Voyager spacecrafts (in general, unassisted remote firmware update is a form of remote code execution)
If the list were to be used, I suppose it would serve as a loose guideline. Maybe it reveals a general trend of preferred versus not.
Right, so how about AI then? There's a very small risk that AI would become extremely malicious and wipe out the entire race. In other words, the risk is infinite. Since there is some (albeit very little) information that this might happen, should we spend all our resources on preventing that?
Current policies will give more opportunities for Americans.

Trump understands something that technology elites don't; the wealth pie is limited and you have to be deliberate in how you slice it and who you give those slices to.
That's the key question imo.

I run an instance and the last 2-3 days I've been flooded with spam bots. Reading github issues and toot threads I've noticed it's a big issue and has been coming in waves on other instances this summer.

I like to draw parallels to e-mail because Mastodon's issues are very similar to the issues we had with email in the 90s.

So I've seen mastodon instance admins mention things like maintaining centralized blacklists. I've even seen people mention using spamassassin to train on mastodon toots instead of mails.

Sign-ups of spambots are likely automated yet reCaptcha is out of the question because Mastodon users tend to dislike big corporations like Google.

I hope VisualCaptcha is a viable option but we'll see.

Some claim that captcha is a waste of time altogether because they can be defeated but my opinion is that it would still protect against most less sophisticated bot networks.

Short answer; right now there is no real solution other than manually banning and adding server IPs to a 800+ strong list of banned IP subnets maintained on github. There is also the option of banning MX servers because the last wave of bot signups all used the same backend MX server. Even though they used a ton of e-mail domains.

And of course requiring confirmation of new accounts by admins.

I predict spam is going to be a very hot topic in the fediverse for a while still.

Mastodon is community driven, not backed by any one big corporation. Anything driven by the internet community is going to be wilder than a centralized solution. It will be the wild wild west of social media. There is no denying or escaping that fact.
How times change, $320 would be considered a very cheap student price for a software package a couple of decades ago.
I’m using TablePlus and it’s pretty good. https://tableplus.io/
The move has repercussions far beyond the immediate issue. This nefarious project can't be viewed in isolation with far worse ramifications that will follow. My viewpoint brings that in focus. I still don't know why you accused me "all of my comments are on Hindus", when none was in fact disparaging to Indians or Hindus.
No, the part that can solve this is the fast time from insensitive to sensitive, which is shorter than the time form sensitive to no longer sensitive. You will need a pulse with a short enough duration, e.g. a Q-switched Nd:YAG with frequency doubling giving you up to about a dozen Joules at up to a few hundred Hz with pulse durations of under 50 ns, and, while limited in some ways by breakdown peak power in components, a lower limit of about .5 ns.

Most of the shutter time is used to copy the data to the shadow pixel, but just releasing the dark pull won't take long.
-Vice is garbage

-Sarah Jeong is as bad of a person as her tweets suggest
"Today nobody learning biology or medicine begins with Darwin, Galen, or Hippocrates"

I don't think those three (or all dead white men in general) exist on an equal footing. An educated person should read Darwin, even though modern evolutionary theory has moved beyond. I think Galen and Hippocrates are less important, although I must admit I say that out of ignorance, as I know little about them besides their names, the existence of the Hippocratic Oath, and the general sense that Galen is not at all relevant to modern medicine.

The thing about reading historical stuff is that in trying to learn something, it is useful to know how the first human who understood it learned it, as well as how some people think you should approach it today.

Some things developed in the past have been completely overturned and are clearly obsolete, but some have not - calculus, Newtonian mechanics, etc.
Oh wow sorry about that. Thx for the heads up
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Which is sad, tbh. Because global shutter, white slightly more expensive in terms of area for a given SNR, can do things to both compensate and just generally do "weird" things.
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If the creator of this is reading this - can you please stop flipping the board every time we click 'Next move'? It makes it impossible to follow the game. Thanks
Anyone remember the TV show Fringe? I seem to remember them using science fiction tech like that. Life imitates art.
How do you track remote employees hours?
We are a team of Seven engineers. Four engineers are based on hourly salary. At the end of each 2 weeks, they sent me the number of hours they worked, then I pay them.

Upwork has a nice time tracker software that lets employees log in, track the hours, and send me screenshots of the their screen along with total hours. But, I am not using Upwork anymore.

