skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>but I also don't think the tech monopolies should be allowed to erase them from the internet without losing their common carrier protections.

This is the adult response. What strikes me as so interesting in the "debate" is that the people who defend google deplatforming/censoring is that they see so little past their own nose, they can't see how this could ever turn around on them.
I don't think you understand. Their wage is high for what they do, but there is not as much demand for a language teacher as there is for an engineer. So even their above average salary is still low compared to an engineer. It's not fair to put them in the same ranking system.
The article you linked shows that more people moved to the upper bracket than the lower (5% vs 4%).

In relative terms the earnings growth was even more dramatic -- the upper class grew 27% larger whereas the lower class only grew by 14%.

There are more people moving up than down.
Gender is malleable; sex and age are not.
Cutting the financial supply to those who benefits from ransomware is the logical choice to move complacent businesses to properly secure their data and ensure proper backups.

If the data was valuable to start with, it should be backed up. Ransomware is just another cause of data loss, among with hardware failure, theft, etc.
> unless something gets invented that can change your chromosomes

Let me preent two arguments against that line of thinking:

- people born with chromasomal oddities such as XXY or XYY, asked to fit in box XY or XX, they do not fit. Do we need a separate gender for all possible chromosomal configurations? There are more than you might expect.

- while you can’t change your chromosomes, you can change how people percieve you in the world. Is gender (as in drivers license m or f) actually supposed to represent your chromosomal configuration - or is it there to match up with how you are percieved?

Last thing: you point to advantages of being female. While I’d argue that those advantages don’t exist because being female come with disadvantages that balance things out, but even if they did, the cost of changing your entire identity makes them unappealing. I find it hard to believe we’d see any significant number of people doing anything like this.
Yes, but a high salary for an artist is still low compared to a high salary for an engineer.
Wouldn't this be hard to move items if it's written down? Unless you're using some sort of program like Trello?
You can. For the full rate a non-Prime customer would pay for shipping. If they happen to have several units in the same place, they'll send them in the same box. My mom asked for about 2 dozen items to be returned, she received about 10 boxes, at about $5 a pop (small merchandise, retailing for $10-$20 each).
Would you be making the same argument if we were talking about your bank's website?

IMO Effective access control works both ways. you can't send the ALL of the content back and then have the access control work on the client machine.
What if i just used curl and viewed the HTML raw to read the article?
With traditional network TV, the vast bulk of the money is in how many people watch the show when it first airs. Syndication revenue, DVDs, etc. are relatively trivial. Obviously the whole model is shifting to a more fragmented and on-demand market with fewer, but often more valuable, eyeballs per show. Seinfeld peaked at over 30 million average views for first-run episodes. Game of Thrones is about 10 million for a comparison on cable today.

I agree that apples-to-apples is hard but the bottom line is that very few people make a real living from YouTube views.
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Say I notice a lack of something in the world; an app, service, system or platform that I've always felt the need for, but cannot implement myself, or haven't even fully thought it out.

What's currently the best way/place to plant the seeds for that idea, in the hopes of other people picking it up and adding to it?

One could put up some text documents on GitHub etc., but where would you to post to generate initial discussion and attract people to look at that repo?
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Cell phone reuse
What are you doing with your old cell phone?
Well, I don't know about that. For example, back when I was at university, my graphics professor mentioned that there were hundreds of algorithms for mapping a texture to a sphere going back hundreds of years because map makers had been coming up with them so that they could place maps on globes.

There are old books, but you have to be a bit more creative to find them.
It's also a violation of Facebook's ToS
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I've always wondered how someone knows how a man feels or how a woman feels. All I know is how I feel. How am I to determine that the way I feel is the way everyone who identifies as women feel, or the way everyone who identifies as men feel? Certainly there's a continuum where rarely do two individuals feel exactly the same.
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At least 20%. I’m right wing. Lemme tell yah.
It was painful at first. But do remember that this riot is complex, if not totally fuzzy, the carbon tax was mostly the straw that broke the camel’s back, this is more about a long drift in sociopolitical tissue (more taxes, worse services) than carbon tax itself. Still, painful to see when surrounded by climate change emergency warnings.
PHP ranks above Swift on Toibe, I should probably use that for writing iOS applications then.

