skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm happily surprised that the model has been mentioned at all... it's worth diving into the motivation. The moral reasoning behind non-conservative, sex-positive proponents of the model is in asking: from the perspective of the buyer, how do you know the seller isn't poor or threatened by a pimp? How can you assume "yes means yes" when money is involved? Some people dismiss this question (in my experience "scoff" is a better descriptor), and it's a debate that should happen in good faith within the left-of-center.
All of them? It's not like private stores or businesses are legally required to be open at specific times. They decide for themselves when to open and how to lay out their shifts. It's normal to have some variation in operating hours between different businesses.

Individual employees don't necessarily have the option of setting their own personal hours, especially for shift work, but if there's a clear preference among the group then they have a decent chance of getting the business to adapt its hours to suit the majority.

This is ignoring certain jurisdictions which have made the short-sighted mistake of hard-coding specific hours into local employment laws. Such laws would need to be updated, of course, to reflect this or any other time zone change.
How will you deal with valid paths such as:

/tmp/[DE][AD][BE][EF].txt # ext2 / linux
# OR
C:\stuff\[DEED][FFFE].txt # ntfs / windows
# where [hex] indicates a single filesystem charater with that value
I noticed another use case regarding photos on the filesystem. I like to see them in their local datetimes, rather than the absolute time in my current location, but don't believe linux filesystems supports that.

For example if I travel and take photos I don't want their mod times to be of those back home, which can be in the middle of the night or wrong day.

Have been moving them to my local timezone via a time shift, but not sure that is the right thing to do. Now they are in my timezone, but if I move one day, will I have to update all my photo times? Even with exiftool and DateTimeOriginal, that's more file updates than I'd like to do.
I got a PhD in 2013 (theoretical/computational astrophysics), did a postdoc for two years, and was a professor for one year. I’m now a data scientist at a large tech company in the Bay Area working on a machine learning platform.

I enjoyed grad school for the most part, and was really into teaching. By the time I got a professor job (a visiting one, not tenure-track), I was getting anxious about the long-term job prospects and it was getting harder and harder to justify the workload (teaching, grants, advising students, etc) given the relatively poor job security and pay. I felt if I was going to switch careers, I should do it soon since it’s not going to get any easier.

By this point (~3 yrs ago) I had several physics/astro friends who had become data scientists or similar jobs in the tech industry. Some had done programs like Insight and some got jobs on their own. Everyone I talked to seemed happy with their decision to switch careers. I ended up doing Insight and getting a job quickly after and am glad I did. The variety of the work, amount of collaboration (more), and new things to learn is still keeping me interested. I was also surprised at how many opportunities there are to give talks and seminars in the industry, which helps scratch the teaching itch.
But there are certainly ways a subset of the population could profit from increasing food prices too. The question is a moral one.
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After typing out my response I don’t know if I totally agree with what I’m saying here. And I don’t know if it even makes much sense but here it is anyway:

I think what I’m getting at is you wouldn’t call a proof with an error in it beautiful. Just like you wouldn’t call a useless python class beautiful. The purpose of pure math is finding truths. The purpose a python class is to do something useful. For something to be beautiful it has to complete its purpose (I don’t think I would go so far as utility) as well as be of a beautiful form. Relating this back to traditional art the question becomes what is the purpose of traditional art? Here by traditional art I mean making things with the intention of it being “art” and for people to look at/ hear/feel and doesn’t have other utility.
Except the primary purpose of a mall is retail business, not message distribution. Facebook's primary purpose (as far as its users are concerned) is to facilitate social interaction. It's almost exactly analagous to the village commons or town square. Or maybe, to a "place of public accommodation." I was originally sympathetic to the "it's their platform, they can do what they want" argument but this has given me something to think about.
That would be i_am_proteus' point (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19504268).
I read them in English. The translations are great and I'm pretty sure he vetted them carefully. IIRC, his son did some of them, in between being an opera singer.

My favorite was Luzhin's Defense, about a chess master who goes mad. But I liked all of them, including Despair, Glory, and Invitation to a Beheading. Invitation to a Beheading is unusual, sort of phantasmagoric—a bit like Kafka at his most dreamlike. If you like movies that play games with "what is real", it's in that spirit.

The first two English novels Sebastian Knight and Bend Sinister are very much in the style of his Russian novels. But the language of the Russian novels is lush rather than brittle, and this comes out even in the translations.

