skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except that you can get rid of it. I’ve rationally argued against racism with some success. (And often while getting comments autoblocked for hate speech. Can’t clean up manure without getting your hands a little dirty, unfortunately.)

“Bullshit” is taking the easy way out by mass-automatic-deplatforming instead of addressing the bad thought head-on.
Air India Flights to Be Delayed Sunday After Software Shutdown on Saturday
Juul Vows to Curb Youth Vaping. Its Lobbying Runs Counter to That Pledge
History-ironically, I (as an American) would be less worried if Germany were rising at China's pace.
Put on the f*g glasses[1]!

[1] https://mfas3.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/grid-3_thumbnail_retin...
> The N word is of course much more extreme given America's ugly, unresolved history around race, but it's the same rough deal.

I think this is quite dubious. "Nerd" and "geek" or even "freak" were never pejoratives in the way that the other word was. You could sympathetically say of someone, even as an outsider "He's a bit of a nerd/geek". But it would make no sense for one who was sympathetic to say something like "he's a bit of a "-- well, you get the idea. (This is also why I don't even claim or pretend that I'll ever understand this whole "reclamation" deal. I do accept that free speech is a thing and that a social ingroup can do whatever they want amongst themselves, but I still find it somewhat in poor taste, and counterproductive to its goal.)
More than 270 died from overwork-related illnesses in Indonesia elections
Slightly OT, but it's HTTPS so it must be safe, right ?

It's an example of why the "HTTPS everywhere" push annoys me, it gives false sense of security. Security resources should be better spent.

Also, back on topic, Google should stop handing blindly the wheel to "Designers". Oversimplification instead of properly educating people lead to this crap.
So that top tier is starting a new business line inside the company essentially? Or is the idea that that company might get spun off to a separate entity eventually? This sounds like a pretty nifty / unique idea so just curious how that works
Where do you store pointers to textures? Or do you upload textured to the GPU every frame?
What about scroll positions an other non application state?
Who's Watching You?
Google Maps is community driven as well. I contributed to it, then I was like "wait, why am I not contributing to OSM instead?" Google does give rewards for the contributions but they're laughable compared to the amount of time you put into the work.
Yep, all these services basically exist off the back of their userbases, and practically all their value comes from the content submitted by the people that use them for free.

And this makes it rather interesting to hear complaints about working for exposure or free or what not. Yes, that's a bad deal, but it's really also the same deal you're agreeing to when you heavily use these 'social media' sites and platforms. You're saying you'll provide a ton of content for free on the assumption that just maybe, some of those millions/billions of users will check it out on your own site and help you make money.

And YouTube and other sites with monetisation requirements may actually be worse in some extent. Think about it, YouTube's basically like a bad internship; work for free for a few months, then if you're good enough maybe we'll decide to pay you.

But hey, I guess those millions/billions of users are too tempting for many.
I've never heard of your site, I'm going to follow it but couldn't find the rss feed somewhere. Is there one?

Ps. Nice work!
Y'know, I tried to search for opinions on ITU vs ICANN, but I couldn't find much signal amongst the noise - mostly handwavey arguments about how only the US can be trusted to uphold freedom and handing the control(s) of the Internet over to godless foreigners will lead to totalitarianism, yadda yadda. Do you know of any good writing on the subject?
Ah, I read "deletion" as the actual effect, not the request for the action to be performed.
The heated seats can be controlled by an iPhone app and various other means. Pretty sure this involves software. I mean sure software is not needed but then you would be in a different car.
would you expect broad studies on something that only makes money for personal trainers and LA Fitness?
It's frustrating because, as propaganda, it's been extremely effective.

If you're an opponent of increased housing supply in California, you can roll out that talking point whenever threatened. It's tested, emotionally resonant, and most people don't have the time to be explained why it's wrong.

Supporters of increased housing in CA need to come up with their own powerful rhetoric, rather than whining about the fact that their opponents' rhetoric works.

