skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is nothing "toxic" about the internet except for the centralization of communication on a handful of corporate controlled social networks that have perverse incentives to censor anything that might impact their advertising or other income.

There is no single solution for content moderation that is good. That is why giant communities controlled by a single entity with a single standard are inherently toxic themselves. The solutions are innumberable and should be. That's how the gordian knot of moderation is cut. Not one set of standards but a diversity of them.

Federation and peer to peer seem to be the only way forwards. Unfortunately most users of the big sites are there for monetary reasons and these reason don't translate to smaller sites. So they'll stick around until the censorship gets so tight the money dries up (ie, what google/youtube is doing now).
> "Wedding" dresses are thousands of dollars, but roughly equivalent normal dresses are hundreds.

A lot of that cost differential is high-touch, small-floorspace, low-volume boutiques that throw a lot of effort into the buying experience; budget sensitive buyers can and do cut a lot out of that already, through discount bridal shops that have a sales experience more like traditional retail (despite providing all the same substantive services lie fitting and alterations/customization.)

The rest of it is the substantive services like multiple fittings and alterations, which tend to be priced in with wedding dresses and charged separately otherwise.
Yeah we can continue to lie (to ourselves ?) and perpetuate these ideas. Or we can look at the facts:

- https://inews.co.uk/news/long-reads/cargo-container-shipping...

- https://medium.com/@victoria27/heres-how-much-pollution-ship...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_shippi...

And then you witness that half of the bananas delivered to your office every week ends up in the trash because they're too ripe, but yeah, the ship that moved them from latin america to europe was efficient, no biggie.

Just like half of the cheap, low quality things imported from asia that breaks after a few weeks (basically 70% of amazon inventory)
If it’s anything like the FISA court that’s not true at all...
I still keep getting mail for the former owners of our house from 10 years ago. The first few years I forwarded it but I've since given up.
Our age difference explains a lot of your recalcitrance towards new (to you) things.
Cross posting a colleague's reply on the blog post [0].

> We’ve had a WordPress stack at DigitalOcean for a long time and it’s tremendously popular – and now we've opened our platform up so partners can bring their 1-Click Apps to all our users through the Marketplace. Openlitespeed has a new WordPress stack too, and we’re also happy to have ideas for changes and new things on ideas.digitalocean.com

0: https://blog.digitalocean.com/introducing-digitalocean-marke...
Indeed, I meant disease.

I meant the title, not the article itself.

So much for making quick and precise comments on HN.
No it's not a very recent idea. That's incredibly myopic.
> its really quite odd that the dominant open source platform settled on opaque and unreproducible binaries as the distribution mechanism early on

It's not that odd. Reproducible builds are very hard. "gcc foo.c -o foo" is very easy.
That was the thrust of Damore's claim and he got fired because it would imply that some Googlers didn't earn their positions which Google interpreted as "creating a hostile workplace environment". Apparently having dodgy hiring/compensation practices doesn't create a hostile workplace environment, but calling attention to them does. In any case, good on Google for taking steps to remedy things; I hope they continue to examine and correct their practices regardless of who are the beneficiaries of the status quo.
A Japanese Love Hotel
Seems like you're conflating Google with other companies. Even if the aggregate data says underpaying does happen on average across the H1-B program, it doesn't necessarily mean Google underpays their H1-B employees.

You can't just use a statistical average to make a conclusion about only one of the data points. That's stats 101.
Can you take classes to learn how to DJ?
Back then, a lot of the TVs had frequency and vertical and horizontal hold dials. There was a fair amount of leeway in tuning the device to display the picture consistently.

I would assume nothing needed to be exact because you could fine tune on the fly. I remember when you tuned our 3 TV stations in the UK by dialing the frequency dial to the correct radio frequency. It's been a long time that I don't recall the radio frequencies by perhaps I recall ITV being 68 MHz(?)
I also received images from my previous apartment for the new tenants long after moving (yes I did file a move notice with USPS). But then I also keep receiving the physical mail for the previous tenant at my new apartment even 6 months after moving, despite crossing out their addresses and dropping it in the mailbox, and even talking to the postman (didn't help, it's always a different person). That seems like a bigger problem.
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> The Irish[1] and Italians[2] have something to say about this.

Right, those minority groups have been discriminated against. I think I screwed up my point; I was trying to point out that women have also been discriminated against, and that a conference for women doesn't equate to reverse discrimination nor is it remotely equal in magnitude to what women have gone through. The same does go for other historically discriminated groups.

