skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a difference between thinking that a certain social medium, "works" because of moderation (such as HN), and between thinking that NO uncensored platform should ever exist.

I enjoy lots moderated platforms. But I still think it is important that uncensored platforms like gab exist at all.
You don't joke about things that affect your companies stock price when you are the CEO and own 20% of said stock. He will face massive fines and possibly go to jail if he cannot reasonably back up his claims (like if it was a joke).
My biggest concern is how long will it take to warm up from cold? But it's good knowing that it'll remain warm for 15 min.
Hospitals also hire people who went already through an even more rigorous screening process than even exists in our field just to become eligible to be nurses and doctors.

Once you're an RN or an MD with all the appropriate qualifications, assuming you're not outright faking them, they can be reasonably confident that you are, in fact, a competent nurse or physician and move on from there.

We don't have that, and so we have to spend a lot of time making sure that a prospective candidate even has the basic skills and qualifications of a software engineer.
The cops probably scared them away while they were in the act.
Apple runs into another embarrassing issue with the new MacBook Pro
Possibly of interest:

https://github.com/chrisvoncsefalvay/learn-julia-the-hard-wa...
I spent done time digging through the posts (and researching the view points).
My conclusion: This article and the Twitter posts feel like an advertisement for Gab. It's currently building a userbase, primarily from people banned from Twitter for expressing extreme views. In this case it's capitalizing on a very well known user, a stance supporting the user, and the user self censoring.

Something feels off (see my quote). This is timed around Gab seeking funding (see Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/getongab/status/10275500729328517...)

I suspect further exposure will push Gab to censor. However in the interim: it will grow based on the controversy to ban/remain open

quoting my own reply
>Researching Gab: the posts from Gab was immediately followed by a funding request. Users pointing out how it appears to be "Twitter for racists" add (cherry picked) posts highlighting the advocation of destruction if Jewish memorials (and enslavement of the Jewish people).

>To comment on the article: this appears to be shining the sun on what appears a racist bastion advocating violence. (I might be wrong. Gab didn't remove the posts, the user did) Or to rephrase Microsoft's threat as I'm seeing it: if [Gab] does not remove a post [advocating violence] , Gab must seek hosting on another platform.

>So which strategy worked? Ban or exposure? For Microsoft? For Gab? For the user?

>I don't know that the answer is the same for each group. I suspect given the article, exposure pushed Microsoft to push for a ban. A ban pressured the user, by thinking their platform. So where does Gab stand?
Aurora Serverless MySQL Generally Available
Bicycle helmet laws are designed to discourage cycling.

http://www.cyclehelmets.org/1194.html
Arch's default is Python 3, but there are still many official Python 2 packages, mostly in community i.e. adopted from the AUR:

Core: 1

Extra: 96

Community: 822

AUR: Over 2300 depending on how you search
In India they show vary serious warning message with photo on each cigarette box ,

but I did not see the same think in Japan (I am not sure about other countries)
Coroner letters changed habits of doctors whose patients died of overdoses
There might also be more of a social stigma against women smoking. In the West smoking amongst women was portrayed as dangerous and sexy, while for men it was just part of a hard day’s work. That sort of marketing would translate better for men than for women in more traditional cultures.
That's irrelevant. Unless you can show that the in place regimes would not have extracted the oil (something not even Norway can resist), the wars had no impact on its presence in the market (other than perhaps a delay during instability).
For testing and development databases, would prefer to scale to zero. Weird that they don't offer that as an option.
Well, this sort of gets to the heart of it, doesn't it? A lot of what's being called a problem is basically people who go Gish galloping; they spew easily-refuted statements, rarely if ever offer any evidence or anything else to back them up, but if you so much as hint at the possibility that perhaps they might have said something a little bit mistaken, they come down on you like a ton of bricks with demands for citations and evidence. And on a platform like Twitter, it's not even one person who does that; wade into the wrong thread and you might have hundreds or thousands of people mobbing you with "citation needed" and ignoring any evidence you don't personally direct at them and them alone (and that's being charitable; most of them ignore evidence, period).

