skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was leaning strongly towards AWS, after talking with people. I find the business model very appealing, and it sounded like I'd probably be valued well there.

Then I did a little due-diligence searching of news articles and such that I vaguely recalled, about both the blue collar and white collar cultures, and was very disappointed.

The various stories about non-developer treatment seemed much closer to home and real, when I imagined working there, and feeling I probably wouldn't be able to do anything to help them, and might be afraid to even try, unlike at some places.

I also didn't like the idea of (reportedly) being stack-ranked, and having everyone's metrics thrown up in a meeting, for a bunch of managers who excel in Amazon's metrics-driven corporate culture to debate amongst themselves. It sounded rougher than many other places.

Also, the noncompete. It wasn't in itself a showstopper for me, but it seemed to send a message of what the overall tone would be.

I'm not doing myself any favors by saying this, but I was actually disappointed, and maybe our industry will improve if we speak candidly about some corporate cultural things and values.
Did Stonehenge builders use pig grease to help slide megaliths into place?
This is why recessions can be good for the young and employed.

If the price of eggs drops 50% once you're retired, then you might be in a lot of trouble.
Yep. Some similarity to TFDV too, but the UI here looks to be more or less lifted directly from Trifacta/Cloud Dataprep.

pro:
- Trifacta can be slow, and part of that might be the way it stores the data (I'm assuming js data structures); if so Pandas/Bamboolib could improve that.

con:
- Trifacta/Cloud Dataprep is directly integrated with Cloud Dataflow and can handle jobs that would crash Pandas.
Actually, no, the point is to prevent the government from deciding it needs to rely on professional police and military forces for day-to-day defense against domestic and international security threats, instead relying on ad hoc levies from the general population for those purposes, making it unthinkable both in terms of capacity and inclination that the “government security services” could suppress the general civilian population, since the former as a separate group by profession, class, etc.—but for very small standing cadres providing institutional knowledge and continuity—would not exist. But that ship has rather sailed, and the 2A failed in its purpose, but it still hangs around, and even it's defenders have forgotten what it was there for.
Comparing countries against each other gets very sticky, due to differences in reporting.

We do, however, have a variety of same-country data demonstrating it happens. Several examples here:

https://americanhealth.jhu.edu/article/how-do-gun-laws-affec...

IIRC, there's also the factor that attempts with guns tend to be more successful - other methods like pills tend to take longer, be easier to mess up, and offer the ability to renege or have someone intervene in a way guns tend not to.
Ask HN: Making a Case for Plastic Packaging
Elsewhere on LinkedIn, someone asked for leads to find child resistant paper packaging instead of plastic.

They didn’t mention the product that was being packaged.

It was suggested that choosing paper over plastic was an uneducated choice and other ‘experts’ were beckoned.

It is my opinion that plastic packaging should be considered only if we resolve the landfill and waste management issues.

An ‘expert’ (aka someone with a Ph.D) started like this: [..]first, you have no science background. How on earth can you tell those with a combined few hundred years in the industry, who’ve developed some of the most powerful sustainability, clean and green technologies on earth what is uneducated? How?[..]

And further devolved into: [..] ‘my name’ was rude from the outset...and folks like her really need to stop bashing the 10MM plus who work in this industry. Me? I have had enough PC bs. Folks spreading the lies border on criminal if not criminal.

Know what you're talking about. [..]

I cannot have a discussion with this person. It is very aggravating. I did not even know this person before he was tagged in a reply to me.

But I DO want to know if a case can be made for the use of plastic packaging. Can someone explain to me or direct me to material that show the pros and cons of plastic packaging without any agenda(political/profit based), but from an environmental/sustainable POV?

I want to know more but I can’t hold a civil discourse with someone who is so aggravating.
I'm in favor of extra-legal filtering, according to a company's morals, as long as market alternatives exists.

If speech crosses the line, law enforcement should pursue and prosecute.

Short of that (e.g. the "we were just joking" crowd), the best possible aggregate outcome seems like it would be companies making independent moral judgements and acting on them.

If Cloudflare doesn't want to be associated with 8chan, they refuse them as a customer.

Other customers are then free to judge Cloudflare for that action and use / not use them as they decide.

This seems far preferable to more draconian, government-enforced options.

Companies are inherently political, and a diversity of options is the healthiest ecosystem.

Not, this requires that we have functioning alternatives. For something like 8chan, Cloudflare's services are probably avoidable, but there's a market penetration at with "must serve" should be considered.

