skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If my opponent thinks I'm intolerant, then ME increasing my level of tolerance does NOTHING to fix the problem.

Yes, it does. Responding to intolerance with tolerance provides the change (however slim) to engage with these people and change their views. Responding with intolerance of your own deprives you of this chance. The former offers some chance of change, however slim. The latter offers none.

> Not if the other side down backs down first. Which is usually what happens.

The problem is, the "other side" is thinking the exact same thing. Also, the way you frame tolerance as one "side" against another highlights the way people use "intolerance" just justification for the exclusion of the out-group.

> Why should the onus be on ME to back down?

The onus isn't on anyone to "back down" the onus is on society to foster a culture where the response to encountering someone with view they find heinous is to engage and try to bring them in alignment with society.

> Yeah, its complicated. But play with the game-theory of the model. That's the current direction we're marching towards politically. My point is that your philosophy of "tolerate the opponent" does NOTHING to stop this game-theory matrix. My optimal move is to be intolerant, especially if my opponent is intolerant.

No, it is not because we're all on the same team. By selecting the option that causes a net loss but a personal gain for yourself, you're leaving all of society worse off. The "other side" is still part of the society to which you belong, like it or not.

I am seriously disturbed by this line of reasoning, the thought that it's better to leave all of society worse off as long as the "other side" is harmed more than "our side". The end result is that the two "sides' cannot coexist, and one either destroys or expels the other.
21 days without the internet (and StackOverflow)
Slightly OT, but android's "screen call" feature has been my number 1 tool is fighting the robocall battle. It's more responsive than the "let all calls go to voicemail" approach, and 80% of robocalls disconnect by themselves when the bot starts talking. It still requires my live "attention" when the call is going through but I'm not that upset about a few wasted seconds, especially if it lets me grab a legitimate call when it's happening.

https://www.androidcentral.com/how-use-call-screen-feature-p...
Telegram says they block massive contacts imports, says that particular bot was able to add only 85 contacts and then throttled to 5 new contacts per day.

My questions is how do they distinguish legitimate imports? I have 2K phone numbers in my address book. Would it take a year for me to be able to message my friends on telegram?
Yes, most crime rate statistics are based on reported crimes.

This is particularly problematic in Seattle. Because many citizens now understand that police won't respond to minor crimes, especially property crimes, people just don't report them at all.

In the past few years, I've personally experienced someone climbing a fence to enter my back yard, shitting in my alley, stealing property from my porch, pissing on my garage, stealing from my trash (multiple times). None of those will show up on crime statistics even though they are illegal because I didn't call in since I knew the cops didn't have the capacity to do anything.
For starters, don't take any advice from Hackernews.
"Hide your evil"
That rule is quite regularly violated, though.

My theory:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20776979 was on the front page for quite a while. HN users saw the very low quality of posts it attracted, and started flagging it and similar posts.

HN likes good conversation, not flame wars etc.
I don't think this is very debatable. Consider the fact you might be in the vast minority of users.

I'm a dev/technical user, in the key audience for native look & feel powertools, yet the main apps I use on Mac are still Chrome, Spotify, Slack, VS Code. None of these use the desktop's native theme.

Imagine the case for non-technical users.

Average users expect apps to have a custom look and feel. Ever tried SnapChat?
Perhaps something a bit more flexible, such as statutory licensing fees and availability 1 year after initial distribution. Everything being available for anyone to license without restriction at a set price structure. Distributors of course would be free to negotiate cheaper rates for more obscure content.
> It should be a scorched earth tactic against smugglers, dealers, and producers ... a merciless, ruthless, hunt for these people that are then erased as the war criminals and pestilence on humanity they are ... the mass murderers they are.

What if, instead, we mercilessly and ruthlessly cut off their source of money: the premium people pay for illegal drugs exactly because they are illegal? Bootleggers weren't put out of business by Elliot Ness, they were put out of business by the end of prohibition.
Ask HN: Where to find remote jobs in Canada?
I've been looking for remote work, but it seems like most US companies only hire people living in the US. Are there are good places to find remote jobs for people based in Canada?

I know Python (Gtk/Qt and Django/Flask), Javascript/Node.js (React, Vue, Express, Mongo, etc.), and some C++.
Depends on the act, and the accused, I guess. I'm sure similar things happened in the 1980s - I was a kid who didn't pay much attention to that kind of thing back then.

But there were plenty of scandals of a lesser nature that would ruin people, with even a hint of impropriety. Again - it depended on the act, the person(s) involved, and perhaps the way our society's wind was blowing (as always).

I can guarantee you, though, that some of things we currently witness on a daily basis would have absolutely destroyed people, careers, brands, you name it - even just 10 years ago, yet today it's just "oh, that's nice - let's see what happens tomorrow" - yesterday's scandal already forgotten.