(Whining further that bad rhetoric shouldn't be allowed is even worse--we live in a democracy; you have to influence people; rhetoric matters.)
“But metadata is worthless!” - NSA, probably.
Benin shuts internet, blocks WhatsApp, Facebook ahead of election
You call it cesspool because you either don't like it or disagree with it. Its a matter of perspective.

Do you think the group of people you called cesspool will just accept that ? In their perspective by banning them, they are the one being oppressed. Of course they are going to fight back and try to create/move to alternative platform.
The more likely hurdle is that it doesn't run on low-end smartphones (or maybe it does?) I know a Chinese university student who writes homework reports using Microsoft Word for Android because she can't afford another computer in addition to her phone. The situation in most African countries is probably not much better.
You can't just demand more housing. You have to make people want it. This is why I'm strongly in favor of taxing land by area.

A ten story condo with 100 units takes up as much land as 8 houses with yards. By reducing everyone's taxes then making up the difference via a land tax, you effectively lower the taxes on people using high density land use homes. You make it a more desirable lifestyle.

Demand from voters leads to changes in law.
So you would prefer edgy platforms to move from open cleartext forums where they can be argued against and monitored, to private encrypted forums only populated by the choir, as it were?

This will not end well.
Animal was removed from the base Patient resource spec in r4.
This feels like a possible cascade failure waiting to happen across their economy and society.
POS uses few users to validate transactions. This is not decentralized.

> Sharding has a unstoppable risk of a 51% attack.

>So does bitcoin?

Bitcoin cost of 51 percent attack is ~400k for 1 hour. ETH is 90k for 1 hour.

https://www.crypto51.app/
> It's amazing how much effort we put into restricting access on the server, but ignore user roles on the data layer.

That's one of the reasons PostgREST seems promising to me.
http://postgrest.org
How to use gRPC and protobuf in Node.js microservice?
> China’s operate in an integrated “combined arms” fashion, while US’s are in perpetual conflict with each other.

I get what you're saying, but ironically for the analogy, China just reorganized their military forces a few years ago along US lines, with both administrative and operational theater commands for any given unit.
Very short article. Unfortunate that it doesn’t mention that the Japanese view older homes as inferior to new homes. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/nov/16/japan-reusabl...
If you want to know why people use Facebook it is for all of the positive it brings, rather than the negative which is portrayed consistently on HN. Check out this FB page where FB accumulates stories that show FB making a meaningful and positive impact on people’s lives.

https://wwww.facebook.com/CommunityVoices/
Wow, 13% is a quite a lot.
Like removing homeless people from your neighborhood by moving them to another?
Works for me, but maybe you don't have your browser set up to handle email addresses--after you accept their privacy policy and TOS it redirects you to a mailto: link for the relevant mailing lists, which are:

.org: comments-org-renewal-18mar19@icann.org

.info: comments-info-renewal-18mar19@icann.org

.biz: comments-biz-renewal-03apr19@icann.org
Phil Schiller: Apple's Case for Cracking Down on Screen Time Monitoring Apps
Starting to see this as the only viable option for myself, a big leap though.
I once thought a TL;DR of this excellent essay is impossible, but then Eliezer Yudkowsky more or less managed it in Chapter 3 of Inadequate Equilibria:

Inspired by Allan Ginsberg’s poem Moloch, Scott Alexander once wrote of coordination failures:

> Moloch is introduced as the answer to a question—C. S. Lewis’ question in Hierarchy Of Philosophers—what does it? Earth could be fair, and all men glad and wise. Instead we have prisons, smokestacks, asylums. What sphinx of cement and aluminum breaks open their skulls and eats up their imagination?

> And Ginsberg answers: Moloch does it.

>There’s a passage in the Principia Discordia where Malaclypse complains to the Goddess about the evils of human society. “Everyone is hurting each other, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole societies plunder groups of their own people, mothers imprison sons, children perish while brothers war.”

