skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Software got better. Compression, deduplication, pure incremental backups (single level zero) , reverse diffs, etc all make random access read/write backups cheaper and more attractive.

I've heard it speculated that glacier's slow restore times is consistent with a large number of optical disks and robots for loading. Never heard it substantiated though.
> You have a civil right to not be placed in jail for a crime you didn't commit.

No, you don't. You have a civil right not to be imprisoned indefinitely, but you can be held in jail from the moment you're arrested to the moment a "not guilty" verdict is reached by a jury.
> Banning someone like Alex Jones is not an anti-conservative bias. It is an anti-asshole bias. No one is going to ban you for discussing tax policy.

That depends on whether assholes holding other political beliefs get banned at the same rate, or not.
They already make plenty of sense but people aren't moving because nobody else already has. It's chicken and egg.
I'm not saying you and others shouldn't be politically involved. I'm not even saying companies shouldn't contribute to political causes. I'm just saying they shouldn't encourage their workers to do so in the workplace.

You shouldn't be called a slur at work not because of the type of slur, but the fact that it is a slur at all.
Who "relies" on cross-posted tweets?
I'm not sure I understand how this would help Facebook. Isn't it better for them the more content they have? More content more readers more advertising revenue.

On the other hand there has been a lot of concerns of illegitimate accounts spreading propaganda, affecting US elections, and it may be harder for Facebook to validate accounts that basically only exist on Twitter.
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> Yet, you should respect your neo-nazi coworker,even if you were not told so.

Uh fuck no. They deserve no respect. They deserve to be fired. They deserve to be constantly told their ideology is wrong, they deserve to be shouted down when they try to spread it, and if they won't repent they deserve to die lonely and sad with a life full of regrets.
I'd say you're done whenever you've been able to predict/explain all phenomena that you believe you should be able to predict/explain using your models? Not sure if that answers your question, but if not then I'm not sure I understand what aspect of this you're confused about.
So how does DDG avoid wholesale transfer pricing to their search providers: Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex?
> The results may be good enough for plenty of folks, but I highly doubt they will ever be better than the big budget search engines.

On the other hand, that is not the criteria for them to be successful, because they are already better on a different metric: Privacy.

I find that 90% of my queries are just "who is that person?" or "what is that thing?". Those queries can be answered by DDG just as well as Google. So I'm not giving up anything, but gaining privacy. More importantly, I'm (subtly) sending a signal to the market that I find privacy is important.

Even on the 10% of queries that are complex, DDG does "good enough". I sometimes wonder if Google has the results sorted better, but I'll gladly waste a few minutes here and there in exchange for privacy.
Increasing the minimum font size makes the “code” block issue he’s talking about worse, though. Same as zooming.
Let's turn that around. In case it's not clear, these aren't my beliefs:

If my co-worker is opposing Trump, and talking about bringing more foreign workers to America, they're literally talking about lowering MY wages. They're donating money to a politician who wants to make my life harder, and make my work environment more competitive.

I can tolerate my co-worker all day, but if they're working to make my life less pleasant and workable, they're going to feel some chill.

Sorry you're eating alone immigrants, but you're working at a place with tens of thousands of native co-workers, what did you think was going to happen?
Except that it was never like that. In the old times when conservative beliefs were the norm, discrimination was brought to the workplace. There was no standard saying that you should leave your racist, misogynistic views out of the office.
This:

“Data is the new uranium, not the new oil”.

Looks like Facebook is sitting on the largest legal liability of the 21st century.

It’s kind of like being a major manufacturer in the US in 1970...you’re about to get screwed by 40+ years of environmental law (considering the river in Cleveland caught in fire in 1969, one can see why some of these laws were passed).
Or, he can let discussion continue. People posting things that you disagree with is not a "dumpster fire".
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You may want to look into consulting, specifically around rapid prototyping for non-technical founders if you’re looking to work with early stage startups but want short term engagements. There is a market for it.
Lesson: cease interning people and they won’t complain about being interned?
> micro-unicorn

Microcorn!
norway is a huge country. sure you have bigger hills, but nobody lives there. what about those places where people actually live? snow isnt that big of a problem, you have salt for that. the simple problem is norwegians have too much money for cars.

biking in the netherlands was never about the environment or vitue signalling, we do it because its necessary. tax and cost of housing is very expensive relative to our salaries. a lot of people cannot really afford cars so we need another option. its more similar to biking in china or vietnam in that sense.
Is it possible to generate income without violating an employment agreement?
I have a website I've developed in my spare time. It is not yet live, just running locally with source code in a private GitHub repo.

I'm currently employed full time. My employment agreement prohibits me from being employed elsewhere. There is also a best efforts clause (NY if that makes a difference).