Again - it does depend on the act and the person; you can think about many recent people who have "been in the news" for similar accusations, if not all-but-proved acts, and wonder "Why this guy, and not this other one?"

For some reason, we skewer only a selected few, and in many cases, not the ones who really need and deserve it, either.
They don't seem to understand that without the rainforest they would be trying to plant stuff in a desert. The whole economic aspect is moot, the forest provides the rain to plant so they burn deforest to plant more. But agribusiness doesn't want to hear it.
Please don’t do this. It disrespects small creators. This isn’t like hurting big companies that can afford the hit. This is the digital equivalent of stealing money out of the till of the corner shop.
For folks down this far, the prevailing hive mind in this thread is why when someone asks what I do for work here I try to distance myself from the rest of you as far as I can.
> sort-of feels like YC is censoring news.

Only in the sense that every venue that chooses what news is in scope and out of scope for that venue (including every news outlets ever) is censoring news.

It's not, legally or effectively, prohibiting other people from publishing or distributing news, so it's not doing the thing that makes public censorship (and arguably widely dominant privately-run communication platform censorship) a problem.
Order 6: Illusory Mind. In this order, consciousness reaches a level of self reflection that leads to the realization that self-hood is an object in subjective experience and merely an observer of thoughts, not an author. Free will slowly begins to erode and the mind is finally set free.
> If alternative structures worked well then we would've seen them by now

Well let’s not go this far. Human civilization has existed for a tiny portion of time, modern civilization even less so. There’s PLENTY of time for better structures to be discovered.
All opinions can be rationalized through a particular lens can they not?

Are you asking Google to be a voice of reason in the debate over global labor markets and liberalization of SE Asian economies for example?

Doesn't that give you a wolf-and-lamb problem, to reference Aesop?
> To be fair, not having any of those technologies is just a side effect of deciding to make a dead simple, spartan UI (which isn't a bad thing).

That's also why google.com was originally so simple, in stark contrast to their competitors of the day.
Funny how Google paints itself as the somewhat Justice Scalia of web privacy using originalist arguments to make its point. Personally I never been impressed by these constructions and in this case to the extent that it would be rightly interpreted I would be more a living web privacy kind of person anyway. I ultimately think in the web as in the constitution it is disingenuous to think framers would have envisioned at its conception all use cases and especially all potential abuses.
How about your Civil Aviation Administration making an official statement that it didn't ask Hogg for this list as a starter?
No they're agreeing with early 20th century communist theorists like Marx. The left has always biased toward the idea that social interaction is politics. And "politics" is just the micro social politics playing out on a grander scale. It's just easier to ignore those things when you're in (relative) power, since, as a straight person, you aren't directly affected by the ability of gay people to marry, or whatever.

Limbaugh was just agreeing with the communists. Oops?
Can the president unilaterally decide the levels of tariffs on imports? Without congressional oversight or veto?
Thanks for your feedback. Shrinking content is really what can solve the affordability issue at some point. But still, internet fees are pretty high (according to average income) in many developing countries and also people aren't able to buy devices. But we'll definitely discuss your point!
Thanks. Those reviews are pretty fucking scary.
When it really comes down to it, it's corrupt governments that create an environment where people are poor and desperate. Mostly because businesses aren't really interested in the risks involved.

Nobody cares about fixing this though. They just think throwing money at poor nations will somehow bring people above the poverty line.

Many countries in Africa are a good example of this not
working.

We also perpetuate the issue through massive donations because local industries can't compete with free and the citizens become endlessly dependent.
Very interesting 4 part documentary. Worth watching!!
Memories Form and Fade
Trying to bury every single thought that doesn't perfectly conform with the common narrative is unscalable and will only serve to amplify the counter-narrative.

I see this happening everywhere in relation to the unrest in HK. Ideally, ideas should be discussed on their merit and in the light of day. When faced with what is perceived as dissent, strong counter arguments should be made instead of shutting down discourse.

In my opinion, this censorious attitude will be damaging to the pro-democracy movement’s cause in the long term.

EDIT: response to jeremysalwen’s comment below since it seems my comments are either being rate limited or filtered.

> If the 50 cent army ever came to HN, it would look like the above two comments.

Thank you.

I could not have asked for a better example of what I meant than your comment. I've seen variants of this type of comment repeated everywhere on HN and Reddit to shut down legitimate discourse. I have only made extremely neutral comments, and yet here I am feeling like I’m being surrounded by a suspicious lynch mob. If you think turning every exchange of ideas into the Spanish Inquisition is the best way to support the plight of the protestors then I’d disagree, but that’s your prerogative.

