skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there are many things that an American could say that would see them brought before the courts.

Unless it's libel (i.e. intentional or neglectful causing of actual harm to a person) or speech connected to specific lawless action (like saying "let's whack this guy" to a contract killer) - no, there's not. Which things do you mean?

> Germans in particular are acutely aware of the disastrous consequences of allowing incitement to go unchallenged

Germans problem was not just "incitement". It was putting Hitler in charge of the government. That wasn't done by "incitement", that was done by actual German top politicians, who thought that putting a strong leader in charge and suppressing opposition (Ermächtigungsgesetz and so on) will solve their stability problems. They did it for security, to keep the tranquility and peace in the nation, so they had the troublemakers arrested and the people who can right the course of the nation assigned the power instead. Too bad those people turned out to be the Nazis.

I think the lesson from here is that no opposition voice needs to be suppressed, no group should be excluded, and nobody should be given absolute power over others. Somehow some people in EU think that the lesson if that right people just need to suppress the right things instead. After all, we have so good record in choosing who are the right people and what things they should be suppressing, don't we? We won't make any mistakes again there?
Being stressed out and dying early is what you're losing out on. Also being in pain and unhappy.
Doesn't mean the runtime needs to provide that sandbox. If the only thing in the process is the WASM runtime & the WASM code then you don't need the runtime to do any sandboxing - the kernel already did that for you.
Vibrational Modes, for Real
This is pretty cool. Could end up checking it out for my startup.
Break functional and orchestration responsibilities for better testability
You have wedded your opinion of US news organizations to your definition of the news. Those two can and should be kept seperate.

1) Being an account is all the news is. It's a story. The division between TMZ and Fox and CNN is defined. They are all news organizations. They differ in the nature of their accountability and the degree with which they hold themselves accountable for their stories. They show this in their willingness to retract, correct, or stand by stories. And they have a history that we can judge.
You already show that in your opinion of them.

2) Anyone can be a journalist. Just as anyone can be a scientist or a programmer. But to do those things, to be considered a professional in those things, is to hold yourself to a certain set of standards, that is, to hold yourself accountable. I have read excellent and insightful journalism in a newspaper just as I have read it on a local blog. In both cases they have acted with professionalism. I have also seen the inverse, in which case I don't consider them credible journalists or their news to be credible.

3) That's a completely credible criticism of many news organizations. That however, does not target my definition of news, that targets the use of op-eds by news organizations to evade accountability. In which case, they are bad news organizations and you would be justified in considering them as such.

However to insist on 100% "truthfulness" or "objectivity" leads to a metaphysical paralysis where news or journalism is impossible. Show me an 100% true and objective news story? You can't (or you could show your fact from your parent comment, but, as you admit, that is not news). Because it has never been like that, nor need it. Instead we can be pragmatic and demand that the news be useful. what the news is is its use. That use is accountability. Because neither I nor you can be everywhere at once. To overcome that, we rely on news, on accounts of events. But, in turn, we can also, as you have, insist that we have good news and criticise those that are not useful (a Fox News, for instance, that insists on only holding one party accountable).
I’m an ex google employee and came to say this same thing.
https://coincircle.com/l/sfX5us6vcQ
Russia banned drug information? What sort of information, like pharmacology?
"mistakes"

LOL
The idea that this is 'secret' is patently absurd. You would have to basically not interact with the world to think that.

Parents _not_ helping children out is an anomaly. It's definitionally bad parenting; it doesn't change because the subject may be physical goods or money rather than e.g. 20 years of food and water, or childhood education, or just making sure they don't walk out into the road, etc.

So too is the idea that people should be ashamed of it. Literally every non-damaged parent out there gives their children money or housing or something similar; the degree may differ (a poor parent may have to stop at 16 or 18), but the fundamental idea is the same.

I don't have wealthy parents. I've done fine. Would I have done better if, all else being equal, they had a few million? Perhaps.

To me this all seems like sour grapes. Be happy with where you are in life. There's always more.
What's the can of worms here? Why wouldn't amazon.com have exactly the same problem as .amazon?
As an ex-Googler, that's not how you're supposed to operate at those companies. You find something you like to do, talk to the team, ensure the other team has open spots and would like to take you on, and move your shit from one desk to the other. Done. You're working on your specialization, if that's what you like to do.

Discussing stuff with your manager is utterly pointless because your interests aren't really aligned. You want to do something else. Your manager wants you to do whatever you're doing now because finding a replacement for you is a bit of a pain in the ass. She gets no brownie points if you leave.

