skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It takes less energy to kick a man that's down, or to step over him, than to hoist him to his feet and keep him standing.

I read "high moral character" as sarcastic equivalence to "not poor". I presume that it is very common for people who have never been poor, or even at risk for being poor, to attribute their good fortunes to an imagined causal factor within their own sense of identity, rather than being entirely due to random chance. They reason that they are rich because they are good, and then, though back-formation, also reason that poor people are, if not entirely bad, then at least less good.

Thus, "people of low moral character" becomes a euphemism for poor people. It is shot through with fallacies of reasoning and circular argument, but based on the statistics, many rich people didn't get rich by being smart, either.

To someone with this type of worldview, poor people deserve to be punished. And since it's less effort than helping them to be less poor anyway, everybody wins. Nobody who deserves wealth has to become less rich in order for other people who don't deserve anything to be less poor.

I can't say for certain whether or not this is a real thing, but the hypothesis does fit a lot of observations.
Intel to Stop Developing Compute Cards
It's open source: http://brechpunkt.de/q2vkpt/
Well yeah, they're senior, they got theirs, fuck everyone else.
This is a pretty amazing Ide. I see it is part of eclipse che now, is that correct?
I love this principle too - I think the only time it truly falls down (other than pure trolls) is when the person is so in love with their own voice (or, don't want to be pinned down), that no matter how much you try to repeat their point back to them, they say No, and repeat it back slightly differently. The distinctions are endless.
We have been a very happy user of zoom. Thankfully they have a native client for Ubuntu. I'm glad to see them go public.
For the ones in local neighborhoods, as long as they're not overcrowding the place, or committing crimes or something, you have to remember that all those tourists are pumping money into the local economy. They're eating food at the local eateries, they're paying for transport (probably helping fund the local public transit), they're giving money to local homeowners who then spend at least some of it locally and hopefully pay some extra taxes, etc. I fail to see how this is a problem, unless it's just too many of them of course.
The idea of a Bitcoin "exchange" is already weird, as most attributes of crypto don't apply if exchanges are involved.

But if those exchanges don't even bother to execute trades on the real blockchain, if the involved steps are just too much of a hassle, if they are content with storing and processing those "transactions" in their SQL Database, then...what is left of that old White Paper, is it anything else than a sacred book of a religion no one believes in anymore?
Yeah, it was certainly one of the more flattering websites I've seen all week. :)
Regarding the distortion, the error due to wrongly assumed superposition becomes noticeable before that. At this point, the non-linearity of soundwaves becomes glaringly obvious.
If you demonstrated your inability or unwillingness to follow the rules and got yourself banned in the first place, don't you think you owe the community some proof that you can do better?

Blind trust is what forced us to ban you in the first place.

Invest in us and we'll consider re-investing in you.
It's kind of all other the place but there is: blog, twitter, mailling list, github, brakeman, and all the little rails communities informing each others.
Uh, the non-existence of RV parks in SV is hardly an oversight. The social stigma of the "trailer park" is high but that's ultimately a marker for trailer and RV parks reducing home values. And why that reduced value? Sure, perception are a big thing but these funnel into increased supply means reduced prices.

Even in situation of hardship, “I would have bought my house next to a trailer park if I wanted that — but I didn’t," becomes the ultimate reaction [1].

[1]
Chico Resist FEMA Trailers:
https://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/fires/article22...
Well, the study shows that there are legit exchanges, so there is some place for the usual market forces to apply (and indeed, the price of Bitcoin on these exchanges lies in a tight band, too small for arbitrage opportunities). That doesn’t mean the price of Bitcoin can’t be manipulated by pump & dump or other price manipulation schemes.

But still, the study (at least the highlights given in the twitter thread) looks solid and well-presented.
First - a combined unicode length is definitely universally useful. Second - a grapheme length is universally useful. Third - I didn't say 'pick one definition' - you did. A simple function which took as a parameter some kind of linguistic construct would be immensely useful in cases of choice/ambiguity.

'It's complicated' is the utterly the wrong answer as to why we 'can't have better strings'.

Strings in almost every programming language were designed before Emjojis and true internationalization. If we designed them today, they would have support for dealing with most of the problems we face.

