skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's toxic to criticize the regulatory practices that have created the business environment that the article laments. Actually I think it's more than fair to do so. "Blunt" may be a better word to describe the comments here.
>I detest the right-wing in all its forms,

>but I cannot see any ultimately positive outcome in banning their views.

Careful there, that might be a right wing view depending on who you ask.
The other side of your B2B scenario, though, is that a lot of places won't be allowed to use unofficial SaaS anyway, because of regulatory and legal concerns, corporate spending authorities, etc. If you can get your desktop software selected as the standard across a large organisation, that's a very nice win.
There will at least at first be a lot of new tax revenue from it to redistribute.
I personally feel the Guardian is too biased and cherry-picks things too much to be a good source of objective information. Unfortunately this is the case for almost all news groups these days. The best thing I've found is the Financial Times - it has its own biases for sure, but its journalism has always impressed me, and I've never found it overly distorting facts.
If I wink at you then raise my eyebrows suggestively, was I using English? No, English is a spoken language. Yet if you didn't know ASL, you'd know what I was saying, right? So which language was I using?

Much of ASL communication- but not all by any means- uses this sort of communication that is very language agnostic. To really get good at Signed languages, you need to use a lot of these skills. That's what I mean when I say that ASL isn't a list of specific signs matching to words, it's a very complex system of communicating ideas.

My professor, one of the most wonderful teachers I've ever had, was a master of communication. He could tell us hilarious stories without speaking English and without us knowing ASL because he could communicate without language.

And my point to all of this is that saying that what Francis was doing isn't Signed Language misses some nuance in what Signed Language is.
> unless you can prove otherwise

Important clarification, the onus is on the TV licensing agency to prove you did watch TV whilst it is being broadcast or you use iplayer. It is not for the member of public to prove they do not.
There's plenty of companies that do not provide financial match to a 401k. For people making average income for a 25 year old or so, they are better off putting it in a Roth IRA then.
Linux is the kernel, though (and debatably also the application API/ABI). That's all it is. At the risk of sounding like some Richard Stallman wannabe, your complaints should be directed at GNU (or perhaps GNOME or KDE).

Trying to argue "well those don't count because they're not real Linux" is 1) blatantly false and 2) a textbook case of a No True Scotsman fallacy. Linux is Linux, regardless of which userland happens to be running on it.
Canada did this. No more $0.01 coins, $0.05 is the smallest denomination.

Electronic transactions, which account for over 50% of transactions in Canada, still use pennies though.
Of course, you need some agent that can communicate with the hard disk and that knows how to manage memory. Maybe its one driver, maybe its several, but these can also just be objects. Live objects, I mean. Not just blobs of data, but actors that have behaviors and are always "running." You don't even need the concept of files or filesystems. And if you do, better left to a higher level
> The only connection you’re making here is that your own costs went up after the ACA.

The connection is that the ACA rates, and rate-increases are out-of-touch with the employer-offered system, even when those firms are tiny and not nearing some kind of "scale" cost-savings.

I have been hollering about this issue for years, and I've yet to have someone say "Ya know, I actually experienced something radically different." So where is all this evidence you claim but can't be bothered to provide?
And they don't even have fidget spinners this year! I was wrong! They changed to little flashlights.

Probably because they spent all their money on GitPrime.
So, China basically treats Uyghurs citizens as foreigners. The app is a digitalized DS-160 form, and checkpoints are customs.
"Along with songs, the text suggests parents rub dust from a significant street, doorway, or even a grave—perhaps representing an ominous, ultimate silence—on a wailing baby."
> it runs on the device and is also focused on the user's data

Only a few of us run servers, most people just run Scuttlebutt on their device so that they can their data as well as their friends' data:

- Windows, macOS, and Linux: https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork

- Android: https://gitlab.com/staltz/manyverse/

- iOS: WIP
I had a similar (relating more to social media than people), but qualitatively different, experience last fall.