> I can choose whether or not to be an engineer or a pet owner. I can't choose whether or not to be a man or a woman

That is true, but you can also choose whether to attend a conference without affecting your life, unlike having a job. Being born a male doesn't mean a product designed for women is some kind of discrimination against men, right? Not having a choice still doesn't explain what is wrong with a conference for women. Jobs and conferences aren't the same things; conferences are not paying people and do not directly represent social mobility or opportunity. What specifically is wrong with an event designed for females, and how is it different from a product specifically designed for women (or men, or children, or Irish people...)?

There are conferences for men too, notably not being complained about here: http://elitemanconference.com/ https://bettermanconference.com/ http://www.menstuff.org/
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A Word Use That Doesn't Add Up
Well said! Thanks for expanding on that. I fully accept your argument.
You have your folks on the CS frontline knowledge share their experiences with the company
The wedding industry is really heavy on the upsell and some people are really susceptible to it, I guess.
The Growth Stacks of 2019
If the build is reproducible, why does it matter when it was built?
I resigned from Google and I don't care about any of those perks. You can use money to buy that stuff. I was happy when they left China and will be sad to see them go back. I don't own any GOOG anymore, so via con dios.
question: say Russians want to launder $10B. Banks help them. What is the % today to launder money? And how much would banks keep?

I am surprised execs would risk jail, fines, lifetime job loss unless they would profit handsomely. Maybe they can get paid on the side for such deals? I get the bonus payments from the bank but still...
> By delegating the “guiding” role to market participants themselves, those who control markets by lobbying and legislating, we forfeit our control.

This discussion is interesting; I was thinking something similar this morning, with the focus on our collective food choices.

It's an imperfect analogy, but there are many things that we as both a society and thru governments we have banned, or highly regulated, as having too many external negative issues to allow them to continue to be sold openly on the market.

You can think of any number of drugs (including more than a few that used to be OTC not long ago), stuff like "high test peroxide", cigarettes and tobacco products, etc.

For the vast majority of these, though, none have extreme externalities - that is, none cause death in society like certain foods that are easily available.

But those items don't have huge lobbying efforts around them, either.

For instance - we know that HFCS is a great contributor to obesity and heart disease/stroke - yet we don't ban it for commercial food usage. While there have been recent inroads from a consumer standpoint (next time you go shopping for food, note the number of ordinary items that have packaging marked as "contains no HFCS" or similar), it's unknown whether this will continue to be a trend, nor how long it will take to rid the majority of purchased food items of the substance. It is also unknown how long it will take for the effects of its removal to show up in the overall health levels of society.

But there again is a product that we freely allow in our foods that arguably is slowly killing all of us; one could say "well, you are free not to eat those foods" - but one could have argued the same about tobacco and cigarettes not too long back (and they did). There is actually a good parallel between both the tobacco industry and the corn/HFCS industry (the lobbying, hidden and such papers about the dangers, etc) - but even in the case of tobacco, there wasn't an outright ban; it's been more of a slow attrition via consumers and the public...
There really isn't a "western civilization". It's a fairly recent geopolitical term made for political purposes.

There is greco or more expansively greco-roman civilization that we adopted, but that doesn't make us part of the greco-roman civilization or a "western civilization". No more than japan adopting bits of chinese civilization makes japan "chinese civilization".

If you think western civilization exists, then there must be an eastern civilization? There is no such thing, other than for convenient geopolitical purposes. There is the chinese civilization, the indian civilization, the myriad of middle eastern, northern african civilizations, etc. But no such thing as an eastern civilation.

Were the chinese, persian, mongol, ottoman, etc empires part of an "eastern civilization"? Of course not.

The idea of a western civilization is a geopolitical concept we invented for political purposes and of course to claim "civilization" for ourselves. To claim we are a part of the greco-roman civilization when we are not part of it. We are adoptees of it. "Western civilization" is ultimately a sneaky way of claiming civilization status for ourselves.

Having said that, I may be a bit biased, but given the cultural, societal, global, linguistic, financial, systematic, military, etc impact we've had, I think the US has moved from an empire to an actual civilization. But ultimately, history confers the status of civilization, not the living. So maybe in a few hundred years, historians will say the US is an actual civilization. But for certain, 500 years, nobody is going to talk of anything called a "western civilization". It simply doesn't exist just like an "eastern civilization doesn't exist.
I don't see how this could be true.

'Looting' is the plundering of goods from others, usually by conquest.

Many civilizations were stable for long periods without expansion. In fact, Arnold Toynbee made the argument that imperial expansion was a symptom of decline.

If by loot you mean - as you say - the use of raw materials, labour and the environment, I don't think the word has any analytic meaning whatsoever.
I just wanted some decent memory pictures, and this is how I inadvertently discovered that I am a good photographer. We put out cameras and asked for photos. I assumed that everybody would take photos just like I do. I had never thought that I was a superior photographer, but the results disabused me of that notion.