This wears people down quickly to the point that they just give up on challenging incorrect information, and then the people who spew it win by default and take over whatever platform they're on.

Why shouldn't platforms have the freedom to put a stop to that if they choose? What value is there in claiming "neutrality" on this (and really, there is no "neutral" -- there's only enabling it, or not enabling it, the platform's owners don't get to claim they're just bystanders when they're, y'know, providing the platform)?
I see you conveniently ignored the rest of my comment.
thanks for the link. I have been using flux for years and recommending it to my friends too.. just donated a small amount..
How Modern Advancements Have Changed Solid Waste Management
CNN??? The ones who invented ADHD news: “not necessarily correct, we never check our sources, but you’ll forget by tomorrow”

NYT is a tool of political control. More sophisticated than Jones, but so what? Their readers want to feign being better than their cab driver.

NYT will publish mostly truths to Jones’ mostly trash but in a way that is as manipulative.

NYT’s Friedman will write a peon on MBS while the man commits a genicide in Yemen

Read Chomsky, Seymour Hersh, or Robert Perry. There is no journalism in America.
A wind plant that burst between not enough and too much is not the same thing as a constant source. Giving away energy to Nevada is an example of a failure, not a stable source.
Says who? Even if half of the world population were to die off, those in developed countries will barely notice. Just throw some automation at it, which we're doing anyway, and we can even increase our quality of life while third world countries go to, quite literally, hell.
I was turned off from Oracle over 15 years ago when I couldn't find a price on thier Webster - buying anything from Oracle is like dealing with a car salesman. At least MS gives you upfront pricing. There are some nice features of Sql Server if you're using other peoples money. But it wouldn't be my first choice.
iTelegram – “Fast. Guaranteed. Hand-Delivered. That's a Telegram.”
The profile page - http://www.cnciweb.com/id2.html - indicates support for Windows XP, CDROM, DOS, multimedia, but no mention of Notes. How can we be sure they're qualified?
Waste recycling plant
A team I was on at Google (XLA, the compiler for TPUs) used whiteboards almost daily to express algorithms to each other. Definitely helpful for us, but I can see that just being a single team's dynamic.

No comment on it being an effective interview process.
One of the few things I despised about traveling in Europe was people smoking inside like it was the 70's. Almost lost it over a couple puffing away in the dairy section of the super market, managed to keep my mouth shut.

Shame because I otherwise loved my time there.
> What really annoys me is that it's always the same side that is "censored"

Untrue. Religious extremist content has been silently taken down for years.

People advocating for workers rights, anarchists and communists have all had a history of facing censorship online.
There are massive warnings on the packs in New Zealand. I believe they can't use any branding at all on the packs in Australia.
Editorial staffs have been decimated for decades.

There is far less fact checking than before, far fewer corespondents and almost all military reporting is through access-journalism: “our give us pretty footage, we’ll write nice things”

At which point I prefer Jones: so trashy that I know it’s BS
I'm inclined to agree, having lived in two different cultures. And most of these dysfunctions are rooted in very similar things when you dig down far enough into them, they pretty much always come down to status issues, just differently expressed and differently rationalized.

The trick is to realize that pretty much no culture is free from this, but I won't say that all cultures are the same.
In one of the best interviews I had, the interviewer had printed off an actual (undocumented) class in one of their projects (I got the job, so I confirmed it later), then asked me to tell him what it did, and if there was anything I would do to improve it. I think he might have added a couple of logic or syntax issues as well, but I can't quite remember anymore.

I've been on dozens of interviews, and that's the only time I've ever encountered that, but I think it does a really good job representing the job, as that's invariably what I'm going to have to do when you hire me, is sit down and familiarize myself with the code base.

