skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Food production has zero to do with climate change! Cow farts have zero to do with climate change!

If you think otherwise you are an idiot. There is zero scientific evidence that shows a link between farm animals and climate change. Zero!!!

All this reminds me of a great Winston Churchhill quote...

"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."
just delete facebook - you’ll will see less toxicity and will be spied on much less
> the risk is identical to any other kernel module

Nope, it's not identical. There's a forcing function (e.g. Linus) to help motivate maintainers to fix their crap in the kernel tree if it breaks. That forcing function does not exist for out of tree patches.
Honestly, they could have just used a whitelist instead of a blacklist.

One could easily fuck usage of a library. Common sense is required.

Attempting to ban "http" as a method of ensuring "https", is obviously less ideal than ensuring "https"... by checking for "https".
Goodbye, Shadowman: Red Hat Changes Its Logo
I don't get your argument. Humans can safely pilot airplanes at 600 mph, but clearly cannot do this safely on the ground. The difference is density. Cars routinely travel only a meter apart on highways, but because there's a lot more space in the air, planes maintain minimum separation of hundreds of meters.

Ships, also driven by professionals, collide more frequently than airplanes for the same reason.

Another important reason to go 3D is that you can go much faster with less fuel at high altitude.
I imagine a few people a year skip bail, and I think it's fair to say most of them don't have a 16 million police operation thrown at them.

People also seem to be happy to forget the UN has found he has been arbitrarily detained [0]. The judge could have factored that in, she did not, probably to save face in light of a ridiculous 16 million pound police operation and pandering to US relations.

[0] https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?N...
i was surprised too. i worked at an absolute clusterfuck of a startup that still had way more reasonable (8 weeks pay) severance package.
I quit again, but this time feels different
Sounds like a design mistake. Use the 15% more nickel transmission gear everywhere or shield the transmission better.
I haven’t read the Peter principle book, but the popular idea I see around is simply the contrapositive of something most people think is a good thing: if you’re good at what you’re doing, you’ll usually get promoted to the next “level up”.
"Facebook can try as hard as they want, but their inherent bias against minorities will still show through."

Can you further explain how to create a system that shows no bias (positive or negative) towards any minority group? Is it as simple as don't ever categorize?

Edit: I think this poster is a troll.
Scientists Find Cocaine in Shrimps
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And that sort of gets at the heart of the problem: We think of managers has having "employees" instead of having "teammates." Authority shouldn't come (solely) from hierarchy, it should come from being good at what you do. If the only reason people do what you say is because you're higher up the hierarchy than they are, then you're just not a good manager.
But maybe their boss wanted to keep watching YouTube at work, too.
It's a fascinating tech story, but it would easily turn into a horror if we weren't talking about something like a video hosting platform.

Imagine working at a medical or financial company and having secretive 'old timer' permissions that basically backdoored the company's engineering processes. Even if the engineers saw a good reason to do so.

I mean, who are we to say that this was doing it right? It turned out to be beneficial but there are thousands of ways that this could explode in your face if you tried it yourself.
For what it is worth Musk said:
“I think we will be feature complete, full self-driving, this year – meaning the car will be able to find you in a parking lot, pick you up and take you all the way to your destination without intervention, this year. I would say I am of certain of that. That is not a question mark.”

That’s 7 months, not 19.

(The rest is good :)
I went to hubs.mozilla.com and couldn't figure out what it does. I then tried making/joining a Hub but it got stalled at one of the loading steps so I still couldn't figure out what a Hub is.

They seem to be VR meeting spaces: https://blog.mozvr.com/introducing-hubs-a-new-way-to-get-tog...

The model you describe seems like a good one, similar to what most Linux distributions do. The distro maintainers are trusted and they compile packages and distribute the binaries, but people can run the package generation scripts themselves to get their own package straight from the source. Reproducible builds allow users to confirm that the maintainers aren't doing anything sketchy - that probably isn't a possibility here, but this model is still far better than what FB/WhatsApp and even Signal do.
Public shaming cuts both ways, I can as easily shame you for being a vegan soy boy as you can shame me for eating meat.

Gw is unsolvable without better technology, or facism.
Quite sure thats a Yes Minister episode.
This sprang to mind:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15396956

Letwin had a habit of reading correspondence whilst in a public park in the mornings and then dumping it in public bins once dealt with. Mirror reporters just followed him around and fished sensitive material out of the bins.
https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/06/alfven-lecture.pd...
Yeah, but the effect of the banner on the graphs of each was sharp and immediate.
I think the idea is that the continuation of the quote reframes "shouldn't" from a moral to a practical exhortation, saying that not being observed is unrealistic and so doing things you would want to keep private is a bad idea because they won't be.