Edit: I guess to make the point crystal clear since there's downvotes, "search engine popularity" is not equivalent to "appropriate tool for the job". Tiobe could equally be viewed as "which languages are hardest to use" or "which languages attract the most newcomers" both of which screw with search engine query rankings.
Yes, "the world is ending, give us money" is a good scam that the scientists have only figured out in the last few decades. (Christians have exploited it for much longer.)
Here in California, both Atari ST and Amiga were less common than PCs and Macs, but they weren't entirely absent. I and a small group of friends had STs of various flavors. And I knew several people with Amigas.

To illustrate, my parents would periodically drive me a few miles to a store that sold ST and Amiga software and magazines, mostly so I could buy a magazine and ruminate on which software to save up to buy. We could have gone right down the street had I been using a PC or Mac.
Time does filter out the bad books, and most books that are written fall into that category, but the books that endure the test of time are really good.
Right, it's best to keep those discussions amongst everyone who stands to make heaps of cash by ignoring nagging morality.

This is why in any legal proceedings against companies they only allow the jurors and judge to be made up of employees or major shareholders.
It's entirely possible to be accepting and understanding of individuals, while still disagreeing with the larger social groups and movements they are a part of. In fact, pretty much everyone does that in some way or another every single day.

The thing I take issue with is the knee-jerk reaction of certain people to shut down any conversation that suggests traditional roles and definitions were and still are valid.

Yes it's simplistic. It was a one line statement. Is it dismissive? Maybe. But it also has a grain of truth to it, which is what bothers people.
This seems to be by design: when these things are available, spyware -- especially on Windows -- will be quick to make malicious changes in all these if they can.

It's a pain, but I can see the compromise. If it makes the average Firefox user more vulnerable, there's definitely a case to protect them, even at the expense of its more capable users.
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Not if their goal is to be “lightweight” like they say it is.
Well if you find a sandwich company, you should let them know.

But Mattel, Sony, GM, Apple, and American Airlines aren't signing up anytime soon. That's the problem for Tumblr.

I think this is just one of those instances in which a customer just starts costing you too much money. Will banning the low-rent crowd make a difference at this point? Who can say really. But keeping them pretty much ensures you will not get access to the deep pocketed advertisers.
Recyclable fuel promises twice the range and zero emissions at half the price
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Indeed. The War on Drugs is the kind of solution America likes, because it's a war; and as a side benefit the CIA gets to mess with the soverignty of various small countries. Effectiveness for actually helping the victims was never part of the point. If they didn't die they could be jailed and used as forced labour.
They should lead by example if they expect others to make drastic changes in their lifestyle.

When they continue to live lifestyles that emit far more than the average amount of CO2, people question whether they really believe what they claim.
Perhaps the company should invest the resources into hiring people to provide out of hours support rather than expecting their employees to be on call 24/7 for certain weeks of the month. Otherwise, why shouldthe company bother offering out of hours support if it's not willing to pay for it.
A lot of it probably comes down to IP. A lot of their games contained graphical or sound (especially sound) assets that they licensed from outside sources; relicensing those to GPL would be impossible.

Additionally, some of the games distributed by Ambrosia were written partially or entirely by outside developers. It's not clear if Ambrosia even had the source to all of their games, let alone the rights to relicense it.
I don't have time to address your ignorance so forgive the wikipedia source, but it's commonly well known to be much more harmful than catalyzed gasoline exhaust: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_exhaust#Concerns_regard...
Microsoft might experiment with non-mainstream stuff, but in practice, most of the code in the company is still written in C++, C#, and lately, TypeScript. Much like other large corps, it has a lot of people proficient in certain technologies, and going for something exotic is rarely justifiable purely from the perspective of being able to maintain a team for such a project long-term.
It's really not that difficult. When you want to manually enter a paragraph break, you need two line breaks. HN ignores single line breaks.
Iron in space is worth a lot more than iron on earth. It is expensive to get that iron from earth into space. Possibly cheaper to get it from asteroids to earth orbit, or the moon for building space structures.
The Netherlands, the country in question, is a highly developed western culture.

Whatever adjudication process that exists in a culture that doesn’t care about date of birth would probably reach a different judgement.
This is exactly how I look at it. To quote Orwell: "Ultimately there is no test of literary merit except survival".
Both. You won't have much luck using US Google to find child porn, bomb-making manuals, terrorist propaganda, etc.
>FFS Google already censors your search results here in USA, why are you complaining that they will also do it in China.

