skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 2. As far as centralization, from the things I've heard it seems that centralization is considered bad. Everything needs to be distributed, standardized, and redundant.

I feel like this has to be a willful misunderstanding of the parent comment. Why would the comment above you, in talking about Google's moral vision and action, be referring to the actual architecture of servers and code? Clearly they are talking about "centralizing" as in "if we can gather all the information together, and all our services can share information, then...."

The wiring of the data centers is irrelevant.
> The trade body for British ISPs even nominated Mozilla as one of its “internet villains of the year” in July over the issue.

Wow. I mean, you can have an argument over de desirability of DoH, but referring to Mozilla as internet villains is really missing the forest for the trees.

Luckily:

> A month later, the body withdrew the nomination and cancelled the “award” entirely, saying it “clearly sent the wrong message”.
Allowing FB to have control of an otherwise awesome service.
> the effect on the economy has been huge

Yes. You can see every time a pro-Brexit news event happens the pound falls and an anti-Brexit one happens it ticks up again, like today. The effect of no-deal will be even bigger, as a number of businesses which have been hanging on will be forced to close or relocate.

The default way out of this has to be to revoke, until such time as someone can get elected with a majority of MPs supporting a workable plan.
Do Not Day Trade
Do not put your hard earned money with a futures trader; why? It's a (theirs) license to take your money at any time they see fit. Futures brokers are allowed to go in to your account to liquidate and/or set stops thereby telling you how much risk on your account. If you do not have total autonomy to run your account without interference from the futures broker you are throwing your money away. What other business/industry is allowed to do that? Am I allowed to legally spend your money for the purchase of your home, car, land? What a total sham!!! And when discussing this with any futures broker they will hang up on you-they don't want to hear it because they know it's true. How did this happen? Who allowed this type of racket to exist?
SGI workstations had hardly any lights. Their essential distinguishing feature where that they sometimes had slightly rounded corners and came in 'fun' colors. Kind of like this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Tezro#/media/File:Silicone...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Octane#/media/File:SgiOcta...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_O2#/media/File:Silicon_Gra...
Broad condemnation of a broad group of a people is a dangerous path.
You have to admit that at least in the Valley, the mobility between companies has done a phenomenal amount to up monetary and non- benefits for employees and help people escape any situation that don't particularly care for. A lot of that started with Google. Several of these articles even mention that they came to Google expecting better - this is a relatively recent blemish on their reputation. For a unionized industry to treat employees they way Silicon Valley does and have the absolute biggest companies occasionally make the news for stuff like this would be pretty impressive. I mean the local teachers and oil workers where I live have unions and deal with shit WAYY worse than this still.
> My goodness the internet is a dumpster fire without it. So many pages lagging and slow to load.

Yeah, people always knock pi-hole for not blocking "everything" like browser-based blockers do, but even though it's not perfect it still makes a huge difference. Due to some network changes I had to go without pi-hole for a couple days after having previously used it for years, and you never really appreciate how much crap pi-hole traps until it's gone.
Designing a Major Project Using an Analog of Alibaba.com
There is no Remain majority in Parliament. I don't know why you think there is, that is factually incorrect.

The Conservative policy is leave. The Labour conference just voted for leave (that is binding on the Executive, that will be their policy in the GE). Yes buddy, I am spreading "disinformation".
I'm curious. What benefit would that kind of categorisation bring?
A green economy will create a lot of local jobs to any country that wants to adopt it. It will make countries more energy independent so oil exporters will have reduced influence in green-countries politics and their military budgets. It will reduce the cost of health care pollution-related problems and citizens will be healthier and have a higher quality of living.

There is a lot of money in the oil industry. But, it is still small, politically charged and morally ambiguous compared with the new economy that is growing.

The USA has lost decades, proof of a high level of institutional corruption. But, it was just a matter of time.
Unlikely to happen straight away. Due to a quirk of the Fixed Term Parliaments Act 2011, a successful VoNC now would allow the Prime Minister to run out the clock by refusing to resign, waiting the maximum two weeks to attempt a superseding Vote of Confidence, then calling the latest legal election after he inevitably lost. And Parliament would then be dissolved for the election, leaving only Johnson at the controls over the critical period leading up to Brexit day.