And FYI - there are not infinite corner cases. They are limited, and we can develop constructs for dealing with all of them.
IS fragmentation is a red herring. We already have it, it somewhat of a nuisance, but RV doesn't make it worse.
Talk is cheap. Actually making substantive comments is harder.
China’s Tesla Rival Denies Reports of Mass Layoffs, Inflated Sales Figures
I'm only talking about the US. Hispanics are having way more kids here than any other group.
I've had my iPad Mini 2 for years now and love it. Finally a worthy upgrade.
Fake volume is not someone selling and someone else buying. It's just the exchange lying and saying that someone bought and someone else sold when nobody actually did. Or, it's someone who owns two accounts trading back and forth between themselves. (Some of these exchanges have zero fees, so this doesn't cost any money.)
I suspect there are a fair number of people participating simply because they find it funny, and they enjoy the reactions they get. IE, trolls. Especially online, where participation is relatively low-effort.
That would just normalise these things in the same way that homosexuality was normalised back in the day.
Yeah, when I was there the China office largely worked on products for the Chinese market, and they lacked access to many things that Googlers in the rest of the world took for granted (like full access to the monorepo). It was more that some executive would throw a project over the wall to Beijing, a team there would work on it, most of the time the results of that work would stay in China (and be directly applicable to google.cn), but occasionally the exec would bring the tech back for U.S. engineers to work on.

I had regular contact with engineers in Zurich, Ireland, South Korea, Brazil, Israel, and Australia while I was there, but the only direct contact I had with the Beijing office was through a Mountain View expat (ethnically Croatian) who was leading a team there.
> It has the same A12 CPU ... with 3 GB of RAM on the system-on-a-chip

Actually that's package-on-package. The LPDDR4X DRAM is glued (well, reflow soldered) to the back of the A12 Bionic.

https://www.techinsights.com/about-techinsights/overview/blo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_on_package
What if I am Jesus? What I write is science, Darwinism and fascism isn’t
Free market's working fine. Don't buy scammy bitcoins, don't get scammed.
I know for a while there was a guy living in his camper in the Google parking lot (and was an employee). They were even nice enough to allow him to hook up to their power, and he was in range of the wifi. He basically just went inside to shower and eat (and work of course). Not a bad deal. Not sure if they allow that anymore though.
Zoom works more reliably than hangouts does. I use hangouts every day for some business calls, but I pay for Zoom. If you're looking for something that will work so you can close a sale, Zoom wins. Potential customers struggling to hear you on a hangout isn't a winner.

Scheduling, calendars, easy phone dial ins, and way better mobile performance make it clutch. I'm a GSuite customer, but it's still better to pay Zoom.

Zoom is also focused on one thing. Hangouts/chats/meet/whatever Google wants call it /do with it is an afterthought. If Google wanted to make a real run at the market, they should buy Zoom immediately.
Generally I prefer not to install apps, but with zoom the cost of installing the apps is worth the value it provides, which is good sound, good screen sharing, good video, all of that even with lowish bandwidth, and without eating all my memory and CPU.

I spent 5 mins installing it once and it becomes transparent and reliable.
Preparing for Invasive Pests Before They Arrive
If you are banned you can still comment? What is the actual ban?
So "only whites may apply for this scholarship" is fine then?

Clearly not IMO, there needs to be a morally defensible reason for restricting the field by physical characteristics; sex and skin colour/race are not good reasons in general.
I respect their (bakersfield.com) right to piss all over the regulation of 500 million people, and respectfully decide to ignore them and equally blacklist them.

GDOR is the mitigating effor after years of abusing Safe Harbor both by state agents as well as from private companies. Instead of fixing their deal, they prefer to black list EU? Seriously?

Go .... yourself, and I am returning the favor of black listing you 'dear' bakersfield.com. I know that this is not the first site to do this, but to give us this really shitty behaviour is just plain rude and arrogant.
I, for one, miss the old Linus.
Is a poll necessary?

Simple timer to count to 10. Go over all open sockets, drain incoming, pump junk. Handle accept. Repeat.
I haven't been active on chans for many years but as I remember there was very active moderation. On containment boards like /b/ the mods just removed "illegal porn", while the more topical boards removed irrelevant content. There was also a mod leaderboard where you could see bans, with IPs and reasons; most of them were /b/ for CP
This is awesome. Like the author, I run my real SSH server on a nonstandard port. Unlike the author, I run nothing on the standard SSH port.

I think that I'll start running this there.
Clang is the sound of the bell that tolls for Arm which isn't in as strong of a place as it used to be.
Computational Design of Mechanical Characters (2013)
As to #2, is it bias when the candidate pool is self-selecting? I mean, generally we're talking about an industry where a self-starter can learn, get their foot in the door and build a career. Every actual study I've seen actually indicates bias in favor of women. The fact that the candidate pool is so unbalanced to me seems to indicate an issue in education or no issue at all (self-selecting), not corporate hiring.
Best case scenario is that they convince people to treat their thing with value in their sandbox to reduce fees and improve performance for a specific business case (B-2-B payments for example). Or in the case of JPM Coin, they back it with deposits and no value trust is needed. Just limited application.

Think like Disney bucks, but a larger scale.
The Office org at Microsoft can be way too serious sometimes.
WpGoogleMaps 7.10.41 – Reflected XSS (WordPress Plugin)
> Interesting line of thought, but how far do you take it?