My partner and I went on a trip for a few days. While relaying the plans to some coworkers and visiting colleagues while out for lunch I was asked for my instagram handle so they could see my photos. I replied I didn't have one. The group started into shock and said, to summarize, nobody can follow along to my trip. All i could say was I don't care.

Of course, there are many other ways to share photos if I want, but keeping a live journal of it wasn't why I went...
You can look at the study she's referencing to the interviewer. It's pretty persuasive. Take a look at Figure 1. https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/56/5/705/347767

I'm not saying that the only way to control Salmonella is vaccination, but it is clearly an extremely effective method.
Facebook was hitting 4 petabytes a day of user data back in 2014. Back then, there were only a handful of giants needing that. Today, multiple systems are now being scaled to handle that sort of data volume. Think automotive fleet systems and other IIoT applications. Mobile networks (and security systems for them) managing tens of millions of devices.

https://research.fb.com/facebook-s-top-open-data-problems/
As I understand it (as a light Tumblr user, in areas adjacent to but almost entirely outside of the NSFW sections), a significant number of the porn blogs have, in fact, been deleted, as well as a significant number of blogs or posts on blogs that were flagged as porn by their egregiously terrible porn-finding algorithm, but were in fact nothing of the kind.

However, the porn spambots still keep popping up periodically, and there are still loads of Nazi/alt-right blogs that Tumblr doesn't seem to have any intention of doing anything about.
I believe that ACA was partially designed just to get everyone in the same sinking boat. That way one day you could actually fix fundamental structural problems when the real crisis hit.
If you mean “ad free” I’m totally with you.
The dependency management system and GOPATH. These seemed to all be designed for a monorepo. But transplanted to a distributed network of github repos - a terrible idea.
The incentive is still very much there. You just can't use a preexisting condition as your excuse anymore.
I used to dabble in enjoying quips like this. They're simple and fun and sound insightful and knowing. But when I look around me I see no truth to them. We have two parties with very distinct philosophies making very different arguments for how the future of our culture and economy should function. "Capital" influences both of them, in different, sometimes overlapping, ways. But they have many differences across many axes.
Belgium Internet Provider Targets Frustrated Gamers with Voice-Activated Banners
Ask HN: How does your business choose what to outsource?
Is it a hard rule or a case by case decision? Different by service type (eg. accounting vs design)? Who makes the final determination?
He isn't traditional left wing. I assume he's a Green Party supporter, as most of his articles are on environmental issues. To prevent environmental damage, regulation of industry is often necessary.

Support for nationalization is nowadays limited to natural monopolies, and opinion polls show it's quite popular.

EU support isn't traditionally left wing either: historically, the left wing of the Labour Party (e.g. Tony Benn, Michael Foot, Peter Shore, Barbara Castle) all opposed membership. It was a Tory government which took us in, and Margaret Thatcher campaigned for our continued membership.
I was talking about the differences between reddit and traditional forums, as that's what OP was comparing reddit to.

I never said that reddit invented any of those things.
My company did something different. They couldn't negotiate a decent price to keep the already bad $X deductible (which wasn't terrible, but was still classified by the IRS as a HDHP). We have a lot of young people who don't even hit the deductible as it is.

So, their compromise was to get a plan with a $2X deductible. BUT they reimburse you for any penny spent over $X before the deductible has been payed. The reimbursement if handled by another company, so the company I work for never sees any medical information.
> suddenly not only does that accounting system no longer work

sigh..

have i suggested anywhere to suddenly make releases with features removed? does everybody in this thread have a mental blocker on the word "deprecation" or something?

there are ways to remove features properly and gradually. deprecation warnings, hiding the feature behind deprecation flag, moving the feature out into a plugin, etc.

i honestly wasn't expecting to have to respond to such strawman comments.
I mean, if a HDHP plan costs 400 / mo and a regular plan costs 1000 / mo, you get to save the 600 and let that compound over many years (if you don't use it), rather than lose the 600 in insurance premiums.
L.A. Museum Opens New Exhibit of Dystopian Vehicles from Blade Runner
My impression (perhaps outdated) is that making the blog part of your primary domain (e.g. www.company.com/blog) is a better strategy for improving search engine traffic.
> Facebook/Instagram/Twitter definitely have a better shot.

