skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One tech-in-the-workplace issue I would really like to see taken up by unions is mandated social media participation. Some managers require their workers to be active on work-related Facebook groups that can be full of passive aggressive nonsense. So now you have to be bothered by work drama all the time, when it would be just as easy for them to send a group email or just call a meeting and make an announcement during people's shifts.
Laws that are literally "Requiring private parties to convey speech they disagree with"?
I am guessing the two groups are border security and airline passengers.
It will prevent the robocallers from using local numbers to call you without actually buying/renting said numbers.
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The FAANGs support diversity. You can go to any of MIT, Stanford, CalTech, or Harvard.
It's a nerd thing. If I see someone's shoe untied I tell them. If I see someone trying to cut their steak with the dull edge of a knife I tell them to flip it over. If I see someone forgetting that this world is big, and being alive is interesting, I tell them not to commit suicide.

A good therapist probably exists. You should figure out how to find her or him.

[EDIT] Admittedly, the untied shoe and the steak knife are trivial problems that disappear once corrected, while the suffering that leads to ideas of suicide isn't, but it's the same internal motivation for me in all three cases. I'll also add that although this is the main reason I don't want people to commit suicide, there are others. One of these is that people who seriously consider suicide are different thinkers than I am, and a diversity of minds is useful and interesting.
There are probably always a significant number of people suffering with depression who are already close to committing suicide and it's easy to nudge them over the edge (unfortunate choice of words, but I can't think of another way to phrase it), and I don't think the same is true about people who plan on committing murder. There's usually a specific reason why people commit murder, whereas depression usually happens over time and can't be blamed on a single happening.
Man...nobody said that when I was in high school (30 years ago). Times have changed.
Don't disagree with you at all but have noticed people using the phrase 'what the actual fuck' a lot lately. I can obviously infer that it's adding emphasis but it just doesn't make sense to me.
Right, I wasn't clear - my thought was in fact outside the scope of the document. I meant that it is strange to devote a large amount of resources to this document (which may prevent a few deaths in 10k years), while we might have already exceeded the carrying capacity of Earth (global climate change being the most imminent threat, but not necessarily the only one) and thus not have anyone to be around in 10k years.
Whilst this law was born out of issues in recent false rape instances and it's intention is with that in mind. You raise a fair point, though I'm sure that use will not transpire - what guarantees does it give that it could be for any reason. Heck, budget cuts, i'd not be supprised if some local regional force mandate its usage just to reduce crime reports, gaming the stats just enough so that can keep their jobs and pension ticking over.
A programming language specializing into generating audio. Where environments like Processing or the languages used for GPU shaders are designed to generate pixels (the former at a high level, the latter at a very low level, targeting specialized hardware), these languages are for making music and sounds.
I find it frustrating that communities are using FB. Notifications and mentions go missing left and right, and its UI is not (yet?) ideal for proper discussions - I much prefer the plain forums that have always existed. I get that FB is convenient because most people have an account already, but a FB login button would also do the trick for most communities. We surely don’t need a multi-billion company to host events and groups for us. Lock-in (social graph etc) is actually quite low for these features, so I think this is a bit of a desperate move from them.
> Today, we have a great opportunity to use new technologies to solve the problems: […] real identity […]

> Join Golden

> First Name Last Name

Yeah, no. A “real names” policy is a really terrible idea, for reasons outlined here:

https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Who_is_harmed_by_a_%22Re...
Because you choose your friends, the ones you want to spend time with.

Your coworkers are just the ones who you happen to be around a lot, for the most part.
That's not what "theoretically impossible" means. You literally just described a scenario where what I said would be theoretically possible, based on your own understanding of the technology, which is decidedly incomplete.

You also didn't answer the question about your expertise, I'm assuming because your answer is, "No". Maybe leave the correcting of others to the actual experts...
How to you intend to account for merit and credibility across data sources?

The way I see it we've scaled our communication of information far beyond are ability to scale our assessment of credibility and merit of said information. This problem of merit is where I see the big gap in our tools. Are you planning on doing some kind of credibility assessments per-user based on content written/consumed?

Golden's feature-set is similar in many ways to app's I've prototyped towards this problem; I'd love to hear your thoughts on the subject.
Hello HN! I'm Danny, one of the co-founders of The Rooftop. We let people turn their rooftops into restaurants and connect them with top chefs in the city to create custom menus for guests.

We started The Rooftop because we were sick of eating at the same restaurants each month and wanted more options with better food/better experiences when dining out.