There are other routes out of the situation after a VoNC, but they involve Parliament being able to agree on a new PM, which is tricky given that the Leader of the Opposition is cordially despised by much of the Commons and there are deep political problems with any of the other potential candidates. It also would require Boris to either resign or be sacked after losing the VoNC, which is by no means a done deal given that he's ignoring all the other conventions and there's no obvious mechanisms for a forcible dismissal (one hasn't been needed since the early 19th Century, as PMs have done the decent thing on losing the confidence of the House).
Minus one times.
Citizenship bill was introduced long before NRC's final list was out.
I think complicit is too strong of a word. They were reporting on the established (at the time) medical opinion. If the news industry hyped these drugs beyond what the medical establishment held to be accurate, then I would agree, but this article doesn't really indicate that.
E-cigarettes could stub out tobacco bonds sooner than thought (2014)
Google claims it has finally reached quantum supremacy
Dismay at Gates Foundation Prize for Narendra Modi
I run mine at home but have opened it up to be accessible remotely (just port 53 remotely) so I can use it whilst out and about.
EU Ride Hailing Giant invests 10M€ to make all rides 100% carbon neutral
Arguments for a second referendum:

The first didn't specify how we would leave - Norway style, no deal of whatever. Hence the current 'no one voted for no deal' type arguments.

There was misinformation - we are now better informed.

I think if no deal won fair and square even remainers such as myself would say ok and accept it. Presently I don't think that's the case - there was a lot of misinformation - and so we are willing to try to block that.
Agreed with everything. English is single most important factor towards upward mobility. Hindi imposition will suffocate linguistic diversity. Even the Hindi cooking channels for example, have started inserting so much nationalistic and religious issues in there. I just prefer Pakistani channels instead nowadays or just websites.
This is the bog standard arrangement, please ask Jim if he will abide by that standard. If he doesn't agree, he's really acting in bad faith. There's not much you can do with a bad faith co-founder and no pre-existing arrangement.
Speaking as somebody who approved of Boris's strategy to leave on Oct 31:

In normal times, with a moral leader, this would be an instant resigning matter.

Boris's response has been predictably complacent.

"I accept the verdict but strongly disagree with it" will become a go-to phrase of every burglar and other criminal caught red handed.

Btw, (UK) word of the year:

Prorogation
Improving Quality and Efficiency in Plan-Based Neural Data-to-Text Generation
Border controls themselves aren't really the major item in dispute (and there are already forms of controls for contraband, alcohol/fuel duty, VAT, and movement of people which occur in a dedramatised way) - its alignment of law and regulation which is disputed much more heavily.

This isn't widely understood, I think.
I even addressed that in my comment:

> I find it dumb we fall into the illusion that there is only a red or blue pill and that whatever we choose is right and everyone else is in the Matrix. That is so wrong it hurts. Theres no way to squeeze the needs and beliefs of 300m people into 1 political party.

People are complex beings, and they even change their mind over time.
A song, ostensibly has a high level of repeatability.

How often does one re-listen to a podcast within, say, 6 to 12 months? Maybe a year after, if it had a real impact?
Don't worry yourself, if you're a "terrorist", the drugs they give you during questioning will help you interface with the device more smoothly.
I'd have called it CTRL ALT Labs, but other than that this is pretty terrifying.
> What it essentially does is limitation of low-skilled users search results. And that's all.

That sounds like it's still something though. If someone gets falsely accused of e.g. being a pedophile, and their prospective employer does not run into that information when researching them during the interview process, that seems like it achieves one of the goals people had in mind with this legislation.
If this were a ruling that said the results cannot be shown in France or in the EU then I would be okay with that. I think that individual countries should be able to apply laws in their jurisdiction. My problem is that they want to enforce this law worldwide.

Hypothetically, if EU law says their ruling applies worldwide and Google stops doing business in the EU, does that mean they would be exempted? Can they then show all results or does the EU still try to charge them with breaking their law?

Obviously that's a lot of ifs. I'm just trying to wrap my head around how this ruling would even work if they decide that it does apply to everyone.
First, prorogation was an act of the executive, not parliament.

Second, the courts have previously acted to bring acts of parliament under judicial review, with the Investigatory Powers Act https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/news/press-releases-an...
He does. He has the DUP. And, I would presume, you don't believe that all the Independents are going to vote against the govt every time...Nicholas Soames has not turned into a Corbynite afaik.

And you don't appear to have thought out what the practical impact is. They will still have to negotiate a deal and it is not going to be any different to the deal that May got because they are taking exactly the same approach. Stick head in sand, delay, hope something changes.

Tory party policy is deal. They have never suggested anything otherwise. What people are confusing is the strategy and the deal. The strategy is to, attempt to, resolve the constant crisis and delay. Part of this involves accepting that the EU has red lines that they won't shift on.
> Unfortunately, Brexit (especially a hard one) necessitates a border.

Except that the UK and Ireland have both said they won’t build a hard border Under any circumstances , so who exactly is going to be installing this hard border?

> If there is a border in Northern Ireland,

There already is one (soft)

> along with British troops back in Ireland

There are British troops based in Northern Ireland right now just as there are elsewhere in the UK

> it's not an attempt to trap the UK in the EU

It just happens to have that effect, by being basically thr only treaty that it is impossible to unilaterally leave.

> it’s an attempt to prevent the return of violence on the island of Ireland.

