skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, it's not hypocrisy to believe in protected classes but not wanting fascists to be one of them.

It's the height of dishonesty to purposely label people as fascists when they are not. It's also dishonest if you know someone isn't a fascist, but you go along with the the narrative because it's easier. At best, the case with Sargon of Akkad is that Patreon was honestly fooled.

I don't think Patreon should be obligated to host projects it doesn't agree with

Then Patreon and PayPal should bill themselves as something other than a "payment platform."

I'd sincerely hope that they'd cut off a hypothetical Patreon that exists just to enrich 4chan weirdos, and I'd work to achieve that goal in society. I would help any effort to shut down such a site.

You'd have a very different POV if it were people of your own tribe(s) who were being shut down in this fashion. (Which was pretty much the analogous case in the 60's when Berkeley was at the center of the Free Speech movement.) Then you would be singing the Free Speech message loud and clear. The reason why the concept of the right of Free Speech exists, is so that people who have power can't simply shut down everyone else.

Beware what political tools you let people have. One day, they may be turned against your side.
Frenchman to float across the Atlantic – in a barrel
If you're as loose with your personal information in public as you are about the fact you have millions of USD in bitcoin, then you're probably not difficult to physically locate. At that point it's just a matter of a wrench or hammer I'd suppose.

https://www.xkcd.com/538/
Seems like the values of the article you linked are supply of housing over ability to retain housing. How would that address this problem?
In the social credit system you can indeed show up to government-run booths and pay to have your points changed, the government says the cash goes to charity.
One should compare against other countries that didn’t change their laws.

Increased use could be explained by increased availability that is independent of legality (eg: better smuggling routes or larger synthetic batches).

Anyways, reduced opiate use and increased use of the other drugs mentioned generally sounds like a win to me.

I’d also consider more widespread recreational use by previous non-users. I’m not sure if that’s a problem for the lower-dependence risk drugs mentioned.
It's not hash, you probably want to prevent bad guys from making you ID collisions.
Not really, in term of morality, I'm more inline to this idea https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethical_egoism
If you ask the public to subsidize your personal expenses, the public inherently has the right to set reasonable limits on that subsidy. If you want to be free from those limits, it's your responsibility to pay your own way.
I loved the WordPerfect "RevealCodes" mode - made style management really easy.

Word hid everything in paragraph markers (or section markers). Suddenly things become opaque and you get in to the mode of "create a new doc and copy and paste everything into it except for the final paragraph marker" - this is the equivalent of Ctrl+Alt+Del for a Word doc, and I use it to this day... Sigh...
Poverty is a class issue.

Class is a race issue.

Poverty is not a race issue.

And something has gone wrong with this argument.
As much as I like the idea of a social credit score, their implementation is absurdly naive. Not to mention centralized and authoritarian.

Do they really think they can manually craft a fair and balanced system, when they arbitrarily decide that jaywalking costs a person 10 points?

They use the same unidimensional score affected by jaywalking to assess a person's ability to pay debt? What could possibly go wrong.

They should keep collecting data about people, but they should rethink the way they attribute scores. Ideally, a person's score should be calculated based on the values and preferences of the perceiver. The score of Donald Trump, for example, could differ significantly depending on who you ask.
Heroes. A good hero selection is p2w because you may not have a reasonable counter to xyz enemy. They used to sell Runes too (I believe an update made this invalid). Of course, you can get all this stuff for free just by playing 100s of hours, if you have the time/will.
What's striking is that nearly every one (with only a couple possible exceptions) of these photos show children and family occupants. Did single people (without kids) not live in these tenement blocks, or were in the overwhelmingly minority and these were mostly flats for housing family units? Or were singles just as common, but are not represented in the photographs?
Don't you need to pay for "champs" in LoL? That sounds very P2W to me.
It fills me with existential dread to know that there are smart people out there who don't see this as an atrocity waiting to happen. I'll go ahead and guess that you've never suffered at the hands of a capricious authority figure.

Maybe think of privacy like closet space? You might not need what you have right now, but you wouldn't want to share it with the world either, would you?
Pixelart Journey
It still is my favourite Java IDE, even if it has lost quite some love from the community.
Artist turns his sperm into cryptocurrency
Since many programmers are not mathematicians, a formal spec will always have a smaller audience than a well-written spec written in English. You cannot automatically derive good writing from pure mathematics.

As a result, neither is strictly better than the other. They have different audiences and serve different purposes. The audience for pure mathematics is quite small.
> Funny thing is, in China, offenders can "buy" points from other people so that they still can drive.

