skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A "Director of Public Q&A at Stack Overflow" answered with:

"We aren’t going to share specifics out of respect for all individuals involved but this is a site reaching millions of people and we have to do what we believe fosters a spirit of inclusion and respect. When a moderator violates that, we will always do our best to resolve it with them privately. When we can’t we must take action."

(https://judaism.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5197)

So it look like we won't have anymore information, at least from the SE side.

The fired mod answered in the comments:

"Inclusion and respect are important, yes! I never said otherwise or did anything to violate either the current or forthcoming CoC (as best I understand the latter; y'all haven't answered my questions). Please read the email I sent in response to my firing. It doesn't have to be this way. "
It's an interesting idea. What experiences led to it?
Yes, so should we break out of our cultural intellectual phase lockings the way we should break out of our scientific ones?
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Agreed that the formalism tends to be an appeal to authority or simply a way to appeal to a bias and shut down opposing views. I think more often than not, formal fallacies are misused and misapplied in informal debates, relying on over-generalizations and highly inferred arguments that can’t be supported by the literal facts of the debate and misread or outright mischaracterize the actual arguments. Often the person accusing another of a fallacy is in fact false and committing their own fallacy.

Maybe this could be useful resource to disprove and shut down attacks that misuse formal fallacies.
Unfortunately, the Department of Justice chooses to not enforce this law when the offending objective is to hire anything but white males. It should be enforced equally.
Within recent memory, the age of legal marriage has been as low as 14 in certain US states. New York State raised the minimum from 14 to 18 in 2017:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-york-ends-child-marriage-ra...

The same article notes that two states, North Carolina and Alaska have a specified minimum age of 14, and 27 states lack any specific minimum age.

I'm not arguing that the low (or no) minimum age laws are right. I am pointing out that standards, and laws, within the US, and within the past few years, have included marriage, and presumably sexual relations, among minors.

That has been changing, but it's a change that's well within the lifetimes of many adults. Richard Stallman, aged 66, has lived through a period of pretty profound change around many of these norms. Again, not to excuse behaviour, but possibly to explain a possible basis for it.

Strong cultural shifts, should you have the pleasure of living through some yourself, are remarkable to witness and experience.
Imho You shouldn't really write macros, they are there for libraries to make it easy to do the right thing with less boilerplate.
>The National Toxicology Program (NTP) concluded in two final reports released Nov. 1 that there is clear evidence that male rats exposed to high levels of radio frequency radiation (RFR), like that used in 2G and 3G cell phones, developed cancerous heart tumors. There was also some evidence of tumors in the brain and adrenal gland of exposed male rats.

https://factor.niehs.nih.gov/2018/11/feature/1-feature-radia...
>This is why global warming deniers exist, because people make these types of stupid comments.

Oh, this is why they exist? Or is this just a convenient excuse?

Either way 'some people don't make sense when describing X' is not a good reason to reject X.
Another open source project on GitLab is Haskell (https://www.haskell.org/ghc/).

Also, this blog was published when Freedesktop announced their move to GitLab (incl. CI): https://www.fooishbar.org/blog/gitlab-fdo-introduction/

We actually have a panel with representatives from Freedesktop, GNOME, and KDE at GitLab Commit in London (https://about.gitlab.com/events/commit/#schedule)in a few weeks discussing their experience with GitLab.
Exactly. It was tracked with radar reflectors to make it visible, and from a position they knew the jets would be close, while also tracking their transponders to correlate with the reflection data. This is the equivalent of saying they successfully completed the Daytona 500 by driving a Honda around the track a few times at 45 miles an hour with the track closed to everyone else.
Was it a new account? If so, the same thing happened to me; I created an account on Sunday to follow some photographers and my account immediately got disabled - before I could even login for the first time!
> Public corporate ownership is all very well, I'm not in principle against it in certain areas.

I assume you're not against the publicly traded stock market, just clarifying since others may interpret this as such.

> However what I suspect you are advocating is enforced public ownership.

This is not the conclusion I come to, I do not believe my original post suggests this.

> Forcing universal public ownership and prohibiting private enterprise is oppression, pure and simple.

This was not my viewpoint. I am imagining quite the opposite. If the liability is dispersed, so should ownership. If the ownership is private, the liability should be private. I believe both are critically necessary. These feels like a conservative(dictionary version) viewpoint.
I've seen a presentation (over 10 yrs ago) where passive radar was set up as a secondary sensor system that is hard to locate because it's not transmitting. One attack scenario is with a stealth plane first attacking the radar systems, then regular planes come in after. So the passive systems would stay up, as most attacks won't target civilian infrastructure. Still, there's a hint of hiding behind civilians here I don't particularly like. But I'm just being impractical about the matter.

