skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Democracy has been broken since the rise of technology and mass media.

That seems to me like it might be the whole problem right there: Is there any reason to expect human institutions to survive the digital age?

I see "fake news", the problem of message authentication (not even encryption— keeping secrets —just authentication), and "deep fakes" as aspects of the same issue. Epistemology, "How do you know?"

We may have to extract the core values and value of Democracy and create some sort of new system that sustains or improves on them.

A kind of catch-phrase just occurred to me, "Computer-aided Integrity".
Your concern is noted
The wikipedia article on Red Squads has many references about this ugly fact. Where I live, in Portland, the Red Squad was founded in reaction to the Depression-Era victory of labor, aided by loyal American leftists, in the West Coast dock strike. It was a part of the police department located in a separate headquarters, funded in part by private contributions, and its existence was not even admitted by the mayor for about 60 years. The Red Squads found organized crime a natural and profitable ally in wealth's struggle to limit workers' power. In the 1950's, the United States Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in Labor and Management found organized crime working closely and routinely with local authorities in Portland and well on its way to taking over the state attorney general's office. This is where Bobby Kennedy's battle against corrupt labor unions began and gave them so much national attention, when organized crime showed that it had learned that it could corrupt Republican politicians as proficiently as it had corrupted Democratic politicians.
> Amazon very often competes directly with sellers on the Marketplace, and often undercuts them on price.

If Amazon can actually compete with you in a given product niche, then you're not bringing any value to the table (since they own the customer relationship, the fulfillment, the logistics, etc.), so why do you deserve to make money? There are a gazillion product categories on Amazon. There's no way they can bring products to market in all of them. They focus their attention on markets where brand differentiation isn't very important. Usually those markets are that way because what consumers care about is price, convenience, and surpassing some minimum level of quality. Those are the spaces where Amazon puts forward their own product. And if your livelihood is tied to being a relatively generic brand in a product category where consumers really only care about convenience and price, then you need to find a different way to make it in the world.
Ok so dominating the market is an important factor for anti-trust litigation. Google is dominating the search market and used this to push Chrome (searching from the url address bar was one of the main reasons people switched). Is that not the same as what Microsoft did? Now they dominate both markets and leveraged both to grow the other.
It's been a long time since I cared or noticed how fast my internet was. Experientially, there's not much difference between 25 megabit service and 200 megabit service. You can stream 4K video on either, and both will require you to go do something else while your 60 gigabyte game download completes. One does it in 5 hours and the other in 40 minutes, but neither are instant-access. There's no escaping from the 1TB data cap I've had for ten years and until that's dead for good I won't be moving my media archive to the cloud.

Now, offer service that cuts my average ping to multiplayer servers in half and I'll get excited. Give me a plan with guaranteed 4G coverage no matter where in the US I go and I'll get excited. That's not going to happen though.
I have no idea. But there's an important difference between "finding something funny" (i.e. laughing) and "seeing the humor in something".

To put it another way: sometimes I don't laugh at a joke but I can still recognize that it's a joke.
That is indeed.. how i decided to brand it and this seems working. In reality both systems have different optical properties; this does matter if you push them to the limits.
Galvanometers are slow, require more calibration. Rotating devices don't stand still at the end of a sweep and are much faster (10 times).
I don't hate or love them, I see them as a necessity but I always remember that at the end of the day taxing is taking money by force from people, so it should be limited to whatever is deemed necessary and should be used in the most efficient way. Therefore it is important to keep a watchful eye and be vigilant when people want to raise it and in general to be strict on the definitions of what is necessary.
I find "The Terminal is now DRAGGABLE FROM ANYWHERE ON THE TITLE BAR!!!" allcaps-excitment to be really discouraging.

The background animated gif is a nice touch, though. For me, it would be totally in the way, but there is definitely a type of user that would totally dig it.
But Cloudflare should be required to transport 8chan's junk? What exactly are you arguing?
When I know ahead of time exactly what the code I’m about to write will look like, I takes this as a warning sign and check in with myself.

Why do I know exactly what this code is going to be? Is it because I’m doing something repetitive? I’m a software developer. My job is to make the computer do the repetitive parts, not get paid for spending four hours doing something we’ve done ten times before.

Mastery isn’t doing more, it’s about being more effective. You develop intuition. And the way your intuitive brain surfaces warnings is as discomfort. If you cultivatea sensitivity to this discomfort it means you are adverse to powering through. On some level you “have to” address this issue instead of tolerating it. You have to scratch.