Sounds like a Sybil attack.
OP here. I can relate to this on other domains. But maybe in some cases Lego-like app delivery is enough? In my case I really mostly want to do simple static sites now (and build up experience to make more complex apps soon), the reusable components of React and the static site generation means one can work with a limited subset of JS and do _something_. Not aiming to be a specialised Frontend dev.

It's hard to do a compromise when needing to know other parts of the stack (backend, DS, devops). Perhaps in several scenarios one can be happy with some Lego-like apps (pareto rule) and hire specialised frontend devs when needed?
Yeah, it's nuts. My son plays a lot and seems only mildly interested in skins. AFAIK there is no game advantage to any of the things that you can buy.
An apology isn’t good enough. The person has now been shown to be openly hostile to democracy and deceptive. The founder is sorry they got caught. Trust anything he says again at your own peril.
I recommend you tell your immediate boss that you are bored with work and not motivated. They'll quickly help you out.
> there's barely been a pickup in the dissent

Many people who were wrong about the dot-com bubble still think they were right. Some external agent just screwed them.

People don't tend to change their views about stuff like cryptocurrencies. The best we can expect is a wealth transfer to saner minds.
There was no accidental mistake by the media. It was a PR spin by IBM, hyping up the tech to sell the IBM brand.
> comes from Natural News, which is... not a very precise source.

Now that's an understatement. Every time I get sent some info from that site I know I'm going to spend the next 15-20 minutes debunking it with real sources and explaining that while it looks like they source their info, all their links go to blogs that either aren't sourced, source each other, or misinterpret the data.

Actually, now that I think about it, it's amazingly similar to what the fake news and Russian sites did in 2016, but Natural News has been doing it for at least 6-7 years, as that's when I started noticing them. Could be longer.
In practice, given a person who wants to get clean, what works better than a 12-step program? I was under the impression that those were effective. Is the "higher power" thing what you are thinking of when you say "nonsense?" In many programs that is not specifically religious as much as it is admitting that your problem is bigger than yourself. And I think having a sponsor to help you through is a huge part of why these programs work.

I have never been through a 12-step process but I know a few people who have done it for alcohol and it works for them (I know, survivorship bias etc.)
This seems like good advice. There are lots of reasons not to use an old version.

Imagine if you were still using IE 6 even though your computer was perfectly capable of running a modern browser.
Be careful not to cut yourself on that edge.
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They were paid better than the typical tech company in beijing, so definitely not a discount team.

It was a combination of a culture that valued quantity over quality & long hours, management and time zones. When some staff moved over to the US office they got better. Mostly because they realized that the work style in the USA is much nicer as an employee than the one in China.

I had a much better experience later with contractor eastern european teams, who came from the start caring about quality. I didn't have to fight a cultural mismatch. I know other people have had issues with EE teams, but nothing is perfect.

I was a jr engineer back then, so I didn't have much power to change it. I eventually left for other reasons.
So the real secret is

1) small packages, portion size

2) a way of extracting milk that keeps the contents sealed. Something like a bag-in-box wine container?

Then you could do without the fridge completely.... for milk
Kanren – Logic Programming in Python
I'm in a similar situation re: moving off Google services.

I use Mylio (https://mylio.com/), I think it hits most of your points.

Works great for managing my ~200k images. Syncs between my laptop/desktop/phones and also to Google/Amazon drive with optional encryption.

You can define which size of photos are synced to various devices, so my phones have thumbnails, my laptop has preview size photos, and my server/workstations have full copies.
How do you do mixed mode debugging of Java / C++ code, or incremental compilation on save, disable continous indexing on project startup, in that light years ahead IDE?

All features easily supported on Eclipse, Netbeans and Oracle Studio.

And without making the CPU fan run at full throttle, if possible?

EDIT: I forgot to type disable
> If it's collapse of world civilization, or at least your own country's institutions, then storing your own coins makes sense

Why would cryptocurrencies of all things hold value amidst a collapse of world civilization? In those environments, food, guns and ammunition rule.
Custom string delimiters in Swift 5
I think the misunderstanding here is between what San Francisco supposedly used to be (a haven for hippies, LGBTQ, and other misfits) and what it is now (a haven for young people with business ambitions)
To be fair, you don't need legalization for that, just decriminalisation of use, like Portugal did, and which had pretty good outcomes.
There is no need for Byzantine tolerance when there is a single authority that is held responsible, like a bank, or a government.

