skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Governments have chosen to use Twitter as a medium for communication. It’s an open form platform to post by anyone but government officials do communicate via Twitter in an official capacity. Some agencies post things to Twitter (and Facebook) but nowhere else — not even on their own government websites.

I’ve had government officials ignore emails but respond to tweets (as someone who no longer uses Twitter, this is now quite frustrating).

At some point Twitter can no longer hide behind the “private entity” flag. A line gets crossed and even if there’s not technically a legal standing for freedom of speech on a platform like Twitter, there’s a ideological debate to be had whether it now should be. Certainly a decade ago much of the idealism sold to us around social media was that it was an equalizing force for free speech and communication.
You are not exploiting the person making the garments, you are exploiting the fact that the cost of living in Bangladesh is far below the cost of living in a Western nation.

The fact that the standard of living in Bangladesh is also lower does not mean that you are exploiting the worker. In fact, in many cases (especially employing them directly online as the GP is suggesting) you are helping to improve their standard of living.
5 Year survival rates are a useless metric that don't say anything about patient harm from over-testing and over-treatment, or anything about all cause mortality. The US does better at 5 year survival rates because it's happy to cause harm to patients for no benefit.

You keep saying "The UK"[1] NHS denies treatment to patients, but you can't ever say what treatment is denied, instead pointing to stuff that's readily available. (Which is surprising, because if you actually cared about the truth you'd easily find examples of care that isn't available.)

I've never seen a post by you about the English NHS which isn't wrong. Doesn't it worry you that every single post you make about the English NSH is wrong?

[1] There isn't one NHS. There are 4 separate systems, controlled by different governments.
How does /. even have any influence anymore? They seem to be k5 lite nowadays, tbh. At least in terms of comments
> I'm skeptical of the substance of this article because WSJ and Amazon share an owner.
> I typically like the WSJ's reporting, but this honestly feels like a topic they should be recusing themselves from.

No they don't. You're thinking of the Washington Post.
I'm no designer, but I assume this is not a color palette generator, right? It's more of a "shade generator" that creates all the various shades of a single color?

Update: After playing some more, it does in fact seem like you can generate pallets by adjusting the start and end hue. That being said, I have no idea how colors work. For example, I assume I can't just take 3 arbitrary colors from this tool and stick them together and expect them to look good.
The moral code of complete development freedom without judgement is a moral code.
I will not. This is both common knowledge and common sense.

You can easily find articles about sufficiently low-level drones getting fired from Facebook for snooping if this is an authentic query.

If you have trusted friends in tech, you can ask them even better.
I hope it does something more useful than mining bitcoins.

There are many research projects that could use some more computing power and that would bring a gain to humanity.
Amazing quote. I love the concept of "Boring Dystopia." Might have to name a song that.
You’re misunderstanding.

If X was not the USG, then the USG would care and probably go to war with any countries potentially related to, or sounding similar to, X
> The UK NHS for example, is extremely aggressive in “saying no to treatment.

No it isn't.
So what you're telling me is people would be really disappointed if they noticed Puppet Labs makes money from the same people?
Yeah I am willingly be locked in to AWS which is a stable, proven, compliant solution with sophisticated SLAs and even paid support. I can create reliable distributed highly available performant services on top of it. That is all I need. As far as locking in on Kubernetes goes I am not sure.
I use QtCreator, vscode.

What I need is a better way to develop linux server app on my mac.

I'm using either ssh or docker on mac to have a linux environment.

On mac, the docker container is extremely slow and it keeps my cpu busy all the time, the laptop gets very hot.

vscode/ssh remote is a better solution, but requires reliable network, (hard to use in a coffee shop)

I still prefer a local setup.
One thing I have often thought is that, in order to be a good QA tester, you also have to have had some experience developing your own production application. In this way, you understand the different types of testing required and why testing is required in a more visceral way. Because, once you have had to deal with bugs that cause loss of customers or $$$ from your own pocket book, only then will you really understand the true value of testing.
Then it should be possible to store the originating repo along with the commit so that commits aren't visible in a given "repo" until they are pushed or pulled into that repo
Aristotle once said:

"Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms."

My expectation for such a system is that a majority group who have a specific lifestyle would penalize anyone who does not strictly adhere to that specific lifestyle. The group would change over time (likely liberal, then conservative, then back again) and each group would become more and more dogmatic about those views. Eventually the group will resemble something like the Nazis or the Soviets and violent revolution or war would end the experiment.

Source: the past two thousand years of human civilization
Short term public company values are fickle. Much more so for high growth/money losing/tech companies. Shopify was worth $46B at times in August.
It’s about half and half onshore and offshore, not mostly offshore.
> which here seems to be the other that "supports illegal immigration", and I don't believe these attacks further the conversation. Nowhere do we have evidence that OP or anyone defending him is in favor of fully open borders, an accusation thrown around more than once in these comments.