He also asked me a handful of questions, said "Okay I know you know enough to do the job, let's see how much you really know," asked me a bunch of really low level stuff, and proceeded to teach me concepts when I told him I didn't know certain things. I walked out of that interview knowing more than when I walked in, something else that has never happened in all the other interviews I've had (except maybe I learned a new term that I never heard before that I was apparently supposed to regurgitate back because that's what was written down as the answer on HR's answer sheet).
Yikes, hadn't seen that one. That really is too bad, I hope this attitude doesn't permeate the company, because the platform is gaining steam.
This going to encourage dark patterns like asking for Facebook username and password for apps that want to support automation.
Ah, this kind of deflates things a bit, heh. But then concrete knowledge is better than hype, so this is still interesting.

But the fact that you can twiddle kernel memory from userspace is still fun...

I still wonder why entering debug mode got enabled on some models, but not others. 11th-hour release-to-fab glitch? :/
What I’m saying is: their speech hasn’t been blocked. Microsoft is making a decision not to align with a particular demographic, not shutting them out of public discourse.
> The people watching those videos are already true believers

No they're not. The YouTube algorithm (for example) encourages people to slowly ramp up how extreme the content they view is little by little.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/youtube...

> but every little thing that chips away at the lies they've been told helps.

You're assuming they even see this content. The way "the algorithm" works makes it increasingly unlikely that platforms will even show you things that oppose your view.

And if they do... the backfire effect means they'll often reject your opposing view even harder. https://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/06/10/the-backfire-effect/
I was trying to figure out why countries had more women smoking than men which I’ve never observed anywhere, with regards to smoking or really any dangerous habit.
To be fair, his comment was not directed at another team, but at another body of code. (Two, actually.) The context makes it not merely a dig, but constructive feedback: "Those past projects have significant flaws, and here we have an example of how to do it right." If I were an OpenVPN or IPSec developer, I think I'd swallow my pride and take this valuable opportunity to learn how to improve my work.
Argue with numbers, not emotions.

If drilling wasn't cost effective at the current price per barrel, they wouldn't do it, it's that simple. Perhaps you're underestimating how much a drilling rig can extract.

You're right about no pricing of global warming externalities, but that has nothing to do with your appeal to incredulity of 'cities on the ocean'. Have you seen the scale of a large offshore wind farm?
Can you take a screenshot because I have never seen a page of all ads? I just did a few random searches for typical highly advertisable things and I got 1-4 ads but you could still see organic search results. Granted the "asbestos lawyer" search did have half of the original screen area full of ads but scrolling down showed most of the actual page with organic search results.
If you look at thousands of years of history, it is the power over-reach that causes a swift loss of the Mandate of Heaven. Tied to human nature. Always has been, always will be. There is no superiority to the system's design.
You need opex and to show that a one hour shift is worth anything close to that. People in cold climates need heat in the dark. People in hot climates need air con in the evening after work. A 1 hour shift does little for that.
>For instance, consider white supremacy: if you give people a choice between social groups and make them feel welcome, they can use simple, self-serving logic to join the one that meets their needs. White supremacy doesn't help white people, rationally, it's just stupid, except for very convoluted goals.

Doesn't the fact that white supremacists groups still get members contradict your idea here that people won't join them?
If Sarah Jeong is not a racist, which I will concede, than she is an immature idiot mouthing off in public.

Which tarnishes the reputation of her employer.

Alex Jones is also an immature idiot. But he owns his show.
Conservatives generally want the bakery to be able to refuse to bake the cake. Why aren't they also in favor of the ISP refusing to offer service, or the host refusing to offer use of their servers?

Do you believe a baker ought to be able to refuse service to someone over religion? If so, do you believe a baker whose beliefs condemn homosexuality should be able to refuse a same-sex couple? Do you believe a baker whose religion condemns Christianity should be able to refuse Christians?