Byzantine problems rarely occur in real life, they were effective invented by cryptocurrencies and "solved" by cryptocurrencies (by turning luck and wasrefulness into a measure of authority)
I was thinking of a kickstart :)
Is that you, Milton?
The engineering manager has been on leave while all this has been happening. I'll be bringing up my concerns when he's back next week. I'm sure he'll be quite understanding. He did reply to one email to point out that there isn't a lot he can do because the new PM reports directly to the CEO, not to him.

Basically the engineers will have multiple bosses. The engineering manager for technical direction and the project managers for task priorities and day to day management.

I think there is still a role for me to play as a senior engineer to mentor and assist the other engineers on their projects but it's harder for me to do this when I'm out of the loop.
California has had the world's leading cannabis industry for decades, we're just now paying 38% tax.
Fortnite makes over a million dollars a day... ON iOS ALONE.

They've built a money machine.
> ... as it's precisely the same.

If you believe JWT is "precisely" the same as mere presentation of a token, then you're woefully ignorant of JWT.

> ... it makes no sense to present that workflow as an alternative to the JWT workflow ...

But that's not what happened, is it? In fact, it's the opposite. As I read it, [1] suggests a bearer token workflow, to which [2] replies that the suggestion is "an awful lot like JWT", whereupon [3] clarifies that the original suggestion is just a normal bearer token scheme, which, I claim, shares nothing with "JWT" except the "T".

> ... JWT, which is a bearer token scheme ...

The "T" in "JWT" is the least interesting bit of JWT, and merely a necessity.

> It's irrelevant if the workflow is specific to JWT or is shared by other bearer token schemes

When not talking about any specific bearer token scheme, it is absolutely relevant. Only the generic point was under discussion, until JWT was introduced. JWT is not just another bearer token scheme. It comes with its own additional obligations, restrictions, and extra steps, not to mention the purpose-defeating pitfalls.

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[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18768173

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18768212

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18768242
Could be an open standard
Progress of a sort seems to be speeding up. The first 9bn years things progressed in a leisurely way up to life on earth, then evolution was kind of slow for the first 3bn years till life went multicellular when things speeded up a bit, the in recent times things sped up with writing and technology and it looks like another step up when AI takes off. Not sure how much of that you look at as natural
No doubt, but consider a thing: the reason that now nearly anyone have a car does not justify the fact that we still have need for certain kind of cars for "skilled" drivers and work. So while I understand that the masses get a smartdevice I reject the actual trend of abandon desktop, simply because we can't do that without catastrophic consequences.

On education: personally I was taught a bit of unix at first even if my first computer came late (around 13/14 years old) and that's give me in very few time a set of skills I do not see even in many colleagues after years of professional work. Myself I learnt many thing in a very long time simply because I discover them casually and nobody help/taught me anything or nearly anything on them. Long story short: if we have proper school development of certain skills or at least a certain forma mentis/paradigma start to be easy and quick and pay off enormously during the entire rest of the life.

Of course I do not expect a phantasmagorical society formed entirely by PhDs and MDs but I certainly do expect a far different society with benefit for all of its components. The lack of competence and skill we observe these days, coupled with unemployment rates depict a clear scenario about that.

We have less and less competent people, we actually encourage people to be incompetent (like "hey coding at schools to forms legions of code monkeys able perhaps to write a hello world) saying the contrary, we obstacle due to the architecture of the schools, society, companies etc skilled people to express, cultivate and grow their potential and as a results we do not know how to evolve anymore.

We produce more and more crap, we have many companies more and more dependent on few, typically aging "consultants" the few that still know how to work etc.

That's can't last in the medium/long term and recovery is super-difficult and super-long.
I agree with your point in general (regarding CSPRNG), but ULID turns out to be not suitable as opaque access token since it increments the random part if it's generated in the same millisecond range. So, if someone gets this token, they can try incrementing it and checking if they can get access to something using this derived token, and will get access if another token was generated at the same millisecond. In fact, this is dangerous and should be mentioned in the documentation.
It would be great if someone would make a website where I could adjust the hourly rate of a worker in various businesses and see the result in the cost of common items they sell.

I wonder if $20/hr barista pay really would cause the price to become unreasonable. At $20/hr it's also possible you could interest some slightly better baristas, slightly faster baristas, and who would have longer retention... Also the prices wouldn't necessarily go up uniformly on everything. Lattes might go up $1 but coffee might only go up $0.25 because it doesn't take as much time for the barista to give it to the customer.

This discussion on reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/barista/comments/2qv2kb/question_ho...) is 1st hand information and says that 2 baristas can make 450 drinks per day in a 7 hour day. That's 225 per barista / 7 hours, 32 drinks per hour.

