skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So instead of banning pro-guns websites and associations, internet self-righteous companies prefer to ban pro-freedom of speech websites.

How brave !

Edit: to people disagreeing, ask yourself : why is mass shooting only happening with such a high frequency in the US ? Internet is global and billions of people speak and write english. So what is the originality ?

This knee-jerk reaction for censorship needs to stop, we’re heading toward censorship at full speed, and everybody is applauding for being so responsible and mature.
If people are calling publicly for mass murdering, and if it’s illegal to do so in their country, then let the police get access to the people identity and arrest them. But don’t kill the messenger or the media !
All those are speech in the context of support for a declared conflict perpetuated by the government. We don't have to all agree, obviously, but yes: stated support for policies of our elected representatives has to be OK. I don't think anyone reasonable would disagree.

If someone were to talk about personal killing of gooks or japs or krauts or secesh for ethnic and not military reasons, even in a war, that would be different. But that's not what you seem to be talking about.

The distinction is precisely why we have the Geneva conventions, and this is well established law.
The author was offered a position at an earlier time and refused because of the non-compete. The subsections with the quote titles are excuses given to the author by Amazon when he said he complained about the policy.
The party is Republican. Fiscal conservatism is absolutely a specific policy which someone can be said to be following or not.
Not Lagrange points?
Corporate debt is the driver of the next recession. From the debt fueled growth of Chinese business to the exploding pension funds of Europe. That's where the exuberance is.
I would also argue that asking for some minimum level of education/sophistication like the parent poster might qualify as the type of Platonic elitism which Popper was very much opposed to (The Open Society and its Enemies).
But then again defining what qualifies as tolerance also has the potential problem Platonic elitism (i.e. who sets the criteria).

It's a pretty tough job to balance freedom of speech and prevent hatebreeding at the same time. There are many philosophical approaches but I'd say that I haven't found one that satisfies me. Currently I'm leaning towards allowing everything in the hope that rationality will win out.

At the end of the day I think it's simply a very tough topic with no clear cut answer.
They are illegal in California. I have heard it said that has been a pro-competitive influence for companies here which is one reason for the dynamism of the tech sector.
> There balance of military power hasn't tipped at all, the western countries just stopped thinking it was okay to establish permanent settlements in other people's countries and then use that to claim we owned it.

Isn't that power? Power doesn't necessarily mean carrying out actual warfare, it means being able to do whatever you want without anyone stopping you. "We could stop them if we wanted to we just ... don't want to, yeah that's right..." rings pretty hollow. The fact that zero enforcement action has been taken means China is more powerful in the region.

All the UK can do to enforce the handover agreement is write strongly worded memos that get sent right into the shredder in Beijing. Similarly with the islands in the South China Sea. The response is basically "what are you going to do about it?" Not what could you do about it.
Statistically, approximately nobody dies in mass shootings (per [0], 387 deaths in 2018). Getting up in arms about something so small is absolutely a moral panic.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_th...
36 yo here. I've found that it is incredibly easy to 'overthink' and therefore overengineer things, and I've seen a LOT of my coworkers fall into that trap. Analysis paralysis is real, and delivering something and then being able to iterate on it is a massive step in overcoming that. Way wayyyy too often I've seen people try to think of all the edge cases before starting work, and that's just not a viable approach to software development in today's world.

Also, disclaimer, I didnt actually read the article :o
I have zero qualms about private businesses or private citizens stopping nazis from shouting their hate to the world. Nazis are free to shout as much as they want, and I'm free to tell them to shut the fuck up.
Just as the article complains how most advice is not based on data, you have to wonder where does the "most" in the title come from?

It would be wonderful to get a breakdown of unit test classes in any of the projects author talks about (23% tautological, 17% should be assertions...). Then we could get a productive discussion going.

Reminds me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20390833
You're doing great.

Are you on a path to FIRE?
Government contracting work can pay decently as long as you don't get stuck being a sub-subcontractor where everyone has taken their cut before giving you the task to complete.
Never had one, but I've also given no thoughts to them. What's the reason to decline?
The part that I concerned with has to do with discoverability. If you push these people underground they will not disappear. That has never happened in the history of humanity.

I would much rather the exist in plain view, free to voice their hatred in plain view. I would much rather the algorithms and people of sound mind monitor these individuals and groups in broad daylight than have them exist behind encrypted radicalization chat rooms.

If the standard is to shutdown services that can lead to radicalization and, therefore, harm or death, then the government should shut down Facebook, Twitter, Google and maybe more.

Why treat this any differently that 737 MAX crashes?

The only reason I can see not to do this is to be able to keep an eye on people who self-radicalize.

