skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If arguments actually demolished positions, we'd see a lot fewer fools, and their adherents.

We've seen precisely this happen on YouTube. "Unfortunately," from their point of view, the way it worked out went against the political narratives of the people who run YouTube.

People broadcasting outright lies don't care about arguments.

But onlookers who are normal, sensible people do.

They care about exposure. When they are deplatformed, they quantitatively lose exposure.

This is the POV of people who don't believe in objective truth or meritocracy. They think everything is a rigged game, and they think to win, it's just that they have to rig the game their own way.

What you call "exposure" is actually discovery. Biasing discovery by refusing it to certain people is tantamount to censorship in this day and age.

They get moral outrage, but it's hard to turn moral outrage into viewers... Especially when your views are unsympathetic.

Actually, it's very easy to turn Moral Outrage into viewers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc

It's funny, but here you are actually precisely describing some of the groups who were discredited and saw their engagement drop on YouTube -- in exactly the opposite situation to people like Sargon of Akkad. His opponents in the "SJW skeptic" circles dropped off, while people like him prospered. Then, instead of arguing, the SJW crowd resorted to namecalling, mis-characterizing what was actually said, and de-platforming.

YouTube is losing credibility to the people who are paying attention, precisely by deplatforming people who are popular (whose political views they don't like, even though they are not extreme and fairly mainstream) and by trying to pick and promote their own "winners" that people do not like.

In the end, it just amounts to dishonesty. In the end, people will be able to see this, and I hope YouTube eventually pays the price for it.
Another bit that not many people know is that CTOs at big non-tech corps can just pay a consultant to literally tell them what to do (most of the big banks do this) and consulting firms make a ton of money providing this service (namely places like Deloitte etc).
I don't like XML namespaces either (and neither is the original authors of the namespace spec very proud of it [1]). They're greeting you with verbose and rather ugly pseudo-URLs (another bad and confusing concept IMO) and xmlns:xyz boilerplate on page one when you're interested in quickly gleaning XML data.

But arguably, chat log data is actually an appropriate use cases for namespaces, given that you would want a text format that can evolve over time in a heterogenous client and server ecosystem, yet provide a baseline functionality supported by all clients. It's also very helpful if you want to keep chats for archival rather than treating chat as an ephemeral medium. OTOH people have said the excessive use of namespaces and other XML modularization features, and too many XEPs/RFC specs is turning them away from developing XMPP software.

There are valid use cases for JSON though such as ad-hoc data protocols where you own both the server and (JavaScript) client and maintain those in the same repo, and when dealing with simple app data that doesn't benefit from using markup constructs.

[1]: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/01/17/Extensibl...
This. The problem wasn’t too much austerity, it was that the pendulum seemed to always swing to extremes. Banking policy was always painted as a binary choice of excessive welfare financing or heartless spending cuts.
I felt similarly early on. To the authors point, he's always said some very off the wall things and is very extreme in many of his beliefs. I wonder if he was planning on using any power/influence he got for his own agenda the whole time, or if the power got to him. He doesn't look or seem very mentally healthy, maybe there's something there too
Thanks I had actually seen this while looking into a workaround for us. However I thought that LitHTML elements only worked with other LitHTML elements since you need the correct bundler for it. StencilJS projects don't have any bundling system.
If you have to ask that question, then you've never been a moderator or ran a platform before.

There is a lot of content that is invisible to you, the user, because it ends up being filtered out by moderators because it consists of overt racism, calls to violence, outright trolling, stalking and more. Even as a moderator of a small private platform there was a user that was stalked by someone who would attempt to reregister accounts solely for the purpose of harassing them or finding any personal details that they could dig up about them

Eventually you have to establish a certain level of moderation for your platform or those bad actors can and will chase off all of the other users for one reason or another. This gets worse as a platform scales and the level of malicious content your platform is exposed to grows exponentially.
Also, tech support folks.. please don't say "Hello, how are you today?"

Instead say "Hello, how may I help you?"
You can't, and legally, you can register any way to read certain kanji -- Japanese system only registers how it's written and do not track how to read them. (Some other government document requires you to register how to read them, but there's no limitation.)

So if you really wanted to 淳子 to read completely outside of how it's traditionally read, that's acceptable. So called DQN names in Japan are largely because of this leniency.
AFAIK, the family unit there is not so strictly around genetic lineage. I could adopt a child in with the intention of having him be my successor. He is my son then, without the genetic lineage.
Well I look forward to seeing this develop.

