skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Trolls on the internet telling parents that their children aren't really dead, that they should exhume their bodies to prove that they really died, that they are being paid by the shadow government, that their grief looked too fake - all of this is real harm.

Did Alex Jones specifically incite his fans or these trolls to do this? If so, then he's legally culpable. If not, then why place the blame on him? The legal system has a fairly robust and time-tested system for assigning blame.

The problem with assigning blame in "indirect influence" arguments such as yours, is that it can be used to blame almost anyone for almost anything. How indirect or how small does this influence need to be before you conclude that a person is not culpable for someone else's actions?

If you can't delineate some specific set of clear and reasonable conditions, then it will simply be abused to censor any unpopular views, including progressive agendas.
Full title is "How a University Can Sell Its Soul: HASTAC's Stanford Origins and the University's Current Decision on Stanford University Press" but I had problems submitting with that.
You choose your beliefs. Not your genes. That's the problem with racism. Genes are not a thing you can hold someone accountable for.
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Good ol' insanity defense. Classic. Guess he doesn't invent anything that guy, besides a product line to make him money.
This exit is a left hand exit for an HOV only ramp that originates a different freeway. The interchange is in the middle of a built out suburban area; there's no room for a grassy divider.

From experience driving around it, humans get dangerously close to the divider due to trying to change lanes much too late -- either into or out of the exit lane, often with a significant amount of braking. Durable cones separating the lanes might be an option, but would add significant maintenance expense.

The Tesla in question collided with the obstacle while its automation was attempting to maintain a lane, and because the automation detected that the car ahead had moved out of the lane, it also accelerated into the divider.

I seriously doubt many (or any) human drivers would misinterpret the position of the lane in this manner at this exit, especially given the conditions (clear day, sun high avoiding glare) despite the poor striping in the area.
Good idea. Any specific example you have in mind?
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I have the same experience. Using NixOS, not just NixPkgs, but it shouldn't matter.

Nix takes security very seriously. See e.g. [1]. Plus, a distribution that defines packages declaratively and makes things so reproducible is the ultimate tool to avoid many security issues.

[1] https://github.com/flyingcircusio/vulnix
I don't agree at all. What about an energy company denying you connection to the grid because they don't like you? Or the telephone company doing the same? And what if these companies are monopolies in the area, or if there is only a handful of companies and they all make the same decision- perhaps out of fear of losing other customers to the competition?

Facebook is a de facto monopoly in the social networks space, and it's deciding to deny service to specific individuals based on their political opinions. It's not something I'm willing to shrug off as unimportant.

And I have to disagree with xkcd too on this one. Protecting the freedom of speech means setting limits to the freedom of others to harm you when they don't like what you say. People are free to disagree and switch channel/ unfollow/ stop buying a newspaper/ etc. But harassment and mobbing are a different matter.
Why all the French stuff is in Paris and doesn’t allow remote work?
Speech either has power or it hasn’t.

If it doesn’t, what are we all doing here? What is the First Amendment even supposed to protect? Meaningless entertainment?

Yet if it has power, it must be possible for it to be both good and bad, or otherwise we could improve humanity by just posting randomly generated text.

So the distinction between meaningless “speech” and somehow possibly malign “acts” is somewhat arbitrary.
Tech productivity goes up 10x.
I think it a lot more nuanced than that. People that go home to work on github repos that are essentially just copy-pasting from HackerRank are not doing themselves any favors. I mean, sure, their repo looks better to HR drones. If that is what they are worries about, no problem.

But if they are really trying to get better, then they have to do 'deliberate' practice. Just grinding through things isn't the end-all-be-all. You have to really be trying.

I know that's a bit glib, but I think that there has been some good work done in this area of 'deliberate' practice recently. Cal Newport, Dan Coyle, Josh Waitzkin, Tom Sterner, and others have written a fair bit about the deliberate part.

A good intro with good sources is here: https://jamesclear.com/deliberate-practice-theory
In most cases, those types of gas pumps have a series of eight buttons on the side of the screen, 4 per side. The second button down on the right side will usually mute it.
All manners of platforms have terms of services that you must comply with it to be allow you to use that platform. It's not like you are given full freedom to just do whatever you want.

Facebook is no different in this respect.

You make it sound like platforms are these wild west environments where anything goes. It's not like that.
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>What is it that blesses SV neo-something-or-other as the one true faction that has finally discovered the objective truth?

They are self-anointed by nature of being de facto gate keepers of the global information flow.

Similar to how the Church used to be the gatekeepers of information, and were compelled to silence "blasphemous" ideas that they didn't like.
> for members of the trans community to “call on their fans to harass private citizens”

And you're free to raise that issue on its own merit when it happens. You're also welcome to report it to the social network it's posted on for moderation/banning. This does not change anything about banning Milo.
I wondered why I was enjoying work without interruptions...