E.g. if Facebook banned a political party
We wouldn't tolerate the existence of an Islamist site that glorified and helped perpetrate mass incidents of terror against our society. What 8chan is doing is exactly the same, minus the Islamist part, yet there's hypocrisy in how they're treated vs e.g. the social media wing of ISIS.

These people are trying to kill as many of us as possible. In no way should society accept it. It's simple societal self-defense. Root out the terrorists wherever they may congregate, regardless of whichever flavor of terrorist they happen to be.
Not even hosting your own servers would do much to prevent a site shutdown since the domain can also be censored by the company that owns the TLD.

Facebook takes their hosting to a whole new level by being part of the ICANN as a domain registrar which their domains are registered under themselves, making it close to impossible to be shutdown on the domain level.
Microsoft hikes cost of licensing its software on rival public clouds
> For future applications, cute objects may be used as an emotion elicitor to induce careful behavioral tendencies in specific situations, such as driving and office work.

How in the world is this supposed to work? Projecting pictures of puppies onto a HUD while driving?
Factors influencing pricing for VR games
This is false. [1]

The federal debt/gdp ratio has hardly changed in the past few years.

The state + local government debt/gdp ratio has declined substantially over the last few years.

The government, as a whole, is paying its debts down (Or not expanding them, as the economy expands around it.)

If there's too much money sloshing around, it's not because Uncle Sam opened the checkbooks. It's because interest rates are near-zero.

[1] https://www.usgovernmentdebt.us/state_debt
I think this guy is making content that is easy to praise but in reality not very interesting- and has (hidden?) sponsor ads to boot. I think it’s pretty gross to read something to learn of a strangers life and be told to buy WeWork services as a casual FYI.

But I don’t care what he does. It was just a comment. You’ve made several that imply I care a lot, which makes me seem unreasonable. If that was unintentional, please don’t do that. If that was intentional then go suck a different lemon, because I’m really not that bitter about this.
> And it will come back much worse, and you won't know how to recognize it or fight it.

Yep.

> Liberals like to make off-color jokes too, they're just in denial about it.

The logic is "it is okay when we do it".
Dividends alone don't pay out that much on average. The main value of holding onto stocks is in selling them for more later. Dividends alone are probably not a good reason to buy and sit on stocks.
If you don’t mind what do you do that deserves a profit share from the company?
> The problem is that large portions of the population aren't engaged in society at large. The is a huge problem with loneliness, suicide and general lack of meaning to life.

Well said. The American melting pot makes this loneliness stronger still as there’s no sense of community left for these people. They live amongst us but they’re not connected to anyone around them.

I’m convinced there’s twisted weirdos all over the world, but traditionally communities did a better job of watching their own and making sure they were not endangering others. That simply does not exist any more, so the dark thoughts fester and grow until they’ve taken total control.

I don’t know how to fix any of this, but know it going to require either bringing those people into the light or occasionally joining them in their darkness.
GSKT-00. I need another one.
The specifically told me to use reCAPTCHA v3. I don't know if they would have accepted another one. I didn't want to take the time to research them. Honestly, from a UX perspective I also preferred the "no user interaction" part of reCAPTCHA.
> it's beyond clear to me that it absolutely had the potential to radicalize shooters and terrorists

I mean, it literally radicalized white supremacist terrorists. There's no "had the potential" anymore, it's a fact.

It also sounds like it held plenty of child porn, so I don't understand why it took until now for anyone to do anything about the site.
Maybe you should stop lying to people first.
Resuming the flow into a failed try block computation without algebraic effects
Would downvote this if I could.

1) Google bough reCAPTCHA in the first place.
2) Google's latest captcha isn't even a captcha, you just click a button saying you are human and it analyzes your mouse movement and probably a fingerprint of sorts and you are in.

The article just isn't accurate and seems unnecessarily hateful about things that are not exactly true.
> I think I'm on the same boat as you on this one; I tend to have a pretty libertarian view on free speech, but lately the bizarre rise of hyper-radical idiots on places like 8chan (and even YouTube to a lesser extent) has really made me question these things.

there have always been hyper-radical idiots. with 8chan and such, you can see them.

you're not getting rid of anything, you're just sticking your head into the sand.
I think we have pretty good evidence in recent years that this is not how things really work. Those filters and algorithmic steering just provides a way to keep people in their bubble. What you’re describing is basically what YouTube was: allow anything legal but use sophisticated software to show people what they’ll respond to positively. The radicalization this led to is well documented at this point.

