skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"And the Union workhouses." demanded Scrooge. "Are they still in operation?"
"Both very busy, sir..."
"Those who are badly off must go there."
"Many can't go there; and many would rather die."
"If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."

C. Dickens: A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, 1843
Are you serious? I know people that have moved for less. Making absolute statements like that doesn't do much for anyone.
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What if AI in health care is the next asbestos?
The cheapest route to moderation is automation, and I would be stunned if there isn't a thick layer of it applied before this content reaches human moderators.

My point is that ML is not a magic wand and we're still in its early days. Facebook would love to have a model that accurately identifies offensive content, but that level of AI does not exist today, and no amount of money thrown at it will instantly advance the state of the art to that point.
To simplify. Mathematical models don’t perfectly capture all the details usually.
You might be interested in this job at Lockheed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20209869
These big cities will be fine. They can easily afford to protect from rising flood waters. Its the smaller cities and towns all down the coasts that can't afford to do anything or are literally built on sand. Cities in poor countries are going to have trouble too, but that is a different issue.
> everything else you mentioned seems pretty bad, but what is so terrible about this?

Because PTO (or even pure sick leave) has less restrictive usage conditions than FMLA, it means that anyone who uses needs FMLA for a longer-term issue like a new child will also exhaust all the leave they have available for short-term personal or family illness or need for stress relief and be unable to use that until they have reaccrued it.

This is a legal but extremely employee-hostile policy that contributes to bad working conditions for everyone (not just the employees that need FMLA.)
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I'm curious, what are the parts you want to use that are not supported by FreeBSD?
> they’re financially incentivized to undermine their rights

In the end most failings can be traced back to financial interest (getting cheap, staying cheap, aiming for cheaper). But the whole article was about how Cognizant and Facebook fail those poor souls who have to go through a "peaceful war", with all the gruesome tragedies but none of the preparation.

The state doesn't seem to try harder either. This particular detail related to sick leave was surprising to me, I hadn't expected this.
I tried this initially but new wifi networks kept springing up with such frequency that the whole thing became a game of whack-a-mole. Maybe they rotate names frequently here? I might give it another shot though. There can’t be that many wifi networks between here and Roppongi...
> we got burned the last console generation, we thought the machines were going to be at least twice as powerful as they ended up being

I thought AAA studios would be in close communication with hardware manufacturers (Nivida, Sony, AMD, Microsoft, Ninendo, etc).
> Would FB have that?

According to them, yes: https://libra.org/en-US/about-currency-reserve/#the_reserve
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It's clickbait, because it's deliberately vague.

The natural human response is to to click through to find out who 'He' refers to, even if they have no other interest in the story.

Bloomberg could just as easily have written 'Craig Wright' instead.
And the relevant text: "In the current implementation, trusted 'validator nodes' are core to the security model. This means that hard power is centralised around these few entities. The protocol itself depends on these entities to (as the name suggests) validate the protocol. This means the protocol is whatever they decide it is. These entities can change the rules whenever they want. This means they can freeze your coins, take your coins, issue new coins, or really whatever they want - the sky is the limit."
I don't think that was debated by OP.
A hundred years ago in most parts of the US the rich people lived up on top of a hill. Poor people lived on the waterfront where they had to be near industrial facilities and occasionally got flooded out. Now the situation is reversed.
I don't get it. How do players feel that something was stolen from them? Do they make their purchase decision based off a trailer aired 2 years ago?

There are tons of journals and streamers out there that review finished games. At that point it is pretty obvious how the game actually looks and plays. If the preview would be anything like the real game they would be shipping it.

SMH
Have you ever used Facebook? It’s much worse and this is specifically in reference to media that are against Facebook’s guidelines (e.g. nudity, gore, etc), not all content as a whole. Users doing some moderating in this context would simply be presenting flagged media randomly to users and asking if it breaks the guidelines.

Very completely different things. Subreddits would be the equivalent of Facebook Pages and they already have moderation tools for those that run the page.
Some of these luxury properties are condos in already very tall buildings (see South Florida for this).

And what happens when the first floor of your building is now under water? Sure your 30th floor condo is safe but is it really practical to live there at that point?
Simple question: how much did the ending actually matter to your enjoyment of the game? Would you have ignored the game and simply watched your preferred ending on youtube? Would you have told your past self not to play the game at all given how the ending actually is?

These philosophical questions are not as separate from the day to day reality as you want to believe.
Might be fun to troll LinkedIn with such a profile.
Except we don't have those Ayn Rand-ian free markets for a reason. We have a whole host of workers rights in the U.S. because society realized that leaving everything up to free markets to take advantage of what they can may lead to bad outcomes.
Hayek isn't particularly well regarded as an economist, even among those that love his politics.