I just went and found the video clip, though, and I think that reading is incorrect. Schmidt isn't saying "don't do those things because we can't hide you from the feds". He's very clearly making two distinct different claims about privacy; the second half is about people with 'legitimate' reasons to need extreme privacy, while the first half looks like exactly the moral judgement everyone portrays it as.
I'm a pretty decent touch-typist, but I have some hiccups when using the symbols on the number bar (@#$%^ etc), or brackets, or other stuff that's common when programming but uncommon in most texts used by touch-typing programs.

So I wrote a little program to download source code from Github and allow you to type along with it, and measure the number of typos. It's super old, half-finished and was one of the projects I used to learn Python, so the code is hot garbage and unmaintained, but it might be an interesting thing to look at and use if anyone wants to practice touch-typing on source code:

https://github.com/bcbrown/CodeTyper

Hell, if anyone's interested in using it, maybe I'll pick it back up and improve it.
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“Fooling investors” can also lead to law suits that cost Tesla and Musk lots of time and attention, and, in extreme cases, may lead to Musk spending time in jail.
that's something Apple would do, but unfortunately Microsoft doesn't give a shit
Didn't they just release a new device? This seems shocking.
The TeXmacs user interface and structured text editing
Highlights:

1. WinForms designer: Yep, WinForms isn't going anywhere! The lack of a WinForms designer was keeping a lot of devs on Visual Studio - I reckon this might give them the push to Rider

2. Edit & continue: I've been using this in the EAP version for a while now, and it's fantastic. I seems to work so much better than in Visual Studio

3. Unit test coverage and continuous testing for .NET Core comes to Linux and macOS

4. Improved Xamarin support: JetBrains Xamarin SDK lets you develop Xamarin on Windows/macOS without Visual Studio

5. Initial C# 8.0 support: async streams and the like

6. IL viewer: I won't use this often, but it can be useful when doing micro-optimisations

7. Cross-platform performance profiling for Mono and Mono Unity: unfortunately still not for .NET Core :(

8. IIS Express support for ASP.NET Core apps: this is another one that was keeping devs on Visual Studio

9. Improved theming: this is great! Before you could only easily theme parts of the UI - so you'd have a nice dark theme, for example, but the solution explorer and dialogs would still be light!

Overall, some great editions to JetBrains' very credible Visual Studio competitor.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19796646
The generic "you" is a real thing [1]. I've tried to clarify this because my stated intention is to attack the "biological" explanation as patronizing, lazy, and self-serving, not you as a whole person.

I can't stop you from taking things all of my words personally, I can only offer more words to say that I was speaking in a non-targeted way. I don't think it's helpful for us to continue without agreeing on this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_you
Some SLC companies did pull this off well. I'm working with some Russians now that have teams that replicate US services for Russia, China, India and Brazil, simply with the idea of flipping them post-launch and pre-growth. They are getting rich, so it appears to be working.
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U.S. may have to stop borrowing later this year says Treasury
It seems that this would apply to the Tiny House movement as well.
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It is. There is a focus on standards, pushing the technology forward then sharing that with other browsers. Rapid updates. A focus on security and performance. And Chrome is the product, not the operating system its running on. Arguably, you could say that Chrome is actually designed to push you towards the Google Search and Gmail. But its a soft nudge in comparison to IE6 and Windows.

I'm sure we'll find that a Pareto Distribution is an unavoidable market phenomenon, but I still believe its healthy for technologists to remain skeptical when one client massively outperforms others.
I've been (naively?) surprised at how many websites clearly break the GDPR rules we've been wringing our hand over on HN for the past months.
> This is simply not true. The Rio, Athens, Sochi, and South Korean games were unable to sell the majority of their tickets at face value

The Olympic committee's inability to accurately forecast demand does nothing to refute my statement. Overly (and most likely, IMO, fraudulent) optimistic revenue projections are a symptom of externalizing the cost of the event.

You don't need to sell over priced tickets (or many, many tickets) if your costs are low. If it costs billions and billions of dollars, yeah, you gotta sell lots of tickets. Seems like any decently size university could host summer olympic games. The question then comes down to capacity. If only 20k people can attend, that dictates a certain price per ticket. They still have television rights, etc. If it turns out not to be profitable, then that's an accurate gauge of how important it is to society.
This wasn't an early stage angel funded startup. They had 200m+ in funding.
The "emergency rooms must treat" law (I forget the name or how long ago it was, sorry) resulted in state governments stopping funding public hospitals - which made this state of affairs basically inevitable.
Seriously?? Totally uncalled for. There's a reason it's slightly obfuscated.
To be a bit snarky: why haven't you quit to give the job to somebody more cost efficient? Do you think that if you were given your job as a private citizen you would do better / be more efficient?