I want to deploy this website without violating my employment agreement. Is it possible to generate an income from this website using a subscription model? I'm sure others in the HN community have run into a similar situation: wanting to generate a side income without disclosing the source of that income to their employer. I'm 100% certain the answer would be know if I asked for permission. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Why are stupid things like politics being proclaimed as the universal influencer behind behavioral decisions? If this is a side effect of putting fairness on a pedestal, then I don't think optimizing for fairness is the right way for society to develop.

Whatever happened to a society that has its roots in "love your neighbor and pray for those who persecute you"? Irrespective of religious beliefs, this is exactly what politically minded people want, but they go about it by hating other people and treating people as non-people - it's a huge hypocrisy and disgraceful behavior.
I think this only makes sense if you see corporations as entities completely separate from the people who work for them.

The way I see it, corporations are the people who work for them and their relationships. And since politics deals with peoples and their relationships, politics in an inherent aspect of corporations. And all attempts to separate the two by promoting politics that differ from the politics of the people in the organization is an act of propaganda.
Just because you find it difficult doesn't mean everyone does. Oh, I know you don't consider that bigotry... But I'm sure someone will.

EDIT: It should probably be pointed out that the definition of bigotry is "intolerance toward those who hold different opinions from oneself.", pulled straight from Google. "If my coworker doesn’t believe ... then I don’t respect them as a coworker or a human being" (pulled from the great-grandparent post, from the same author as the parent) fits that perfectly, no matter what the opinion in the middle is.
Of course. Changing the law can grant or deny rights, changing culture and expectations can't.
And this isn't even his first stint in that role. He first became governor in 1975.
Regarding support of Trump, Facebook indeed had an overt internal tone of enmity toward Trump, to the point that admitting to having voted for Trump would have been a frightening prospect in most circles. (I can't speak to the specifics of Palmer Luckey's foibles, only to the general tone regarding Trump.)

Regarding "All Lives Matter", there was indeed inquisition-level blowback. I vacillated between abhorrence, anguish, and rage as I watched the drama unfold.

For context: I was a Facebook employee at the time, and although I tend toward liberal ideals (despite a very conservative upbringing), I was appalled at the level of intolerance toward conservative views. Though I could not in good conscience vote for Trump (nor even throw away my vote on a third-party candidate), I continue to respect other humans who voted for Trump. That felt like a dangerous view to espouse as a Facebook employee, and I saw other employees behave with unease regarding their personal political views. Intolerance is dangerous all around, and in my opinion Facebook's internal politics have fallen (mostly unwittingly) into the trap of "not tolerating intolerance", using a liberal (pun intended) -- IMO overly broad -- definition of intolerance.
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There is a difference between "respect" and "tolerance". You don't have to 'respect' anyone's speech, but if we live in a country with Freedom of Speech, then you for sure have to tolerate things you don't agree with. Even if your company decides to ban certain speech, you can't avoid it forever...
Not with that attitude you can't.

Racists aren't (usually) racists for the fun of it. Racists are racists because they feel threatened by or lack sufficient exposure to / understanding of other races. If your goal is to cure racism, then making racists feel even more threatened is probably the least productive way of going about it.

Instead, the trick is to befriend them. Show them that there's nothing to fear. These people are more often than not just scared and confused; they're usually otherwise-decent people, and putting them at ease goes a long way toward letting them realize on their own that "hey, maybe my Jewish neighbors ain't so bad after all".

I know full well that the above is a lot easier said than done, but if you want a growling dog to stop growling at you, giving it treats is at least slightly more effective than yelling at it. On the former path, you might eventually tame the dog and get a friend out of the deal. On the latter path, it'll just growl louder and louder until it bites you.
> Getting people to show up to trial is the main one.

So I think at the top end of the spectrum this might make sense. The problem is that a very large percentage people in jail are there because their bail was literally $50 or $100 but they didn't have the money to pay it, so they end up in jail for months or years on end. And for these people, bail has zero impact on whether they show up for trial.
I don't think a "wrapper" is the right term. They aggregate results from multiple sources including their index which is built by their own spider.

Also I don't see how that negates the fact that they are doing a fantastic job against a company that's is much bigger, more powerful, more experienced and with an incredibly larger budget.
The entire device is protected with a passcode. Isn't that good enough?
> What's wrong with GMail?

> Google stopped mining it last year: https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in....

Google stopped mining it for ads, but it's disingenuous to say they stopped mining, period [0]. How do you think those Gmail suggested replies are generated?