Yes, Google is censoring here. Yes, I would appreciate them not doing it other places.

Not for human rights issues, but I've done what I can to eliminate google from my life. So, by your reasoning I'm 'allowed' to make comments. That said, I fully support Google firing people that don't do the job they are asked to. Shades of gray, everywhere!
You've got some great advice here, but I went the opposite way from paper to electronic notes. I had about five years of project notes on paper that became totally impossible to manage or search. I've been doing it electronic now (simple text files) for about a decade and find it much more valuable.
It's already normalized.

Every Chinese expat I've talked to is pro dragonfly, because of the exact reasons in parent comment: no new negatives, some new positives.

For some reason, nobody seems to care what they think. The anti people just pivot into demonizing the Chinese, resolving their cognitive dissonance in one nice hypernationalist stroke.
these landings are still just magic to me when I watch them. I know one day this will be old hat but for now I will just watch and enjoy them
I think they refer to conference room display:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202618

It's a mode where the Apple TV display instructions on how to connect with airplay and a pin code for authentication. It's really a handy feature in combination with Direct Wi-Fi, since it allows anyone in a conference room with a Mac or iDevice to present things.

We use it in meetings (though I prefer hooking up to by cable, since Airplay doesn't do 4k yet for 'screen sharing').
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I find it obscene people in west are fine with idea of having their income taxed and then with this taxed money they go and pay for products/services taxed again with VAT, why people consider this normal?
I meant Tumblr, sorry. And I know Tumblr actually is varied too, although in a smaller degree probably.
Equating journalism with QAnon and recommending “contrarian reading” seems strange advise for avoiding conspiracy theories.
What I meant is that their actions contradict their supposed fear of climate change and the need for drastic action.

Obviously there are true believers out there, but I think it is a much smaller group than the ones who find is socially fashionable.
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> That's simply wrong.

> Age has a definition.

Relativity explains that this definition is subjective, experimentally.

Astronauts experience time differentials and it will only get more obvious as we go farther. Again, the concept of granularity (how much of what matters from what perspective) applies in both cases - age and gender.

This isn't a justification. Resolve this philosophically however you like with one and I observe that it should be true in the other case.
The schema is defined as a Protocol Buffer (https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/) package. This lets us construct values protobuf-based APIs without having to manually copy over the schema.

For example, if you had this schema:

package my.example.schema;
message Person {
string name = 1;
int32 id = 2;
string email = 3;
}

Then you could build a value using Skycfg like this:

pb = proto.package("my.example.schema")
msg = pb.Person(
id = 1234,
name = "Jane Doe",
email = "jdoe@example.com",
)
print(msg)

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if you like that sort of thing, i highly recommend jearl walker's "the flying circus of physics" https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0471762733
Great article. Glad to see Sanjay get the credit he deserves.
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It was, I was thinking in the line speed (close to 1000 M bit/sec) but was talking about the used quota T / G.
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YouTube top earners: The seven-year-old making $22m
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I came across "elsagate" the other day and was unpleasantly not surprised by what it means. As a father of two young children this is a tough one--I'm 100% pro free speech, especially the speech I don't agree with, but have a hard time with deceptive messaging designed to harm vulnerable populations. I don't have an answer, but it sure is a damnable problem.
> people who use language in non-standard ways are often judged harshly — and silently — for it

Yes. In my culture, the people who can't speak or write correctly are the ones who are uneducated - usually primary school or less. It's basically the local equivalent of rednecks.
Taxing carbon-emitting sources of electricity, by 100%, to make renewables more competitive will not produce a drastic change in your lifestyle.

For me, it will mean that my power bill will be $60/month, instead of $30/month.

Me opting out of using electricity will, unfortunately, not have the same effect to my life as an increase in my power bill.

Large reductions in our carbon emissions are possible without large changes to our lifestyles. Utility-level power generation is a huge low-hanging fruit. My consumption choices aren't going to do shit to drive it. The attitude of "Live what you preach, or shut up" is, unfortunately, not going to convince my utility to stop burning coal, or my city to expand its transit coverage.

Coal, and oil becoming uneconomical, compared to the alternatives, preferably through carbon taxes, will, however.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but if it was that valuable to you, all of you guys should have gotten together and offered to start paying.

The next website you guys find yourselves on, you should really consider paying.