It’s a political tool to ensure the UK doesn’t thrive outside the EU, given the sorry state of the rest of the Eurozone that would make the EU look bad.

Unfortunately EU negotiators have been far more effective than British negotiators hence why we have a deal that is unacceptable to anyone (On either side) in the British Parliament it is so bad.
Show HN: TAYL 2.0 – Make listening your new reading habit
> I would pay a monthly subscription for an ad-free version of Facebook.

I think we're on the cusp of an explosion of ad-free subscription sites. An ad-free subscription Facebook could provide all of the actual benefits of Facebook at a fraction of the cost. No need to employ hundreds of PhD machine-learning experts to analyze mouse movements if you're not trying to hyper-optimize ads.
The Withdrawal Agreement is worth studying in more detail. The EU is demanding terms that are infinitely worse than it has ever offered to any country. The UK is not being treated as a third country like a Japan or America. That would be fine. It's being treated as a special case, like no other country anywhere in the world.
Or just stick with a lightweight init like OpenRC. It's used in Alpine and as such also in Docker containers. It stands out in how little, really, it does.

Also, you can use /etc/passwd to set the shell for every user. If you set this to a non-shell application, you essentially limit this user's session to only ever running that program. So a very lightweight, but networked system could set up sshd in innittab and then create a user with your single-user application set as the shell, and maybe an admin user that actually has access to a proper shell as a back-up.

There actually was a blog post I read not too long ago about a sysadmin who detailed the security challenges of running an open SSH server in which passwd set the shell to a game. There was a little bit more to it to get it completely secure. Unfortunately can't find it right now.
I expect the vast majority of people on HN to be familiar with Lanier and already have an opinion on him, but for those few who are not I will highly recommend his writing. I love this book in particular. It presents itself as more serious and scholarly than it actually is, which is where most of the criticism comes from. The most valuable part is Lanier's insight into Silicon Valley culture from the 80's and 90's. The economics behind his plan are not rigorous, nor are they meant to be. He writes from an intensely personal perspective - perhaps at times leaning a little too heavily on his beloved music industry to predict where the rest of the internet is going. But I like that he doesn't compromise on who he is, he doesn't try to be an economist or a social scientist when all he is is a highly accomplished dreamer, innovator, and creative thinker. All in all, it's a pleasure to spend a few hundred pages inside his head.
Except now he’s being investigated for kicking a handcuffed prisoner over a cliff.
The last article about the tobacco bonds being hurt by e-cigs which was from the WSJ disappeared completely by the time the archive version finished so I could read behind the paywall.

I wonder if this is part of the reason for the recent craze in banning them everywhere.

I know vitamin E acetate in the black market THC vapes are what caused the lung issues in the 8 reported deaths, not the flavored nicotine.
And what's the difference? What makes being a social conservative less valid? You're coming from a very high-and-mighty standpoint here, when the simple truth is that he should not be censored.
wait until libra.
Almost six months after the initial release, I'm now happy to officially launch version 2.0 of TAYL.

This release brings not only support for more languages and voices (now totalling 180+ voices in 30+ languages), but also marks TAYL's entry on the smartphone market. With native apps for iOS and Android you can bring your Tales with you at all times, and create new Tales easily right from your phone's share sheet

Now it's easier than ever to integrate TAYL with thousands of other apps and workflows without writing a single line of code. Send tweets straight to your podcast for listening, subscribe to a blog and listen to each new post or send your Tale's audio version to your own website for publishing. The possibilities are endless, and I can't wait to hear about the creative use-cases you come up with!

All of the above is nice, but my primary goal of version 2.0 is to make TAYL accessible to more people worldwide. I try to do this with the introduction of a new plan, called Standard. It's an affordable plan that gives you 5-7 hours of audio per month, using the standard voices, for the low price of a single coffee ️

I'll be answering any questions about the v2 launch here or on Product Hunt https://www.producthunt.com/posts/tayl-2-0
Public-Pihole
You're confusing a basic drive to get ahead with self importance. If you're giving your life's labor to someone else's company, you better get the most out of it in return.

Since you targeted me, your attitude seems like the typical Silicon Valley "lifestyle" worker, which I think is the most uninspiring type of SV person around.
Sometimes being able to talk in a normal conversational tone is preferable to screaming over a distance.
A big part of the rationale behind RtBF was about how advances in technology had made it harder for some individuals to escape a past scandal at all, since it would show up in all searches of their name, a de facto scarlet letter. Censoring just the easy default searches does preserve the mitigation against that effect.
The Big Banks Own Twitter, Not Jack Dorsey
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tobacco-bonds-feel-heat-from-e-... was posted, and disappeared pretty quickly.
> But that's not even a complete sentence!

Why do you consider the sentence incomplete when the context of the sentence you quoted is quite clear.