I’m not really in favor of what CloudFlare’s done here, but it’s really a fact of basic statistics that exposing the mainstream to well-made propaganda is far more dangerous than exposing radicals to the mainstream.

Imagine 1% of non-radicalized people exposed to radicalism become dangerous and 50% of radicalized people are de-radicalized by exposure to the mainstream (laughably optimistic). If you start with 100 million non-radicals and 500 thousand radicals, you have a 125% increase in radicalization.

This is how we now have so many flat earthers. When you have massive reach, it’s easy to grow your numbers.
My point was more that the people are also highly distracted by people around them who are also constantly distracted and thus buzzing, usually because of social media. The only solution is to go away, but then you're not seen in a good light.
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You could say that. But you'd be wrong.

There is absolutely no evidence that the 8chan circle-hate happening out in the open has had any mitigating effect. It only made it accessible to even the technically illiterate among the potential audience.
This aggravates me beyond belief. I have more secure passwords on random sites/accounts than I do on my financial accounts. Why do banks insist on restricting character limits to 12 - 20 characters?
> So you're just drawing a line from start to end and calling
that the velocity? That just averages the whole thing out, doesn't it?

No. We're talking about instantaneous velocity. You know, the thing the speedometer displays. How fast is the car moving at any given moment? Like, a car doesn't need to be moving at constant speed for a speedometer to give meaningful information, right? Sometimes it is moving faster and sometimes it is moving slower. Sometimes it is moving at a rate such that if it stayed at that rate it would go 60 miles in an hour, and sometimes it is moving at a rate such that if it stayed at that rate it would go 30 miles in an hour. This is the informal notion of instantaneous velocity you should already have. Now the question becomes, how do we formalize this? Which is what the page is trying to answer.
Why We Hate Taxes, and Why Some People Want Us To
This has been my experience with big tech companies as well. Many are willing to negotiate compensation, a few will negotiate holiday and benefits, but none of them will touch legal agreements like NDAs, copyright assignment and non-competes. And if you try the cute “cross off the terms you don’t like and initial them” trick, you’ll get a stern warning letter from Legal to sign it unmodified or GTFO.
Does "debt" include car payment here as well? Even if it's at a 0.9% interest rate?
I only carry that as debt right now since it was about 30k in total that I didn't want to pay in cash.
Backbone PLM Raises $18M Series A
These numbers don't actually support you.

"Still open" means the case is ongoing, so those numbers are irrelevant.

"Conversion" means going from Chapter 11 to Chapter 7 right away.

"Dismissal" doesn't mean success or failure, it means the case is dismissed.

"Confirmed" means that the case will proceed as Chapter 11 instead of being converted or dismissed outright. That can still lead to Chapter 7 later on if the restructuring fails.
I did not click this link and won't.
I'd be a lot more inclined to agree with you if it was only calls for violence for which people are being de-platformed.
Little known fact about the phrase "fire in a crowded theater": it was coined in a criminal case against a man who was distributing leaflets criticizing the draft during World War 1. The Supreme Court upheld his conviction by comparing those leaflets to "shouting fire in a crowded theater" -- even though most readers here would agree that those two things are nothing alike.

I think there's a lesson in that: when we tolerate any censorship, it will inevitably be used by the powerful to oppress the powerless. If the powerful need to compare the targeted speech to "fire in a crowded theater" or "Nazism" or whatever, they'll do it whether it makes sense or not.
> car loans

Might have gotten results for 'auto title loans' mixed in?

I could see this for those, but even then it would be a stretch - the cost of the repo and redelivery upon eventual payment for most of the cases would quickly overwhelm any benefit
A tale as old as the Internet (older!) is people arguing about how we represent our morality through legal code.

The First Amendment is a law, but it's an imperfect representation of an idea, and that idea is that everyone has a right to (among other things) express ideas free from organized oppression. A lot of people see "organized oppression" to be exclusively possible by a governing body, but some others see that to mean the platforms themselves.

"The First Amendment" is oftentimes used as a conversational shortcut to talk about the moral right of expression. Is it entirely accurate? No, and accuracy matters. However, the conversation doesn't die when the correction is made. Here, it's true that CloudFlare isn't in violation of the First Amendment of the US Constitution, however the argument being made is that they have a moral obligation to stay a "dumb pipe", to prevent the oppression of a minority voice.