> The Goddess answers: “What is the matter with that, if it’s what you want to do?”

> Malaclypse: “But nobody wants it! Everybody hates it!”

> Goddess: “Oh. Well, then stop.”

> The implicit question is—if everyone hates the current system, who perpetuates it? And Ginsberg answers: “Moloch.” It’s powerful not because it’s correct—nobody literally thinks an ancient Carthaginian demon causes everything—but because thinking of the system as an agent throws into relief the degree to which the system isn’t an agent.

Scott Alexander saw the face of the Enemy, and he gave it a name—thinking that perhaps that would help.
Concerning the first 2 points I've always been very happy with the Kyocera FS-C5150DN that I bought maaany years ago.

It's best if you check beforehand on their download page the availability of drivers for your OS and device (e.g. PPD for Linux & CUPS for mine is listed here: https://www.kyoceradocumentsolutions.ch/de/index/service_sup... ). Mine is connected over LAN.

I print very rarely and so far it always worked fine (I'm still using the provided cartriges - I guess that so far I printed with them ~400 pages, usually duplex).

I didn't worry much about the gases because I use the printer too rarely.
Glad you like it! The site is currently under a revamp and feed support is on my TODO list

For now, I do tweet about it whenever I post something new on my blog
> Actually, it specifically neither confirmed nor contradicted that assertion, as it was out of scope to track to other venues, or address the larger problem of the entire society.

Yes, that's about the study. The article does suggest it:

Of course, it’s not so simple as all that. Naturally, many of the users who previously spewed racial slurs at CT just moved over to Gab or Voat, where their behavior is proudly fostered.

> The dedicated haters will still make the effort, but the vast majority of lazy bigots will just drift along elsewhere, without enhancing & aggravating their bigotry.

Again, that's what needs to be proven. All we know is that they didn't see it on reddit at the same rate, not that it happened less or that fewer new people engaged in hate speech, or that those engaging in it stopped.
They're not pulling the old home down and building new ones though, so your reason can't be the whole story.
It's a classic example 9f slippery slope.
Agree, and most of the comments in this thread itself is hate speech. Hate towards those deemed "toxic".
You keep posting this and it’s just completely unsubstantiated.
What Makes Gopher Special
>You're not going to multiply your salary by 2x-20x

Well damn, I guess I am going to have to make do with 200k being a rank and file developer at a FAANG company.
>Facebook must be destroyed or at least weakened by the power of governments now or never.

I weakened Facebook in my life by reducing my reliance on it, to the point where I stopped using it entirely.

The last thing I'd want is for governments to get involved in choices that I should be making for myself. This one is too easy.
Could this crisis be an instance of induced demand? [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
A lot of today’s housing stock was originally built as higher-end units, and moved down the chain as it got older. The idea is that when higher-end units are built now, the wealthy vacate some of their current units, which then have downward price pressure and become middle-range units, and so on.
I hopped between lead -> manager -> lead and I agree, though it’s informative to see the problem approached from both sides if you can stomach a manager stint (I had much trouble). Lead/Manager pairs have roughly the same success metrics IMO but split responsibilities and focus areas so you’re definitely right there, in my experience manager/lead is the same level on different career paths
The “Would I Stab This to Death” Theory of Vegetarianism
Thanks for the heads up; I’ve merged that one. I’ll try to check out the others.
How China’s ‘Unicorns’ Shook a Bicycle Town
I don’t know anything about their ownership, but I also don’t think you’re actually asking that question.
Why, you know, it's like a tiny and shiny vinyl record!
E-Residency in Estonia
That's a much better argument than I thought you were making, so my apologies for misunderstanding.

I still disagree though - I think Reddit probably agreed with you for most of its existence, but evidence indicated that rationality and clear arguments weren't winning, and the virality of these ideas was too potent to be overcome by a few people who were willing to wade into the cesspool. So they drained the cesspool.