It is true that Google has a ton of PhDs who just copy one protobuffer into another and browse memegen all day while earning half a million dollars a year. But they also have a ton of PhDs who do meaningful work, too. It's not really Google's problem that someone can't be bothered to look around and find something meaningful for themselves to do. Or to be more exact, it is a problem _for_ Google, because there are a lot of people who can be deployed in higher leverage occupations, but not one that Google itself can solve, because one of the main tenets of how they operate is _nobody tells you what to do_. You're supposed to figure it out on your own. A lot of people can't deal with that.
Nothing in the article says anything about that.

The article talks about Firefox behavior when DoH is enabled. It's not enabled by default. The article doesn't say it's getting enabled by default, or under what conditions it might get enabled by default.
I love this[1] website which illustrates some of the nuances of the prisoners dilemma in a quite frankly great way. In fact I've deleted the rest of my post as I believe the website does a much better job of explaining how the correct answer to the prisoners dilemma changes depending on how the population behaves and how often they make mistakes.

[1] https://ncase.me/trust/
Hello! My name is Brett. For the past couple years I've been teaching myself how to program and engineer software, with a focus on C++ and Linux.

Lately, I've been interested in learning how text-based user interface (TUI) programs such as vi, vim, or less are implemented. I decided the best way to learn would be to build and implement my own TUI program, without relying on existing TUI frameworks/libraries. I went with the core idea of the program being a text reader, and decided to call it Fltrdr.

Fltrdr, or flat-reader, is a TUI text reader that runs in the terminal. It is flat in the sense that the reader is word-based. New line characters and sequential whitespace is stripped from the input text, leaving the reader with a stream of words. The words are then presented one or more at a time, moving one word forward at a user defined words per minute (WPM) variable speed.

For the past two months, I've continued to build upon Fltrdr, learning much along the way. It's written in C++17 and is distributed under the MIT License. I wanted to share the progress that has been made since the initial release, and some of the challenges that I've encountered along the way.

Supporting Unicode text was the most challenging feature. At the start, I knew very little about Unicode, and even less about what a code unit, code point, or grapheme cluster was. After a lot of research, I ended up gaining a decent understanding of what needed to be done to support inputting, manipulating, and rendering UTF-8 text, including full-width CJK Unified Ideographs. I ended up using parts of the ICU library to provide certain UTF-8 algorithms to build a non-memory-owning string view class, an owning-memory string class, and a non-memory-owning string view regex iterator. A majority of the program had to be rewritten to support this, all the way down to the keyboard/mouse input handler.

Another highly requested feature was the ability to save and restore where when last left off reading a piece of text, which is now implemented in the latest release. It works by taking an SHA256 hash of the content, and uses the hash as the file name. The current reader state is then dumped as regular commands into the file. These commands are the same ones that may be placed in the configuration file, or inputted into the programs command prompt. This process reuses the existing command parser. When that same content is opened again, Fltrdr will automatically check to see if a state file exists using a hash of the content, and loads the state if a matching file is found. This allows the ability to load and save the state whether the content came from a file, or stdin.

Lastly, more configuration options are available, with nearly everything being able to be customized.

I'm open to any feedback or suggestions, and I'd be happy to answer any
questions!

For more details on what has changed, check out the release notes here:
https://github.com/octobanana/fltrdr/releases/tag/0.3.0

It can be found here on GitHub:
https://github.com/octobanana/fltrdr

It can also be found here on my personal site:
https://octobanana.com/software/fltrdr
It's absolutely NOT free, and may not be without strings... such as your area of study (major), how far you want to go. Demonstrated competency going in, etc.

In this case, the investor(s) could look at the potential value/income for the person going in. If you want to focus on an area that has limited job prospects and low salary, then you're unlikely to get funding.
He isn't explaining why the blackhole would look like a fuzzy coffee mug stain. He's explaining why the _picture_ of the blackhole will look like a fuzzy coffee mug stain.

To your point, it's like taking a picture of Uranus with film and waiting for it to develop. People familiar with the matter can guess what the _image_ will look like not what Uranus actually looks like.

This is all very clear in the first 25 seconds of the video if you actually listen to what he's saying.
The idea is not to make the taxes deliberately complex, it is more about the notion of who is telling whom what is owed. A system where the citizen says "hey government, I think I owe you this much in tax because x" is fundamentally different than a system where the government says "hey citizen, you owe me this much in taxes, here's your bill".