They would just clone youtube—they have the exact same relationship with advertisers. I don’t see that gaining any traction.
Just skimmed the article, but it reminded me very much of how graphics APIs have evolved, due to similar motivation.

Just compare what it takes to draw a triangle in OpenGL 1.x[1] vs Vulkan[2].

[1]: http://nehe.gamedev.net/tutorial/your_first_polygon/13002/

[2]: https://vulkan-tutorial.com/Overview
Bain Capital and others who do LBOs don't have a 100% failure rate. It's just that the failures are reported and the successes (Lenovo) are not celebrated.
Is it just me, or does anyone else reviewing that list think they're not exactly in great company..?

(Love their product, though.)
If Apple added RCS support into iMessage, I'm guessing it wouldn't hurt their sales too much.
Agreed. I would be extremely worried if speech like that coming from Alex Jones was actually made illegal. Deplatforming, however, is not much different than a site like Inforwars failing to include nuanced opinions that differ from their narratives. They've "deplatformed" dissenting voices by never allowing them to begin with. The fact that their soap box happens to be smaller than google or facebook doesn't really change that.
Yeah, I guess it depends on the person. I live on a pretty strict schedule, so if my kid has a bad night, we all still have to be up and out at exactly the same time. The closest parking garage is a lot farther than the closest train stop. I've taken small groceries home in my backpack pretty often; there's lots of shopping by my office. The thought of parking at a shopping center after work sounds really unappealing. :D
Did you actually read his comment?

How is saying "I can't wait for X" the same as asking for X? The statement means that something is going to happen. It isn't a threat nor a request.

If I say "I can't wait for the pendulum to swing the other way" it doesn't mean I'm going to affect the pendulum in any way. So I don't see how that statement makes him dangerous.
Are you a pilot? If so what are your qualifications?

Have you read the ET302 preliminary report? In particular have you read page 25, section 2 "Initial findings" last bullet which I quote:

The crew performed runaway stabilizer checklist and put the stab trim cutout switch to cutout position and confirmed that the manual trim operation was not working.

How can you read that, and say multiple times in this thread "improper procedure"? On what basis?

You have no idea how much mental discipline it's taking me, as a pilot, to refrain from ad hominem attack. Your arguments are that bad, they are that willfully contrary to the available facts.
i actually open sourced a tool kbld (https://get-kbld.io) a couple of weeks ago that includes export/import images functionality (keeps same digests across registries): https://github.com/k14s/kbld/blob/master/docs/packaging.md. didn't think of it as a image backup tool till i read your comment.
I suspect someone in your office got a TV delivered to work, rather than their home address. Prior to June 2013, dealers that sold TV's had to notify the TV licensing agency as per The Wireless Telegraphy Act of 1967.
Your situation may not be serious enough to care, but you could be fired and the company could claim ownership of all your work, screwing over you and any project with a dependency to your OSS.
With Postgres, you can have code running on the user's machine access the database directly, either via postgrest, or even via an old-fashioned database driver. This is not a problem because Postgres has a very fine-grained rights management and supports row-level security, preventing the end user from accessing any data they are not authorized to.