Please, tell me how saying "you can't arrest people who cross the border illegally" is different from supporting open borders. (Since ICE is legally required to separate children from 'parents' when arresting them, just like every other law enforcement agency, "don't separate families" is equivalent to "don't arrest anyone crossing the border with someone who says they're a child")

EDIT:

To be clear, my argument is that the thing you called a strawman ("Nowhere do we have evidence that OP or anyone defending him is in favor of fully open borders") is equivalent to a belief you suggested to be much more likely ("Instead, it is much more likely that he dislikes the tactics used by ICE, such as separating families"). The argument is as follows:

"ICE should not separate families" is equivalent to "ICE should not arrest families", as ICE is required by law to separate families after arrest.

"ICE should not arrest families" is equivalent to "ICE should not arrest people crossing the border", as any competent border-hopping group will either have a child with them or someone who says they're a child. (Yes, they might not be related - that's what separating families was partially intended to find out)

"ICE should not arrest people crossing the border" is equivalent to "ICE should not enforce borders" is (IMO) equivalent to "Open borders should be a thing".
I'm the guy writing that book, updated my profile. Hope to hear from you soon :)
This is a pretty blatant strawman. Enforcing law is neither inherently immoral, nor are laws inherently moral. Your implication is destructively reductionist.
Yeah. Smartphones and tablets have filled up the usual breaks the human brain has had for the first 200k or so years of its existence. Always-on has to have maladaptive effect on creatures that didnt evolve with it.
The Effect of High-Tech Clusters on the Productivity of Top Inventors
Who said "you can't arrest people who cross the border illegally"? I will not discuss this with you while you continue to whip out Straw Man arguments, nor will I engage with your aggressive manner.
Looked quickly into your profile and your latest comments, what do you want people to contact you about?
The point is, if you don't have the context, you are operating from a position of ignorance. What if conditions do suck and are terribly miserable at Amazon's warehouses? But... what if, despite that, the conditions are actually better than typical warehouse jobs? In that case, by singling out Amazon, you are actually punishing them for having better warehouse conditions than anyone, and helping their competitors where the workers are worse off.
I am not comfortable with the feature creep that systemd is slowing bringing in. binfmt mount executing files based on a lookup, similar to windows assoc, intercepting gethostbyname(), this really feels like an attempt to shim old vulnerable windows concepts into linux. I am concerned that linux will not be recognizable in the near future and will be subject to bloat and obfuscation. What would it take to make this stop?

There are some things brought in that I like, but I don't believe systemd is required for them. Cgroups, LXC, to name a couple. Those make functional and operational sense to me.
Replying to each submission is very impressive! Looks like last year you had ~24 speakers, so I assume you had ~100+ submissions. That's definitely dedication!

Have you run into speakers responding negatively to your (constructive) feedback before?
It's a running joke in the channel. "Hi welcome to my channel TechLead, with your host The TechLead who's an ex-google and now an ex-facebook tech lead"
Respectfully, zornado is correct and I'm not sure why he's being downvoted.

The market cannot operate without a free market for risk-taking and a free market for assessing confidence of repayment as expressed in interest rates. Borrowers are not entitled to money at a set interest rate in the private market (I would argue this should apply to the public market as well, or at least the markup through banks should be minimized). Saying "these interest rates are too high" is the credit market equivalent of saying "the price of this car is too high, give it to me cheaper".

The individual defaults if they file for bankruptcy. Until then the terms of the loan, voluntarily signed, determine an interest rate and an obligation to repay. The lender is not obligated to forgive a loan; if that were the case credit liquidity would be nonexistent. (IANAL)
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3000 32-core CPU is more bad news for Intel
> I think there is a difference between "people I added on a whim and don't actually know" and "my cousin that lives out of state", for example.

Yeah, an example might be my 4th grade teacher that I liked a lot and added me. She's a sweet lady who's almost 90 at this point. Not sure I would have had any contact with her otherwise, but it makes me happy to see what she's up to.
Unfortunately we don't seem able to build nuclear power plants either cost effectively or quickly enough.
Apple isn't ending ad blockers. They're ending the specific API that uBlock Origin uses. For instance, I use 1Blocker on Mac and iOS and it does a great job of blocking ads using the still-supported APIs.
What is the best way to attract Top Open Source Developers today?
Mastermind Group
This has me thinking though, actually a plaintext contact info section on the profile that's only visible to logged in profiles over a certain nominal rep to deter spam. That would be a pretty good and simple feature.
having a disrespect of women doesn't imply that he runs around sexually assaulting them.

There are plenty of women I have no respect for, in none of those cases has it caused me to even have the urge to sexually assault them.