Is there any similar software that let me do that? How do you usually go about tracking employees hours?
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I have a feeling it already is one. In my timeline there are a lot of LGBQT activists (which I think is the case for much of Mastodon at the moment?), and since I generally agree with how they'd like to see the world and am otherwise not really involved with that movement, I don't really interact with those posts. However, I see a lot of "I simply blocked this hateful person lalalalalala" which makes me, as an outsider, feel uncomfortable, and I feel hesitant even to try to respond with even a slightly different view.
It's correct. Canada includes spouses in the comparison, like you say, but with far less weighting than the principal applicant.

Usually the numbers don't work out to penalize the couple for the less qualified spouse in all but the most extreme Canadian immigration examples. A spouse having the opposite impact (helping the numbers) is far more common.

Under Trump's proposal, having a modestly less qualified spouse would hurt the principal applicant, unlike the normal Canadian immigration outcome.

I should note that the link you gave is not the points system used for approval, just the one that affects who can apply when, using certain of the many application pathways. A different points system is used for approval.

Source: immigrated to Canada myself. I don't have a spouse but I had reason to study the rules closely.
Since this is tied to Jsonapi, it seems like you should do this by referring to the named relationship. Something like 'X-Push-Related: author' if you were getting the article resource from the Jsonapi docs.

The server would then respond with a 'Link: /articles/1/author' header.
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A slippery slope, but yeah, that rubbish had to go.
Life doesn't have to be a zero sum game.
Their platform, their rules.

Good on Apple I say.
Wouldn’t a decentralized social network be more prone to delvelop more extremist groups? I mean if anyone can create an instance, then extremists from all the political spectrum will be able to moderate their own instances, in other words they will censor those who think differently and encourage their own views creating a loop that could potentially create more myopic-extremist views, or is there something I’m missing?
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You don't need a blockchain for that, you can just hash/sign your data (or changesets).

Blockchain's innovation is to allow a group to come to a consensus about a change that happened, that doesn't allow one person to later say "no no I meant something else". I.e. no double spending.
The only thing rubbish here is blatant disregard for freedom of speech (Didn't really expect anything different from the fools here). There are platforms that are monopoly and they control free speech at this point.
I have direct personal experience of Hong Kong's points-based scheme, the Quality Migrant Admission Scheme - which, it should be noted, is a very niche scheme, largely unknown even amongst expats. The vast majority of skilled immigration comes on a simple sponsored work visa...

QMAS gives you a few extra points (5) if you are applying alongside a degree-level-educated spouse, and a few more if you're bringing children (5 or 10 for 1 or 2 children). Given that the 'pass mark' is 80 - which doesn't guarantee a visa, just allows you to apply - it's neither a trivial amount nor a particularly significant one.
I still hear from a lot of the younger programmers there that feel like they're still working on revolutionary social tech. Aside from everything that has happened in recent years regarding Facebook, these people always cite the fact that Facebook has connected a lot of the world together in the social graph and that somehow outweighs all the negative consequences.
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Their bakery, their rules.
I've never listened to it, and in fact I have no idea who that guy is or what he talks about, except that he's supposedly a conspiracy theorist. For those of you who have, what made his show so objectionable (to Apple, anyway)?
Fire in a crowded theatre?
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I don't see decentralization as ultimate goal. Why should it be?
Exactly, now let's make open decentralized app distribution platforms that cannot be censored like this.
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Thoughts on net neutrality?
He supports POTUS.
Freedom of speech only applies to the government. It doesn't require any private actor to tolerate crazy, hate filled nonsense on their platforms.

It's his right to continue to spew his garbage, he just has to do it elsewhere.
Thanks for posting, I didn't realize aphantasia was a thing until now.
He claimed the Sandy Hook shooting never happened for example and that the parents of the victims were actors
> But economics and philosophy, and even parts of cognitive science and psychology still do exactly this.

Economics absolutely does not do this. Philosophy might, depending on the program, approximate it for a very loose understanding of “primary teaching text”. But philosophy isn't even in principal a discovery-of-the-correct-in-a-falsifiable-domain process (it once included that, but that part since had been split out of philosophy as empirical science.)

> But economics and philosophy still expect their neophytes to read with care the scrolls of ancient dead white men as if their words had been written on clay tablets by the gods.