[0]: https://variety.com/2017/digital/news/google-gmail-ads-email...
1/4 of your fellow humans are Muslim, 1.8 billion people. You are going to need at least a few hundred million more examples.
While there's an explosion of data that we keep hearing about, the aspect I'm curious about is how much of that data will at any one point be "hot" or even "warm," in that it needs to be processed and analyzed in short order (talking microseconds or nanoseconds, not in tens of seconds like tape (or more as the data then needs to be sent over a network to a server somewhere else)). Cold storage can be archived on tape or HDDs, sure, but as compute continues to grow, surely more and more data will need to be hot or warm at any given moment. Just whether that hot/warm data will grow its overall share of data in existence or simply grow at the same rate is what I wonder about.
It seems unclear if this was actually on purpose for what it's worth, but I wouldn't give them the benefit of the doubt by any means.
To test a MS-DOS database program I was writing, I replaced the WaitForKey routine with GetRandom. It was fun to watch! And I think it was a fuzzer.
https://disaster.radio is a neat little project that might be helpful for building something like this.
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Our neighbors growing up had a house built into the side of a hill like that. It is warmer in the winter, and cooler in the summer. It really seemed to work well, if you don't mind part of the house not getting light. They put a ton of windows/skylights in the front to mitigate that.
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Interesting. Now how do we turn this into virtual currency?
Optical discs are now up to 300 GB and they have caddies the size of an LTO tape that hold 12 discs. Seek time is obviously better than tape but I don't know about the price. The only remaining vendors are/were Sony and Panasonic.

https://panasonic.net/cns/archiver/

https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2016/03/everspan-optical-c... (Sony Everspan dropped off the Internet; did they go out of business?)
The burden of proof for efficacy is on the ones dragging employees into mandatory meetings about non-work-related material.

But just for fun, here's another HBR article that shows that "the three most popular interventions make firms less diverse."

https://hbr.org/2016/07/why-diversity-programs-fail
> Why does Facebook think it has the right to remove years of their users' contributions?

How much were they paying for the service?
ChromeOS is touch friendly, and there are several really good and inexpensive Chromebooks with 180 degree hinges for a tablet-like form factor.
Are we talking about Mastodon? Can you provide any more information to what you two are talking about?
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I think we both agree that's a ridiculous and unrealistic example.

I'm not the type to raise political or religious issues at work, unless it relates to the decision or task at hand. If my company were to consider donating to a conservative Islamic charity for International Women's Day, for example, then I might offer my perspective. Otherwise, why start workplace conversations that are likely to be divisive, distracting, and unproductive?
Marketers, advertisers, social media consultants.
I hate infinite scroll.
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> Unfortunately the "YOUR BANK LTD" certs have a major drawback: No obscure / arbitrary subdomains.

Why is that a drawback from a user POV? I wish sites would try hard to keep there stuff in one part of the DNS name-tree if only to make uMatrix easier to use. I'm glad of anything that encourages them to do so.
If you hate conservatives and want to stamp them out, then by your own logic they’d be completely justified in preemptively stamping you out before you get the chance to do it to them.
Politics are involved whether you like it or not. The idea of open-source software is a deeply political one.
I have no doubt that political conversations do come up, but they don't really factor into the actual work that takes place --- probably because, as someone who lead me through one warned, "the machines don't care who you are or what you think. Get yourself in the wrong place and they'll eat you alive."
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So then gangs or cartel members could just forcibly “offer up” a free citizen, then skip trial while someone they don’t care about sits in jail?
Maybe from an AI perspective, it's impressive that the bots almost managed to learn the rules of the (still drastically simplified subset) game. From a game skill point of view, it's a joke; it's incredibly obvious that the bots were only able to prolong the game due to consistently better than human mechanical skill.

Of the list of skills you mentioned that the bots "learned", on the main stage, the draft was provided by humans, and from a significantly limited set, the bots never pressured highground, checked for Roshan when it was impossible for it to be up, had nonsensical placement of vision (placed vision where vision already existed), continuously invested in anti-invisibility consumables even when the opposition team had no invisibility.

If the mechanical skills were toned down to human levels, I don't think the latest iteration of the bot on the latest ruleset can even compete with the average human player, much less the pros.
> By default, people who get arrested just stay in jail.

In a money bail system, sure. But artificially creating a worse default doesn't make the relatively better condition good.

Jail as pretrial default is imprisoning the accused, who are presumed innocent, which is a cost (both an economic cost and a liberty cost.)

In a pretrial services model, pretrial detention is exceptional, not default.
you asked if there was any evidence and then when evidence was given you dismissed it. do you know what the word "any" means? also this is argument in bad faith (asking for evidence and then discounting validity).
You don't have to be shot to feel the bitter sting of being an outcast. Try getting a job with a foreign or black name, your chances of getting a callback are significantly diminished [1]

Being shot by a police officer is a symptom of the disease, but you can see the effects on a daily basis if you take time to notice.