You can't optimize your civilian transmitters to send out signals best for radio detection and ranging, so you lose accuracy. Better than nothing.
Relevant reading:

1. https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Logical conclusion: To be intolerant of intolerance is a moral virtue.

I am having trouble deciding if this is a race to the top or bottom.
On the first point, what exactly is the mechanism for those failures, and how much worse are they then the failures within private ownership. If the mechanism is, say, intentional collusion and undermining by other nations who fear for their private ownership order, or awful leadership, or just overblown by a biased media, then it would indicate the experiment was a poor one. Not to mention the massive failures that faith in private ownership lead to, exemplified by bubbles and crashed, but also including vast and constantly growing economic inequality.

Second, property itself is oppression, since it is the artificial exclusion of people from resources, and thus allowing it is more of a tradeoff, not some fundamental right. I would say that personal property (property you actively and personally use) could be a legitimate natural right, but that is directly at odds with the more artificial and modern private property (enclosure of everything guaranteed perpetually by the state) as it excludes rent.

On your "point zero", maybe the most interesting one... you point out that regulation can help mitigate the problems of private ownership. I would go one further and say this points out a false binary... every corporation I'd somewhere between fully public and fully private, because the more regulation you add the more public it becomes. I am wondering how you reconcile a the freedom narrative with the fact that regulation is partial forms of oppression? Personally, I've dropped that concept long ago, and am more interested in finding the most democratic (ie public) we can go along that scale while still providing just enough minimal flexibility and rewards to those operating it to maintain as many of the benefits of unfettered capitalism as possible.
I have a lot of PhD friends (physics and CS) and I personally dropped out of PhD program after 6 months to work in industry.

The people who absolutely needed their PhD were those that loved research and were and are amazing at it. They are now professors, researchers, etc. and are obviously doing what they enjoy.

Others took PhD to support their self esteem. Some felt it was easiest to continue studying and not go to an industry job yet.

The saddest category thought they would find meaningful career in PhD work but only found dead end academic career path and burned out or just switched careers.

I don't regret not doing my PhD. Software engineers are generally recognised for their skills, not for their degrees.

It sounds like you are considering PhD out of fear and not out of love. I would advice against it...
Is your compiler running on an interpreted language? I think to make this sort of product fast requires JIT compiling the users expressions, and doing some sort of whole program analysis to pull out the dependencies between cells.
My setup is to use optical out from my HDMI splitter to a Sonos sound bar. The sound bar can remap its volume up/down to respond to arbitrary remote input, so I use a couple otherwise unused buttons on my $20 remote from Best Buy.
Aerospace PhD from Purdue. I do not regret it whatsover. I met some great people and it definitely made me a better engineer. I did not go into academia either.
I feel bad for the stary-eyed kids one year out of college that are going to get mass fired. They're all really young and naive :/
Looks like it’s closer to 6% [1]. A lot of people self-diagnose wool allergies, but they really just get crappy wool, or they mistake itchiness caused by the coarseness of the material for an allergy. It’s an easy mistake to make, but it’s unfair to call it an allergy.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/23665833/
The author starts off in the very first paragraph defining what he means by "long project". This passes the "Did the author communicate?" test with flying colors.
Perhaps for topics like these we should adopt the rules of https://www.reddit.com/r/NeutralPolitics/ ?

Specifically, rules 1, 2, 4, 8.
> Theory

I want to reply to wickedsickeune below, "Gravity is also a theory," but I think the thread's hit max-depth.

The word "theory" in the context of Deterrence_(penology) is not the same as the word "theory" in "theory of Gravity." The _Theory_ of Gravity refers to a model or explanation that follows from observed facts.

Deterrence, according to the Wikipedia page, doesn't fit that definition of the word.

> Despite numerous studies using a variety of data sources, sanctions, crime types, statistical methods and theoretical approaches, there remains little agreement in the scientific literature about whether, how, under what circumstances, to what extent, for which crimes, at what cost, for which individuals and, perhaps most importantly, in which direction do various aspects of contemporary criminal sanctions affect subsequent criminal behavior.
WeWork has done a significant amount of hiring in New York City for SWEs with very generous compensation, and honestly hasn't really had much for them to do.
I have my doubts about all these 5+ Gen fighters myself. As you said, the planes will fly for 40 years, so it is certain that stealth will be lost sooner or later. And still everybody is developing them. Just looking at the economic side of it, in a war against an enemy with a strong air defense (against ever other enemy stealth doesn't make a difference anyway) exact how many of these planes can you afford to loose without ruining your air force and your economy with it?