Two of my primary areas of interest, audio engineering and VR both REALLY show how poorly modern operating systems do with user interactivity when it counts.
On the reverse, let designers refuse to work with developers who have never observed users using their product (user research in formal terms), or don't understand color theory, or haven't designed a landing page that converts well, don't know how to use Sketch or Figma.

I've been trying to learn how to do design well - struggling to get the onboarding UX for a complex workflow right. It is something very difficult for me to solve well, but a good designer can start iterating in a few days' time. Design is indeed a valuable and deep craft, and my lack of respect for it in the past stemmed from not knowing it and not having worked with masters in the field.

Yes it would be wonderful if designers also understood HTML & CSS - it is quite adjacent to their area of expertise. But is it a deep enough skill if the market doesn't award salaries to people who specialize only in HTML & CSS as much as it does for application developers?

The current designer-developer collaboration workflow is broken, and the dominant narrative blames designers for not learning HTML & CSS. I was also party to it till recently, but it is partly the fault of programmers who don't expend the effort to understand how design is done and what "good" looks like in that craft. It is also the fault of the current crop of tools - vector drawing tools that don't have abstractions nor supports responsive design, and HTML & CSS which is far removed from its visual rendering.

It is a give and take, and it is so much more fun to work when people are eager to learn from each other.
You have it backwards.

We are not trying to have cheap labor. We are trying to have more labor. However, the experienced people are limited resource, so the next step is to find inexperienced ones and train them.

However, that doesn't work that way so easily. If you train someone for 6-12 months (during that time the trainee not only isn't making you any money, but other people, who otherwise would, are not either), you are investing into these people. If they leave before you break even, you are at loss. If you would pay them market rate as soon as they finish training, you would never break even.

That's why some companies insist on contract, that the trainee will stay with the company for specified time, if they take the training.
Were austerity instructions handed down by the EU or did the individual member states decide to implement it themselves?
Maybe it's because I'm not American (or maybe it's because I'm possibly low down on the autistic spectrum) - but I absolutely hate the fake "how are you?" at the start of every single interaction (unless of course it's a friend who actually cares).

It's even worse on telephone, Skype and IM, where any semblance of "personalism" is lost - someone starts a new conversation with "Hi, how are you?", and I have to respond to that before you'll just tell me why you're actually starting a conversation! How am I meant to respond? I invariably just say "yeah, fine, you?" - but I don't care, the other person doesn't care. It's just... awkward and pointless. I don't get what either party is meant to get our of this.
In my opinion the long term goal is to transition the EU (over the course of multiple human generations) into a single nation, similar to the way the United States operates. In that case, the conditions you described are an expected part of the process. In the US the states and local municipalities have different economic situations, different taxes, etc. And if our states broke off into 50 currencies, some would benefit while others would crumble.
Thanks Gregory, that's really good info! Appreciate you taking the time to reply (and for all your work on this software, too!).
This is a good point. MIC pretends sometimes that they're trying to help out oil exploitation, but in fact they're only about turning blood and tax dollars into profit. Many of the people actually fighting as well as the morons who keep voting for the fighting don't understand this, however.
"The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true."
Germany’s byzantine buearoucracy and regulations spilling over the whole EU at this point are a corruption, just different form of it.
What Happens When Teachers Become Design Thinkers?
Dear token Italian: I thought your new government was Italy-first. What happened? Austerity continues?
> That said, I hope Google/GCP partners with the Postgres team sometime in the near future as well!

I had the same thought. Cloud SQL Postgres still does not offer point-in-time-recovery, which makes it a non-starter for many use-cases.

I'm not sure "the Postgres team" is a commercial entity you can do business with, and probably one of the best commercial entities, Citus Data - was recently acquired by Microsoft but there are others I'm sure, but maybe not any as close to the core team as the companies they announced today.
You're not claiming to have model releases for all subjects in your photos, nor allocate those permissions to Facebook. Very different thing from copyright, which they do get through the EULA.

And the T&Cs suggest they would only share things in a way that was "consistent with your privacy and application settings", and they terminate their license when you remove something from there (surprisingly noble).

But yes, you're the product, etc. Don't be surprised that they want to monetise your content.
Whatever your full time people either can’t do or would be so miserable doing that they’d quit if you put them on it for more than a few days at a time.
The question is, does it conduct well enough? And that depends on soil type and moisture level. When it doesn't, even 0.1% salt in the soil moisture has 1/10th the resistance:

https://www.newark.com/pdfs/techarticles/megger/Tech_Tips.pd... (top-right).

