skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could we discuss at least a little bit that this culture of "I must not be blamed" is toxic ?

Companies must sometimes choose between pest and cholera. Having search in China would let millions of Chinese citizens improve themselves a LOT. It would make Chinese censorship a lot harder as well. It would have pretty damn good effects. A billion people would get access to a LOT of information they don't currently have access to.

And it would collaborate with a criminal regime. You can criticize that ... evil !

Not doing it, while less criticizeable, would imho be more evil.
tome's law https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17978737
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Sounds amazing, thanks for sharing a slice out of your life!

Did you teach the words?
Debian gets sponsored by various ways but the money isn't used directly for developers nor their time. It is volunteer based project and money is usually used for hardware, sprints, conferences, outreachy etc.

That said Debian does take it seriously when it comes to privacy and security so you can always report bugs on such. Do note that Debian's Chromium builds have always disabled the infamous "mic always on" option which Chromium has (or had, didn't check) by default.

Btw, Debian now moved to gitlab hosting (their own instance salsa.debian.org) so it should be much easier to contribute to Debian now. :)

P.S. while Debian Developer myself, I stay away a lot from browser and especially Chromium, and I always suggest Firefox (it has really got better last year or so).
> https://mailinabox.email/ - no docker, no multiple domains, roundcube, nextcloud for groupware. Main disadvantage or advantage, depending on your perspective is that you need a mailinabox server per domain.

Are you sure? I am running mailinabox and have multiple domains and accounts with no issue.
By "doing fine", I refer to them having real, measurable progress on every single release (which happens every 6 weeks like clockwork) since 1.0 and probably before too, plus the ecosystem growing.
I don't see a redirect to "Gun Control" in the page history. It is currently a redirect to "Right to Keep and Bear Arms", yes; but before that, it was a disambiguation page that had a brief explanation of various meanings, and links to several other, more detailed pages. So if Google captured that, shouldn't it be linking to that disambiguation page?

Even then, one could imagine that the Google could somehow detect that it is not a particularly informative page, and pick the most likely disambiguation link out of it. Logically speaking, that would be first link in the list. But before the page was changed to be a pure redirect, it had the following blurb at the very beginning:

The term "'''Gun rights'''" may refer to:

* The legal concept of the [[right to keep and bear arms]]

* [[Gun control]], the set of laws or policies that regulate the
manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification, or use
of firearms by civilians.

...

So, why would the algorithm pick the second link, specifically? And why hasn't it re-indexed the page since?

FWIW, I don't think this is the case of deliberate changing of search results. But I suspect that their algorithm is inadvertently picking up bias from somewhere else, and applying it here.
I can no longer edit it, but I don't think articles like these age poorly. Parrot behavior hasn't changed much since I was a kid.
Sad upvote... :(
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If you don’t understand, maybe Consider the objections, instead of ( unintentionally) writing as if the people who object are presumed abusive or bigoted.

That wasn’t your intention because you meant to just say you have no problem accepting criticism. But that’s the implication.

And the idea of guilty until proven innocent, but you can’t defend yourself because you will never hear the accusation and your attacker can remain anonymous while you are drummed out of a job based on lies without a chance to defend yourself should be offensive to all reasonable people.

That’s what these “CoCs” do and that’s how they are used.

Look at drupal- the guy attacked for being kinky (really he was attacked because someone didn’t like him and the CoC gave them power to vindictively gee back at him.). Look at the numerous attacks the author of the CoC has perpetrated. Look at the listing of the head of Mozilla for the “crime” of not being a Marxist.

This is an age where people are being reported to HR for the “hate crime” of bringing Chik-Fil-a in for lunch!
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I want to add that, even though (as stated in the article) polite language doesn't imply good intentions, it's a good start nevertheless.
Does anyone have experience using these in the UK as an expat (US)?
Doing there jobs basically entails increasing your spend: whether by broadening your keyword phrases, adding irrelevant keywords, expanding your geo-location region, or increasing your bids.

Worse is when you get billed for clicks for inactive campaigns, even ones that were never enabled.
Wow the book seems to be physical only. No ebook!
Must I also keep the TV un-muted and watch the advertisements?
I've been paying €4.90 for N26 Black since it was released. I can say that it is definitely not worth €9.90. I wonder if my price will end up increasing.
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We are rather young and whant tolive
I just use a whiteboard or paper. Nothing beats it IMO because at this stage you want to create a brain dump and chances are you'll be making a lot of changes.