That's a good question and a correct perspective for arguing these kinds of policies. The answer is "as far as possible".

Personal freedom should be default starting position. If it is going to be taken away it should be done in a way that is as minimal as possible while getting the best bang for the buck in terms of minimizing actual harm (with actual evidence backing it up).

"I don't like other people doing drugs, so we should put them in jail for that" does not meet this standard (or any standard worthy of it's name, to be frank).

"People will harm themselves by doing drugs so we will ruin their lives and put them in jail while spending way more money than it would take to actually help them" also doesn't meet this standard.
Don't you people use keys? Stick them on your keychain!
Anyone can flag someone a Nazi. The user decides if they trust the flagger. If the flagger false flags, users can ignore the false flagger’s flags.
Please stop now. At this point you've crossed into trolling, and there's no way this discussion is going to do anything except repeat and sink further into flamewar.
I'm not sure I like this. How secure is it? Anything you put on port 22 is going to be attacked relentlessly. I think I'd rather have OpenSSH handling those attacks than some tarpit program that may or may not have been subjected to the audits and the trial-by-fire that OpenSSH has.
High (sound, screen sharing, video) quality, low men and CPU usage.
Java was designed upfront to be a language for large-team, long-lived, enterprise development. Whereas Python and PHP were originally toy languages that ended up filling a popular niche.

I mean, I agree with you. But Java benefits from well thought-out design constraints, ground-up IDE support, and an amazingly flexible bytecode interpreter. Normal people in the early 90s didn't have the resources to produce a language like Java.
Solving the problem that military pay and post-service direct benefits (retirement pay, etc.) inadequately compensates for opportunity cost by making hiring in the rest of government (states as well as federal) less efficient rather than addressing it more directly seems to be a decidedly overcomplicated and suboptimal solution.
If this had been in the "Pro" style with a thin bezel and USB-C, it would have been an instant buy.
There was one at the burn last year.
Normal fracking doesent create earthquakes.
Personal attacks will get you banned here. I realize this thread is a wretched flamewar (and haven't had time yet to look at just how wretched) but this comment stands out as a bannable offense. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and please don't post like this to HN, no matter how wrong someone is or you feel they are.
News Media: Facebook invades people's privacy, which is bad

Also News Media: Facebook isn't doing a good enough job of tracking everything its users do
Writing software is an act of labor, not getting information or advice.

That definition just proves his point. Or am I missing something?
Log volume can easily exceed reasonable memory sizes. Even a small company can generate TBs of logs each month. Having a single box with TBs of memory wouldn't be desirable.

For logs without full indexing, Loki (https://github.com/grafana/loki) is a recent entry into the space, and it probably a good option to look at. It indexes metadata (labels), so it allows searching by labels but not full text. It is also supposed to be horizontally-scalable, which is probably something you want in a log storage solution.
> "tech is behind medicine's adoption curve with resepect to gender inclusion"

also seems like a hard-to-believe hypothesis.

See https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more... for an outline of the 'interest' hypothesis - essentially, women are stronger than men in both verbal and math/science domains, but prefer the former, so will pick subjects that more closely align with their interests when society lets them do so. In countries with worse egalitarianism and social security, they'll gravitate towards subjects that bring them more economic freedom.
My two cents:

1) Lack of reliable real time ability to detect device and compute size.
2) Increased computation complexity of what to render - why put that load on the server when devices are now commensurately as fast - or even faster given the trend to distributed services that maximize network throughput over power.

I'm not even sure why it was so popular in the first place; client server separation is a good thing, IMHO.
> Forming a union is a great tool—for marginalized workers. Unions are historically intended to protect vulnerable members of society, and we feel the demographics of this union undermine this important function. We're concerned with the misappropriation of unions for use by privileged workers, some of whom receive compensation more than twice the average income in NYC, in addition to flexible work from home hours, above-and-beyond industry standards for parental leave, 25+ days of paid vacation, a wellness stipend, a bike stipend, an education stipend, a weekly catered lunch, and a great deal of other benefits. We're already a radically thoughtful and ethical company with our PBC, and can do more to lead the way in the tech industry by providing an open environment that's free of hostility.

Because a company treats their employees well, they always will. And employees should just take what they are given instead of trying to get a seat at the table. Welcome to the brave new world of woke stools and scabs.
Recently? It was a 4GB laptop that ran out of memory while linking back in Oct '18.
I read the comment as email us with the reason you should be unbanned and we will consider it. instead you are told that the email was a waste of time.

my point is why make the users email? just explain that you’ve been banned but the users can unban you. there’s no point in tricking the user into thinking emailing can get you unbanned.

it would be like going to a parole board hearing and being told there’s no way we’re letting you go free, we’re not in charge of it. ok well then why did you invite me here?
Even back in 1999, rents were already high in the are compared to the rest of country. When I got my first job, rents for a 1br place were about $1,000/mo near Emeryville, where my job was. But it turns out boat payments were only about $525/mo. I did serious research and almost bought a boat, until I found out you aren't allowed to sleep on your boat in the dock without a special permit, and the waitlist for that permit was 10 years.