Now you’re not doing rote work. How long will it take? Who knows. But it’s less time than doing this thing eight more times this year. And it’s not just time. It’s energy and face. A repeated process that can introduce human errors makes you look like a clown to your customers, and your boss’s boss.
Cloudflare didn't and can't "cut off” 8chan. They can stop providing CDN distribution and bandwidth services to 8chan. As it happens, 8chan's web host _did_ cut off 8chan, so you should be directing your rants at them.
As a free expression absolutists I see no problem with private companies refusing service, as long as they are not breaking their contract. And ideally it should be perfectly fine to have whites-only restaurants, or do a discriminatory hiring practice and not hire any women. Because I see no logical reason why freedom of association should have any limits, as long as you are not bound by some obligations that you have agreed to.

As for people crying about how internet is getting censored - don't be an impotent and start programming decentralized alternatives. Like Fediverse and Crypto devs do. If you really care about freedom that is. At this point it should be pretty clear that the major enabler of internet censorship is the whole paradigm of centralized services, because it concentrates too much power in one hands. In order to combat it we should create high-quality decentralized alternatives, where everyone owns a small chunk of the system and can only ban somebody from that specific chunk.
> Would you agree that saying that a baker in Colorado must make a cake for a gay wedding is intolerant of the baker's belief?

The whole point of that position is to prevent exactly that society. Where the hate, fear, discomfort, prejudice based intolerance grows to cause a society to degenerate into a sizeable proportion of a population deciding another proportion is morally wrong for preferring their own gender.

The goal of preventing that dysfunction supersedes word games about one type of intolerance being speciously equated to another.
> I continue to be surprised at the level to which people misunderstand this.

That's probably because you are actually the one misunderstanding. The argument it sounds like you're making (I apologize if I'm reading you wrong) is the often made one that "Freedom of speech only protects you from the government". This argument equivocates the idea of freedom of speech with the First Amendment.

Many Americans, and freedom loving folks internationally, believe that freedom of speech is critical for a liberal democracy to exist. Many of the American founders believed in the idea and enshrined it in our Bill of Rights to make sure the Government can not violate it. They did not, however, create he idea of freedom of speech, which existed long before the Bill of Rights, exists outside of America and outside of the context of Government and Citizens.

Think of it like murder. People do not find murder reprehensible because it is illegal. It is illegal because it is reprehensible, and most people would not support it regardless of its legal status (I hope). The idea of murder and the legality of murder are related but separate.

Your argument is therefore taking as narrow a scope of the idea of freedom of speech as possible and then arguing against that, which is a type of straw man argument. I hope that clarifies the logic fallacies involved in your argument and helps you better understand those you disagree with.
Its amazing to me how cheap these changes are, and how much people love them after they are implemented. You go to a neighborhood meeting in the US and all you hear about is "loss of parking", "traffic", but when you remove the cars, everyone loves it.
Thanks, now I know what my sisters gets from me for Christmas...
Curious to hear your process when discussing with the Board and how you sourced buyers for your shares. Are you on the board? Were the buyers personal relationships?

Has the company recently received outside investment?
It was a lot about people interested in the domain. For example our local power company was tasked with digging down the central heating pipes in the whole town. One of the workers managed to talk management to pull fiber alongside the hotwater pipes between every house. Most of the town had central heating connected and together with that came the fiber. The town bought the fiber network a few years later.
ALSR has the same problem as the size of ENV. It can lead to certain locations being aligned or misaligned, causing significant variations at run-time. He forgot to mention ENV changes also.

Check the size of env with wc -c, and ensure it's the same size on later runs.
You’ve managed to misrepresent both the original post and the article you linked, which isn’t nearly so black-and-white and provides fairly rounded and good advice.

The original post says she understood her manager to be pushing her to remove the alleged pregnant employee from the team, because she believed she was pregnant. Rather than do something illegal herself she reached out to HR for help with the situation.
If an off the shelf solution is okay, look into live veejay/VJ software and hardware, or maybe game streaming/screencasting or other live broadcast tools. You can add VGA and HDMI capture cards to a computer, then use software to pause or switch inputs.
>How is different than what Chromebook does? Or what Google does bundling Google search with Chrome as the default search engine?

ChromeOS doesn't have a dominant position in the operating systems market, so there's no case to answer - you can't exploit dominance that you don't have. Android does have a dominant position in the mobile OS market, so Google are being forced to unbundle Chrome and Google Search from Android.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/technology/google-eu-andr...
I implied no such thing! I posted the raw data for the longest record Bucharest station that I could find, and included the adjusted data before someone could accuse me of hiding things.