If so, do you have a problem with a hosting service cutting off a site of which it disapproves?
GCP PubSub provisioning tool at a light speed
3 New Cryptos Listed on IDEX
Electoral laws.
and that behavior would be?
Yeah it opens my eyes on the real life implementation of processors, it's not just x86 assembly, a chip is free to have anything in it.

/me sets up his x-ray machine
Just curious - what are the notable cases that you're referring to which burned credibility of our institutions? By "our", I assume you mean NATO countries (or even just the USA).
100% agree. I figure this is a big part of what turns normal developers into senior developers, and lead developers. It's easy to code. What takes wisdom is 1) knowing what not to write, and 2) self control on how you write it. As a mentor I try to convey this to the fresh new supercoders joining our team.
I would argue this is already underway. There is a concerted campaign against fast food and sugary drinks. There are all sorts of programs to encourage people to exercise. Big corporations have annual “health screenings” where they fat shame you if your BMI is a point over and you drink alcohol once a week.

The problem is that obesity is a complex problem. Not everyone who is overweight is a lazy person who eats Doritos on the couch wile watching daytime tv and wondering why they’re so overweight.

Smoking was easy: with extremely rare exception, smokers get lung cancer. Period. Smoking is one of the very few personal behaviors that basically guarantees you will get cancer. It also has the side benefit of annoying the living daylights out of people who don’t smoke which creates social pressure against it. It was pretty much a slam dunk.
We already have organized brigades demanding ISPs stop providing service to certain people. That is to say, people who spam on an industrial scale.

Do you think ISPs should instead be required to host spammers? Perhaps even to provide them extra resources to help them overcome the unfair way people's spam filters censor their valuable free speech?
Curious what you've actions yoi've personally taken. Did you stop buying things you don't need? Did you stop traveling both for work and pleasure? Did you stop buying fashion/shoes? Did you stop eating things shipped from too far away or even locally that require too many resources? If you used to live somewhere where you needed are car to commute did you start car pooling or better yet move to a city and use public transportation?
Wierd. Maybe it's just me, but I felt that way for the first 2 days.

I have made some really dynamic stuff (like 100 domains running off a single server with each of their data separate, and to add a new domain is a click away)
. I can't imagine doing that with other frameworks

> get_attr

What the fuck is that?

Also, you might be interested in webpy

http://webpy.org

> “Django lets you write web apps in Django. TurboGears lets you write web apps in TurboGears. Web.py lets you write web apps in Python.”
— Adam Atlas
Of course it’s disputed. There are lots of happy employees of tech giants. Any company with thousands and thousands of employees is going to have a wide variety of teams of varying qualities.

(And yeah, the pay makes a difference. Not a lot of places where you can make a few hundred thousand dollars a year.)
With more decentralization comes more freedom of association; I will choose to be a part of communities that I judge to have a reasonable view of what is "hatred", and those communities will, just like they do today, kick out offenders.

Decentralization will give people the opportunity to spread their hatred among themselves, without involving me, which is... exactly how things operate today.

So... Bring on infotech decentralization, I guess. It's got its merits, and for me, nothing about all this hate speech will change.
This Robot Uses Computer Vision to Find Waldo in 4.5 Seconds
Yeah, they normalized the color range to the data within each set instead of among both sets. I agree, it's confusing.
Airbnb warns that it may expel 'Unite the Right' rally participants
Even if you were to define nationalism solely based foreign-born population, the least nationalistic country would obviously be Vatican City with 100% foreign born or UAE with 84% if you want to exclude extreme outliers. The US isn't even particularly high at 14% of the population being foreign born.

And of course, restrictions on freedom of movement can't be summed up exclusively with number of immigrants. There are many countries that are much, much easier to get into than the US; people just don't want to go there as much. And of course, nationalism isn't exclusively border control. That is just one nationalistic behavior.
I scrolled for not only 30 seconds or so but at least a minute. Nowhere do I find Gab actively promoting white supremacy. As far as promoting "white supremacist talking points" this is a pretty substantially different actually supporting white supremacy, and support for that allegation is still pretty vague. The closes things I found are:

> “Hate speech” is free speech, as decided unanimously by the Supreme Court of the United States of America.