I agree with you that, if we could be sure that there would always be enough people to argue against racists, and do so calmly and rationally, then we would be better off not censoring racism, and instead letting the debate play out. But I don't think we live in that world.
wouldn't that be a sign of a healthy housing market? (e.g. liquidity)

if 99%-100% of homes were occupied then it would reach saturation (hard to buy/rent homes)
There's a predictable cycle each time you ban toxic users. There is a core of incredibly toxic users, surrounded by a halo of sympathizers. When the toxic users get banned, the sympathizers will argue in bad faith, moving heaven and Earth to insist that the ban was either unfair, inconsistent, ineffectual, or extreme, or a violation of their interpretation of free speech.

To whatever extent there was an actual debate with neutral parties, I think it was likely inflamed by these kinds of actors, and the fact that there's no there there at the end of the day isn't entirely surprising, even in light of significant debate on the question.
That is not true, we disagree here on HN on many topics like software freedom, is Apple a monopoly, is Tesla autopilot good or bad etc but persons that disagree with my view points can disagree without becoming toxic. For me toxic comments are comments that are int the first place illogical, use false facts or speculation as truth, use personal attacks or aggressive language, generalize one or a few data points to the whole and mainly they are not people that can have a coherent, reasonale logical discussion.

My point toxic != someone that I disagree, your are generalizing.
Which have a lower overall usage of the proprietary chrome browser, as well.

Firefox is the pre-install default for most distros, and only Chromium is provided in default repos.

They're also significantly more likely to use some form of ad and JS blocking.

So until the appearance changes based on the UA and system theme (and maybe can read bookmarks and plugins), this trick mostly affects mobile Chrome users.
It is. Flint, Michigan is at 16% vacancy, and I assume "vacancy" is a broader term than "abandoned".
What do people think about "technical lead" roles?
How does the lone contractor model compare with working for a contractor company?
I beat an online course scammer
Meant to post 2-3 days old article: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1119329/india-galileo-s...

Original article on Business Standard is paywalled. This one is bit outlandish, but retains the essence of the article.
HTTPS everywhere is a good thing. HTTPS was never about protecting against phishing, and has never protected you against phishing. There is no way to educate people about phishing, only way to protect against it is U2F. Education against phishing is not very effective, and only works short term.
I'd agree with this. As large companies get more powerful and their property becomes the equivalent of the public square, we seem to be ending up in a situation where rights de facto don't exist and everything's left at the whim of the public/stakeholders/owners.

Then again, I also worry that no one seems to want to make a neutral platform or service/piece of infrastructure any more, and everything seems to be designed as a pseudo platform/publisher instead.

Would we even create the telephone/email/postatal service infrastructure we use today if it didn't already exist? I suspect the answer is no. I suspect we'd end up with something like Slack or Discord or Facebook Messenger where the corporation can step in and ban people for wrongthink. No one wants to sell a dumb pipe or what not any more.
.NET has built in crypto https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.security....
You're doing that thing I warned you not to do...

I go to bed every night not worrying about whether my company remains sustainable.

As do I. The key is to build the business to the point where it replaces your income before you quit your dev job. Once it's ticking away, there's very little that can happen over the course of the night (or a month) that can much affect its profitability.

The same amount of money appears in my account every other week whether I go on vacation, call in sick, etc.

Same here, with the addition of it still coming in if I decide to drop down to 20 minute weeks for the next year or so while focusing on something else.

You're right about the Ageism thing though. I do still hop back into the working world from time to time (to keep the skills fresh and buzzword-compliant), and companies seem more than happy to hire an experienced guy to build things for them.

But yeah, back to the point at hand: try not to scare yourself off by the "business stuff" of running a business. You can do as much or as little of it as you like, and so long as the product is good and your marketing is in place, it's just not a big deal.
The issue isn't where radicalised people go. It's how people get radicalised in the first place.