Looking for feedback and happy to answer any questions!
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> “Police have a duty to pursue all reasonable lines of enquiry,” Assistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave, the National Police Chiefs’ Council lead for criminal justice, said in a statement. “Those now frequently extend into the devices of victims and witnesses as well as suspects — particularly in cases where suspects and victims know each other.”

> Most sexual assaults are committed by people who are known to the victims, and there might be electronic proof of friendly communications between them. As a result, according to Victim Support, a nonprofit group in England and Wales, the new policy could discourage victims from reporting, fearing that they will not be believed.

> But the form was criticized because of the possible repercussions for victims who refuse to lay bare their digital lives: The police and prosecutors might drop their cases.

The opposition is just nonsense.

If you complain a crime has been committed, it's always been expected that your property can be searched for evidence, and that if you refuse to cooperate, they might not proceed with your case.

If you claim that an assault happened on your property, but refuse to allow police to investigate because it might reveal exculpatory evidence or unrelated things you don't want found, they're likely to drop your case as well.

I'm tired of these advocates for regressive policies using victims as macabre totems for their causes:

There's a reason we require police to be able to investigate, and it's a good one.
I think you mean homophones (phonics sound same) not homonyms (one written word with 2 or more distinct meanings see https://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-homonyms.htm... ).

Although your three examples are definitely not homophones in New Zealand English, but the vowel sound distinctions could be difficult for some non-native speakers.

What accent are you presuming?
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I would expect scripted TV to be shot and mastered on film until ~2000 and you'd hope the negative would be stored somewhere but maybe not.

It's a lot easier to imagine live TV such as news or sports not being recorded or saved. Broadcast-grade tapes probably weren't cheap.
My first language was C++ (which I hate now), then I learned Haskell, and then I went to college and learned Java, and I remember honestly feeling that the "hello world" that they teach must be somewhat of an "academic version" of things; there's no way anyone would write code that verbose that accomplishes that little.

Now I have a job where I do Java about 30-40% of the time, and I've become horrified to learn that the school version of Java is the easy version. Having to create three different files to set up a database connection never ceases to depress me.
I think you aren't considering the fact that in the Milgram experiments, 65% of people will apply a deadly shock to someone who is agonizing just because an authority told them so.

So I think it's safe to say that given we are herd animals, 65% just want to go along and get along. If this subset of the population don't care about people literally agonizing and killed without reason, what chance does privacy stand?
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I'm not saying there is anything necessarily wrong with a centralized repository server or a mailing list, but I just wasn't talking about software, but about protocols, which can be used in that way or other ways.

Though it is maybe useful to distinguish "central repository that publishes the authoritative version" and "central repository that contributors push to", two functions that GitHub kindof purposefully confuses.

The former is what is useful for discovery and catching up, but doesn't need accounts/authentication (for the "public side" of things), it just needs a stable public identity and availability. The latter is technically completely unnecessary with git: There is absolutely no problem with merging a branch from a repository hosted on a completely different server than the authoritative repository. It's just a business decision of GitHub to build a closed system that requires you to enter into a contract with them in order to submit a merge request that is limited to branches hosted on their platform, to create an artificial network effect for their platform.

After all, the primary problem is not that people choose to host a project on GitHub. It's that they demand (or allow GitHub to make that demand with them as voluntary hostages) that you also host your branches on GitHub, or else you can't contribute. If I am a happy Bitbucket customer, or I happen to run my own git server, there is no way for me to submit a merge request to GitHub specifying a branch hosted whereever I happen to be hosting my git repositories.

But no, I was not suggesting any particular implementation, I was just pointing out that those two protocols do exist and can be used, in many ways, as a basis for decentralized Free Software development. And while p2p git certainly is not the solution to all problems, it can be a perfectly useful tool--and with some more tooling around it possibly moreso than what is practical today.
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So if someone mentioned something nice happening in 1960 you'd say "yeah the Fifties were great!" ?
Not sure about the UK, but in the US the police have no formal duty to protect you. No matter how much warning/info/evidence they have that someone will be victimized, and no matter how easy/reasonable it is for the police to prevent it, citizens are generically not entitled to compensation for failure to be protected. Rather, the police's mission (both formally and as a functional matter) is overwhelmingly about catching and punishing criminals after-the-fact, and they have wide discretion to choose which crimes to enforce on. So the only protection is in the form of criminal disincentives (which are extremely important, of course).
Hrm, nothing about glasses on the headset page[1] :/

[1]: https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/index/headset
That means that you are in fact arguing that the government invited Nato to invade Sweden without letting the armed forces know. This is incredibly reckless due to the decentralized nature of the command structure -- why would Nato put their crews in harm's way just to test the Swedish reaction? If exposed, the government officials could actually face charges of treason. Would they accept that personal risk, just to test Sweden's readiness...?