Now, seriously, how do we convince people to go back to less synchronous forms of communication such as e-mail?
And after considering all of these potential fixes and mitigations for keyboard problems, any sane individual is forced to wonder: why on earth would anyone want to create an entirely new keyboard mechanism when so much can apparently go wrong? Really gives you respect for the folks who designed some of the original scissor switches when you realize that one of the biggest, most hardware-talented tech companies out there can't design anything better (or, perhaps to put it less subjectively... more reliable).

Surprisingly akin to the experienced software developer's reflex of trying to avoid total rewrites at all costs: even if something has issues, like scissor switches breaking when you try to remove keys or falling off under heavy usage, it's often easier to try to fix warts on something battle-tested than to improve core functionality of a brand-new form-over-function design.
Not irrelevant. The OP said that "no one is entitled to online speech". That's an unqualified statement which my link disproves. If they had instead qualified it as, "no one has a right to speech on Facebook", that's a different claim (arguably also false depending on the circumstances).
While at it pick up Julia, another MIT product.

esp for applied math it's invaluable compared with python or matlab.

Juno is a nice ide, it's gotten a lot better over the last two months.
You mean the Equifax, the company currently being sued for that?

https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2019/01/28/judge-oks-e...
It's the same as Berlin. So...
It seems obvious that Credit Karma would try to monetize it by using your tax data to advertise credit cards and loans to you.

Just a little bit of surveillance capitalism to help you save money.
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Yep. I decided to stop driving it before I drove it through a barn or something. I think the basic idea was sound, it makes the default behavior of "feet off the pedals" to stop.
Also from the same site.
A serious chess player would play timed games, and if you want to spend your time leafing through a dead tree book... It's your time to waste.
The thing that I get annoyed by is when the columns don't match the table names so something like:

create table people(person_id int)

This literally drives me to distraction and I want to throw my computer out of the window :)
“Black” and “White” as identities are both products of White racism (outside of White racism, individual ethnic identities have historically been prominent, but not a racial identity.) Positive Black racial identity is a reaction against White racism, whereas White racial identity is it's continuation. And it remains the case that the effort to advance a broad crosd-ethnic White racial identity is intimately connected with White supremacy.

Mirror tests work when the things being swapped are actually, in relevant context, similarly situated, but that is simply not the case in Black vs. White identity.

Abstractly, there's nothing wrong with positive White racial identity, but in the real world, that doesn't exist as free-floating thing detached from White supremacist ideology.
> Hope this helps.

Thanks for the clarification, but I don't find it convincing.

I disagree with the underlying premise that we should clump social media into (only) two categories (platforms and publishers) where if you exercise any editorial control you are immediately categorized as "publisher" (category that is appropriate for an entity that explicitly and deliberately chooses everything it publishes) and where only "platforms" are protected from lawsuit about their users' content.
Don't forget that just because you can doesn't mean you should. You can deduct your home office, but then you depreciate the room: when you sell you need to figure capital gains differently on that room. The above might or might not apply depending on exact details and how the tax laws change over time.
I went on a major social media purge two months ago today. I feel a lot smarter - like, able to work my brain better. I'm seeing it in my political thought. I used to debate politics incessantly online, with the usual partisan boundaries. By withdrawing from that battlefield, I'm seeing the battle differently.

Not to mention my book-reading rate has increased by around 200%. Was I really wasting four books a month of time on Facebook and Twitter? Apparently.
Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones and Others as ‘Dangerous’
That's exactly the answer
Even when Microsoft does FOSS, they do it in a way that has "proprietary" written all over it. I'm quite excited about writing C# on Linux, but slapping a MIT license on code you release is only half the deal.

Yesterday I decided to write some C# code on Linux. That's easy, I thought: VSCode and .NET Core can both be found in Arch's repos these days. I just have to set an environment variable and edit VSCode's settings to disable telemetry... But alas! It turns out that I need to install Microsoft's proprietary release of Visual Studio Code because the C# debugger is only licensed to work with Visual Studio Code

Here's the Github issue about it, providing a bit of context and a lot of useless discussion: https://github.com/dotnet/core/issues/505
same. didn't see anything on twitter too. (at least for the first five minutes)
1. Diversity of opinion is valuable. You can express your opinion without diminishing someone else's.
2. Balance your technical work with real subject matter expertise
There is the Roslyn compiler. But I get your point. Companies at this scale are unlikely to open source their
Golden geese
Good question. High salaries, clean air, very save (one of the savest cities in europe), etc.