Also, if an echo chamber is what people want HN to be, I can live with that. I just think it’d be a pity because I enjoy reading discussions with a diversity of opinion - more specifically, I enjoy reading high quality responses to actual dissenters, not unsubstantiated witch-hunting or low effort dismissals to every ‘threat’ real or imagined.
On top of the generally absurd claims made in the official Google post, that writing was just terrible. Comma splices all over the place, sentences starting with So and But, very strange tone and wording in some things. Did anyone edit this?

Oh and I love the “thank you in advance for your help” lol what?
If all my open problems could be localized in a single place in the codebase, I might indeed keep all my todo items as comments. But sometimes they span a lot of the code.

The organizing principle of the todo document is problems. The organizing principle of the code is something else -- control, data. Perhaps ideally they would align, but in my experience they don't.
Could you link to the evidence of that, because I think you'll find that upon even a cursory investigation, it doesn't exist.
Thanks! Its vim plugin seems very promising.
It’s not friendly advice, that’s the point! Businesses don’t typically like it very much when someone makes their supply lines double-digit more expensive overnight.

He’s putting companies on notice. He’s doing it with language which will get the statement widely reported (and unfortunately mis-reported).

But carefully reading what he is actually saying, you can see he’s not actually ordering anything. That’s the point.

In your hypothetical example you would need to change two things. One, it would read “All my relatives are hereby ordered to starting looking at flights a day early...”

And two, you would have to be God, because in that example you would be the one controlling the weather.
PFSense, but imo microsegmentation of the network is more important than which one big lock you've got hanging on the front door.
Not really. Just stumbled upon this very interesting high quality documentary. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20732957
> What happened in most of the world starting in the 70s was abstract data types which was really staying with an assignment centered way of thinking about programming and I believe that... in fact when I made this slide C++ was just sort of a spec on the horizon. It's one of those things like MS-DOS that nobody ever took seriously because who would ever fall for a joke like that.

- Alan K

I don't hate on object oriented programming, but when I come across videos like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY&feature=youtu.be... it is good enough reason for me to question OOP and explore alternatives.

I will say though... in my limited sample size of coworkers, it is more fun to work with people who attack OOP than those who defend it. But the best people to work with are those who don't get emotional about programming ideologies.
As I've challenged other posters before... this whole discussion is taking place in reality. Your theories about peace and quiet are all nice and all, but it doesn't work in practice.

Go hangout at Stormfront. Talk to white-nationalists. They're all gathering there, and you can go try to convince them to stop being racist if you so desire.

This isn't some hypothetical la-la land. You literally can go to white-nationalist websites and talk with them and try to convince them to be otherwise more tolerant of others.

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In any case: I've got slanty eyes since my parents were from an East Asian country. I can't change how my eyes look like, I'm distinctively Asian (although I'm unable to speak or write in any language aside from English. I've lived here my whole life).

I can change my viewpoints because I'm a rational person. But if white-nationalists make an enemy out of me, there's nothing I can do about it. I cant change my eyes or skin color.

Fortunately for me, white-nationalists are more scared of other races than my race. But they're still not exactly welcoming of me either.

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As I said before: how can My life (or society in general) get better if I become more tolerant of the white-nationalists who want to make America whiter and with less immigrants? They want to kick me out of the country (well, starting with Hispanics first. But I know I'm on their list). How am I supposed to "tolerate" that viewpoint?

> I am seriously disturbed by this line of reasoning, the thought that it's better to leave all of society worse off as long as the "other side" is harmed more than "our side". The end result is that the two "sides' cannot coexist, and one either destroys or expels the other.

Do you wish to "tolerate" white nationalism, and their philosophy to kick immigrants out of the country? To the point where some of them are going out to El Paso and literally shooting people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_El_Paso_shooting

This is what we are dealing with:

> "In general, I support the Christchurch shooter and his manifesto. This attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas. They are the instigators, not me. I am simply defending my country from cultural and ethnic replacement brought on by an invasion."

There is no room for "tolerance" here. I'm sorry.
I've really been enjoying Tildes: https://tildes.net/

It's somewhat similar to Reddit (and was started by a former Reddit admin), but values quality content and discussion over "fluff" content. The users on there are wonderful, and I've had some very good discussions about both tech and non-tech topics. This blog post has some good info on it's philosophy and what makes it different: https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes
Speaking over the intercom about protestors is not a safety issue. You don't need the obviously politically motivated CCP "experts" to judge that. This has nothing to do with aviation safety and everything to do with (lack of) freedom of speech.

You have some anonymous user in this thread fantasizing about crazy scenarios that didn't happen, and you're propping them up with your own judgement, and then you're telling me to hold my judgement and trust the alleged "experts" that happen to agree with you.