Sure, white supremacists may be more keen to protect hate speech but this statement is factually correct.

> Right-wing platforms provide refuge to digital outcasts — and Alex Jones

Again, hosting a speaker is not the same as promoting or endorsing what is said. By this logic, Berkeley endorsed Milo Y.

> At some point you have to ask yourself: just who is pushing for the censorship? Once you learn who, there is no going back. You can’t unsee what has been seen. You can’t unlearn what has been learned.

Arguably echoes allegations that Jewist people control the media, but this is vague at best.

Furthermore, the account states that it would not ban left-wing speakers that had written hateful message about whites:

> The @verge defends the anti-white hate of @sarahjeong then turns around and maligns Gab as “alt right” for defending free speech for everyone (including Sarah!)

I think official Gab twitter account is consistent Gab's claim to allow all legal speech, including hateful speech regardless of political leaning.
The talk is worth its weight in gold https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrksBdWcZgQ
The other one was an air pressure sensor, used for
detecting sudden changes in air pressure. This is the
sensor that will, among other things, detect a broken window.

Might be related to tripping this sensor in advance.
I just unclip my steering wheel, and pull out my main relay (dash mounted, race car spec). I don't think the car is going very far without those.
It's also very hard to cancel even by calling. When I cancelled my subscription last year, it wasted twenty minutes of my time even though I was firm throughout. The retaining person at one point even insulted me when I didn't catch something he said and said excuse me could you say that again - his response was to start doing an exaggerated accent of what he assumes to be my race (based on the name).
Like Uber, but for politics: The false promise of digital democracy
Was that an on-site interview or a technical interview over the phone? I did an interview at Google about 7 years ago and that sounds like the Technical Interview.

When they brought me on-site after that, I interviewed face to face with 5 or 6 people in a row (except for a lunch break), and every one of them asked me a two or three questions and then switched to tricky whiteboard problems.

I remember one was 'write a function that draws a 2D skyline from a bunch of 3D buildings', which I got totally stuck on because there's so many possible configurations of heights and widths and how they overlap that complicates it, so I didn't really know how to properly solve it.

I didn't get the job. I thought the experience was interesting at the time, and basically treated it as a free tour of Google and a chance to eat In and Out burger again, but I don't want to go through that grueling exercise again (or spend a ridiculous amount of time prepping for it... as it was I spent a solid two weeks studying for it the first time around), so I've said no to Google recruiters every time they've gotten in touch with me since.

I might have given it one more shot, though, if I were willing to move to Silicon Valley at this point in my life, but I just bought a pretty decent house and I'm not really wanting to give that up to take out a mortgage five times what I have here just to live in a smaller house in the Valley and be able to say I worked at Google.
That is fair. However, I still argue that it is not nearly as strong as it is easy for me to switch from google search to bing as most of my search results won't really change as they are basic searches but it is incredibly painful to switch social media networks as you have to rebuild your individual content and network connections for the new sight.
Isn't that Pricing Example 2?
I disassembled my laptop and removed both camera and microphone before I began using it. I did the same with my tablet.
In my case, I work for an ISP -- althoug not my ISP -- and the "cloud server" is a small virtual guest (that I manage) in one of $work's facilities. Between $work and AT&T (my home ISP), who do you think I trust more?

Many people have very little choice when it comes to the ISP they use. By setting up a "cloud server", at least they get to decide who, i.e. which cloud provider, has access to their traffic -- and can switch between providers much easier and at any time they wish.
That's not a step further, you lose the ability to use the latest version without code changes.
> The ability to scale down to zero could certainly be useful for automated testing use cases.

Isn't that exactly Pricing Example 2?