Both Reddit and YouTube are general purpose sites. Very, very few people go on there to discuss the e.g. racist beliefs they already have. But the algorithms on these sites ends up exposing people to extreme views - there are many, many examples out there of people watching an innocuous video on YouTube only to immediately suggested a 9/11 conspiracy video or a barely concealed white supremacist tirade.

If that content were removed from YouTube and Reddit people wouldn't be going underground for it, because they wouldn't be looking for it.

(and as a more general thought, invoking Nazis here isn't all that useful. Just because X had Y effect once in history doesn't mean it will every time. Germany has outlawed Nazis since the end of WW2 and guess what... they haven't taken over again.)
Foreign keys for partitions is coming in Postgres 12: https://www.depesz.com/2019/04/24/waiting-for-postgresql-12-...
Just curious, in the exams are you allowed to use Latex too? It is difficult to think that it wouldn't be a hinderance.
I'm against all kinds of IP. The government does not have a right to tell you what you can do with your own property.

> In particular, why should anyone put R&D into developing better varieties of crops if their innovations aren’t protected?

Why should people write free software?

> if so, how do you suppose we produce the additional food to sustain our growing population

Population is nearing or below replacement in developed nations. We don't need to produce more food, we need to stop exploiting developing countries so their standards of living increase.
"EAST's main reactor stands within a concrete structure, with pipes and cables spread outward like spokes that connect to a jumble of censors and other equipment encircling the core."

Even reactors are not exempt from censorship!
Also the low cost TLDs on namecheap are such a scam, especially the .host TLD. They are like $1 for first year and 20x or even 100x for the 2nd year onwards. So it's best to check the cost for 5 years before you fall for the $1 trap.

BTW as to your point I totally agree that it should be much cheaper than this. Namecheap at one time had a promotion where they allowed you to register for 10 years for $10 or something. So it's definitely doable and most probably as soft limit by the registrars.
The monarch isn't free of moloch, if he has become moloch. He isn't free of himself. He is not selfless. He can't embody selflessness, because that would paradoxically require freedome from selflessness. It's an unachievable ideal. He can however try to destruct everything and everyone. That would be another form of selflessness. Thus, selfishness is a necessary property of being.

Instead of looking at rulers, the picture has to start at the root. I think they kinda skip over that fact, taking it for granted, though the first principia discordia quote that's noted does imply it.
That's a bit antithetical, given the other side of the debate being Retained Mode GUIs.

That said it's a good middle ground. Use whatever API you prefer over a well optimized implementation.
If you're happy with that, great. I am. But we're not really the subjects of this thread are we?
The Paul Principle: The Single-Most Effective Tool for Business Productivity
No, not like that at all. Could you explain the line of thinking that lead you to such a question?
Genetics is not the only form of inheritance. You can "inherit" opportunity -- wealthier (and usually more intelligent) people end up in wealthier neighborhoods with better schools and the vicious cycle turns and turns.
So I’ll just leave some bits here. For me the quote that started to conceptualize romantic love was “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” from Robert Heinlein. But really that’s not the whole story. Just like we have many different kinds of non-romantic love (kids, candy, outdoors, parents, friends, motorcycles, precision instruments, algorithms) we also experience many different kinds of romantic love. We often talk about “the love of your life” and “the one” as the ultimate version of romantic love. But it’s not an escalator: https://offescalator.com/what-escalator/. And if you follow this model of relationships, you quickly arrive at the concept of casual love: https://www.carsieblanton.com/blog/post/82149148832/casual-l....

The idea that you can say “I love you” to a partner 2 weeks into a relationship and not place any expectations on it being actionable is very freeing. I have experienced it myself several times on both ends. It is a wonderful thing. Remember folks, you don’t have to love every partner you have. And if you love them, you don’t have to do anything about it. You can love for a week or a lifetime, you can love for a lifetime and never get serious. You can get serious but not married. The choices are yours and many options exist for all kinds different relationship types.

Edit: if anyone wants to nerd out about non-monogamous/polyamorous relationships, I am happy to talk about it.