It's important to keep your objectivity.
Learning Haskell: A Resource Guide
Drag the start and end Hue sliders around a bit, you'll see different colors on the side.
forgiviness

to you

to others

it may very well change very concretely how you feel about past present and future

Not an easy task I'll give you that
If only everyone used uBlock instead of the countless other scammy adblockers with millions of active users, which do not take privacy nearly as seriously. OP also never mentioned uBlock specifically, so I wouldn't be so quick to call it FUD.

Whether or not this is a sufficient solution is one thing, but there are some legitimate problems with the current state of adblocking. Being able to provide a similar solution in a far more limited fashion would be a good thing for users.
Good thing Github is allowed to associate data with a commit ID, like they already do with rebased commits, as noted in the subsequent sentence.
I whole heartedly tried to read this. I couldn't. The constant updates of the stock symbol numbers, grabbing my attention every time, and causing reflows most of the time made it impossible.
"The point of human society is to make life nicer for its humans."

How do you figure this? Why not "The point of human society is to make the world more aesthetically pleasing?" Or "The point of human society is to make life nicer for all conscious beings?" Or "The point of human society is to make life nicer for all great apes?" or "The point of life among higher animals (of which human beings are a cohort) is to make life nice for all higher animals?"

Its hardly a settled point _what_ the point of human society is or even where "society" should have its limits defined.
"Don't separate families" is equivalent to "don't arrest people who say they're a family" - in effect if not in intention.
Because the US government is a) strong and b) doesn't think there's one.

Neither of those is true of Afghanistan. The Taliban is quite capable of at least holding on, and the non-Taliban Afghani government isn't opposed to US support.

As evidence of this, President Ghani's reaction was to promise check and balances to reduce casualties, not kick the US out of the country.
lobste.rs does.

I hang both places and like both, but as others have already pointed out, it is probably outside of the scope of HN.
Our country has been starved of resources for young people since the short sighted 80s idea to sell off school sports facilities.

By comparison the community facilities in Iceland are wonderful.

I'm surprised that Iceland had a youth drinking problem though. Not that kids everywhere don't find ways to rebel but alcohol seemed very expensive when I was last there. Far in excess of the minimum prices alcohol in Scotland.
Awesome-product-roadmaps: Collection of product roadmaps
Show HN: Your new “what I'm up to” page
Sperm-inspired biobots swim toward seeding stem cells
Again, you throw around a Straw Man to service your point of view. I'm not here for this. Good day.
Considering the extent and the societal and political ramifications of the mountains of propaganda being disseminated on Facebook, as well as the outcome of the 2016 election, it is clear that FB is changing the world... for the worst.
A complete misrepresentation of what happened.

People didn't live longer, many of them died sooner, and most of them had pretty severe side effects.

https://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j2097

> The Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) has not “delivered meaningful value” to patients with cancer and may have exposed them to “toxic side effects of drugs,” an analysis has found.1

> The CDF was established in 2010 in England to provide “patients with faster access to the most promising new cancer treatments” and to ensure “value for money for taxpayers.” It funded drugs that were not available through the NHS because the drugs had not been appraised, were in the process of being appraised, or had been appraised but not recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). The fund was overhauled last year.
A heat pump is basically an air conditioner running backwards - it runs uncompressed refrigerant through a radiator outside to pick up heat from the outdoors, and compressed refrigerant through a radiator indoors to release the heat. Because they can move more heat than they dissipate (and some of the dissipated heat is indoors anyway) they can be more than 100% efficient. (edited to fix compressed/uncompressed sides)

But I'd venture to say the statement "most electric heaters are heatpumps" is in fact false. There are a lot of heat pumps in the world, but there are also a lot of pure resistive electric heaters. I suspect that most things people call electric heaters are resistive electric heaters.
iPhone 11 includes new hardware to limit performance impact as battery degrades
When you say “meet people” - what does it mean? Does it mean - you just have a 1-time conversation with people or do you hope your conversation goes beyond the conference? If it is the latter, you are not going to “meet people”. You are actually trying to foster collaborations. “Meet people” is a broad phrase which encapsulates that concept.
History is written by the victor needs to be complemented with "and also by the wealthy" - it was very expensive to learn, produce and store the media used for reading and writing. Then the wealthy could care less about the peasant 500 miles away, but patronage artists dealing with subjects of their interest.

This is specially important if you want to know how people truly felt during big historical moments, and compare them with modern lifestyle. We know very little about most of humanity throughout history, their feelings and worries and suffering and if they slept in 2 phases or whatever. So we have records of those big events, and practically no clue what the hell regular folks at that time thought about them.
As far as I can tell it isn't characterized as a benefit in the article itself. I suspect that sub-headline was written by an editor, not the authors of the article, and does it a bit of a disservice.
Duplex for web [1] would certainly benefit from this kind of understanding so I wouldn't be surprised if Google is working on this.