See e.g. Milton Friedman's comments about how flawed Hayek's economics are and how great Road to Serfdom is.

So my take on that speech is it's political rather than scientific.

In general I'm skeptical of arguments that something is unknowable unless they come with a rigorous proof or at least a well stated conjecture that has stood the test of time.
Lol. Ever seen a migrant camp? Ever talked to a seasonal farm laborer? People will literally walk across continents for 30k/years.

https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Soldier/Salary
Unfortunately that practically means ostracism for such kids, as everyone uses these apps.
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Interesting choice of gif. One bison in stampede mauls the baby one giving wolves free meal?

Also, "guard llamas".
Yep, it leaves out ideas that are no longer en vogue but has every idea that is currently en vogue. So in 20 years when those ideas are themselves thrown out, it will feel like a language of the 2010s.
Slashdot's "hey, go moderate some posts" thing but forced to before they can use the platform anymore. That'd be fun.

Overall not possible. On Slashdot everything is basically public, on Facebook it's largely private/restricted and I'm sure from past discussions that the worst stuff is in private groups or clusters of friends. They could do much more aggressive banning of users (and detecting new accounts designed to circumvent bans) for sharing such content or being in groups focused around such content, but that might hurt their most important metrics.
I cannot believe they require signing an NDA for this job. You cannot JUST VENT?
Couldn't it be just done in a more pleasant and efficient way by simply tasking them on moderation assistance tools instead of misplaced retribution?

While putting themselves in the moderator's shoes may prove helpful they aren't comparable in skillsets. If they were given a command line interface for instance most mods would be puzzled. "Produced for self" and "produces for content moderators" are differing needs.
That is true, but a common theme among many of the stories is how much more they pay compared to other places.

These people are literally trading dollars for their mental health. That is the choice they are making.
that's one way to fuel economic growth :)
If they were willing to work for that wage, why wouldn't you allow them to? Why would you favor an opportunity for someone pricing themselves higher?
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Isn't that something that should be resolved at the social or government level? As opposed to Walmart? The market is good at some things, and that which the market does not naturally provide... we morally expect/beg for?

Doesn't a situation like this ask for social or government intervention?
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You and turtles are suffering from the cryptographic equivalent of a hypercorrection, in the same way that well-intentioned people insist on the propriety of the grammatically impossible phrase "between you and I" (which should be "between you and me," because prepositions take objects, not subjects.) The two of you have had the irreversibility of one-way hashes drilled into your heads, just as many of us were taught when young not to say "me and Susie were playing on the swingset." And you have an allergic reaction to anyone using "decrypt" and "hash" in the same sentence, which can lead to that allergy triggering a false positive. In this case that's what's happening.

Cryptographic hashes are irreversible. That's the point of such a device. But there is nothing stopping someone from taking the result of a cryptographic hash and then encrypting it, and then that someone or someone else decrypting that ciphertext to recover the hash result. E(H(S), k) leads to an encrypted hash, and D(E(H(S), k), k) recovers the hash. It's computationally infeasible to retrieve S. But nobody wanted to do that; they just wanted to know H(S).

You are correct that the server compares the result of the hash (which in context can also be called a "hash," such as "I used SHA-256 on my term paper, and then I spray-painted the hash on the face of the town clock tower, thus proving the existence of my term paper before the class deadline"). Nobody's arguing that. But how did it obtain the thing it's comparing its own result to, without M also obtaining that thing?

(I'm actually not sure whether TLS sends the actual hash or bases subsequent computations on the assumption that both sides can independently derive it. But if it does the former, it's totally fine to say "it decrypts the hash," which is the objection of the parent of this thread.)
Gotcha. Thanks for clarifying - our wires got crossed between literal and practical. I wonder how often this happens to me when the other party isn’t aware or willing to call that out :)
I'm running a FreeBSD box as my personal file server (have a ZFS pool of WD Red drives).

As a server OS, I've always preferred the BSDs. Unfortunately, due to Docker, BSD is becoming much less relevant for a lot of use cases.
U.N. report describes discussion before Khashoggi entered Saudi Consulate
Hi, do you have any openings for junior devs?
Presumably Smith's 'invisible hand' also applies to competition between economic systems. Looking at migration patterns, while people generally try and move from poor to rich countries, in cases where the economies are roughly equivalent in personal wealth, they also tend to move towards social democracies with strong safety nets. Migration between the Nordic countries and the USA tends to flow east, for instance.
I imagine if Facebook could use its users to moderate content from others, say you are sign up for moderation, then have to moderate 20 posts from unrelated users to get 20 days of ad free Facebook. Facebook could employ a system like re captcha uses to identify users faking it.