I'm not making that argument, I just wanted to point out the nuance of invoking "The First Amendment" here, that it's often not literally a reference to the legal authority of the private entity in question.
I've often encountered this sentiment as a rationalization: these developers know their product looks and feels inferior, but they've already invested (their egos) in the "amazing" and "magical" <insert framework/technology/approach here>. Eventually, the consequences of prioritizing their comfort over their customers emerge, and the developers either defend their tools to the death or slink away to the next "slick" solution.

Wash, rinse, repeat.
> Most unelected bureaucrats only have a job at the whims of elected representatives. Your vote for the bureaucrats, via proxy of your representative.

This is true for political appointees - ambassadors, Cabinet secretaries, etc. - but much less so for the civil service, where folks like State Department diplomatic staff or FBI agents tend to serve multi-decade careers under many different administrations.
Or if you don't mind the hassle and have another provider available at your location, switch to it via some broker like check24 and get it even cheaper. I'm currently on 30/6 mbits for 11€ for two years, before that I had 120/10 mbits for 17€ over two years. They would turn into 25€ and 35€ after two years.

It is kind of ridiculous how they actually punish loyal customers by making them pay more after two years if you don't do anything. Sure, enough people are lazy enough to make this model feasible, but just imagine the butcher you've been getting your meat at for years suddenly goes like "hey you come here all the time so I'm gonna charge you 30% more"
Sure, those are valuable, and useful -- but they shouldn't be necessary as part of dealing with your job.
Here's an example of how another non-hypothetical tech company treats fully realized (is that the opposite of potential?) blue-collar workers:
* https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/19/18681845/facebook-moderat...
* https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebo...
I agree its gross to run around and yell the N word but there's a saying - "sunlight is the best disinfectant".
I'd rather know where the badguys are.
The question is - what else would you do with the money?

I wouldn't stick money in a low-interest mortgage if I was willing to tolerate some risk for a better return. Paying down a mortgage @ 3.5% is not a 'great' investment as you've pointed out, but the key is that it's risk free AND a better return than other no-risk investments (cash).

You may want a no-risk investment if you plan to use the money in the short-term after liquidation, say for another home purchase/deposit.
I repeat

> I do not see the political will for this in the largest polluters (US, China) and corruption would be a major problem in large parts of the world.
To answer your question, if you're expecting a jump in inflation that others don't see coming, the key is not to own debt. Stocks can take a short term dip on inflation because it's bad economic news, but in the long run businesses will end up operating with proportionally higher revenues and expenditures, and as a result end up with proportionally higher stock prices. Real estate should go up proportionally (at least in theory). Gold sometimes jumps as people get into a "run for the hills" panic mentality. Debt, however, will be paid back in a now less valuable currency, so you'd be locked in to an inflation adjusted loss.

Now to answer the question you didn't ask: most people who study the matter are more worried about deflation than inflation in the developed world, and making your whole investment strategy a big bet that economists, hedge-fund managers, and world leaders know less about the economy than you (and/or the pundits you see on TV) is usually not the way to go. Picking a boring mix of stock and bond index funds and sticking with it often serves people better.
Yes: find a better outlet for your potential.
Just like how we pull weeds in gardens all year round; deplatforming will remove majority of these users with undesirable qualities.
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If 8Chan was a breeding ground for Islamic Extremists would people be okay with still existing?

Strangely enough, most people who find censorship ideologically palatable consider Jihadists a more sympathetic group than Incels. Note that ISIS beheadings have been subject to far less censorship than the Christchurch shooter's propaganda, for example.
Are the people in Bucharest richer now than they were, and did ACs become cheaper?

While I too think it's warmer now where I live, and in the winters it definitely is, your anecdote does not show much.
Wow. You're both all over the place and wrong.

DDoSing doesn't "violate the first amendment" anymore than a loud bar violates my first amendment rights.

The concept of free speech and the first amendment aren't the same thing. The first amendment, in part, attempts to stop the government from violating its citizens' free speech.

Yelling over you does not violate your rights. Not giving you something does not violate your rights.

Another right the first amendment guarantees is the right to assemble. That means I can associate with whomever I want. That means Cloudflare can associate with whomever they want. They choose not to associate with 8chan. That is their choice and their right. We cannot force Cloudfare to associate with 8chan.

Also, what does Charlottesville have to do with anything here? Are you trying to say the guy running over others is guilty of violating the "shouters" first amendment rights? And that they should have predicted that "shouting at white nationalists" means they would get run over? And how does that remind you of Cloudflare not hosting 8chan? Did they run a car through the server?

Everything is covered by the first amendment.

So. It's a real good look for CloudFlare because they're no longer the company that associates with white nationalists.
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