[1] https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/minorities-who-whiten-job-resumes...
This is the most salient point in the elixir thread so far. If you are heavily invested in OOP, no functional or immutable language is really going to do it for you. Period.
Those aren't scare-quotes. Those are normal quotes. The title is quoting "Some Facbook Employees."
>theorists will happily write up some reason for why it has to be that way.

They'll write down a model that describes it, which is all theorists' job to begin with.
Exactly as much as Facebook would allow them to.
"How about pangolins then? Or giraffes? I know, let's start a moment to protect all endagered species - including whales!" How is this "all endagered animals matter" a bad thing?

For what it's worth, I don't object to either "all species" or just whales. Regardless of whether someone is trying to protect all or focus their attention on one specific species, they're both working towards a good cause - though I do disapprove of the former trying to substitute the latter or vice versa.
I don’t know what people are complaining about. You should’ve known when you signed up for America Online that it wasn’t the “full internet”. If you want that you should buy dialup from a real ISP.
Is it relevant that Brownsville is one of Brooklyn's most dangerous neighborhoods?
>or you literally go to jail without a trial.

You go to jail until your trial. Not quite the same thing.
There's zero chance that it's truly been deleted - it's just not available to users anymore. Facebook wants that data with its associated discussions and interactions just as much or more than the person posting it does.
And all those comments are gone now. That's the real "oof" of this for me, as someone who did most of my facebook posting via twitter :(.
Also extra materials can usually be returned which saves a lot of time vs making yet another run to the store.
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> Instead, the trick is to befriend them. Show them that there's nothing to fear.

This doesn’t work[1]. Allowing parasitical ideology the space to express itself only emboldens it.

[1] All of recorded history
There is no comparison between those two socket implementations. There's several orders of magnitude difference between what elixir and Ruby will support on a single server there.
No, one could not argue that in any seriousness. All Lives Matter is being used primarily as an attempt to diminish Black Lives Matter.
> intelligent

Not enough to matter, if at all, because they still can only qualify as ...

> animals

... and therefore are not due even vaguely similar rights/considerations as people.
This could very well be the most clever hack I've seen all month.
They definitely would not delete any data. Just remove any display or access to it.
Pretty annoying. This is following them completely banning any "posting" on behalf of users via API. (e.g the feature to cross-post tweets)

While this change was definitely made in the interest of preventing spam, it also made Facebook worse as a product. We've had plenty of requests from our users who want a "share an image of my book passage to FB" feature. Not possible at all with their new stricter APIs.
They could remove the Share content instead, so feeds empty down into what friends and family are doing instead of whatever Fwd:Fwd:Fwd: manages to press the most viral buttons.

/one can dream
This is the military, where stuff gets routinely destroyed in normal use. It's probably more cost-effective to engineer for a finite lifespan, because even if they were designed to last longer, they are unlikely to.
The problem here is the dichotomy of "ownership" in social media platforms.

Facebook (and others) know that giving you that feeling of ownership and customization keeps you coming back. The Twitter Avatar, the Facebook profile, the MySpace page. All those posts on your profile add to your collection, your customization. They let you control that little bit so that you feel like you own it in some way. Did you love that old car so much that you put a bumper sticker on it, or did putting a bumper sticker on it make it more "yours" and so you loved it more? Same idea.

But you don't own it. Nothing you post on those platforms belongs to you anymore. It's theirs, to do with as they wish. And in this case, Facebook decided that retroactively deleting all that content that lets you be aware of other platforms was good for their bottom line- do they did what they wanted with their property.

Facebook deleted their posts. You only thought they were yours because Facebook makes more money if you think that.
Up front, I believe it's for the good of American society that more women should be in tech in America. That said, I think companies should go out there and ensure they engage people at the start, in Elementary school. Be they women, blacks and even whites (see the many H1Bs we need to shore up demand).

But... I don't think this should be a PR stunt. Or should be politicized. Go out there, and do the hard work. Engage all people and recruit the whole eligible population. It's in our interest, but don't politicize it and don't introduce politicized quotes. Do it methodically without pretenses.
This reasoning is a distraction. The fact is that it is unhelpful and slack works fine.
Is there actually any chaining going on, or is this a standard "trusted timestamp"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping
Ahh, the old old old saying, "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a stationwagon full of tapes" still holds true.
No there isn’t. People who oppose free speech have claimed to be protecting people from just about anything you can imagine. “I’m protecting you from...” is how every censorship effort in history has been framed.

It’s not the government’s job to protect you from ideas you don’t like, and people who live in a free society have the responsibility to think for themselves.
I’m having a hard time caring about any one of these.