No thanks, I'll take as much freedom in judgement as you afforded yourself.
By that logic, burning down a forest, defacing a public work of art, building a personal home in the middle of a public park, and dynamite fishing a coral reef are not "actual crimes" either.

A good definition of "crime" needs to be able to include action that indirectly harm a large number of potential people. Otherwise, you are powerless to address the tragedy of the commons.
If the police don't come, it's a breakdown of civilization. Buy a gun.
Amazon is customer obsessed in the same way that Google does no evil.
The Floppy Rom: Software Distributed on Records (Oct. 1977)
I agree. At Mooctors - http://www.mooctors.com technology experts are invited to register as technology tutors, helping MOOC students with their studies, and earning extra money on their free time. its a startup from within the YC startup school. Its kind of cool.
Hasbro to Buy Peppa Pig Owner for $4B
I made the WikiText-2 and WikiText-103 datasets they compare against and held state of the art results on language modeling over PTB, WT-2, and WT-103 not too long ago.

OpenGPT-2's results are near equal to GPT-2's in zero-shot language model perplexity on multiple datasets [1].

The zero shot perplexity results are also exactly where we'd expect the 1.5 billion parameter to be, markedly better than OpenAI's 775M GPT-2 model[2] (the second largest model OpenAI trained) that they released in the last few days.

To me this is about as close a replication as you could expect, especially given OpenAI didn't release many of the exact training details. If OpenAI retrained the 1.5 billion parameter GPT-2 model I wouldn't be surprised to see the same variance in performance simply due to the random initialization of the parameters.

[1]: https://miro.medium.com/max/3200/1*h1JoiQq9f1qOHS-rN4u57A.pn...

[2]: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Language-Models-are-Un...
I hope google provided free popcorn as well as free lunches.
Craigslist. Wages in Canada aren't that good compared to the US though. I remember getting a remote offer from a company in Toronto that was about 50% below my current salary..and this was only last year.

There are some firms in Silicon Valley outsourcing to Canada.
observe–orient–decide–act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
> And this was common workplace discussion!?

It must be US culture there: everywhere I've worked (in France) arguing about politics was always ok. Even fun when you get people of differing views who can explain how they came to those so you can debate. Things must be boring when you have to limit yourself to safe subjects.
Learning how to read a document and interpreting what it means are two different things. For the former you can learn how to do so from (almost) anyone who already knows how to do so. Your interpretation of the document might also vary from whomever taught you how to read it.
> I don't have a link, but you can trust me when I can say that I've had discussion with white-nationalists on Youtube.

As usual, when challenged to back up the claim that YouTube hosts white nationalism and child pornographers the commenter fails to do so.

At best you managed to show that some videos of kids had creepy comments, which YouTube promptly banned after it was brought to light. I recall this phenomenon, and YouTube's response was swift and decisive. So much so that many creators actually complained that YouTube was being too aggressive.
I wouldn't say that. Only big creators get sponsors. I guess it depends on what you mean by small creator. And this isn't taking money, it would just be not putting any in.
> Unless you're ordering fried chicken, everything is cooked to order.

So all the sides (fries, potatoes, biscuits, rice and beans, etc) are made to order?
> installing energy-hungry air conditioners – a major contributor to climate change

Is this a fact?
in fact, i disagree with a healthy portion of it.

Edit: I don't think he's being negative - he's saying "don't do it" and i agree.
They are right. It's ridicule that it has to come to this. Debate politics in your personal time. There's already too much shit keeping people from their workstations (massages, free food, ...)
>> By far most independent studies (listed on Wikipedia) conclude that glyphosate is not or is unlikely to be carcinogenic.

Well, if there was no concern about the objectivity of the science that might be more relevant. Unfortunately the whole article is pointing out that the science done may not be accurate, as Monsanto has been putting financial incentives against honest research.

We may like to tell ourselves that scientific studies are beyond corruption, but that's plainly not true. There was even a time when a "scientific study" concluded leaded gasoline was safe. This is why financial backers must be disclosed in respected research.

As a consumer, if a CEO wants to consistently subject himself to a 10x dose of the chemical that will be remaining on/in my food, maybe I'd have more faith that our incentives align.
I don't remember if the interface was realtime or async off the top of my head, but it would strike me as uncharacteristic of her (and strange in the context of the plot) to not take that into account.

I'm not even sure if the ansible interface is actually described anywhere in that book....
that piece of advice is a paradox

if I choose to ignore it, I have actually followed it!

heheheh
Hijacking this to maybe also get a recommendation -- For the purposes of better understanding S1s, I've been trying to find a good non-textbook to understand corporate finance in general. Anyone?
Seems like more S-1 filings have been making it to the front page of HN. Is that because more people on HN are interested in them, or because there's been a recent uptick in S-1 filings? And if the latter, is there any reason?