Win-win?
I do this occasionally. I just wish Apple made it easier to turn off and on permanently - as is right now you have to go into the settings page and flick a switch.

Though, given my terrible memory this particular solution sometimes comes back to bite me in the bum: Usually when I turn off wifi I forget to turn it back on again until I’m at work and I’ve already downloaded a few hundred megs of music, all the whole stupidly ignoring the 4g connection icon.
You don't remember Nintendo showing everyone on E3 a few years back the new Zelda game and then when it was released as Breath of the Wild it looked far inferior to that? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmLfhhgXsAMMwbp.jpg
That’s cool because some of the “classic” music videos had a terrible quality.
Thanks for posting this. There are people who do not get it.
I don't think they were priced because they were a delight to use or hack but rather because they were nice targets due to the companies using it and what might be found on them.
> The planet has been through far worse extinction events.

Yea? How many civilizations survived those ones?

>This one isn't even remotely impressive compared to the others.

2edgy5me

> Humanity will be fine. And every single generation will keep whining about "WOE IS US, THE END IS NEAR!" for all eternity.

Yea look at all those idiots running from Vesuvius. I hope you're a troll because I'm tired of seeing people this stupid in the wild.
> In truth, gameplay demos at events like E3 are subject to change. They’re often built as vertical slices – self-contained examples of what a sequence will look like once every feature and asset in the game has reached its highest level of polish. They can help studios accurately schedule the rest of development.

Yeah, but they never deliver. They show a carefully remastered video and then they release a game with a worse quality.

It's not about what could an E3 demo be used for. It's not a corporate event. Show us gameplay. It's a consumer show.
There are no exit controls.
And you can be sure that after 2 hours of theft, your car has already been taken apart and sold.
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> screwing up

Is it wrong just because the clock time is wrong? Or is the data actually going to get corrupted? In my experience, reports are usually reporting on a period of time, and it doesn't actually matter if the job runs an hour off since you don't want them to be time sensitive in the first place (e.g. you might get noise because some query became very expensive for some reason and delayed a portion of the job by an hour, or the job ran in a data center in a different state, etc). Besides, this isn't really the same class of problems that the "use UTC" advice targets. Crons are a far better tool for daily scheduled jobs. The UTC advice is for systems that communicate dates across multiple machines.
VMWare Fusion and ESXi support paravirtualized IO, but virtio is a specific KVM technology. Xen paravirtualized IO is similarly the same idea but not compatible.
The difference is if they studied the answer, but didn't grasp the material, they got information to pass the test (maybe), but probably didn't get useful information.

I guess if you stop at each point and ask 'what could go wrong here, and how would you debug it' and they answer that well, then they've gotten the information enough.
Reading about the Oostvaardersplassen is interesting, it seems to have a lot of major problems, mostly related to being too small. I'm not sure that introducing wolves is a good idea, don't they typically need more space to roam?
"The decisions made did matter, as much as anything matters, they just didn't effect the ending cut-scene you got."

Affecting the ending is part of the promise given.

We want to talk about Mass Effect and whether promises were kept, not existential ennui. Whether or not we can truly know ourselves or whether or not the good life is led by trying to live as an ubermensch is not particularly relevant to whether promises about the game were broken.

It's sometimes helpful to step up a meta level, but you're trying to derail the conversation by stepping up something like five or six. It's not helpful.
Ok.. The problem I've haven been trying to obtain a copy of VMS to try out this very setup. I have tons of old VMS programs I created in college back in '89 I would love to execute again..

In theory you can get a hobbyist free copy of VMS via this site, but no one has responded to me from it. The instructions on how to get the license and binaries are not very clear:

http://www.openvmshobbyist.com/news.php
In my neighborhood people are freaking out and demanding the city "do something" just because coyotes have killed a few pet cats. It's ridiculous.
Apple Search Ad exact match keywords account for 40% of app keywords
^ for engineers. It obviously works for moderators, and this isn't the first instance it has been reported on, so it appears that there is no outcry from society to be expected any time soon - they know, and they don't care.

I'm convinced they would care if it affected those with higher education from wealthy families (i.e. those that become engineers and managers) more, but it doesn't, they are well protected.
If you read the white paper - heck, even if you just read the comments here - you would see that Libra doesn't solve these issues at all. It just gives that power to facebook and partners - as well as the ability to earn (in perpetuity) commissions, interest, etc on user invested funds. There is nothing for the consumer here, this is just another way to make money by becoming a bank in everything but name (and regulation).