Here it is on the Berkeley site. Raw data is the top graph, quality controlled (their term!) is the bottom graph.

http://berkeleyearth.lbl.gov/stations/157726

If you want to find out their method, I'd recommend the following links:

http://berkeleyearth.org/about-data-set/

http://berkeleyearth.org/papers/

And please be more careful about accusations of climate change denialism. You could get people fired with that sort of thing.
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Have anyone watched the video? Or is this arm chair commentary from reading a media article?

Child Protective Services?

This is why she exists.

Video in question, to be honest sounds like a movie reference, but can't pick it-

https://www.bitchute.com/video/9ztKHsQo4BFh/
I think you're a few bits short of specifying a website here
> I also hate large companies avoiding and shirking tax and leaving it to people to pay

I agree with you, but I don't think we can blame "companies", but who should blame the politicians (or people who voted for them maybe, or the people who buy stuff from these companies). Politicians are the ones who set up the laws allowing companies to avoid taxes. I see corporations as complex autonomous entities whose behavior isn't dictated by any single person, but rather by a "system" that lets them operate.
> Your argument is based on a specific society laws about unborn children having no rights. In a society where they would have them, your all argument becomes immediately invalid.

No. I do not argue on when during a pregnancy a child begins to exist, or when it has rights. In fact, not even my parent argued these or any similar point. You are the first in this chain to bring it up here.

Please read my comment carefully. I do not argue whether abortionists are or are not intolerant. Precisely because, as you say, that depends on deciding when a child's existence and rights begin, which is not the debate we are having.

I argue instead against my parent's claim that abortionists can be called intolerant of religion simply because a religious party wants to impose their own religion on the expectant and thus force them into not aborting.
How could it ever possibly be otherwise, are people going to enforce morality they don't believe in?
That's just Gross misconduct.
I.. disagree. At least here in Sweden, the workplace was and is a neutral place when it comes to politics (basically, it's considered extremely impolite to push your private political view at work.). Is it different in the US?
Police will interpret and enforce the law in ways that aren't always legal. I wouldn't consider their interpretation of what a credible threat is to be canonical.
In my book if you don't have authority, including to hire and fire and affect compensation decisions, then you aren't a manager. In that situation you're half glorified babysitter and half scapegoat. And I agree this is how most organizations are designed, and why they're so anemic. I very much like flat hierarchies and consensus decision-making, but at the end of the day someone is in charge or they aren't. If they aren't, their capacity to effect cultural change is severely diminished.
> You have an opinion against data.

And when your data runs contrary to Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and tons of other points of data in today's market... I think its reasonable to question the data. Is data from 1870s still relevant today? The USA was still on gold + silver (silver standard!!), and the Fed didn't even exist yet.

Case in point: maybe your data is only relevant during the times when the gold standard was still being followed (before the 70s, when Nixon finally ended the gold standard).

The economy of today's market is grossly different than 1600s era Dutch traders.
>It draws a fine line between what's acceptable speech and what is not. And going by it, things like 8chan should get shut down.

I agree with most of your post, but on this particular point...

"First they came for the imageboards, and I did not speak out because I did not post on imageboards. Then they came for my facebooks, and zomg how did this happen?"

8chan is just an anonymous imageboard, similar to thousands of others online currently. It happens to have the characteristic of allowing creation of new imageboards in a similar way to Reddit allowing anyone to create subreddits. This characteristic has made it one of the most popular imageboards.

Much like the solution for Reddit was to shut down individual subreddits and ban particular posters, and the solution for Facebook was to close down individual groups and ban particular accounts, the solution for 8chan is to shut down individual boards and ban particular posters.

>Popper's tolerance criteria, by contrast, seems clearcut in a you know it when you see it kind of way.

This breaks down quickly when faced with a current example: Some folks oppose immigration of people that follow religions which espouse intolerance. Via your measure, this is justified. But many I think disagree with that stance, so how can this be resolved?
Albert Einstein on Sifting the Essential from the Non-Essential
Fair point. I'm not saying that all consumers are happy. But for collective bargaining to work you pretty much have to be the majority or its hard to do much.
I think that's a side effect, not the primary reason for introducing layers of management. The real reason is, you just can't scale am organization without it. Managers are there for enforcing accountability. If directors have few enough reports to enforce accountability on their own, there is no need for a manager.
Of course they didn't demonstrate whether any of their other trucks (or a Honda Civic for that matter) could do it. Wow everyone and end the video before anyone asks realistic questions.

To me, this is some Derren Brown level magic. Except by the end of the episode he at least admits it was mostly snake oil.
https://joelx.com/google-discontinues-hangouts-on-air/15177/
I see, didn't realize it doubled as sick time. I guess that is good if you are a young and healthy person, since it encourages you to not lie about being sick and lets you use that time for extra vacation.