Sadly I have an example of this in my own family. We have an older relative (late 70’s) who, up until about two years ago, did not own a computer or use the Internet.

He was given a computer by a family member so he could use FB to keep in touch with family in the US and abroad.

We have been watching, in absolute horror, as he has been going down a path towards ever increasing hatred. No, not what you think. I won’t go into details other than to say that he had his political leanings a couple of years ago and FB turned them into nothing less than hatred, constant unrelenting hatred.

No, he isn’t going to go hurt anyone. He is hurting himself. He is in a solid gradient descent into a sad existence and likely already very much in the grips if depression.

I know it’s FB because that’s all he does with the computer. He is, otherwise, computer illiterate. He doesn’t have much if an education, which makes the constant stream of hateful memes, posts and articles impossible for him to filter. He is, effectively, mostly incapable of critical thinking now that he has been pulled down into this dark cave.

Precisely because this is happening in plain sight, various members of our family, myself included, have been engaging with him to try and pull him out of Plato’s proverbial cave.

This task is incredibly difficult. FB feeds him a constant stream of similar material and the world of reason evaporates behind a cloud of hatred. All he sees are shadows on the wall.

We need this in the open in order to be able to help those we love as well as others.

We also need FB and others to understand how much harm their algorithms seem to be causing.
Good news then! The Non-manufacturing index is also down.
Maybe, I'm not sure how useful a SSO is to SpaceX though.
By PTO are you deliberately narrowing to vacation? Full time workers also get 6 days/year Personal Time. The current US vacation schedule also changes over time, from worse than 10 days to 15 days.

1st year: 5 days, 2nd: 10 days, 3rd: 11 days, 4th: 12 days, 5th: 13 days, 6th: 14 days, 7th+: 15 days.

Thus, the time-off goes from 11 days to 21 days per year.
One thing is glaringly obvious to me in this debate: There are no factual examples of any of the accusations being laid onto 8chan. All I see is people regurgitating media opinions, parroting YouTube videos "explaining" what 8chan is, etc.

Lots of people seem to know everything about a place they've only heard about from other sources.
You may be interested to know that the stock market is more overvalued than in 2008 (CAPE), and home prices are also higher than then (Case-Shiller).

There is some exuberance in the corporate credit. How does Uber survive for so long, selling dollar bills for 70c.
It solves one thing though. It protects the business with the platform from getting their brand tarnished by whoever they kicked off. That alone is enough reason to allow a private business to kick somebody off their platform.

Surely you'd have an issue if the government showed up at a businesses office with guns and forced the owner (at gunpoint!) to allow a nazi hate site to continue to exist on their platform, eh? Cause that is what you are arguing for.
>Sure, there will be a few who are attracted to it because it is so reviled, but many more will be repulsed. There's a reason why the hate groups did everything they could to be more appealing to the mainstream. Being forced back into the underground essentially means defeat.

This is correct, it's the very essence of the southern strategy. As Lee Atwater once said (censorship mine, dunno HN's policy about this type of language) [0]:

>You start out in 1954 by saying, "N-----, n-----, n-----." By 1968 you can't say "n-----" — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "N-----, n-----."

If you join a forum and start saying "N-----, n-----, n-----", you'll probably get banned right away. But if you're talking about crime statistics and totally true stories that totally happened to you which just so happen to feature minorities as the antagonists, your dogwhistling might be allowed, and that can serve as a valuable recruiting tactic as people who don't realize it's a dogwhistle read "sources" you provide and fall down a racist rabbit hole. (Even if someone doesn't buy into these ideas right away, planting that seed can bear fruit someday - maybe they've been unsuccessful getting a job for awhile and are really frustrated, then they remember the links they were sent long ago, and suddenly it doesn't seem so unreasonable...)

[0]: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Southern_strategy#It.27s_about...
What video games can you name that promote White Supremacy like 8chan does?
That's not how dividends work. Dividends are related to how much profit/cash the company has, and how many shares are outstanding. The price of an individual share doesn't effect that, only issuance of new shares and changes in cash flow.
If I was choosing for a company like Monsanto that has the possibility of getting majorly shat on by internet opinion, Cloudflare's seeming policy of "if the media hates you, we'll drop you" would be the exact opposite of comforting.
This seems likely. If customers drop out, they can just toss in a couple starlink sats.
I essentially agree. The internet is not the public square, until you legally make it so.

And that essentially is not going to happen. Companies are "people too". They are allowed to express their free speech by not doing business with you.

Cloud Flare is within their rights to protect their stock value by doing business with whomever they choose. If the government declared the opposite, then it would truly require a massive shakeup of law and precedent.
> non invasive to users.