Over time, whatever ions are in the soil will get washed away, so you need to keep re-adding, even if you started off with ion rich soil (e.g. from backfilling).
A link to a directory of files isn't very useful or informative. I was expecting some commentary from WikiLeaks.
Which must mean that you're a thief if you've ever brushed past me on the street. Give my DNA back.
I am one of those people who talked about switching from emacs to VS Code. I ended up learning just enough to teach it to my daughter, then stuck with emacs for everything I do myself.

Now that I read about all these younger people switching to emacs I feel even less inclined to "modernize" even though VS Code does look like a nice programmable editor.
I’ve never found Google’s pricing non-transparent. Complex, perhaps, but all the prices that I’ve seen are public.

It’s better than the old enterprise pricing model of “come play golf with us while we figure out how much we can milk you for.”
> Coastal flooding, unprecedented storms & droughts, crop damage, streams of refugees

None of these claims are true. Sea level is stable. Storms and droughts are more moderate than ever recorded. Crops and food production is amazingly abundant and constantly improving. There are fewer wars now than at any other known point in history.
I like Nuclino slot but I don't think it replaces Slack very well. At the end of the day you need a synchronous ping.
This is from 2013, so not that new.

And certainly not as bad as the folks who ask me to "please consider the environment before printing their email." Maybe even with some weird text-based tree art.

I dislike most email footer text.

Those privacy policy things are the worst.

I'd love to see some annual award for most ridiculous email boilerplate text actually in use.
GDP is a really bad measure, especially when you're financing it through QE and zero-interest monetary policy. We should at least have sovereign-debt-adjusted domestic product.
Please, yes!! It drives me nuts when someone IMs with "Hi" or "You got a minute?", when my IM status clearly says whether I do or not - just say what you want, and I have something useful to say when I do have time.
Yeah, I noticed that too and was a bit disappointed.

But I think the point still holds, even if the math is wrong. If I get a context-free "hello", and it wastes my time, I'm going to be less inclined to immediately switch back to the chat when the next message comes in.
After a certain amount of time I've stopped caring or even wanting to express any "moral outrage" at this situation. The users of Facebook have been given enough reminders to vote with their feet and move to other platforms that are more privacy-friendly.

If they choose not to and they are expecting a bunch of governments to address their problems, that is a pointless exercise also.

The network effect cannot be so powerful that the 5-10 people you frequently engage with online can't all move with you to other platforms.
WinChip (Centaur) did break x86 instructions into RISC-like ones in hardware - which is pretty much what AMD and intel have been doing since the mid-90's themselves.
Facebook's motto:
1. Implement out-of-touch privacy antagonistic methods to earn money.
2. Face public backlash.
3. Say, we are sorry. We are stopping it (not totally). We are going to improve.
4. Repeat.
I would not paint Julian Assange (or Chelsea Manning) as a blameless hero like Edward Snowden. But sometimes people do reprehensible things that are not (or ought not be) against the law.

The primary objection against Julian Assange appears to be that he published true information that others (like the US Government and the Hillary Clinton campaign) did not want released. The US Government wants to extradite him because Chelsea Manning asked him to help crack a password and he allegedly said "yes" but never did assist in cracking it. I don't want to debate whether that IS a crime under US law, but certainly I will claim that it SHOULDN'T be.

Yes, Atlantic - Julian Assange is not a nice person. And the Equadorian government had excellent motivation to withdraw the protection of their embassy. But no, Atlantic, that does not mean he deserves to be extradited and stand trial in the US.
Facebook accidentally shipped VR hardware with conspiratorial messages
> Do you not see how there is value in having someone who is trained to your specifications?

You don't, if they leave too early. That's the point.

> hire developers who are productive from day one

That's very rare, true. It was meant to illustrate one extreme. But there is still a huge difference between both ends of the market.
"The addition of Alford, an African-American woman, comes as Facebook and other Silicon Valley companies strive for the inclusion of more women and minorities in their boards and throughout their workforces."

Honest note why do they have to add she's an African-American woman it just makes it seem the only reason she was hired was because she was a minority and not do to her skill set.
One person with a USB key can change many votes on a single machine.
free idea for the devs: allow data export but sell an in-app search utility for archived data
oh phew, that means my proposed content mill of an offshore team doing shameless reposts is still an untapped market.

Just think, by this time next year I could be losing thousands each month. Finally I'll put those Reid Hoffman books to practice.
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/1279

1 minute of googling.
Exactly my opinion as well. Some information should be kept secret but it's also good to give people a transparent and unbiased outlet to leak if they have no other options. As soon as he and WikiLeaks showed they had an agenda their integrity went out the window.