My impression of Nabokov is that he was inwardly a romantic and even a sentimentalist, but was conflicted about that and so wrapped it in many layers of cleverness. For me, the cleverness and self-reference get to be too much in the later work. He's at his best when the clever side and the romantic side are equally matched and the tension between them has the most energy. People say the sentimental side comes through more strongly in his memoir (Speak, Memory) but I haven't read that one.
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>the proposition that certain social media sites actually should obey the "company town" precedent.

This only follows if you believe you're under an obligation to use social media.

>It's really never before happened in history where a private company has become the mediator and facilitator of discourse involving millions of people simultaneously.

This depends on what you mean. On the one hand, up until ~30 years ago, discourse involving millions of people was impossible. So in one way you're correct. On the other hand, media companies of all kinds have historically had a huge level of control over what people see. When the only form of communication was the town crier, he controlled what you heard. When we added printed paper, the people with the press had outsized control over the media. And the barriers to entry were much higher then: I can spin up my own website in an hour. Your average person couldn't afford a printing press.

>This almost infinitely scalable many-to-many communication property of modern social media makes it feel much more like a public space than newspapers, TV, and radio ever did.

What public space offers infinitely scalable many-to-many communication? Public space is distance limited, these platforms aren't. Just because these platforms chose not to heavily regulate the content doesn't preclude their ability to ever do so in the future, nor does it make a comparison to a theoretical public space that never existed any more valid.
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I am not from India, but you do understand that the party that has majority control over India, the BJP, is a blatantly Hindu Nationalist party? I would argue this makes them even more entrenched in nationalist politics than here in the US. Look at the hundreds of killings and mutilations over cows that the government of India seriously turns a blind eye to.
In interesting conclusion of your suggestion: people may have to start capping user sign-ups to their site in order to maintain free speech rights:

if (users.count.toString.length > 7) {
return response.send(noMoreSignupsAtThisTime) }
Please , lets not buy into ever marketing hype. AFAIK GPUs were invented for driving virtual cars
Different people are different.

I now keep my personal things in the same place at home >99% of the time, but it's taken me decades of training to get to this point.

For example, I used to walk in with my keys, and would be ready to put them into their home. But there could be an interruption between the time I used the keys to open the front door and when I put them in their home. For me, that situation would often cause me to put my keys in an inappropriate place, which often caused them to get 'lost' later on.

The behaviour modification, for me, was causing me to resist any reaction to any interruption until the necessary things landed where they belonged.

Different people are different.
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In the case of facebook. If they removed one side from debating that side will leave. Creating a smaller more similiar group of people. That would go against the goal of connecting the world and change the goal to connecting the left or right. Plenty of those sites. Facebook's ideal strategy is not to get involved.
Very few jobs require PhDs. Tech most certainly doesn't. I've been in this industry across three decades now, and by far the most talented people I've worked for or with have had nothing but <wait for it...> HS diplomas and AS degrees. That's right. The bottom rung education levels.

My dearest mentor, a man who has forgotten more about *nix, coding, and about anything else than I will ever know has a HS diploma and can and does run rings around everyone else. He has a mind like a steel trap. All of the great coders I have known had, at best, a BS or BA, none of them in an actual IT discipline.

Anyone can learn to code, be a great sysadmin, or a network guru. All it takes is want power. If you want it bad enough, you will get there. In fact, I'll hire a person who has changed careers into IT who is smart and hungry over a simpering PhD candidate who thinks they are the cat's pajamas. There are some calls for PhDs, but not many. It's a badge of some sort for companies to show they have "smart" people. PhDs are great at research, not so much at actual doing things. This has been my experience with working with more than a few.
It remains to be seen if WASI will actually have fewer holes in its sandbox. Fundamentally it is not different.
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Satellites are sitting ducks. This feat is as admirable as kicking down a sandcastle on the beach.

We need an international treaty banning this because the detritus produced in the form of hundreds of thousands of new fragments in orbit is one of the largest threats to future space development.
With the first link the chain is forged, first speech censored, first thought forbidden, first freedom denied, chains us all, irrevocably.
If someone's a douchebag and gets banned from all the malls in a city, that doesn't necessarily mean the malls colluded.
Legally, of course, FB is completely right. Morally - try to replace "white nationalism" with, say, "communism" (one can argue communists killed a lot of people, so why not?), "Christianity", "Islam", "Black separatism", "Wiccans"... I could continue forever, but I hope you get the point. If you're consistently fine with any $GROUP put there, no matter how much you love it/disgusted by it, then your position is consistent and you are one of about 0.001% of people that has a consistent free speech position. For the rest, the answer would be "but this is completely different - $INGROUP can not be banned, they are a nice people that sometimes are misunderstood, but $OUTGROUP are definitely all violent bigots that should be banned everywhere for everybody's safety".