Of course, you mention the stored procedure layer that is required to make this work, so you're probably already aware of this. In that case, remember that you might not need views over literally every table in the database, and even in the case where you do use a view or stored procedure, it might still be much more convenient to do the length limit check on the table rather than cluttering every stored procedure that writes to the table with the same length limit check.
At least that premium is totally reasonable. In Germany, the health insurance tax is 15%, half paid by the employer and half by the employer (and it’s not progressive like the ACA subsidy). $4,500 per year is 7% of income, lower than what the employer-side tax alone would be in Germany.
they're prone to making conspiracies, a lot of r/conspiracy type people there
Or COBRA, unless you expect your pregnancy to last longer than 18 months.
Women work. Withholding labor is a threat to the state. Women were a crucial part of the civil rights movement. Women are absolutely a threat to the state.
That is extremely well known—so much so that people rush to repeat it on every relevant, and many an irrelevant, occasion. Please see my reply at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19821356.

The issue here was conflating all Chinese commenters with CCP astroturfers and representing them as vampires who need to be "warded off". It's great that you're concerned with discussion integrity on HN—so are we, very much—but please take care that garden-variety prejudice doesn't leach into this. That happens so easily as to be a bigger problem than the astroturfing people complain about, which they frequently imagine to be happening based on zero evidence. I've written about this a great deal if anyone wants more: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Yes, that is somewhat the point of this discussion. The money one saves on housing by living further from a dense urban core is often offset to a significant degree by transportation costs, whether those additional costs come from regional rail or driving.
Traditional forums are still plethora and I've never seen anyone refer to reddit as "forum". And I personally don't think they are similar at all.
Ask HN: Can I include uncompensated work in next funding round?
I am a co-founder for a startup. Near the outset of the company creation, we did a "friends and family" funding round. Since then it has been about a year, and we are going to do another round. During that time I, and the two other co-founders, have been working about 20 hours a week (in addition to our unrelated "day jobs") to keep the company growing and expanding. At the upcoming round, are we allowed to include these "uncompensated work hours" (fair market rate * hours) alongside the newly raised funds, and so be diluted less then the investors from a year ago (who have not added uncompensated value in that time as we have)?
Much the same reasons I enjoy biking. Albeit somewhat range limited in comparison :)
The issue wasn't that minors were looking at the porn but that there was a lot of porn of minors on Tumblr.
Verizon wrote off the $5 billion Yahoo purchase, and basically values it at $200 million now.

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/11/media/verizon-oath-valuat...

So much for Verizon's content empire. And to think this was the reason they began putting super-cookies into everyone's computers. Good riddance!
The problems more related to a fear of anchoring the price.

Before: This costs nothing but I’m avoiding paying for the engineering time that is $$$.

After: $20 an hour is the going rate for developing this sort of software.
Some people care about others without an end. Parties are free to exploit this.
Firearms collectors don't generally collect the types of guns used in a majority of crimes, which are cheap handguns and carbines. They are usually collecting rifles and shotguns.

You'll find that the data overwhelmingly supports that cheap semi-automatic handguns are responsible for the majority of shootings out there, despite the media coverage of mass shootings often using an AR-15.
A lot of people don't understand that being by yourself is no the same thing as being "lonely". "Lonely" implies that you are missing interaction with others. When I'm alone, I generally breathe a sigh of relief because a lot of the time socialization is work for me, and it's work I'm not very good at.

I'm almost never lonely when I'm alone, I'm too involved in whatever I'm doing. Even if I'm bored, I'm generally not lonely. I get more lonely when I'm in a group of people I don't really know well than I ever do when I'm alone in my own house. Mostly because I wish I knew them better than I do and wouldn't feel so left out.
>hookers and cocaine

You misspelled "creating previously non-existent middle manager positions for powerful people to place people in as political favors"
That's strange. In SQL Server, the size of the text columns impacts performance [0] by changing the amount of memory that is allocated to run queries.

[0] - https://sqlperformance.com/2017/06/sql-plan/performance-myth...
Sounds like you should look into Bahfest

https://bahfest.com/
Isn't this basically the world congress system from Civilization V?
If you have a crying baby, check the diaper and check if they are hungry. Then calm yourself. You want your heartbeat and breathing to be slow, steady, calming and reassuring while you hold them and walk the floor with them.