No, they don't; economics doesn't usually expect neophytes to read non-current texts at all, and philosophy might have you read ancient texts (or excerpts therefrom) early on, but only explicitly critically, not “as if their words had been written on clay tablets by the gods.”

> Surely that is a point worth reconsidering.

It would be, were it true.
“Freedom of speech” does not include the right to demand that third parties are partners in your activities.

Infowars is and should remain free to publish content independently of these providers, which they can easily do.
Interesting. So a forest in equilibrium emits (dead trees rotting) the same amount of co2 than what it uses via photosynthesis?
He lies constantly and has actively slandered mass murder victims.
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I think Apple is completely in the right here. They are enforcing a policy and if people don’t like that they don’t have to find podcasts through iTunes.

Luckily podcasts are designed to be decentralized, so even if Apple gets too trigger-happy with banning certain podcasts, that won’t affect anyone’s ability to still subscribe to those podcasts.
Freedom of speech only applies to the government. Apple as a private company is free to censor whatever they want. Not saying that they necessarily should but it is well within their rights.
Americans probably don't even realize how evil current administration is towards legal immigrants.

They are actively pushing away legal immigrants who contribute to society.

I don't see the following people wanting to live in a racist, anti immigrant, anti intellectual country:

- Nobel Laureates (budding geniuses especially)?

- Top scientists?

- Good engineers?

- Medical practitioners?

- Researchers?

- People who are family oriented?

Can anyone imagine a well-to-do, well-educated immigrant from a good country ever wanting to deal with US immigration nonsense? Especially, if they can be kicked out or denaturalized? I certainly can't.

In fact, the only people who would come to the US (now that the curtain on American racism is up) are the exact people their politicians over emphasize on aka gang members, asylum seekers, fleeing shitty conditions back home, have nothing else going on.

Such a paradox!
Podcasts are decentralized already. The feed is still there, just not in Apple’s opt-in index any longer.
Floating ideas is not "Fire in a crowded theatre"!
The principle of free speech has to do with the systematic extermination of a widespread viewpoint (ex:Tienamen Square in China).

This is one company/guy getting booted off a private platform. He is still able to go to other platforms or apply for public permits to express his viewpoint.
How do you track industry news and competitors?
Say you're interested in a new topic and want to follow interesting news related to it, or what other players are doing in the space.

How do you get your daily news summary on it?

Any good apps/sites to recommend, thanks
"Hate mongering Conspiracy theorist" is not a protected class.
> "Apple does not tolerate hate speech, and we have clear guidelines that creators and developers must follow to ensure we provide a safe environment for all of our users"

Is rap going away from iTunes, too?
Is Apple going to remove the “Punch Trump” apps?
Is Apple going to ban the New York Times from News for their new outspoken racist board member?

Tech-Left censorship is at fascist fantasy levels.
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Nor is LGBT
Pretty sure that's precisely what makes Joe's views more appealing to many (most?) people.
> Please don't go into attack mode here. [...]

> Edit: it looks like we've already had to warn you about not being a bully on Hacker News. Moreover, it looks like you've been posting like this a lot.

OK then, please be more specific here. You're being so generic that I can't
tell what exactly is wrong with my posts (apart from being disliked) and what
should I change to keep me from being banned. The only thing I can think of is
to stay away from any commenting at all. If you criticise from your high
horse of being a moderator and wielding the power to ban people, at least be
constructive in doing so.
With the current state of comments, I agree with what you've said.

However, if you think about it, there's a reason why comment policies contains stuff like "Before commenting, ask yourself if you'd say the same thing to that person in real life".

There's demand to approach comments as you'd approach them in real life. Not just saying everything you feel out loud without responsibility. It's just not happening though because people can hide behind the keyboard.

This is something we want to fix with the stickers and gifs restrictions which you could think of as the reaction of the person eavesdropping in your conversation if you happen to see it. Plus, stickers and gifs can usually sum up a persons thoughts and emotions as well. We could already see chat apps having minimal conversation by just using them.
Go right ahead. And then watch as nobody uses them.

Because nobody other than a fringe minority actually wants free speech in all its deranged, violent, racist, mysgonistic, cruel, abusive forms. The majority of us just want a nice, safe space free from the nasty side of humanity.
You score lower points in Canadian system too, if your spouse is less qualified. But the point impact is maximum 40 points. It can absolutely hurt some people. Here's the spousal impact:- https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se...