Except for the invasion of my time and attention, used to train Google's AI to get better at recognizing traffic signals. I took that as the main point of the article.
Agree wholeheartedly. It's rare to find a website today that is so abjectly different than the rest of the web.
The problem with extremists is that they drive people who disagree with them away. I've been a fairly heavy user of 4chan for well over a decade now, and I even spent some time on 8chan. I like the anarchic, less ego-driven nature of anonymous image boards. You avoid most of the empty posturing from other social networks.

I even think that 8chan was a great idea on paper. It's basically 4chan with Reddit's ability to create sub-communities on a whim instead of having to beg the admins to create a new board. I created a few of those myself.

But then of course the fascists took over. Admittedly on 8chan is happened almost immediately but on 4chan it was more gradual. Now 8chan is (rightfully IMO) dead and frankly I wouldn't be too sad to see 4chan, or at least some of its more popular boards, go the same way. The /pol/ cancer spreads everywhere, the big boards are 50% shitposting and 50% hate speech. And not in a fun "let's make ironic memes about Hitler to push people's buttons" way but in a rather depressing "I seriously hate women and minorities" way.

The more moderate people gets driven away. Actually any sane people would be driven away from this terrible and constant negativity and all you have left are the zealots who feed on each other's extremism. It's not free speech, it's a circular feedback-loop of radicalization. I've genuinely read a (supposedly videogame related) thread yesterday on 4chan where somebody was trying somewhat successfully to appear moderate by saying "I support white nationalists but I don't think we should be killing brown people". How nice.

Note that Reddit isn't a whole lot better at handling this, they're just better at hiding it under the rug while posturing in their PR releases.
Or it's underpinned by the value of controlling Amazon and its wealth, rather than the expectation of dividends.
A bit strange to be focused on an event from 126 years ago.
That other languages are worse than Lisp is no reason not to improve.

I didn't read him as suggesting that CLOS be replaced, but that it be embraced.

I have no idea what he meant about unused functions. My experience has been that when I think something in Common Lisp is pointless … I'm wrong.

One of the great advantages of Lisp in the 90s was that it standardised things that other languages left undefined (indeed, this is still an advantage Common Lisp has over Scheme). It seems like a good idea to keep on expanding the standardised area, as we gain experience & understanding.
I don't know Portuguese, but from what I can understand the pun translates perfectly to Spanish. Incidentally, pun also translates to fart.

– ¿Para qué sirve una barriga vacía?
– Em, ¡Pa' nada!"
exactly. google should be banned from all online public services of any kind, since they can't be avoided. it's unreasonable to expect people to shop around for a town to live in that doesn't, and never will, use privacy-invading google services like recaptcha.

i'd even support a ban for other core services like utilities and banking that may not be public entities.
Not saying that slow Internet doesn’t suck – it does. But when I ever I am stuck on a slow network i download YouTube videos (the command line tool youtube-dl [0] also downloads a lot of other streaming sites). This trades some time for quality: You have to wait while downloading, but you can download whatever quality you have patience for.

[0]: https://youtube-dl.org/
Not every financial firm is that paranoid. Many are, though - i got offered a job in London that your description would fit perfectly! Still, i ended up working at a firm that's the polar opposite of that.

I'll also disagree with you about money. Once you have enough to cover all your needs and few wants a year, more money starts to get interesting, because then it goes directly into building financial independence. That's the money that will pay for you to retire, start a business of your own, take a sabattical, move to a low-paid job you love, etc.
Yeah right, as if Common Lisp and Smalltalk, or the myriad of 90's 4GLs never happened.

Popularity does not translate in money nor projects, specially with a niche language designed for doing UIs only, lacking libraries left and right.
I've asked the same thing about HTTPS vs. going to the moon: https://twitter.com/mholt6/status/1126717673620922369
> Given this administration's thinking pattern, wouldn't they see the potential damage to US manufacturers and try to increase tariffs further, vicious-circle style?

I think they will want to do that, but ultimately the US has limited ability to do certain things.

> couldn't that eventually obliterate trade relationships entirely and make war more likely?

Yes, that is in my opinion the worst aspect of Trump's trade policy. Economic cooperation between people of different nations helps prevent war. Trump is punishing Americans for cooperating with Chinese exporters, while trying to vilify the Chinese government, Chinese academics studying in the US, etc.

It's a horrible and repugnant political ploy. The US woke up and looked in the rear-view mirror and saw that China caught up dramatically in the past few decades (during which the US wasted trillions on the middle east).

China did not waste trillions in the middle east. Instead Xi lifted an unprecedented number of people out of poverty and invested heavily in Africa. China pours more concrete in a month than the US does in a year, and China produces more top tier hard science research than the US, not to mention China's top universities are 100x more competitive than Harvard.