Have a routine. Always hold them the same way so it becomes part of the signal. Etc.

Never spend more than 15 minutes trying to get them to sleep. If they won't go to sleep in that time, go play with them. They probably aren't mentally tired yet.

Try again to feed them, check the diaper, see if they are too warm, too cold, etc. Then try again to get them to sleep.

If it's a chronic issue, start a journal and see if you can find a pattern. They may be allergic to a particular juice they are getting. They may need a different formula because the one they are on is causing tummy aches. Etc.
Russia's 11 Time Zones
NetSol is a plague. Web.com was garbage and bought them to consolidate even more garbage in house. They don’t even encrypt customers passwords. I was asked to confirm a plaintext password once on behalf of a client. No identity confirmation required!

Typically I login and simply want to change nameservers for clients and I’m prompted to buy services while I navigate through their convoluted portal for a simple change. It’s almost amusing how pathetic it is.
Neither investigation has concluded or issued more than preliminary findings, so it's a bit early to close the books on this subject.
This is interesting, I recently wrote about ways companies can support and sustain open source: https://opensource.com/article/19/4/ways-support-sustain-ope...
I thought separate cores do have their own separate instruction streams -- sometimes even completely different architectures and/or supported instructions? Is that not the case?
Try telling that to those who do content review for YouTube, Facebook, etc. People have suffered PTSD from jobs like that.

Saying it's just images isn't saying anything at all. Mental harm is just as real as bodily harm, even if it is harder to examine.
3rd parties actively hurt progress towarss their goals by splitting votes between them and the larger party with platforms closer to theirs.

The 1st past the vote system, will always end up in a 2 party system. Unless that gets replaced by a ranked choice voting or another decent alternative
The Docker Hub hack: the quick fix and the long-term questions
> Remington's just lost their former reputation

This is pretty much it. Sad, considering I own a fine bolt-action paper puncher from Remington in .223. But it's no more complex than what you pointed out.
Zuck Bucks? Facebook May Launch a Cryptocurrency
What do creditors willingly allow this to happen? When a private equity firm buys up a business, it makes sense for creditors to renegotiate their contracts to protect themselves.
And before Dropbox was invented, people could just bring up their favorite terminal and smash together in a few lines of bash+perl a close equivalent using FTP, curl and SVN.
Yes, but electrics don't stay on the lot either way. These cars all get waiting lists when they launch.
It's just that on the scale of the internet, the breakdown tends to be: 3X of people come out in support of your ridiculous idea, X people actively disagree and 100% - 4X ignore it, where X is some small number.

To an outside observer, you must have a good idea, after all, you have so many more people in agreement than detractors!

Which basically makes it impossible for "the community" to hand you any consequences.
If you go that route, bind unique objects to Uniform Resource Names (URN), and then have a mapping to instantiations (URLs), so that the same resource can be found in its multiple locations. Would help immeasurably for a distribution model.
I was describing the politicians themselves.

But I did conclude that they also fall short in many areas.
In which way does regulation create the business environment that the article laments?

EU was always behind in internet stuff, even when there was no regulation.
If we include everyone taking any kind of picture anywhere under "photography", it is absolutely more realistic than ever before.
Not everyone has working speakers.
Thanks for the detailed review. It sounds like the people who actually committed harassment and issued threats are being charged, as it should be.

Alex Jones is himself probably a little unhinged, but why does the responsibility for what other unhinged people do fall on him? Did he specifically incite this harassment or violence? He's already being sued for his alleged part in this, so the law will decide his culpability.

But I still fail to see what this has to do with whether or not people with controversial views should have a right to use services like Facebook or Twitter, like any other citizen. I've expanded on the problems with these new norms here if you're interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19819584
Illegal immigration depresses wages because capitalists can pay under the minimum wage. Granting citizenship would increase wages for the working class. I’m fine with depressing wages above that.
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