With most programs, you'll spend half your time battling its UI and trying to get around limitations.
If you read the official Drupal statement it comes across very differently: https://www.drupal.org/association/blog/drupal-association-a...

There was a dispute which was being handled privately, and in consultation with Larry, but he decided to attack the project in public over it.
I always op for "next business day on site warranty."
Unfortunately my laptops have the tendency to break on a late Friday evening. I call the helpdesk on Monday morning to have the device repaired on Tuesday, four days after it broke.
Meta data is more than enough. They don't even care about the contents.
> the code of conduct simply killed any interest in contributing to it

It looks like the only plausible way to undo the addition of the CoC is if enough contributors rescind the license to use their contribution. Given that the kernel is licensed under GPL v2, this seems to be a real possibility (GPL v3 prevents this scenario).
> all their servers are hosted in the US

Not true, they have a lot of servers in Europe (Amsterdam).

That doesn't make the issue less valid though, since I think they have a full copy of all the data on both sides of the ocean.
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The mission of most companies is just to make money, so it doesn't matter.
Hi HN! Author here. I've been working on this BitTorrent client for a while now and would like some feedback!

It's a Node.js based BitTorrent client aimed at technical users looking for a powerful server (or seedbox) setup.

It uses native Rasterbar-libtorrent bindings and I'm providing pre-built binaries in the NPM package for linux-x64 and linux-arm (for Raspberry Pi setups). Installing on Windows or OSX is currently unsupported, but is in the works. Sorry for this.
> The UK is not any better than what can be found in Germany, France, Switzerland, Poland or Romania.

Proof? US dominates global rankings, with UK pretty much second.
I read one definition that an expert is someone's who's made every possible mistake in a particular very narrow field. There's something to that. If you love your field, it's hard not to get started doing that!

Also, mastery is relative, isn't it - like beauty or understanding - mastery to one person might seem like elementary blundering to another. I guess learning is never-ending. The more you know, the more you realize you don't know.

Beauty is as relative as light & dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear & completely shame the supposed beauty of the first. - Paul Klee, diary, 1910

El sabio siempre quiere aprender; el ignorante siempre quiere enseñar. – Spanish proverb
(The wise person always wants to learn; the ignorant person always wants to teach.)

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing. – Aristotle

Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself, must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know. – Emerson

EDUCATION, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. – Ambrose Bierce, Devil’s Dictionary

Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. – Oscar Wilde, Maxims for the Use of the Overeducated

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. – J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man
Also I fear this situation is at a loss loss interpretation. If Linus doesn't take time off he's a sociopath, if he does, linux is dead...

I do agree that it's somehow worrisome, but I tend to think that open discussion, and slowing down is a sign of health rather than the opposite. Time will tell.
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> Software that is used, changes,

Yes, but... A good model can support larger changes than a bad model. For example, a well designed relational model can support iterative change better than a slapped together system using CSV. So does a system that supports a consistent mental model for the end-user.

This is the fundamental skill: abstraction. To find the right abstractions, sustaining simplicity while opening up ability to change is an extremely difficult and hard-fought skill.

Unfortunately, due to a constant influx of new developers, its value is underappreciated. Requirements for this skill are (non-exhaustive): excellent communicative abilities, combined with a predilection for logic reasoning, good technical understanding, some psychological understanding and perseverance for when a model proves unsuccesful.

From my experience, the best systems we have designed and implemented started with long sessions at the white-board, often followed by some tech 'spikes' [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_(software_development)
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> I was tired of searching for so many things twice

Yeah I do this as a DDG user. I'm not even sure the google search is adding any value but I end up doing it "just in case".

I would like a way to get two columns of results for each search - one for DDG and one for Google, so that I can compare the two. It might wean me off doing the second search because I can finally resolve whether it's worth it or not.
Not in the UK specifically, but as a US citizen living in the EU I've had small online only banks close my account or refuse my business because dealing with the paperwork that comes with having US citizens as customers just isn't worth their time and effort.
Their primary servers are exclusively US-based (see https://twitter.com/FastMail/status/981284247284559872)
There is no feature comparison between Business and Premium.

I was under the understanding that the 9,99 would be all inclusive, but at the same time it seems there is a fee for "Paying a direct debit.", not sure what is comprised within that term, does that mean every time we pay with a card?
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JRuby (Ruby on JVM) and Warbler[0] solves this problem quite nicely, even though you end up with JARs instead of true binaries. (There are tools for packaging JARs as binaries, if you really want that.)