FWIW, it was beaten over our heads in school that merely writing “Yes.” in response to a question is not a complete sentence, but that may have been a pedagogical rule rather than a grammatical rule, to force students to learn proper grammar.

A sentence will generally not make sense out of context[0] anyway.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_(linguistics)#Major_a...
You're saying that the nayirah testimony is reason to disqualify all young people from voicing their opinion?
Many comments here say this already but from the way you describe it, most of the work by far is ahead of you. Most startups put vesting schedules in place for this very reason, and two years in you'd typically end up with half of your equity. Even IF that were the case here, Jim should be pretty bummed to let someone walk away with 20% of his company at this early of a stage. If I were him, I'd fight anything more than say 3-5%, or maybe paying out the fair market value of your work.

I'm not a lawyer, but if there's an invention assignment agreement in place the IP would be owned by the company, not Jim, despite his $ in, and thus it would be hard (not impossible) to dissolve and re-form.

Fail fast and move on to something new. Good luck.
Basically there is a general agreement that pigs should fly, but nobody seem to agree on the mechanics (the option of shooting them from a cannon apparently is not liked by anybody).
Victims are best off if they can keep their own paper trail - ideally using personal lines of communication or printing them immediately so the company can't "lose" them. As I mentioned in another comment, even IM'ing a fellow employee a casual comment along the lines of "didn't that bother you when the boss used the N-word" or something. Their response likely confirms that it happened. Casual chat to your HRBP in the hallway? Follow up with an email clarifying the important points. May sound awkward if you haven't before, but it's common: just prefacing it with, "I just wanted to make sure we're on the same page about where we left things: <bullet point summary of discussion and outcome>".

In an HN discussion about dealing with medical billing / insurance people who screw you over, it was recommend to keep meticulous notes of everything, and that reading back specific dates and names of people you spoke to who contradicted the person you're speaking to now got people to take you seriously and fix their mistakes real quick. I have since found that to be true.
In practice, that's how it works, particularly at the lower end of the economic spectrum. If that wasn't the case then the concept of a minimum wage wouldn't be necessary - the market would take care of it.

Of course, this is a point of view and not everyone agrees with me, but to me it appears that for a chunk of the population the available jobs do not pay well enough to meet a certain standard of living.
Tory + DUP does not make a majority - it is still far off.

And yes, I believe the independents will vote against the government every time until the extension is got and then they will VONC/FTPA into an election.
> which suggests that you are here simply because you are here. There is no grand goal, no epic mission to fulfill, no gods to please. You are here because your parents were optimized for reproduction and raising children, who existed because their parents were etc.

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins also outlines the same idea, and tries to explain how we got that way. Read it when I was a lot younger, but the concept has stayed with me.
I use a backtick, but don't edit much e.g. markdown in my tmux sessions, and always use $(...) for command substitution so I don't normally feel any pain. One oddity with tmux is that to escape the control character you don't press it twice, you press the escape char then ctrl-b, so that is a lot of extra movement around the keyboard
Why does it matter if everyone has to pay the price or not? Why does it matter to an individual consumer how many people pay for the podcast episode? The consumer's choice is about paying $1 for the episode in hopes that they will receive value from the episode such that they consider it to have been worth the $1.
> In this case, prorogueing parliament had the effect of preventing nearly any meaningful action from taking place before it was too late.

Did nobody tell parliament that Brexit was an issue? They've had 3 years to act. Why 2 more weeks is so critical isn't actually all that obvious in the big picture. If a 5-week break in parliament is the difference between outcomes in a 3 year process; it is too close to call and it is democratic enough whatever happens. The details are important but ultimately just politics.

On truly divisive 50-50 issues, either option is basically acceptable in a democratic country. Democracies are to avoid the 60-40 splits where countries barrel in to truly foolish ideas that nobody supports. Brexit or No Brexit by means fair and foul aren't going to be death blows; the public has been polled and the politicians have been given time to talk. Neither really expressed a clear direction. It falls to the executive to execute something.

Anyhow; courts made a good call. More talking makes for a happy parliament.
We have to be careful when we look at isolated data points. One, uh, "trick", I've seen newspapers in particular pull which will immediately cause me to not support them are confusing subscription terms.

"Special! $1 a month for 12 months". Well, that's $1 per month, that's perfectly affordable... except it's going to auto-renew at a mystery rate that you won't tell me.

My other recently seen favorites include, "Only $X for ultra premium content". What the hell is "ultra premium content"? Is it possible for me to still be walled out of parts of the newspaper? Are these like editorials (who cares) or like major stories?

"Only $1 a week". Ok, that works out to something like $52 a year but why in the world are you giving me a batshit insane term like weekly payments?

Patreon, Nextflix, and many others have this figured out: "It's $x a month. It'll stay $x a month for the immediate future and we'll let you know about price increases in advance." Done. Don't charge me by section, don't charge me in weird terms, don't throw opaque special offers at me.