The F-35 angled at not just its combat capabilities but at a NATO wide domination of combat aircraft, including operations for the full operational life for all operations of these planes. Almost worked out, and my still do.
Doctors in my area pay firms to pad their bad online reviews with glowing ones.
> no social norms violation

There is a difference between disagreement with a norm (or, in this case, a hypothetical argument that doesn't advocate either way), and a violation. When did Stallman advocate against "fuck[ing] minors"?
Picking it up "with information knowing exactly when and where the aircraft would be" makes it a better test - there's no ambiguity about what they picked up.

The important question is whether or not they can pick it up when it doesn't have markers fitted as they claim they can. To quote Carl Sagan, 'extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence'. If (and it's a huge if) they can do what they say they can then stealth might be rendered pointless, and that changes a lot.
I can't speak for the person you replied to, but sometimes this is done as a way of disparaging money and the desire to have some, perhaps in the same vein as writing "Micro$oft".
Studios don't define royalties in music, unlike video. The royalties for music are well defined on a global? or at least country wide scale and performers don't really get to choose whether or not they participate.
Writers get a chunk and owners get a chunk. Owners can be the performer, but many songs are classified as "work for hire" and the IP is owned by someone other then the performer.

https://www.ascap.com/help/royalties-and-payment/payment/roy...
It is my impression (from 18 years later!) that there was a difference. The articles about C#, back in the day, were kind of frustrating to a programmer (or at least to me). There were a lot of words, a lot of description, but not many details (as a programmer would recognize them). The articles were more written for managers than for programmers. That's marketing. (Or so it seems to me. It could be, however, that 18 years ago, I lacked the depth to see the details that were there.)

In contrast, Go's "marketing" is much more aimed at programmers. It's got programmer-level details. It's not trying to sell your manager on the language.

> What happens is (for example) Rust/Mozilla foundation's people set out to make every thread on every popular forum about Rust.

I completely disagree with this characterization.
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This seems confounded by the fact that many sellers seem to sell different, but similar items under the same listing - i.e. they sell one thing, but then switch supplier.
Valuation isn't money in the bank and - more often that not - does not reflect actual company performance when talking about startups.

News at 11.

This obsession with IPOs and whatever clowns at wall-street seems to think about certain companies is absolutely unreasonable.

If history taught us anything, wall-street is probably the last people you'd want to ask for an opinion. No other sector needs infusions of public money on the reg like they do. I have a suspicion I'll run out of toes to count the number of bail-outs before I die.

We're asking them? Might as well flip a coin.
Lasers Powerful Enough to Rip Holes in the Fabric of Reality
> The word "theory" scientifically, does not mean "idea". It means a rigorously tested and researched collection of co-related ideas

@wickedsickeune

That is how I meant it. I posted that to refute @maxheadroom's comment:

> A proven deterrent? Do you have any facts to back-up your posit?
At least 500 doing a quick search for 'software engineer' at 'wework'. Probably over 1000 for different job titles, etc.
The algorithm supposedly penalises large numbers of comments rapidly being made. Ostensibly it's a "flamewar detection" mechanism, supposed to discourage threads full of arguing. Whilst this topic is potentially exactly that, I'm not sure how the algorithm prevents flagging false positives - sometimes there is going to be a massive thread for appropriate reasons. I would also like to be allowed to discuss this issue here without knowing the thread is buried, even though it is controversial.
I'm just impressed by how well the fallout has been predicted by Scott Galloway[0] and Matt Levine.

Has been an incredible learning experience for me on the unicorn class in general. Looking forward to unicorn report for 2019 [1].

[0] https://www.profgalloway.com/wewtf-part-deux

[1] https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2019/03/20/the-unicorn-ipo-r...
All comes down to whether the Luneburg lens reflects background noise too. If yes then this is of little use and the result is tainted.

If not well that could be a game changer

A bit of Google suggests that they are indeed frequency specific see link. So that sounds like it has real potential

http://targetsystems.qinetiq.com/static/media/files/Luneberg...
Not the OP, but I avoid Amazon when I can, but not completely. I'll give you an example, both of the convenience of Amazon combined with my consumerist, instant-gratification attitude. After a ton of remodeling, our garage now not only can store a car, it can be used as a yoga or meditation space. But fall is here, and it needs a little heat. Fifty years ago I remember my Dad used this cheap-looking infrared heater; rolled sheet metal, some carbon or metal strips, run some alternating current through it, you have heat. Inexpensive, quiet (don't want a fan blowing during meditation time), I'll get couple of those, crawl in the ceiling to mount electrical boxes, it'll be awesome.

Except no one has them locally. Even Amazon can't get them to me in a reasonable amount of time (within the next week). Oh, well, too bad; what can I find that puts out heat without a blower? Home Depot has nothing, regional hardware store doesn't have anything. Amazon has eighteen different models to choose from, a half dozen of which they'll drop on my doorstep the same day.