Nobody paid attention to the background or bothered to frame things well, even when they had us pose for photos. My mother-in-law sent us an enlarged photo featuring an ugly old statue... oh, and us too. It looked like a photo taken to commemorate our trip to visit a statue.
Yes, they do help.
Author is a climate change denialist and the institute he works for is funded by the Koch brothers and Exxon mobile.
I have been using virtualpostmail.com to scan my mail. Much better.
Two days? Our tuner does the job in about an hour every six months on a modern upright. I'll allow differnces between tuners and pianos but two days seems a lot?
Some data would be make this argument better. The current narrative is I did "a lot" was successful but now looking back I should have done "less."
Both can happen but pollution is diffused as it travels and spreads. There were incidents when Chinese smog was bad enough to make it to California and cause air quality issues but weather can do that in general if winds trap pollution instead of dispersing.
Linux 5.0: A major milestone with minor improvements
Great article! I wonder why the "Related Items" list does not include the Timex 2068 Color Computer [1]? Is this because the Museum does not have one?

I cut my teeth on the 2068 and only just gave it up on eBay a year or so ago. I would have been glad to donate it to this museum had I known about it. Maybe a Wanted Items list could be posted?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Sinclair_2068
The US government has a business model (propping up the petrodollar through military force, circulating it around the world, and debasing it ad nauseum) that is hostile towards humanity. I can't imagine arguing that working for facebook is worse than working for the US government. You can psychologically distance yourself from whatever you want to, but one of these organizations murders children and the other one markets bullshit to them (both spy). I don't like either, but I see the one doing the murdering as having more, ya know... blood on their hands.
It's great they release all of this for free. I mean, it will never be the same as having that piece of paper from MIT— but at least one can rely on the resources as being quality.
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> the study pointed out that the percentage of male applicants _out of all male_ applicants that were granted admission was lower than the percentage for female applicants, for all (examined) departments.

Where does the study say that? I find it saying that 44 percent of male applicants and 35 percent of female applicants were admitted, when totaled over all 101 departments.
I would love if this would let me flag something and automatically return to sender. I've lived in a rental for a year now and I still get more mail for other people than I do for myself.
I don't consider it any different than if the same was asked with a signup form.

I think it was the point: the OP wanted to see more feature & screenshot before signing in, whether it's a Google login or not
To give some perspective, Paradise California (which burned to the ground on Nov. 8 2018) had a PM2.5 measurement that month fairly similar to that of the world's most polluted cities. That seems so grim to me.

I feel so fortunate seeing this list. The area I live in is almost entirely blue despite being subjected to bursts of wildfire smoke in summer.
This is excellent commentary and gave me insight into gaming in a way I hadn't considered. Thank you.
That's really neat. I'm wondering if this can have implications for NPC's in MMO's proper.

I'm not looking forward to when they introduce chat though.
Running the 'Real Debian' on Raspberry Pi 3 [for DIY Enthusiasts]
im talking products like notion that only support magic links (or google auth I guess but I’m not doing that). Slack does it right. You can use a magic link or use your password.
>They also are concerned about impacts to property values.

What's going to happen to your property values when climate change renders your region uninhabitable?
I don't see the privacy violation. The outside of envelopes are publicly viewable by design so that they can be delivered. If you don't want others to know who's mailing you, ask the sender not to place their name and address on the envelope.

But the situation isn't hard to understand. The entire building has a single code, and the delivery guy is responsible for inserting mail into the individual lock boxes, and he reads the addresses off the envelopes to decide where it goes so he doesn't need a code.

I do agree with your sentiment, though. They know it won't work as expected, so why did they allow you to sign up?
Interesting but some states don't have an income tax. Maybe they'd need to build some infrastructure for it. Not insurmountable.
Doesn't have a theme or ability to show RSS feeds but... I built an open-source Chrome extension I call SwiftTab for creating a custom page of links from my Bookmarks Bar (or a folder named "_Swift") https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/swifttab/poikmgend...

Source code is @ https://github.com/joshbuchea/chrome-ext-swifttab
No offence taken ;-)

>>But we do not buy games in stores anymore.

Well yes, I meant release in general, not discs specifically - it takes few months for the game to come out on Xbox Live/PSN mostly due to certification process as mentioned by Agentlien. The actual production process for discs has almost no impact on this.

>> It's not really about the patch, it's about the state of many AAA games on release, in that they are released with significant bugs.

Yes, I do see that. The dark side of what I said is that sometimes our master build has a significant issue, but it can be waived through because "we have 4 months until release, obviously we can fix it until then". And then for whatever reason it doesn't happen and the game launches with this critical problem that we totally knew about just didn't fix it in time. It's partially linked to the almost complete inability to push release dates back due to some technical issues, I could probably write a whole blog post about the amount of pressure things like preorders are putting on the push to release "on time".