I agree that certain jobs do not have to be done by the government and in that way, doing them via government gives rise to all sorts of bad incentives and inefficiencies, but I would not want to paint anything run by government employees as cost inefficient (especially if it's a core government competency) compared to the private sector alternative without some clear evidence.
The CI story has been my biggest gripe with monorepos. I'm surprised that no separate tool has emerged, like the "custom Jenkins scripts" mentioned in the article.

Maybe I'm missing something, but couldn't you get pretty far with something like:

# This tells the tool where to look for changes
packages_folder: ./packages

# List dependencies. In this instance, if any files in `shared_api` change, frontend and backend need to build.
dependencies:
- frontend:
- shared_api
- backend:
- shared_api

# Definite build order
build_order:
- shared_api
- backend
- frontend

# Somehow find these scripts in each package subfolder and try to run them.
scripts:
- build
- test
- deploy

The tool itself would see which files have changed between two git revisions, figure out what packages need to be built, and run the scripts. But I'm probably missing a million and one things.
Those of us who own their robots are currently looking for ways to save them. Yesterday, the Vector Robot SDK was updated with some of the changes they had planned to release in the future.

The servers are still up; presumably so they can keep selling their existing stock for the conceivable future. But the full promise of functionality for Vector will never arrive.
People need to stop posting links to paywalls. Hacker News should ban this.
Anyone who's seen Disney's "The Little Mermaid" won't be surprised. Crustaceans love to party.
Do you lose money if someone else owns the cars and you're just facilitating transactions with software you own and infrastructure you must operate regardless to provide service to your vehicle owners?
Transparency is missing
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It's ironic that these people who consider or signal(if you're cynical) virtue through their jobs completely ignore the larger picture.

Facebook is a cesspool which wants to lock people in the web into a single monopoly. And worse it is to prey on the users attention by dealing cognitive equivalent of drug hits.

Where were these woke engineers when Zuck tried to push his drug into developing nations in ruse of "free internet", or inumerable other breach of user trust and privacy dor sake of more profit?

Its inexcusable that when you're working in a fundamentally immoral/ammoral organization, you try to signal virtue hard. Its like a foot soldier in a mob teaching ethics lessons when cleaning blood off his shoes. Better to be honest
about where you get your pay than be "holier than thou".

How far have we gone from the light of visionaries like Alan Kay and others who paved foundation to the web and computing, who wanted technology to magnify the intellect ...
How about a place where you can go to get food and socialize with people without being required to buy something? A bar, but for those who don't want to drink. A coffee shop for those who don't want to pay 3 dollars for burned coffee. A library where you're allowed to eat. A park where it's okay to hang out and talk to strangers even if you're an adult and don't have a kid or dog with you.
Yes. I love the story, and if I had been in charge I don't see how I could do anything but fire the whole lot of them.

Although... the number of people involved in the "OldTubers" backdoor seems to have been pretty substantial, I don't know if they could really have fired all of them...

But who is anyone to say if doing anything is "right"? We're all equally qualified to have a moral compass.
Facebook building an AI is terrifying.
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Im in a lab with people who go on to work at Google Research, deepmind, MSR, etc. I asked them about fb and they do not remotely care what fb does. Most Ph.D. graduates want to collaborate with specific individuals who are at the top of their field, and will go where ever they are..
The author is nostalgic for something that can theoretically exist, but is very debatable whether it can exist at scale.

The military has canteens. Leaving the budget per meal per soldier aside, there is inherent difficulty to providing food for hundreds of thousands of people within a short period, and to providing such food at a relatively consistent level of quality. Most organizations tasked with providing such a large quantity of food over a short period of time resort to outsourcing supply to food service companies which generally provide processed food which is either frozen or shelf-stable. Fresh produce is difficult and "healthy and delicious" is practically a pipe dream.

There is a way to deal with this - hire an educated chef who can nurture relationships with many local farmers to negotiate supply, and actively manage the kitchen to make the best of the locally-sourced supply, not waste any of it, and put out a variety of dishes that, while not consistent in their contents from day-to-day, are consistently delicious. This is what Patrick Wodni [1] does for a Berlin hospital, but he's an exception because he was willing to take a large pay cut to work there. How many Patrick Wodnis are out there, for how many canteens would we need?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/05/world/europe/germany-chef...
>Web browsers have gotten to be MUCH more resource intensive than the IE6 days. Try loading any "modern" site on a "modern" browser on a netbook. (Or any computer with an Atom processor).

They didn't, the current web browsers are faster than ever. The problem is that websites are getting heavier and heavier.
Oh sorry, this lib should handle it: http://zapping.sourceforge.net/Zapping/Zapzilla.html
A Google Scion Is Starting a New Publication with a Focus on Tech Issues
I read it as exactly the opposite. A critique of how these people were chosen, all required to be this static template.