Not that much going on party wise and not that easy to find flats.
> And it's absolutely not Android's fault as much it is app developers' faults

I do see it as a shortcoming of android that i cannot redirect unwanted capabilities into a harmless sandbox version of those.
There is this company that implemented land sale management - I think in Georgia (the country) - and if you go to their website, they just tout what technologies they use. We use Rust! It's type-safe! That's the kind of people who will try to sell you blockchain. Blockchain, obviously will solve all your problems.

I honestly cannot think of another more overhyped and useless technology right now.
Wow, what an honor! Thanks for almost letting me do something I should have always been able to do.
Good luck man. I did a similar kind of thing at one point. A lot of the material is extremely boring and it’s really easy to skim it and pretend you know it in principle. You’ll see... it’s one of those things. The unbridled enthusiasm won’t let you acknowledge it but you know ifs true :) So IMO you’ve got to find some way of doing some exams somewhere.

In the end the only way I could find enough motive to get through a whole applied maths syllabus was to book myself for exams so that I could panic about failing and study.
Not to mention that bots and fake accounts are in widespread use by the far-right, so follower numbers are not really credible.
Articles from New York Times have the catchiest titles, but are never worth the time.
I hate to do this, but:

> paragraph, n.: a distinct section of a piece of writing, usually dealing with a single theme and indicated by a new line, indentation, or numbering

In the original comment you will find two of these, the former correcting an error in the parent comment, the latter making an observation based on the obvious brainwrong riddled throughout this thread

I'm done replying, you're of course free to continue checking in hazardous and suspect file IO code, as the rest of us are free to giggle at such things before ripping them out
It is a long list but don't forget that many of those list (Microsoft Office, OpenDocument) are just standard zip files with a different extension.
Please link the status page next time like a normal person.
Did he really put "Stanford" into his common app essay? If so, that explains why all the other top colleges rejected him.
Working fine in WA.
Does that mean aliens though? Could be military tests...
And Dynamics 365, and Flow, and the admin centers...
50k companies exposed to hacks of business critical SAP systems: researchers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19810897
>I can't possibly watch all of his videos, and I'm not even subscribed to him.

His association with conspiracy theories is the main thing he's known for. In order to claim that his views are not dangerous, you have to had heard of him. And if you've heard of him, very likely it was because of the fringe views he has.

> All I did was ask a question, and you're accusing me of bad intent.

Perhaps I'm wrong, and I apologize. The internet is swarming with people who argue in bad faith to promote an agenda. They feign ignorance of things, hold contradictory positions, and derail discussions all while claiming to be perfectly innocent. I mistook you for one of the trolls. And that's exactly what the trolls want.
You're basically correct, and thanks for the suggestion to add documentation about deployment in production.

One special case is if your functions return a lot of data; outbound data charges can get expensive fast, and you'll be limited in getting responses by your network link. So you can run the coordinator code on, say, EC2 in the same region and then the link to Lambda is super fast and you won't have any outbound data costs.
You don't have to believe it, but it helps rationally thinking about incentives.

What is worse:

- losing some data of the 0.1% of users who actually care, or

- the regulatory and PR nightmare that would happen if they don't and it is brought to light?
I find that I am very good at stereotyping.

When I stereotype people who I disagree with, it's very easy to engage with them in a way which will induce them to reciprocally stereotype me.

In this mode, it's possible for us both to speak with each listener only hearing the words that reinforces their own stereotype.

I find this also happens in reverse when engaging people who I agree with, making me feel better about my preconceived notions but not really challenging my views.

My task has been to talk with more people who I disagree with and listen to them. If I can't convince them of my view, that's ok. If they can't convince me of their's, that's ok.

So far, this process has been more frustrating in the moment, especially at first, but has generally left me feeling better about humanity.
There absolutely is.

bash vs zsh vs tcsh vs csh

vim vs vi vs nano vs joe vs emacs

screen vs tmux

and thats before you even get to all the configuration tweaks a given user has made to each.
This depends a lot on the severity of the condition... I have autistic traits, and although they do cause me some problems, they also give me advantages (an excellent career in software development due to unusually good logical thinking for example). I'm not convinced that I would choose to be otherwise.
Get Your Team to Write Tests
That's really valid I should have included that
They know the consequences of not trying any risky/experimental treatment: death.

I know people willing to become guinea pigs for non-life threatening conditions (i.e back pain).

It's clear that the current approach to develop new treatments/drugs that requires billions and years or even decades of tests is not fast enough for many people.
Speaking of computing environments... the minimalist nature of HN is one reason I allow myself to keep using it, even while shutting FB/Twitter/etc out.