>>In the current climate, this "live" service thing stinks like corporate speak for an ongoing stream of new micro transactions

Well, from the inside, all it means is that teams are not rolled off a project after it ships. I've worked on both "traditional" and "live" games and the difference is that with the "traditional" game you make your master build and pretty much everyone rolls off to another project, with a skeleton crew staying around to fix any bugs that pop up after release. But in 2-3 months after launch no one is actively working on it anymore. With "live" games the entire team stays on and is still in full development mode, even though the game shipped already. They are producing new content, and well, yes, they need to be paid somehow. So you get more content for a game that is unlikely to sell more copies than it already did by either making this content paid or by selling so many copies that you can effectively afford this development until next paid expansion ships. But hey, I'm a C++ developer, I don't have any control over this stuff ;-)

>>VPNs are not illegal. Is it that your EULAs forbid using one? That would be ridiculous. In a good company you should be able to give that advice.

No, it's just that if I say "use Tunnelbear to get around this issue" and someone finds out I work for this company then suddenly it's "Company X endorses Tunnelbear!". If I just say "try using a VPN to get around this problem" and someone downloads some dodgy VPN software that gives them a virus, then again they will present it as our fault. And gaming press is very very quick to pick this kind of stuff up so it's just safer to not say anything. If not for the company sake then for my own, you don't want to end up in spotlight by accident.
Nice. I'd suggest also pulling out e.g. metrics and recovery progress. Also interesting to list aliases.

More dangerous, but useful would be running queries via chat as well. You could use the same syntax as the dev console in kibana for this.
You're just saying that the h1b minimum is the same as the domestic minimum. I'd be interested in seeing how actual salaries are actually being paid out. h1b is supposed to only be used when no domestic workers can be found; many tech companies are using it to increase the pool of available workers at a given price point.
What is the agenda you are suggesting with your conspiracy theory?
> I guess I'm confused by Nicepage being "Web Design 3.0"

Yeah, it's kind of ironic that my first thought was "this looks a canned Bootstrap site". And, not a very good one at that.
I had no idea that the meet/join operations are used in compiler analysis, and I'm curious to find out more. Where can I find out how meet and join are defined on C values, in the context of GCC?
An Intro to Node.js That You May Have Missed
If I saw a privacy policy written in a way I could understand, I would be WAY more likely to give my money to the premium version of the product.

As long as there was a tiny link (privacy policy for lawyers) with it written the traditional way. I want to know that a company is able to produce a traditional privacy document, but is also smart enough to know I don't want to read one.
Yeah I did this the other day when I was looking for a letter I thought I had given my SO, but apparently didn't. It was pretty helpful to go thru which day certain letters arrived so I could look thru all the potential places I put it.
Well, yes, it's understandable why traditional energy companies have all sorts of government support including eminent domain and why he wouldn't wish that those protections extend to the competition in the renewable sector.
Lots of problems come from things like timestamps, or race conditions in concurrent build systems giving slightly different bytes on disk. These generally aren't "trusting trust" level problems, since they do not and cannot affect program behaviour; but they do screw up things like digital signing, cryptographic hashes, etc. which are useful for automatically verifying that self-built artefacts are the same as distro-provided ones.

These problems can also cascade, if component A embeds the hash of another component B, e.g. to verify that it's been given a correct version. If that hash comes from an unreproducible upstream, and building it ourselves gives a different hash, then we'll need to alter component A to use that new hash. That, in turn, changes the hash of component A, which might be referenced in some other component C, and so on.
'High severity' kernel security flaw found in MacOS file system
Well, yes, NIMBYism is a thing. But most oil and gas operations, while they take up less space, are more than toxic and smelly enough to make up the difference- and pipelines are regularly routed through public lands, skirting highly populated zones, in the face of massive public opposition. The reason those get built where renewables don't is simply that the oil industry is massive and knows how to work the necessary politics.

The renewable industry will need cultivate its clout, and learn to work the system just like the oil players have- and then, NIMBYism and lack of space will just mysteriously cease to be problems.
If only this were the case! Unfortunately it is not practical to reliably maintain single-digit millisecond clock tolerances in the public cloud as an end user via NTP. The entire software/hardware/network stack has to be tightly controlled, not just the clock source itself. And atomic clocks across multiple cloud providers are not in sync with each other, either.

Thus, databases that rely on clock synchronization recommend configuring tolerance windows of 500ms and above, and cannot reliably detect if those windows have been violated. Additionally, this window affects latency for serializable local reads all the time, even if the clocks actually fine, because there is no way for the system to know.