Source: Immigrant to Canada and Australia. Helped at least 10 people immigrate through provincial nominee and Express Entry programs.

Edit:- Your Quebec reply. My brother immigrated through Quebec route too. Also, the spousal changes happened very very recently August 2nd. And Quebec is not the route that most immigrants to Canada take, it is Express Entry.
This should work like Domain <-> web Hosting type. So you can register your id at one place (similar to domain with any tld registrar) and change to another instance (web hosting). So you do not lose the need to change the id when changing instance.
We are living in a state of monopoly and EU laws agree with that. How can you then throw away freedom of speech! Just cause the goons on this forum are pissed, doesn't mean that guy should be banned. 48% of population voted for trump!
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For those who run global businesses, how did you go about doing trademarks?

Submit in home country then madrid protocol or other?
And did you do it yourself or hire a trademark attorney?

Thanks
Love it, specially given that it makes use of Qt.
So why now. Sandy Hook was five years ago.
Saying Sandy Hook didn’t happen and that the parents were actors is not “floating ideas”.
Koebler was not the original story author, but he was the editor who contacted Naomi to 'give her the opportunity to' respond to the messageboard accusations.
There's a couple of interesting things here...

Firstly, Naomi is a person with a certain style - in both a personal and physical sense. She is not one to back down from a fight, but she clearly lost this one and still feels the loss pretty strongly.

Secondly, it's interesting because, when you strip it down a bit, it does appear to be a case of an Asian-American woman coming to the defence of an American company and white male writer/editor, unsolicited, in a dispute with a Chinese woman. It doesn't seem to mesh all that well with the other narrative of Sarah as an anti-white racist...
I fixed the typo, the factor of a half should have been on the other side of the equation. To actually calculate a realistic probability would require more work; farther objects would imply higher attenuation, etc.
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They can look at other people's comments and in that way see how the platform works, without typing their email. Like here at HN, you can look at this topic and read other people's comments, also before you've created an account (typed your email) yourself.

... Aha, now I see you've added a demo :- )
This reminds me of the questions "back in the day" (2005 and earlier?) before LCD screens becames affordable. Lots of people wanted to know how to repurpose laptop screens as generic monitors when the laptop died.

Unfortunately I think the answer was always "it's complicated, non-standard and not worth it"

Things may have changed since then, I just wanted to share...
That depends where you live.
But where does "partner" start? Is your cloud provider a partner to what you put online? Is Comcast partner to what you do online with your internet connection? Is your electricity company partner to what you do with your energy?
Probably the users just thought the game was buggy normally and were relieved they didn't buy it.
As a reminder to everyone: the constitutional guarantee to freedom of speech means that the _government_ cannot censor any views (outside of certain exceptions for threatening language, and the like). It does not mean that a private entity has to enable speech that they find objectionable.
So does Fox News and their content is available everywhere.
> We are living in a state of monopoly

In what sense? Apple has a minority of the market. And podcasts are decentralised.

> 48% of population voted for trump

My friends who voted for Trump would find it insulting for anyone to assume they are therefore InfoWars nutters.
Slandering and encouraging harassment against the families of mass murder victims is not "floating ideas".
> "Cities’ productivity would increase, as would the wages of native-born high-skilled Americans, if more H-1B workers and skilled permanent residents were allowed to come."

Please stop with this non-sense. You can be for or against the H-1B program, i don't care, but there is zero doubt that US citizens would be collecting way higher paychecks if the H-1B program did not exist. Thats simply supply and demand on the (tech-)labour market.
So you support the idea that Verizon and AT&T should be free to block whatever content they wish, correct?
I hope he has all the money he needs to live happy and safe. Because else I'd feel like the ethical thing for him would be to charge more.
He supports denial of reality, and he's reaching (part of) his audience on Apple's platform. They are within their rights to elect to remove him if he violates their terms of service.

I'm pretty sure there are plenty of other podcasts that support POTUS that haven't been removed.
It’s something completely different, and invoking the term for unrelated concepts is bound to muddy the waters and doom the fight for actual net neutrality.
Apple does not have a monopoly on podcast distribution. Infowars is not being kicked off because “Trump”.
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Been burned down to the last bit.
Hats off.
Oh really?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Jeong