In the second situation, the average (complacent) citizen will not look twice at the bill, but rather just pay it and get on with their life. In the former situation, the citizen is forced to have a 3rd party create a statement that says "I owe you this much because x" and because of natural incentives, the company will try to claim the maximum number of [incentives, loopholes, deductions, whatever you want to call them] so that the client saves the most amount of money. Of course the company takes its cut and I'm not arguing that greedy companies are the perfect solution. I'm just saying that there is more to the argument than simply it being a matter of lobbyists getting their way.
The Logic of Political Survival (2002) [pdf]
What AI tools? SageMaker is awesome. What can Google do for me? All I've seen from them is marketing hype. I also haven't looked very hard.
I disagree. If that's the only consideration, it creates incentive for the super rich to ensure all other options are bad; that'll ensure you pick the least bad option, the one that benefits them the most.

You have to include whether you are enabling greater income disparity, to ensure there is a disincentive for those in power to create that sort of environment for you. It is rational to consider both what benefits you, -and- what benefits society at large, and if you have sufficiently not terrible options to choose from, picking the one that does not greatly enrich another on your effort is a positive.
>Because amazon purchased the domain. The domain points to a specific server. It's not a TLD that acts a registry for other domains. There is a very important difference there. One you don't seem to appreciate.

There's essentially no technical difference between a TLD and a domain name. Any practical difference is extremely questionable too.
OpenSSD – Open-Source Solid State Drive (SSD)
It all depends on the team you are on. When I worked at IBM I knew lots of people who were 8 to 4. My team was pretty much 60 hour weeks minimum. Though it was because of the asshole management I had.

I once got a dressing down from my director because I took a PTO day after working 20 days straight. I am so glad I don't work there anymore.
5 is "off by choice"
Obviously the intended effect, but you could tell it's not the case by the fact it's not the top story here.
America 2024
Google Cloud, Meet StackBlitz
Do you think there's a question of who's in charge?
No, if the homework didn't get done, the coach went home at his usual time and the next day the kid had to come back to ISS instead of going back to regular classes.

Expulsion was a real punishment back then. It may be less so nowadays, I'm not sure, but when I was in high school, without a diploma it was very difficult to get any kind of job beyond something menial, and nearly impossible to get into any kind of higher education, including community college.

Then again, two generations earlier than mine, you could support a family on an 8th-grade education -- although an 8th-grade education a hundred years ago involved more than a high school diploma these days.
STS is built around cached policies. It does not require an HTTPS transaction per message. Since a very high fraction of all email is sent between the sponsoring organizations (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and the ISPs you mentioned) it is likely that the aggregate cache hit rate will be approximately 100%.
At least in my field there is the running joke of "it was published in Nature, but it still might be correct."
TypeORM MongoDB Review
> The real problem with ‘5 whys’ is not how it is used in RCA [root cause analysis], but rather that it so grossly oversimplifies the process of problem exploration that it should not be used at all. It forces users down a single analytical pathway for any given problem, insists on a single root cause as the target for solutions, and assumes that the most distal link on the causal pathway (the fifth ‘why’) is inherently the most effective and efficient place to intervene.

^ That's the best section of the article. Also, I think the causal tree they included for an incident at a hospital (patient received the wrong medicine) is fascinating (see Figure 1; I included a direct link to the JPG[0] below). They explored one chain of causal subtrees to a depth of 11, and the total number of nodes is 78 (although some subtrees are repeated - it would have been better as a DAG[1] instead of a tree). It exposes significant policy and work culture issues at the facility and gives the reader a sense that they already know a lot about what it must be like for the nurses who work there.

[0] https://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/qhc/26/8/671/F1.large....

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_acyclic_graph
You got $0 from your equity with ~1% of the company: is the reason the fact that the company turned against its employees, or more that the company exited for less than its last valuation and so there was no other way than make common shares worthless (like in the other conversation parallel to this one)?

Thanks
I pay a news site and I get high quality news from them that is curated. And since they make money from subscriptions, the need for eyeballs and page views is not a factor. Something to consider.
Note that's bash not POSIX though right?
Not quite my circus, not quite my monkeys, but I wonder if it's possible to fight fire with fire.

Could a committed group of individuals report the most pernicious EU politicians' homepages and facebook pages as similarly banned content? Looks like the firehose has overwhelmed whatever inadequate safeguards they originally had in place.
The robocall crisis will never be fixed
I don't think it's that urgent because most people do not need to read most news. For people with particular responsibilities, it can be helpful to be up-to-date on the narrow field of news related to your responsibilities. For most people, there may only be a 5-10 relevant news events per year. The fact that you can access news from everywhere in the world instantaneously and at low monetary cost does not make it inherently useful, and if anything, it's likely to mislead you profoundly about your level of knowledge about the world and the stories that you are reading.