Doing these kind of reckless stunts just to get Sweden to side with Nato was definitely not needed. Sweden was already on Nato's side, and everyone knew that.

I can imagine Sweden's friends in Nato were invited from time to time to practice together. But that doesn't exclude a presence from the Soviet union, and we have actual proof (not just people saying things) that the Soviets were in fact in Swedish waters. Deep within a military protection area in a hard-to-navigate archipelago on top of it, and possibly with nuclear warhead torpedos!

Also when you refer to things such as

> Current Defense Minister Bjoern von Sydow said he was surprised, but added, ``I have no reason to question what a former U.S. defense secretary is saying.″

That just means that he can neither refute nor affirm whatever has been said. Ie, he either knows nothing, or can't say anything. The statement gives no information, except that he was personally surprised. A lot of statements from politicians are like this.

I'm signing off on this now. I don't understand your interest in this topic nor why it's so important for you to show that it wasn't the Soviet union. The Soviet union is gone, but they were a real threat back then.
And a “Real Names” policy.
The blog post says, "Public topic pages will be free to access and the text available on CC 4.0."

What does "CC 4.0" mean? There are many version 4 Creative Commons licenses. I looked at an actual Golden article and the bottom of the page says, "Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0; additional terms apply. By using this site, you agree to our Terms & Conditions."

Okay, so CC-BY-SA-4.0... similar to Wikipedia.
I guess that should work. You could generate universal camo that way if you run the discriminator multiple times each round on the camouflage rendered on soldiers in different environments and either average the discriminator results (to get camo that's good on average) or pick the one from the environment where the discriminator performed best (to get camo that's never terrible). It might be interesting to see which of those two choices performs better.

Edit: on second thought, the maximum version is continious but not differentiable, so you would want the version taking averages.
but not the E in Made ;)
I'd like to see a breakdown of the benefits next to the costs.

As it stands, the article you link here is a judgement seeking non-anecdotal data.
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Well what do you call it when each side reports extremely biased opinions that further only their cause and portrays the other side as the criminals?

We can call it also misinformation, fake news, ignorance or whatever. Does it really matter what is the exact word I used, given that it is occurring on a mass scale ?
> That articles, or even drafts, for specific American VC-funded projects did not reach WP's acceptability threshold does not mean that there is something fundamentally wrong in Wikimedia's approach.

Unless your goals include preserving knowledge that is outside of WP's guidelines. WP drew the line for what is worth preserving in one place, there is room enough in the world for a service that draws the line somewhere else.
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Decent overview here - https://counselofperfection.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-truth-l...
Speaking from the perspective of someone who entered the industry relatively young and had the opportunity to grow into management roles: I'd say the hallmark of maturity is willingness to adapt to change, take necessary risks and overall maintain their individual interests in projects responsibly. Maturity is in fact, just survival. That is, do you think this person can hold their own, choose their tactics and strategy wisely and pick their battles? Passion is good, maturity is nice to have, but I'm consistently surprised by what young and old people can do given the right opportunity, the right management and the right culture.
That sounds really cool, actually. I rely on YouTube/Daily Motion for shows in foreign languages but I struggle without a transcript due to dialect and speed.

When there are subtitles, it helps immensely, so I imagine your idea would be a benefit on top of this already helpful technique.
.. And what is? It took a long time to define what Open Source meant, and that took some work.
More interesting questions:

1. What does not work in WP's model that you will address? Moderation? Transparency? Funding?

2. How do you plan to have 1000x the number of articles on WP? How do you plan to moderate and follow the accuracy of these 6,000,000,000 articles?

3. Is it an English-only project or do you value international contributions?
I agree, but if you want to develop .Net or Swift, the available rpm's seem to originate downstream and lag the releases for ubuntu significantly. The releases of .Net core, the Swift toolchain, and Kitura, the IBM open source Swift web framework (even though IBM owns Red Hat), all come out targeting ubuntu. Because the different linux distros have significantly older or newer versions of some .so and .h files, releasing for all the major flavors is harder than it should be, and ubuntu seems to come first.
It's being worked on - there's a standard called STIR/SHAKEN which uses certs to verify calls. I worked on this on my last contract. It's pretty easy to implement as a prototype - I've done it myself - but integrating it into the entire legacy phone network is another matter entirely.