I could have fished around the internet, found the heaters I originally wanted, wait a week or so. And then crawl in the attic to do a bunch of work that I'm in the mood to do today, not next week. Or I could just click the "buy" button for heater that will not be exactly what I wanted, but let's be real, it'll more than do the job. And I can be done with it and go on with my day. So that's what I did.

And that pretty much describes the thought process with any of my Amazon purchases these days. "I could spend more time on this and find an alternative. But today I have decided that my time is better spent doing something else, so imma click the Amazon 'buy' button." Yes, I have much room for personal growth there. But Amazon also makes it pretty damned convenient.

(As an addendum, I'll also note that not too long ago when I went with the alternative, the next day my credit card was compromised. So there's that to consider.)
A Potential Future of Computer System Defense
Yeah, I didn't intend to imply that mining causes deforestation, on the contrary. Once the most economical source of carbon was used up, we started to dig it up from the ground.
I really hope this is part of the joke. if it’s not, you’re really a fucked up individual
You're coupling registration process with posting process. What evidence is there that a fully anonymous image board writable by Debian maintainers would follow this so-called "law?"
So you mean flooded with "talent"?
What about other topics like alcohol? Can I think that the 21 years old limit is weird?
Sure, humanity might die out. And nobody will see it. That freaks me out too :-)
> no interest in listening to other people or accepting that he might be in the wrong

About what exactly? Are the "other people" also as humble in their opinions?

> This latest incident

There is no "incident", his comments are entirely fair if quoted properly.

> it's pure assertion

much like the the "stories of his behaviour"

> going and asking women what comes to mind when they hear about people like this

What a standard to aspire to - forget "presumption of innocence", the new standard is "what come to mind" for whatever bias floats from the unconscious at the time.
Hopefully they'll learn something from it. Losing a job really isn't the end of the world if you don't have a mortgage and a family (which will be the case for most entry level hires).
It’s hard to take this chart seriously, with the exponential extrapolation going on.

[1] - https://skepticalscience.com/graphics/Grand_Solar_Min_500.jp...
Dates, Times, Calendars– The Universal Source of Data Science Trauma
This was addressed in the OP. Their explanation is that the markers are optimized for the specific band of civilian radar, and that they do not assist with passive radar detection.

As for knowing when and where the planes were flying, true, true. But then again, they deployed one van to try to detect the planes, in the one farm, and if the objective was to suggest that the passive technology could end up being useful in a military situation, that might be enough.

The argument is that the F-35 is invisible. If passive detection seems to have any effectiveness, even slight, in detecting F-35s, that ought to guide investment into passive detection and into upgrading the F-35’s stealth to avoid passive detection.

INAE, but it feels like there is enough here to cast the claims of complete invulnerability to detection in doubt.
> I got the impression that this guy is doing his military psyops duty by working at Twitter, thus doing both jobs at once.

I think the article tries to create that impression, but it doesn't actually say so. Maybe it's just an attempt to make the story more sensational for clicks.
How is this relevant? The project does not seem to be violating any guidelines. Are you suggesting an illegal and unethical reporting of a sites donated income because you don't agree with it on a publicly indexed forum? If so, thats really messed up.
Yup, and we keep doing the same things over and over. Like BT being ready for fibre rollout, having invented half the tech, and being required to sell it off to S Korea around 1990. Supposedly so they weren't "unfair" competition to Blueyonder cable TV.

Somewhere through the 60s or 70s we just about completely lost the ability to do national projects, and joined up thinking.
Those markers may actually be irrelevant for the tracking, because they are very small and are meant for different frequencies. ADS-B also doesn't come into it, if they designed the system or demonstration correctly.

More interesting would be whether those planes actually had the full stealth coating and various other "stealth settings".
> I don't know what to take away from the single screenshot. Maybe it would be helpful to record an animated GIF or a screencast to demonstrate it in action?

Agreed.

Vi-style editing of pixel art is a new concept that needs to be demonstrated first and foremost to drive this project.

Kakoune is another software for which the uncommon editing paradigm is one of the main features, and it is presented rather well on their main page [0]. A set of animated demonstrations of the editing paradigm comes before a display of the general appearance of the software in realistic contexts.

[0]: https://kakoune.org/
When it comes to online marketplaces, this is an often repeated idea, but absolutely nonsensical for two reasons:

1. The number of people who read reviews are a small, small, fraction of total buyers. Most people look at review count and the star rating (not the number, the image).

But more importantly,

2. Ranking in search results is the #1 factor in driving sales. Everything else is a distant #3. Search engines will reduce rankings of products with negative reviews.

(This my anecdotal experience after 2+ years of being an Amazon 3P seller)
Thanks this is what I went with.
Hmm... I could take this tradeoff.