1. https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/7/18531195/google-duplex-web...
Yes, in the 80's we would call such things cheesy, today they are the standard. Just we kinda accept it for what it is, equally accept that some people will fall for the cheese and enjoy the cheese. So it carries on as the norm. Then, when you get a good, fair - non-brain insulting advert or product, your like just wow - thank you. Though they can alienate most of the cheese lovers out there.

But I'm sure there is some science behind it, might be the case that marketing whent - lets target the average IQ and go for the masses and with that. We get lots of cheese.

As an aside - some aspects of today's marketing remind me in part of an old TV show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_(TV_series)
> their own States in some ways

Hardly; states have rule of force.
A heatpump moves heat around instead of creating new heat. To move 1 unit of heat takes less than 1 unit of energy
How We Should Bust an Investing Myth
Even if you're deduplicating commits / data internally, you can tell that that commit is not present in that repo as it is not an ancestor to any ref in that repository.

(You might argue that determining what refs contain a commit is potentially expensive, perhaps, but GitHub already does this, so I'd argue that it's not that expensive.)
The same way you vet desktop apps. Install as few of them as possible, because the sandboxing is currently quite bad. Do research on the people who are developing them. Read the source code.

If you're worried about malicious transfers of power, turn off auto-updating in Firefox. If you're worried about being able to audit the actual installed code, use Firefox Developer Edition and audit and compile your own version to run.

In practice, I trust UMatrix and Ublock Origin because I'm familiar with Gorhil's work and comment history around Github and HN. I also extend a similar amount of trust to Decentraleyes for similar reasons. Those are the only big 3 you need to get the biggest impact on your privacy. Arguably, you don't even need Decentraleyes if you only want to trust one person.
VW ID.3 sure looks like a BMW i3, 5 years improved.
"Walking good, sitting bad."

But seriously, I think this sort of adds to the pile of evidence that even small amounts of exercise on a regular basis has marked health impacts.

I'm a Type 1 diabetic so I have the benefit of a sensor that continuously tells me my blood glucose, so I can see the difference between when I'm walking on a daily basis to and from the office, and when I'm working from home. Same breakfast, very different blood glucose averages on those days.

It is worth noting that exercise of almost any kind causes my insulin to potentiate, so that is part of why my glucose levels are lower. But I wouldn't be surprised to hear that my over all insulin sensitivity is higher on walking days (as I gather from this study) which helps to drive my lower glucose numbers.
It’s not as important as people think. Most people know that Facebook is a privacy invasive train wreck but people use it anyway.
Getting glasses for the first time at an adult age can have a similar distorting effect on facial perception for the first few months.
I agree that it is a moral code to provide software under absolute agnosticism, even if that software were used to directly perform acts you find to be supremely evil. However, I don't think merely having a code frees one from judgement.
I think you might be interpreting my comment a little too far into "stick your head into the sand" territory. That is not at all what I am advocating. It's important to be realistic and a part of the world around you ... but it's very clear that people have too much shit in their lives and need to get rid of a lot of it.
I don't understand why this is a good thing. As a user, I can make my own choices on what type of as blocking technology I want to use.

I'm sure most people on HN would support legalization of marijuana even though it is arguable that smoking marijuana is bad for you. Same thing applies here, I should be able to choose what ad blocking technology I want to use.
I am of the opinion that the place to filter unwanted messages is further down the chain, and not at the email address distribution step. Let them send, lest you impede legitimate senders (who perhaps want to provide you with value or opportunity), and figure out how to triage on the mailserver or in the mail client.
The distinction between corporate and government censorship is a legalistic workaround.

It would be reasonable to ban companies who act as "platforms" from any sort of editorial discretion. NYT should be able to decide what to publish, but not Twitter.
So glad this exists. I'm always looking for nice looking gradient sets that are more than 4-5 colors you get from Adobe Color. Great job!
Asylum shopping is not legal.
I found this https://github.com/linux-noah/noah !

looks promising
How does a self-driving car work?
Chrome has not proposed any change that would prevent extensions from monitoring all traffic. You are ascribing a good motivation to Google, but Google’s actions are inconsistent with your hypothetical motivation.

Specifically, Google proposes to continue allowing extensions to observe all requests, but extensions can’t block requests based on these observations.
need to get people to use petrol head to mean someone whose brain has been screwed up by pollution

anyone got a contact at Marvel?
IAB Unveils Solution for Interest-Based Advertising and CCPA “Do Not Sell” Right
I do wonder what an end game looks like for a society that has no strong unified set of beliefs or meaning. Citizens left to themselves to decide meaning (with these “decisions” often co-opted by influence professionals whose job is to inject values and extract cash from consumers)