Here's an article about it: https://www.howtogeek.com/402141/how-phone-companies-are-fin...
That’s correct. The extreme percentage of police duties are only to document crime.
If they offer API access I think it's fair to charge for it. At least for a certain scale.

Hard to offer something for free if the server costs & maintainence are non-trivial.
I don't know what are you talking about. What invasion ?
Are you talking about the events surrounding this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Crimean_status_referendum .
I think it's biological. Herding creatures have to have the majority of the population be highly maleable to the influence of the pack leader(s).

This means that with the majority of the population, reason, thinking and ideas just don't penetrate well. It's all about going along and getting along. Ideas can only be considered if group think is rejected.
Should be "Life of a Linux executable (2017)"
You're right -- I'm aware of distinction; I should have used more precise language. I meant to refer to someone that was entering into a fake marriage. Anyways, my bad--I've gotten a bit imprecise/sloppy with my writing lately -- I'm definitely going to try to be more precise in the future (and make it a habit to be precise).

I personally am very against fake marriages (in my own life). I want my marriage to be genuine, and life-long. There was a post on HN back in 2015 about William Han's experience with the US immigration system: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9764564 (article:
https://www.vox.com/2015/6/23/8823349/immigration-system-bro... )

Some of the parts of his article, especially regarding marriage as an immigration pathway, are sad but enlightening (emphasis mine):

> Years spent as a student do not count. Neither do years on a work visa unless your employer is willing to sponsor your green card. Marrying an American works, as a thousand films and television shows have taught us, because it allows a change of status to permanent resident. But if you wish to follow the rules, as I do, then it must be a bona fide marriage. And if you take important personal decisions such as marriage seriously, then you may not wish to have their timing dictated by Homeland Security.

> I've already talked about my friends who think becoming a citizen is as easy as going to a government office and signing some papers. But even people whose job it is to understand the system often don't see how broken it is. At one firm where I worked, an HR manager told me to "just get married." Marriage solely for the sake of a green card is, of course, illegal — it is fraud upon the federal government. A bona fide marriage is fine, but that depends on you finding the right person and having your relationship progress according to Homeland Security's timeline. Once again there is the humiliating feeling that your life is not your own: the government may now effectively dictate when you get married.
gopls does support automatically organizing imports (it uses the same library as goimports). If you're having problems with this feature, please file a bug on the Go issue tracker (https://github.com/golang/go/issues). Thanks!
Wikipedia notability is actually quite strict. Relatively few businesses have significant coverage by multiple independent reliable sources, for example.
This is the company behind Next.js, which I've had a wonderful experience using for React development. They've managed to do what I thought wasn't possible: abstracting away most of the build system. "Now" seems to do similarly well at abstracting away a lot of the hosting complexity.

They've made React development feel as simple as PHP. Or at least close. Just make a file and upload it.
What's after coffee cups, I'm curious? There's a lot of plastic in the world and it's good to see some steps towards taking it out of production as well as cleaning it from the environment.
So far looks like tools for companies & pro research, like their query builder.

Will be interesting to see if it scales up...
> but I try my best to have people in office as well and ensure that we are not going crazy sitting in some room/hotel/beach/co-working space by ourselves without any interaction with other team members in person.

Funny, because I feel like I'm going crazy sitting in this loud open office (because my employer does not offer flexibility).

I agree and would LOVE to have the flexibility to work remotely sometimes.
Perhaps this is a side effect of it being difficult to measure things like "frustration" or "incoherence" at scale. Any team told to own `wall > ` and optimize for "engagement" is going to want to iterate independently on making the most wall-friendly post system they can think of. And unless this is a highly constrained optimization problem, with a centralized design team having coherence as their* KPI, it's going to be unconstrained free-for-all optimization on a team-by-team basis. A well-managed team-of-teams does not imply a UX-coherent team-of-teams. And maybe Facebook is fine with that. It's a challenge we need to face as technical leaders - where do you spend political capital pushing for a better product?
Loss leaders aren't new, but usually they are either temporary, local, or on low-value products (think oranges, chips or soda instead of salmon)- or all three.
Looking at the screenshots, it’s not too bad looking. It looks much simpler.

But I doubt they’ll actually simplify the underlying data-model, which makes the design a lie.

A lie at best, a confusing UX at worst. Time will tell.

Either way, as a quitee, I’m entirely unaffected and very happy about that.