Of course, FB does not owe anybody to neither have consistent free speech position, nor support free speech at all, nor be an inclusive platform. They could convert their site to the fan club of Jar Jar Binks tomorrow and make every user to pledge loyalty to Supreme Lord Jar Jar or take a hike. Completely within their rights. Presenting themselves as an open platform while executing a clear political censorship is less morally clear (though of course still legally completely OK). It doesn't matter that political censorship is now directed to the group that is outgroup for most people here - it always starts that way. It never ends there.
Based on your other comments, follow your leader.
This is interesting anecdotally but for those trying to make a living from their music, I would argue direct subscriptions seem far more stable and useful as part of your income. For example bandcamp or something like patreon, where I can subscribe to some artist I really like for $1-3/month or something and get access to everything they do. That's the closest model I've seen for non-huge-industry folks making a living from recordings -- which is of course usually supplemented by touring and a dozen other hustles. (for example mastering or teaching)

IMHO overall it doesn't feel like the situation has changed all that much in this era though. The same huge institutions remain magnets for a handful of lottery-winners (big labels, funded orchestras, etc) and everyone else is scraping by in myriad ways, though the ways are a bit different now.
Why does it have to taste exactly like the other?

The two biggies just overpower the others:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/76881/tragic-history-rc-cola
>CTO having zero regard for his customers and having the gall to tell us to install a new OS ourselves for our own safety

I would not call that 'zero regard'. I would personally label it as having the utmost regard, as he was willing to stick his neck out there and do something that would obviously have negative repercussions to his career, etc.

Were mistakes made? Yes, but that is normal. I personally haven't seen anything him do technology-wise or security-trustworthiness-wise that I've hated. Did he maybe trust the wrong guy or perhaps make some un-sound business decisions? Apparently. But that's not why I'm interested in his project.
That's actually super interesting. Had no idea there was a way to migrate from Elm to OCaml JS dialects so easily! Thanks.
Also a willingness to debug COBOL programs written in the 80s to deal with stuff like Unicode on imported records.
I wish larger tech companies would follow Jack Dorsey's path and have more open communication about their policies. His debate with Tim Pool on the Joe Rogan podcast[0] especially provided insight into why they're making these type of decisions.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZCBRHOg3PQ
So now you will be banned if you're white and think that US politicians should put the interests of the US first in foreign and domestic policy?

That'll eliminate the majority of their US user base.
So what about black nationalism? The Dallas mass-shooter, Micah Xavier Johnson, was reportedly radicalized in part by various black power Facebook groups:

https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-dallas-police-shooting-...
I think it's pretty straightforward to understand: the buyer likely has little to no expertise in the important issues. This is not in any way a slur on election officials, simply the recognition of the (statistically) likely experience of someone who is a local election official.

In addition the way the question is structured by the senators isn't really fair either: if you have n bugs to fix before the ship date, you'll prioritize them and then ship (presumably) the best product you can by the immovable target date. That is also reality.

Though voting is a local matter the Federal Government has a constitutional interest (Article 1, Sections 4 and 5) in the elections to Congress and can mandate minimal standards for voting just as the DoT mandates minimum standards for automobiles. So they could require that whatever machines used are verifiable and non-repudiatable. They could also mandate procedures although those are harder to enforce. If States need to buy equipment suitable for congressional elections they'll presumably use the same equipment for all other elections too.
Chomsky’s position is that the burden of proof is on state violence to justify itself, and I think he would agree it’s clearly justified in that case.

However, that’s a very narrowly scoped restriction (and it’s also not clear that such distribution is a type of “speech”). A more appropriate question would be: would Chomsky support free speech for an advocacy group such as NAMBLA, or for creating mangas that depict drawings similar to CP? Those are exactly the type of speech/expression that are clearly vile, yet should still be protected from interference by state violence, from the civil-libertarian perspective.
As for the latter, that would possibly be The Collector's Library?

Large selection of classics, printed on thin 'Bible paper', hardback, diminutive size, ribbon marker.

I tend to always keep one or two in my cabin luggage for the occasions when I feel like giving the Kindle a rest.
Ex-PhD student in general relativity here, also slowly going thru that book. If anyone wants to start a reading (slack?) group together, I’d be interested. I have no one to talk to about this stuff IRL.
Speech that is about "exterminating nonwhites" is already illegal speech. It is incitement to commit crime. There does not need to be new rules or laws to prevent this speech - there just needs to be enforcement of the existing rules, which is fine, and I think everyone, including most right-wingers will agree that such laws should be enforced, and it is correct that media platforms block posts as soon as they are alerted to them.