I supposed I could have floated out in the Bay every night, but I suspect that would have made my costs go up significantly from the extra maintenance and fuel.

But the point is, California seems to be very against alternate forms of housing, and this isn't a new thing.
Which is a little weird, because a $10/hour job for 40 hours/week for 50 weeks/year is $20K. The robot can presumably work 168 hours/week for 52 weeks/year, which means that it's roughly 1/4 the cost of a human (and that doesn't count hiring time, HR training, sick days, worker's comp, taxes...)

The real issue is that we expect minimum wage workers to operate independently on minimal instructions, and as every programmer knows, explaining what you want done to a computer is much harder than telling a competent adult.
A great message. I love HN for this very reason. Just today I noticed an article about an Army interrogator turned concientious objector. At the latter portion of my military career I too was an interrogator. I avoided posting because I realized the topic was too hot and likely to become political. It didn't hurt my feelings, I simply moved on with my day.
Ewww, sticky service! Hilarious! :-D
So what is the intersection of value and utility? Roomba meets the criteria, but nothing else? What about https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tombot/tombot-affordabl... ? Or is that too light on the 'sensing' part to be considered a robot? Is a Furby a robot? The problem seems to be one of semantics.
As an avid user of Zoom, this makes perfect sense. We've had meetings with upwards of 600 participants without any issues, it's impressive software.
Uh, "People give pets free food and shelter while letting the homeless starve, what's wrong with our society" is ... meaningfull, "telling" but not insightful.

Misery and poverty in the midst of plenty is symptom of a serious problem, it's signal we should be thinking about the situation. The non-insightful part is that this, by itself, doesn't point the way out of the problem.
I agree with you. How can they give the article that title while the last sentence states, "It is unclear what that assignment might have been?" While I believe the title may be correct based off of other information in the article, the authors make themselves look incompetent (i.e., maybe covering their asses) by ending the article with that assertion.
I like it! It reminds me of the approach React Native Navigation uses with explicitly declaring things up front.
I propose a technological solution to this problem: HN needs a sarcasm checkbox on each comment.
That is not the conclusion of objective data.
before resorting to something as extreme as a union

Either unions in the US are messed up, or they have a terrible terrible press.
Iffland-Ring Goes to Jens Harzer
It is meaningful, if you choose to think about it. Most people choose to ignore it, because it brings up a lot of thoughts that are inconvenient or uncomfortable. Effective Altruism asks these questions.

It's a pretty easy decision for me whether to support a pet charity (including the wildly inefficient service of personally rescuing a dog or cat) or a humanitarian charity. It's different if you have pets for your own enjoyment.

I really would like straightforward answers. I'm surprised there isn't more things like this: https://causeprioritization.org/Cause_prioritization It gets very complicated and turns into three dimensional chess. Well I guess I answered my own question of why it's a small niche.

This has influenced my thinking a lot: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3p3CYauiX8oLjmwRF/purchase-f...

As a consequentialist I'm a bit noncommital. I would hate to spend 40 hours in a month helping an acquaintance to find a job when I could spend that same 40 hours saving a life by making more money and using it to buy mosquito nets for Against Malaria.
Farewell from Paradise Bay
Well, by 4chan, I really mean /b/, which was internet famous for its minimal moderation. The other boards were strictly moderated to stay on topic IIRC (/v/ was strictly about video games)

EDIT: Now that I think of it, 8chan had moderators as well. But they were also quite lax about most things. (This EDIT replaces and contradicts a previous paragraph that used to be in this post). 8chan's rule was "no doxxing", you pretty much could do anything else though.

Fully unmoderated discussion exists in USENET (or at least, used to exist in USENET. I haven't used that in a while). But as the major internet companies gained control of USENET, they were inevitably forced to clean up the discussion (pornography, pirating, etc. etc. couldn't be hosted on Google's servers)

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At the end of the day, I just want to bring forth the attention that at least one internet community (8chan) believes in little-to-no moderation. Its not a viewpoint I agree with, but its something that group definitely believes in.
> If you want to make that argument, don't you need to go and refute all the anecdotal evidence that women aren't entering tech careers because they don't feel welcome?

Who feels welcome in tech? It's an elitest culture filled with strong personalities that fancies itself a meritocracy.
YouTube broke search filters as a temporary fix
Razor Components are quite different to Blazor (although I think you can use the same code on both). If you weren't already aware of this difference it's worth taking another look.
I've gotten into the habit of doing vacations in the US. Sometimes I feel like I barely know the country I grew up in.