Sure we can "trust" (this is central to current proof of stake systems) that facebook et al won't do anything nefarious, but I'm not sure we should be trusting facebook at all, let alone with our money.
Book recommendation: Never Cry Wolf, by Farley Mowat. It takes a pretty close look at wolves (among other things) in the Canadian far north in a highly readable book. Hilariously funny at times, Mowat comes to largely the same conclusion as the article: that wolves have more to fear from us than us from them. He nonetheless, like the author of TFA, finds it hard to overcome the primal fear we seem to have of wolves.
That and/or "rip out this idiot date math library written by your predecessor and try to use an industry standard library instead". Especially the karma of first one then the other.
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I bought my own modem and router specifically to not deal with this garbage.
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I actually don't want to give 3rd parties access to my financial data, but I do because there is no cloudless, desktop application that provides the functionality of Mint & its friends/competitors.
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Yep, but back then I think it was just commercial -- I believe everything got upstreamed.

(The nice thing about Veertu using HVF was that it could ship a virtualization product in the App Store.)
Previous discussion on reddit little over a week ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/byuw77/so_this_is...
The distinction between content moderation and other sorts of "unskilled office work" is the distressing nature of the content. My gut feeling is that these aren't "handpicked horror stories" but are instead the core of the job: facing video evidence of the worst aspects of human cruelty for 8 hours a day. Thus, the question raised isn't a simple "shouldn't these employees be treated better?" but something more like "how can we accept the existence of a job like this?"

In my personal opinion, as someone who's moderated online communities before, Facebook needs to accept that any "system of [ethical] rules" is prone to being "lawyered", and ultimately serves to waste the time of content moderators like these. More importantly, few accept such a system of rules as legitimate: any rule set, even if "fair", is going to be judged by its edge cases, e.g. https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-hate-speech-cens...

The answer is to deploy an aggressive moderation AI, and tell users "too damn bad" if their post gets deleted (users will protest about "free speech" but that philosophical principle was created in a very different communication environment. If I had to create a new right more suited to the modern day, it'd be a right to "freedom from speech" instead), or else dramatically limit the sphere of content users are exposed to (although that would go against their whole ethos "connecting the world" or whatever).
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Reminds me of Jennifer Dewalt and her "180 webpages in 180 days" project she did to learn programming.

https://jenniferdewalt.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6097155

(I'm usually bad with names, but I remember her name to this day. It was a really good way to make an impression!)
One thing to add:

The Timescale Cloud does allow you to do is create asynchronous read replicas across different clouds and regions (with a couple clicks).

You can then "fork" a read replica (at any point in time) and make it a primary to start serving out of that cloud (again, with just a couple clicks).

That's not quite the same as auto-replication/failover between clouds, but getting pretty far there.
The different is there are plenty of people who are not affected negatively with those "horrible" content. Me for example, if not for the low salary I would do it.

Content moderation job is not for everyone.
Facebook is in charge of demanding that these people to re-watch the same gore videos over and over. I'd wager that the vast majority of gore videos uploaded to Facebook can be identified from a few couple keyframes. They shouldn't have to listen to the audio of the video unless absolutely necessary either.

Facebook has actively designed this system that's extremely hostile and damaging towards their moderators and they should absolutely take all blame for the faults in that system.
So, this just downloads a web server written in Go and runs it? Why isn't this more explicit?
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Sounds like $30k is an improvement in their lives then, so is it really "too little"?
You don't have to work a "sensitive job" to be a target.
If you are a system admin / in security, leadership role, being on linkedin exposes you. I work in the payment industry and every so often I get the weirdest invites. I simply refuse to accept anyone I don't personally know and I have my profile locked down.
Clearly you just skimmed.

Or perhaps in your office you deal constantly with anger, perversion, violence and gore?

Where is that office?
I suspect this is an unpopular opinion but I think the idea that we'll stop climate change with global collective action is just wildly contrary to how human beings work at that scale.

Unless we get lucky with some natural carbon negative feedback loop, we're probably stuck engineering our way through it. Whether with climate engineering (unlikely), or just muddling through (very likely).
Is misra as safe as ada? C++ for safety critical systems sounds vaguely concerning
> I have a fantasy that I'll go back to Snow Leopard some day and live the rest of my life there

Why is that? Do you prefer the older macOSes? (I'm sympathetic to that viewpoint, but would like to know what about Snow Leopard specifically is what you like.)