I'm seriously thinking of switching my computing over to an iPad, to get rid of all the bits of stuff on the periphery of my computing. One app at a time.
do you think Louis Farrakhan is inherently dangerous or something?
> But imagine a doctor that merely says "Don't get vaccines, they cause autism" but doesn't falsify any data. That doctor is probably going to be erased from the English register.

Because that doctor is also falsifying data, namely, the data that they're presenting to their patient so they can make an informed decision.
Is this site unusable on mobile for other readers? I got a flash of the content, then just a blank page, and then a modal. I don’t want to sign up for a newsletter before I’ve even read an article... I’m glad reader mode exists or otherwise I wouldn’t be able to use it at all.
The actions are policed and no one here is suggesting thoughts be policed. These individuals are free to shout their ideas in the public square. Facebook is a corporation not a government agency and they have the right to control their own products. Facebook isn’t refusing people based a protected status. Should a baker be required to make a cake promoting a hateful cause?
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I like Strang and have worked through some of his books but when I was first learning Linear Algebra, I preferred learning from Dr. Aviv Censor's videos on YouTube[0] from when he was teaching at Technion. It's a few dozen videos where he spends a lot of time going through each component of an introductory course on Linear Algebra.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aefKXYYXT6I&list=PLW3u28VuDA...
Also clearly art, not a threat, not misinformation. In bad taste, probably. Not a call to action.
>Our largest existential enemy right now is unsustainability.

When has 'unsustainabilty' ever caused the destruction of a large portion of a human population? Seriously. Can you think of any?

The two existential threats -- the two things that can, have, and will -- wipe out millions are War and Disease.

Everything else -- asteroids, climate change, sustainability -- are speculative. But, evidence-based analysis clearly points to War and Disease.
Python is a good place to start.
You'd think Scrabble would want to stay neutral with politically charged words like this so as not to offend any potential customers and instead ultimately gain more purchases and fewer boycotts. Especially a word like ze which would not exist if we parents had been doing our jobs correctly.
Not. Not here.
True - one of the most egregious atrocities I've ever seen committed against English. I don't read Bloomberg in any case, but have no idea how I'd make myself read that article & maintain reasonable mental health regardless of the location.
I disagree. Compliance enforcement of complex systems is not done by sending in a team of engineers to reverse engineer the whole thing. What you do is require the regulated corporation to maintain auditable evidence of its compliance in a specific format, then do routine auditing of the evidence. You only do a true deep dive into their systems if the routine audit shows non-compliance or potential fraud.
PeaZip should be the goto over 7-zip for ease of use, but I went back to 7-zip because the UI takes forever to open with PeaZip on Windows.
I looked but did not see it.
> So you just want to use Google services completely for free without contributing anything.

Not necessarily. I believe that google's services are good enough to use them, and I'd certainly pay a few bucks a month to do so and be their customer - and not be the product that they sell to their customers. I'm also pretty sure that they'd make more money off of me paying them for providing a service to me than they make by selling my data to advertisers (me blocking ads and all that). If the only way of "contributing" however is to give up my privacy, then yes, I don't want to contribute.
I'm unfamiliar - do common noun acronyms (like scuba) with more common usage than their full-fledged counterparts get in?

If so, I could see UV being added.
And black identity is detached from black supremacist ideology? In fact, logic is useful in evaluating the world. All of it.
People will be more likely to consider your criticism if you are specific. Can you recommend an incremental improvement that aiiane could push for?
Yes you're right, I meant to write "block" and remove "permanently", because Sen. Wyden said he was told that the law would allow the IRS to make a proposal:

https://www.vox.com/2019/4/9/18301943/last-minute-tax-prepar...

> (UPDATE: After this post was published, Senate finance ranking member Ron Wyden’s office pushed back on Elliott’s report, saying they’d received confirmation from the IRS chief tax counsel that the bill as written does not bar the IRS from designing their own direct filing product, if they give 12 months’ notice. It’s likely the tax prep industry would challenge the IRS if it tried to do that.)

According to Bloomberg, rewriting the law might require sending it back to the House for a new vote:

https://news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-report/senate-may-no...
That is great advice. Thank you.
ime Salesforce adjusts by locale, but not significantly so
I'll add that in later today
During the Great Depression the US WPA hired unemployed writers to write travel guides to various US cities. I have a copy of the book for Los Angeles. What I found interesting is how the fabled Pacific Electric "red cars" (the streetcar system of Los Angeles and suburbs) were described. While they are often romanticized and used as a prime example of what GM destroyed, the book describing them in the 1930s wasn't that favorable, mentioning how slow and unreliable they were.
Living in a cyberpunk dystopia is much less pleasant than reading about fictional ones.
I don't think the world needs driven people. Maybe a few, but not many for sure. So maybe things get produced or invented at a slower pace, but people have time to enjoy a meaningful life, well sign me up.