Other competitive companies will often do "unlimited sick days" and start you with 3 weeks of vacation, which I would still personally prefer even though I am unlikely to be sick for over 5 days of a year.
And that's general information. When you look at all the specialist information, and the degree to which it's mutually incomprehensible even within organisational chains (let alone in widely separated disciplines), things get frightening.
I just can't consider Google Products for any production use cases anymore.
Is there anything comparable? I watch multiple “shows” that use Hangouts on Air (Adafruit Show & Tell, Makercast, etc), I wonder what they’ll use now.
I think those are different things. To start with, you can "discriminate" about a worker not being available to do their job. You're just not allowed to discriminate against someone for being pregnant specifically. The manager made comments "that the Googler was likely pregnant again and was overly emotional and hard to work with when pregnant." Secondly, there is FMLA leave which is supposed to guarantee that a person has their job when they get back, but I'm not sure if that was even relevant here or how it would affect the role changes that happened in the months prior to taking leave.
It’s not a limiting factor anyway because US banks have 1.4 trillion dollars in excess reserves deposited at the Fed (down from 2.7 trillions five years ago!).

The monetary base (physical currency plus banks deposits at the Fed) is currently $3.3tn.

M1 (circulating cash plus on demand deposits) is $3.9tn (the money multiplier is slightly above 1, but it was below 1 for most of this decade!).

M2 (including also savings accounts) is $14.9tn. M2/MB is 4.5, it has ranged between 3 and 5 over the last 10 years. It was between 8 and 12 in the four decades before 2008.
I’m seriously debating what I want my next role to be. I’ve reached close to the statistical peak[1] of my earning potential as a software developer/team lead/architect in my local market (Atlanta) and definitely will not be moving to the west coast. That only leaves a few options.

1. Stay in development and make sure I do enough Resume Driven Development to stay current and be happy with cost of living wages. Not a bad thing, my wife and I make enough to enjoy ourselves and reach our short and long term goals and I enjoy development.

2. Go into management - mid level managers don’t make enough more to be worth the headache and I really don’t enjoy managing.

3. Consulting (not staff augmentation), I have the skillset to be an overpriced “digital transformation consultant”/“Enterprise Consultant”/various AWS consulting roles, but I’m not sure I want to do it. But that would be basically the only way I could make significantly more without moving. AWS hires SAs, TAMs, and other consultant type roles that don’t require relocation but require a lot of travel.

[1] I’m sure there is a company out there that is looking for a “rockstar ninja developer” that would pay a premium over market value without having to relocate but that would be rare.
There's a very obvious reason for why mobile Internet in Germany is flaky, slow yet at the same time ridiculously expensive:

During the UMTS spectrum licence auction in 2000 the incumbents, state-owned T-Mobil and Mannesmann (later bought by Vodafone) feared new entrants to the market and in order to keep other players out of the market placed bids much higher than the amount those licences could be reasonably expected to bring in in the subsequent years.

In the meantime, Germany and its finance minister at the time rejoiced in the sudden, unexpected windfall.

The whole spectacle was even televised. People just generally and shortsightedly assumed that the higher the amount raised by the auction the better.

The auction's 'winners' however wrote off the costs over the next few years and didn't make enough profit to properly invest in the necessary infrastructure.

Apparently, none of the participants learned from this disaster because in 2019 when the 5G licences were up for sale they by and large committed the same mistakes again (though not to the same frivolous extent as in 2000):

https://www.euronews.com/2019/06/12/germany-raises-6-point-5...
When a task is of known length is the time to automate it.
Yeah, the Starlink launcher was a pretty specific device designed around the Starlink satellites. The attachments shown in the attached link are the ESPA (EELV (Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle) Secondary Payload Adapter) [1] rings. They work well for a variety of customers using it because you can put out a generic document for an interface and a box you need to fit within. The first dedicated rideshare program like this was the STP-2 mission. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EELV_Secondary_Payload_Adapter

[2] http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-images/spacecraft/...
> Amazon gives its own private label products and first-party products an advantage over competitors in a number of ways, from algorithmic ranking, to the buy box, to premium advertising, to direct to consumer marketing, to exclusive customer reviews.

Alphabet does absolutely the same but have more power in advertising & page ranking plus collects petabytes users data using Chrome browser and Android platform.

Walmart, Google Clouds, Azure are alive and still grows up, so this article use over-dramatic effects like TV show.
I mean, I don't bill per second of keyboard contact. If I'm at my computer focused on the project then I'm billing.

But if I'm in the bathroom at night and something clicks or I'm thinking about a problem during a meal, I'm not gonna bill for that.
>The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.

Time to ban the Hadith, then?
And you build in the same assumptions. For now, there is no such worry.