Stories about plane crashes and mass earthquake deaths and things like that are mostly about titillation and encouraging a morbid fascination with death. It also discourages people from focusing on the things that they can control in their life. The press doesn't like to admit it, but a lot of the 'hard news' is just /r/watchpeopledie in a necktie.
It anything this would increase the standards... this type of thing comes down to convincing someone that you are able to complete said goals, and that the degree you are working towards and the school itself is worth it.
Hmm. Reverse-engineering this page with BigQuery is surfacing a lot more results than the page itself (for 2019 atleast).

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1he6ca0BBYbj2ZEOEpu8L...

#standardSQL
SELECT id, title, url, score
FROM `bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full`
WHERE timestamp > '2019-01-01'
AND REGEXP_CONTAINS(url, '.pdf|arxiv.org')
ORDER BY score desc
Thanks for checking, but that's not it. It was posted on HN.

I found Git's initial commit (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8650483) which is a repost, linking to https://github.com/git/git/tree/e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23ca...

But it's more complex than I recall, and is dated Apr 8, 2005; wheteas Linus thinks he did the very first version Apr 3. https://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg24141.html
I'm not a lawyer but am pretty sure it would fall under any number of other laws if someone was to get hurt or you caused a disruption. There doesn't need to be a separate law protecting you from someone saying something you find objectionable.

- disturbing the peace ( if nobody got hurt )
- causing bodily harm by criminal negligence
- inciting to riot
even with e2e email like pgp or s/mime, a lot of email metadata (even subject lines, commonly) gets leaked onto the wire. improving transport security prevents that.
Slack actually has a product that can be HIPAA compliant but they don't make it public and you have to meet requirements to get access to it: https://www.hipaajournal.com/slack-hipaa-compliant/
In my experience quality vs prestige is a U-curve.

At one extreme you have the really crappy journals that publish nonsense, at the other the really "prestigious" journals that are more like tabloids reporting exciting sounding conclusions with totally inadequate methods sections.

In the middle are the topic-specific journals that you need to read to guess what they did to get the "exciting" results.

"Science" in the late 1990s and early 2000s is the absolute worst example of this.
They observed both, watch the follow-up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_GVbuddri8

"The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration observed the supermassive black holes at the center of M87 and our Milky Way galaxy (SgrA*) finding the dark central shadow in accordance with General Relativity, further demonstrating the power of this 100 year-old theory."
> I believe that the network level concerns over DoH are a little disingenuous

I disagree. The problem with DoH is that it masquerades DNS lookups as web traffic. Other means of doing DNS lookups, encrypted or not, can be easily determined to be DNS lookups and handled according to the network policies.

By disguising the lookups as web traffic, it means that I can no longer leave web traffic alone. I have to MITM HTTPS now. If they were happening on their own ports, I would have less invasive methods available, such as running my own resolver.
That's not what I'm saying.

Execute instructions. Some of those instructions effectively allocate memory. Reverse execution. Running backwards undoes the allocations.
I thought we got both, which is the best possible outcome: no one is wrong and there are more black hole photos.
Yes. I don't think most people realize how Banksy is trolling his admirers even harder than he is 'the system'.

'Exit Through the Gift Shop' to me is autobiographical: "I'm a fake, I just do barely random stuff, put a 'message' behind it, and you people buy it! You people are such suckers, I can literally tell you I'm scamming you, and you still fall for it".
Our species definitely originated in Africa. All the genetics point to this being the case (there is much greater genetic diversity in African populations vs. anywhere else in the world). The question is whether additional significant evolution (and even back flow into Africa) happened after we left Africa. And I think the answer to that question is, yes, it did (as evidenced by the significant admixture with Neanderthals and Denisovans).

If you're interested, there's a great episode of The Insight podcast with Milford Wolpoff that discusses a lot of this:

https://insitome.libsyn.com/multiregionalism-is-deadlong-liv...
Chances are, you're updating a version number in the filename anyway. Especially if you're using http to allow for distributed http caches. I dunno, does anybody run those to reduce network use when they have a low bandwidth connection anymore?
I just want to say that if this describes anyone that's reading this, then please join us at AWS. We're doing a ton of ML, and your talents won't be wasted.

Sitting around and stagnating your career for a nice salary is a profoundly short-sighted thing to do.
I finally read 1491 and it just reinforced my concerns that we are underestimating the boat building skills of our ancestors.

The making and using of stone tools leave a lot of refuse that shows up in the archaeological record. If hominids keep showing up in places only accessible by boat or Olympic class swimming then are we simply missing the evidence of the enabling technologies?