Trump's actions reveal a weak and flailing US, the worst thing any of us can do is assume that he has a clue what he's doing in any kind of negotiation or foreign policy scenario.
How did this trash make it to the front page of HN?
Monzo urge customers to change their pin
Knives don't go in the dishwasher because they dull faster and I'd rather spend time washing them than time sharpening them. Post and pans in the dishwasher is just a waste of space. By putting one pot in there I can not put 6 plates. The pot is easy to clean, the plates are annoying.

I have to put things away because there's no room for the pile method. I share 4 ft of closet and a 4 drawer dresser with my wife. The rest of our bedroom is mostly bed area.

I cook meals because I'm lazy. Cooking cost less money. Microwavable meals mean I need to work more to pay for those meals which is something I don't want to do. Cooking saves me time in life by costing me less money.

My life is arranged around laziness but it is different laziness than yours.
Just to clarify because my link 0 "guns per capita" was a bit misleading. It's actually per 1,000 people, not 1. Link to more original source [0].

Quick maths: 21 guns p/capita divided by 1,000 people = 0.021 * 28 million (pop of Texas) = ~588,000 guns.

Your observation about Texas is very interesting, and I don't have an answer for that. Texas might have, historically, a better gun culture? In any case, having half the mass shootings as another state is still a number greater than zero, which remains the ultimate goal.

[0] - https://huntingmark.com/gun-ownership-stats/#_ftn1%20
I am certainly on your side when it comes to mass rail transit being a really good solution for inter-city transportation. Especially now in the age where intra-city transit is so easy with uber/lyft.

The problem as it stands is land easements. Acquiring land in the US for larger social benefit at the expense of the land owner is generally A BIG FUCKIN NO NO. This premise has essentially locked many well planned rail projects from the get go. This just isn't a problem for the promise of self-driving car technology. Further more the opportunity cost argument is really weak. Al la "had we not spent so much money trying invent self driving cars we could have improved our rail system X times over ect." Because we have developed so much other technology out of that quest.

I dream of a day where there is a high speed rail system that connects the entire west coast. It would be a GIGANTIC boon for trade and commerce IMO.
Recession does not usually mean a stock market crash either
How so? Cash is mobile, cash lets you move, invest, make changes to your life. Paying off a home ties you down, and you don’t immediately get evicted for missing a mortgage payment.

My point is % return is not everything. I would gladly give up a 1.5% return in exchange for the ability to up and move when I need to, or respond to emergencies such as legal/health/family/political and resource instability/etc.
Disagree. Of course people recongregate in less well-known haunts, but there's a cost to them in doing so, it massively inhibits recruitment, and when there's an influx of new users after the sinking of a platform security standards tend be much lower, making it that much easier to infiltrate.

In war, degrading your enemy's communications and lines of supply is often more effective than engaging in battle.
This is true. I would very much like an article in this style examining Satoshi and how many bits he theoretically had left.
Maybe buck up and do their job? They are paid to manage people and get the best performance out of them even if they aren’t who you would have picked. Unless the staff are incompetent, or otherwise unsuitable, the job is to make it work effectively.
Pteridomania
That would be great, but sadly the companies are not doing it out of their own free will, they are pushed by the government in some way to do that. And so far legislations around the world only move in a direction to make that government involvement more explicit, not enforce more freedom.
Germany has at least a dozen "backbones" from different companies. The problems mentioned result from stupid last mile politics and practice, which factually deny affordable access for endusers to these.
That reads a bit like “we know what people expect from a UI but it’s hard.”

If we know so much about what they expect, why is it still hard?

I wonder if all the trend chasing is really just making busy work and getting in the way of truly
standardized and dumb simple building of software.
I’ve been getting into home automation recently and I’ve given myself a rule: nothing cloud connected. If I can’t run it off my local server, I don’t want it. I have much more motivation to secure my home than any company ever will.
Introduction to Python's Collections Module
The only support I received as the victim of my manager’s abuse was encouragement to take advantage of medical leave.

This statement is quite telling: first HR goes to lengths to deny that there's any seriously wrong. Then they pretty blatantly acknowledge that yes, things are so fucked up that you'll likely want to take medical leave.
This feels like the future.
Suppose you give money to a company in return for a share of stock. The company does spectacularly, becoming bigger than Amazon and Brazil, combined! (That was a joke.)

The company, however, never pays a dividend. Eventually, the world changes and the company makes a few missteps, and then one day, bang! The company is bankrupt and your share is worthless.

Now, you could argue that you made money when you sold the share, but the guy who bought it didn't. Without dividends, the stock market is a zero-sum game. In fact, it's the world's biggest Ponzi scheme, with money coming in from new investors being used only to pay out to past investors.