So if the wage increased to $20/hr (from let's say $10/hr), it would increase the price of drinks by $0.31, which I don't think is enough to cause people to massively switch to instant coffee.
Because it's free, that's why it's played more by kids. Until you remove that huge distinction from the equation it's hard to claim anything else had as much of a factor. IMO if PUBG was free when Fortnite came out Fortnite would not have the marketshare it has today. Things like crazy skins is just a matter of willingness rather than anything intrinsic to the game.
The photographer (and the rest of us) would have been better served with a simple straightforward take down notice: "a photograph which I own is being used or commercial purposes."

The clothing brand would have probably contacted the artist, assuming that the band or singer had owned the rights since it went out on the singer's instagram. Upon learning they didn't they would have taken it down or bought the rights.

But know we all now what an insufferable prig the photographer is and how unpleasant all parties involved are. If you're gonna be a lawyer, be a lawyer not a morally preening victim.
Probably because it's been "legal" in CA for years. The "medical" cannabis was a joke. There were people on the beaches holding signs "$50 medical cannabis card". Being legal recreationally didn't really make it any more accessible. Anyone that wanted a medical card could get one in a few minutes.
> Those who see no ethical problem with small gifts to public servants should try imagining how they would feel if they were litigants in a civil trial and discovered that the judge trying the case had accepted even a free cup of coffee and a doughnut from the other party to the case. [...]

> Similarly, elected officials owe their unbiased judgment to the people who elected them. By accepting gifts, even a token gift such as a box of chocolates, they put at risk the impartiality of their judgment, thereby undermining their ethical obligation as public servants.
This isn't just a way of combating fraud. This is a way of attempting to impart social moores into their populace, that are missing because it is an authoritarian state. There are plenty of ways of combating fraud that do not require 24/7 surveillance and social credit.

The US' system is far from perfect, but this is a strawman. And the problem with the Chinese system isn't that its government run and centralized, there can be centralized credit systems that work well, hypothetically. The problem is with the nature of the program itself, and the obviousness of its intent, despite the stated purpose.
Update: added https://code.freedombone.net/bashrc/TheJargonFile/src/652aff...
Arena shooters are "dying" for the same reason chess isn't as popular as online poker. Back in the day arena shooter popularity was because there was no low hanging fruit alternative like modern military shooters or Fortnite of today. But it turns out most people don't want to either participate in or watch games of absolute skill. The former requires a lot of commitment to get good at it, and there is no randomness or luck to make you feel you are better than you are - just your own ability. The later is reflected in the former, in how complex interations and difficulty make watching really skillful games harder because there is so much to account for deterministically.

Thats what gravitates people towards randomness in games, where skill is taken out of the equation. Then you don't have to practice or actually "be good", you could just get lucky, and thats enough for most people - they aren't looking for challenges in their games, just dopamine kicks, and we are wired enough to get similar effects to chance we get to perseverance and the former doesn't require the hard work.

Arena shooters are alive and thriving. Quake Champions Doom Edition[1] is a miracle mod that is incredible to see and play knowing its running on what started as the first breakout PC shooter of all time. But its not a commercial product. Its a fan game. But its just as good, or better, than what almost any big budget arena shooter could offer, because they are not about spectacle at all, they are about the tightness and responsiveness of the gameplay.

[1] https://www.moddb.com/mods/quake-champions-doom-edition
Just get a solar water heating kit. They're quite common here in South Africa & are pretty much considered a compulsory first step for a solar installation since most existing houses are elec water heaters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_water_heating

Some people also run them in sequence with an electric one. i.e. Solar one first & that feed the elec one. Meaning that you'll always have guaranteed hot water, near double the capacity but the solar one picks up most of the work.
Retargeting ads are intensely cheap compared to acquisition ads for most growing companies.
The public is outraged. That’s why prop C with a 300MM blank check was passed.
That is because many of these boxes have a very thin antibacterial coating on the inside (e.g. Silver).

In the Alps it has been a century old trick to put a silver spoon into the milk to make it last longer.
Dota2, CS:GO, team fortress 2
It all comes down to local control of licensing. To even operate a 100% mobile business, you have to be licensed out of a specific city. This involves all the associated cronyism, NIMBYism, and the like which goes along with local politics, and grinds the whole system to a halt. We need to adopt a statewide system like Oregon or there will be no room for smaller distributors left and we will be stuck with monopolized pricing.
I suppose this shows my age; for me, it will always be sdf.lonestar.org and the fastest way to get a better access level will be to take a hardware donation to an address in a suburb of Dallas.

(I wonder if my account still works...wow, it does. I should really change that password.)
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Not really, different judge may interpret the law differently.