[0]https://github.com/jruby/warbler
Search recipes by ingredients you have at home (Open Source React Native App)
Well, it is nice to see someone going straight for the details. Do we have any context on why this ... short novel :) ... was written?

I want to interpret this as a coinciding of two things; the first that the "Socratic Method" as described here would be a powerful method of creating and perpetuating a culture amongst law students trained at Harvard; where their opinions and beliefs are subjected to a very public examination and then reshaped to be what the professors think they should be. Not a terrible idea, that seems like a valid interpretation of what teaching should be, with many warts as noted.

And the second is the philosophy that gets mentioned a few times in the article that there are topics that are “too hot to handle” that might "injure" a student. Part of the fringe push to redefine "injury" to mean hearing something unpleasant or disagreeable.

So my assumption is that the author sees a crisis approaching the law school where it must take a stand on what its objective is - preserving a culture, relaying uncontroversial material to students, or some other path. And then this pdf is balanced factual synthesis of the issues at hand - I'm not sure the author is even proffering a conclusion.

If that assumption holds then there are some points raised here that could have profound influences in 10 or 20 years. Law students eventually become lawyers then judges, and unfortunately the US political class seems to be sourced heavily from the lawyers (~40% of Congress, I think). If confrontation is de-emphasised in the classroom, that could have spillovers into the heart of how political debate and distribution of justice is undertaken.

But I don't know enough about "Jeannie Suk Gersen" or why she wrote this to form a strong opinion on the topic apart from wishing lawyers were trained to write reports.
The entire point of the CoC is it creates a process whereby people not involved in the project can harass members of the project while remaining anonymous.

Notice the people making a stink about Linus do it by taking out of context, lying about what he said and have managed to get people to think he should step down.(and are putting in place a “code” that lets them do it even though he’s the kindest non-bigoted person you could think of.)

It’s completely political and it’s discriminatory.
Good to hear that you found the solution!

What was the most decisive test that helped you come to the conclusion that it was mercury poisoning?

Also, curious: was this poisoning caused by dental amalgam? And have you read this, [1], and would you agree with the conclusions?

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3010024/
> the code of conduct simply killed any interest in contributing to it.

Just to balance that statement out: any projects with discourse sounding like the LKML of the past I'm completely uninterested in helping. I think I represent a larger group of developers than those scared off by a CoC.
You can also probably assume that they sometimes miss things. Unfortunately. Rather than just strict application of the rules.
Did you do an undergraduate math degree? There are some very real issues with the Todd function, such as no polynomial behaving the way he suggests for pretty elementery reasons. This doesn't even come close to meeting the standards of what a paper should look like, especially one that is claiming such a big result.
How is your comment relevant to the article?
What do you miss in the Android app?

I thought the same for a while, until I noticed tapping the body of an email changed the top bar options...
Interesting concept. I like the fact that it comes with specific compound sachets (e.g. lactose, fructose) so you can systematically test for specific intolerances.
I don't know about the end of Linux .. but I'd love to see Linus fork Linux just to see who follows and how this turns out. He could certainly afford to do it (economically and otherwise).
Try the h264ify extension, it forces h264 video instead of webm, you can block 60fps videos too if you want to halve the size of the download.

If your cpu does not have a webm decoder in hardware, it has to decode them in software which is inefficient.
I hope Linus manages to not see what sort of an absurd shitstorm happened during his absence.
The problem is multiple vague parts which taken together can be a bad thing.

>Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include:

>Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting

Following which country professional setting? The US?

>Maintainers have the right and responsibility to [...] ban temporarily or permanently any contributor for other behaviors that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.

Ok, not too abusable.

>This Code of Conduct applies both within project spaces and in public spaces when an individual is representing the project or its community.

Ok.

>Representation of a project may be further defined and clarified by project maintainers.

And that's from where abuse will be coming. Using your blog not associated with Linux but with your name to tell things some "maintainers" don't like? Go work on another project. Because for this case your name is enough to check the "representation of a project" clause.
This will mostly depend on whether your geoip returns a blue swamp or a red swamp.
Well, it happened before. No CoC was needed. Reiser4.
Harassing is a continued assault. Calling some one stupid might be insulting but it is not harassment
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My company uses Gandi for email and I don't think I'd recommend them. They often have outages and as ngrilly points out they don't implement all the best practices when it comes to anti-spam. I don't have a lot of experience with competing services (I self-host myself) but surely there are better alternatives out there.
I was also looking at i3 instances. But the fact that storage is not persistent kind of puts me off.