The issue isn't about banning speech which is about "exterminating nonwhites", but about banning speech which discusses something else, but which takes a gigantic stretch of imagination to be considered about "exterminating nonwhites". What you want to ban isn't speech which is illegal (incitement to commit crime), but in fact, anything you imagine can be misrepresented to be considered equivalent. The only limit to your restrictions on speech are your imagination!
> But they don't say that

Nor should they. I helped run a large, active web forum for years. We found general rules and moderator discretion were far more valuable than a list of 800 different "you can't do foo" specific rules, because the bad actors tie up all your time lawyering about the specifics.
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Have you made any ship date commitments to the board, or to stakeholders, or customers?
> Almost 30,000 “incorrect” world maps, showing Taiwan as a separate country and wrong depiction of the Sino-Indian border, were destroyed by the customs authorities in Qingdao, it said.

> “What China did in the map market was absolutely legitimate and necessary, because sovereignty and territorial integrity are the most important things to a country. Both Taiwan and South Tibet are parts of China’s territory which is sacred and inviolable based on the international law,” Liu Wenzong, professor from the department of International Law of China Foreign Affairs University said.
This sounds insane to me. I will never hire another PhD if I can possibly avoid it.

I would estimate that I have worked with around 30 PhD-holders in my career. Consistent issues: no ability to hit deadlines, no sense of the big picture, easily distracted by irrelevant details.

This kinda says it all.

https://dilbert.com/strip/2019-01-21
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> McDonalds as a company has fine food quality based on the fresh hot and delicious McDonalds I got in Japan.

In Japan. A country with seriously incredible food.

Gets McDonalds.

Wow.
Aha, so that's why Ahrefs has been plaguing my servers with a more-or-less infinite number of requests, and some apparently really stupid crawling.

At best, this will be another "Cuil" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuil), so what's Ahrefs' exit strategy?
Uh, yes it does. It makes a huge difference. Your screen will be covered in white stuff as dust and dead skin gets blown out of the keys. Try it.
You're absolutely right! We unquestionably have a categorical imperative to protect our vulnerable friends, neighbors, and community members.

To those ends, I don't want to not draw lines. I want some kind of clear criteria and process around thw drawing of lines. Perhaps we could consider a system whereby we can make sure that the power to draw lines is not used against weaker members of society under the guise of some higher ideal.
It _seems_ you (someone from the Signal project?) are actively diverting from the point, with what is ultimately a security theater request. Keybase's app - which IS open source - doesn't trust the server at all. We could be running anything server-side, regardless of what we do or don't publish. Meanwhile, Signal's story is "you MUST trust our server, over and over again," as the blog post explains. Unfortunately there's no way to know what's happening on the server. So being like Signal and publishing your server source is strictly worse than being like Keybase and not (yet?) publishing server-side source. At any time, Signal could be throwing in these fake key upgrades, either due to running other source code on purpose, or being forced to, or just plain getting hacked. The most malicious Keybase server could not.

This comment may be of interest (we could release server code at some point, and I will take this as a vote), but I hope people reading this aren't distracted by Signal's flaw here.

[edit: chilled a bit!]
Wow, so people like you actually exist.
Even in that case, you could only backup on device storage, had to write down (!) a huge set of numbers and manually copy files around. The whole flow is awfully terrible to any user - at least WhatsApp can sync your profile over Google Drive.

Last time my phone died, I lost all of my Signal group memberships, because the app is incapable of transfering those to a new phone without backup... and it's also incapable of doing the backup automatically. Those UX choices continiously baffle me - it's like authors didn't learn anything from the failure of PGP.
I normally don't do this in-person, but some kind of out of the loop approach is something i do every time.

One time i got a postcard from a friend with their safety number on it and nothing else. I recognized their handwriting to complete the loop.
I used to be a big proponent of UBI.

After doing a lot of reading and research, I'm not. I think people should be paid for the work they do, whether directly or indirectly.

I'm now much more in favor of things like social dividends: taxing profits of businesses and distributing it equally amongst the population, taxing estates at 90+% and distributing it equally amongst the population, etc.

Another idea I like is the social fund: it buys controlling shares in publicly-traded companies, forces them to issue dividends, then sends 10-20% of the dividends to the citizens, and spends the other 80-90% on buying more shares in other companies, with the net effect of socializing the profits of large companies.

Yes, most of these ideas would fall under some loose definition of "socialism." That said, it ties passive income to overall productivity, something that UBI doesn't do.
I agree, although what I meant there was that's about the point where making the house bigger stops providing any meaningful improvement. I know it's possible to make do with a lot less.