Hot take: The organization has always had an agenda. All the big leaks were things that painted the U.S. in a negative light. Just the title of Collateral Murder reads like a Fox News tagline for maximum effect.
BC is powered with Hydro.
For tragically bad, I would go with five words: "know someone who is pregnant?" with a picture of the user's teenage daughter like Target[1] except more social. I am pretty sure that could turn into a greater tragedy, and probably is inevitable given how much of a distortion field this requires to implement.

1) https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...
I understand you reticence to debate her points, she has a solid perspective.
As a full time remote, I really don't mind people doing this. I don't microoptimise my day to that extent. If it takes extra 30 seconds, then I can just wait for the rest of the message, chill, stretch, have a drink. If I get annoyed over 30sec delays at work, I'll take that as a signal something doesn't work well.
> Consequently they get paid less during that period. But once they can fly on their own, treat them as if you hired them like that.

That's too early. You made an investment, that investment has to break even. With your suggestion, it would never break even.
The Cloud Billing Catalog API offers programmatic access to all GCP pricing.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/introducing-cloud...

Re: pricing changes, I presume you're referring to the Distance Matrix API under Maps? That's rather separate from Cloud, but at the end of the day doing a lookup of all routes between M places and N places is going to cost Google M*N more than a single lookup.

Disclaimer: I work at GCP and used to work at Maps (but before the pricing change, which I was not involved in).
If I got the hash database I could absolutely test whether specific people were in it, and I could probably reverse a large number of them with dictionary based attacks.

There are no completely robust options where you can claim that this data cannot compromise personal privacy, so I guess from a legal perspective it doesn't stop it being PII.
Any suggestions to pick it up without wanting to give up due to convoluted shortcuts?
Agreed, I've seen the same. Take that graph with a grain of salt and take a look at the failure modes table below it. Lots of monkey issues (about a quarter) and some totally unrelated things (like experiment termination).

Some labs/surgeons/methods have better success than others.

The big thing the sewing machine will do is (likely) reduce mechanical strain at the tissue-electrode interface and hopefully improve upon those handful of failures due to scar tissue encapsulation.
I see this comment often when IPFS is discussed - but the devil is in the details when it comes to replacing the underlying tech of "the web" with something else.

How does an IPFS powered website do dynamic content? User sessions? Is all the client's session data encoded in the IPFS address itself?

Even if there's no user sessions, but the page content updates, how do you continuously point clients to fetch the right updated page (e.g. how would you implement a Hacker News style aggregator that updates every minute)?

IPFS does static content just fine - CAS-es are wonderful for that - but websites are much more than static content.
> I'd rather say "Hi", get an acknowledgement and then continue. Rather than Hi + type something out; wait; still nothing; move on; find answer elsewhere; and have to remember to go back and say "NVM".

Basically you're just telling us that you are optimizing for your own time and don't respect your colleague's time, which I think is a nice thing to do, especially when you're asking someone to take time out of their day to help you.

> I find NVM semi-offensive. It so often seems to come across as "I'm done with you."

Then don't say that. A more-friendly, "hey, i managed to answer my own question, no need to reply" works equally well.
If you want to know what I have in spending money, I expect the other party to show me what they have as well. It's not a fair negotiation if you play with lopsided rules.
That's not so surprising. Blogger makes it easy to point a domain to a blog. But what else would you ever do with this particular domain other than have it contain this one post?

(Once upon a time back in the pre-cambrian era of the internet I once got myself into a situation where I had to register a new domain with Network Solutions in order to re-activate an account (or something like that, I don't really recall the details). So I registered networksolutionssucksbigfathonkingweenies.com. Got myself into a wee bit of trouble with that one.)
You mean countries like France and Italy?
Agree, and furthermore, dismissing any single paper result without replication is the right approach for most scientists and (I'd argue) almost all non-scientists.

The publication incentives are extremely messed up and in favor of exciting results that aren't true.
> You must be a junior with a few years of experience.

You may say that, although that would stretch the word junior to the point where it is hardly meaningful anymore. Judging by Twitter threads and Medium posts that have become so very inclusive and protective of juniors, a junior (usually discussed as applied to web development) is someone who has hard time configuring build tools, is still uncertain about syntax of their primary programming language, and is easily scared by a smidgen of functional programming (such as the reduce function). I wonder where they would fit in your classification :-)