How do you manage this?

Also, how frequently do i3 instances fail?
I find the doom-and-gloom over the CoC change absolutely silly. Plenty of projects have a CoC and none of them have just died a fiery death because there were rules against treating people badly. As other people pointed out, there's a big difference between putting everything into 15 layers of business speak and just not insulting people. Linus is, to me, obviously advocating the latter.
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Can you quote the part where it says that "protonmail sells your email for profit"?
Linux has survived and thrived, garnering support from many big companies without having to have a coc before.

That an admittedly mediocre tech-wise, and really quite odd person who publicly hates meritocracy will now presume to sit in judgment of others who have skills far greater than his, grates.
Yes, by design! Want the book on the table so that people need to talk about it. Skim it & then read it.

But yeah, 3rd edition going to be e-book, too! On Amazon and DRM free for all who order the physical book (also the current one).
Did you really read the text to the end? "Verbal assault" doesn't have a universal meaning, politeness is VERY culture-dependent, and in modern IT everybody is forced to accept US corporate standard which I'm not even sure is universal for the majority of Americans, and often perceived as grossly insincere, and restrictive to the point it's practically abusive by people raised in other cultures.
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Why no WiFi? This makes absolutely no sense at all.

4G is also a pointless restriction. It is illegal to connect a device with the wrong specification to 4G networks already. This does not need to be enforced by DRM it is already enforced by law.
This. I want to continue to use the based and red-pilled Linux instead of the SJW version.
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Coming soon (in the 3rd edition). Everybody who buys the books, gets the updates DRM free e-books, too, of course.
Yeah, I wonder if the people posting about not contributing any more to Linux will also stop their open source contributions to projects associated with all the organisations on this page: https://www.contributor-covenant.org/adopters
Yes. It's baffling to me that people can't see the difference between "this doesn't work" and "this doesn't work you stupid cunt", or can't see how the latter is corrosive.
The Fastmail pricing tiers are $3, $5, and $9 per month which is $36, $60, and $108 per year respectively. If you look at their primary competition their prices are on par or slightly better. Here is a sampling...

Google G Suite: $5, $10, and $25 per month per user.

Microsoft: $4, $8, or $12.50 per month per user.

ZOHO: $3, $7 per month per user billed yearly.

[0] https://gsuite.google.com/pricing.html

[1] https://products.office.com/en-us/exchange/compare-microsoft...

[2] https://www.zoho.com/workplace/pricing.html?src=zmail
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I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist but it's true that there are rather weird voting patterns in this thread. I self-host my email so I don't really have a horse in that race but I don't quite understand why all mentions of protonmail are downvoted while everything about Fastmail is at the top. Is there some context I'm missing?
Oh cool! I didn't know about that, will add it to the article.
for me, it would be an organisational boon. My memory is terrible, so I always forget what I'm meant to be doing in terms of habits and things I need to get done for the day. With a pair of day-to-day smart glasses I could plan my day in the morning and have contextual, real-time information on what I need to do and when I need to switch onto something else. This is a use case that a phone really can't fulfil well.
What commits did you get accepted into the kernel?

Code talks, bs walks...
I mean, if you use a google library that uses a specific google feature, it’s kind of fair to assume that it’s not a violation of their privacy policy.
It wasn't bullying. Imagination was a one trick pony with, to mix clichés, all their eggs in one basket. They were always going to be screwed when Apple continued far enough down their predictable path to in-house silicon. The people with a clue all left (mostly to Apple) leaving behind shitty managers and the usual clueless offshore types who resorted to the court of public opinion via an embarrassing, needy blog full of vague threats of legal action. That's the closest it got to bullying, really.
Quality controll is always percieved as abusive?
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> said something someone did not like in a setting completely unrelated to the project community.

This is always a difficult line to draw. If you find out someone is a nazi (and thus would like to see you dead or preferably never born) it's hard to just look past that fact and colllaborate constructively just because the behavior was "unrelated to the project". The simple rule would be- would you be fired on the spot from your workplace if these comments were discovered? Then it's not so strange you might face issues in a collaborative project either.

> eliminate diversity of ideas

I think that's reading a bit much into the CoC to be honest.
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