skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only a few months ago did Verizon misconfigure their BGP causing a big outage. Now imagine they need to have different routing for different states. It seems like they're too incompetent to manage to best standards now, so how could we trust them to do any better? We should've considered them dumb pipes from the beginning.
I've been here for just under three years, and I'm in the same boat, except I don't really even have but one username that I'm specifically familiar with due to HN (and that'd be dang). I've recognized familiar usernames from other places (such as when byuu occasionally shows up to talk shop about emulation), but that's a bit different.

I honestly think that's one of HN's strengths. Too often, in general discourse, who is talking becomes as important, if not more important, than what is being said. I feel that the lack of prominence of a poster/commenter's name is a plus - it invites the reader to focus on the message being written, rather than the source.
in this case you can just f*ck the paywall https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fck-overlays/ppedo...
Flight sims are much better with with a gamepad, than only keyboard/mouse.
"there is no activism protesting anything or driving for any kind of change,"

This isn't true. There have been several documentaries covering people trying to drive change in China that the west has documented. (Hooligan Sparrow, Ai WeiWei: Never Sorry, The Ivory Game, etc. just on Netflix alone) The problem is, these people are regularly disappeared in China and their lives are put at risk by doing this work.

In truth, most people know the chinese government, especially Xi, is behaving to preserve control first and foremost. That this benefits the chinese economically is a side effect- but now that effect is waning.
Almost all the companies have entire goverment control or shared with majority, plus, they have to respect local goverment rules.
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That may be disingenuous. Casinos rely almost entirely upon the latter category of patrons for continued existance. It matters what the demographic is. Something about the instigator's intent can be discerned from that.
Guru in sects would be an example. If you see people unconditionally supporting a company then someone has succeeded in highjacking their mimetic drive.
Even with the quality slipping from the early days I think it's quite remarkable how high the quality is when you consider the distribution of quality of questions that get posted. The low quality review queue on stack overflow is just brutal. Part of what makes it a good resource is that the worst of the questions just don't get seen by many people.
Like parent, I really like new big trackpad. I really wish people would accept both this and butterfly keyboard discussions as preferences, not “objectively better choices”.
Any subdomain seems to be enough. For instance I have two bitwarden logins:
1) support.server.com
2) server.com

Both are always available, no matter it's for www.server.com or mail.server.com
> Businesses, as everyone reminds each other constantly on here, are kind of obliged to seek money first and morality second.

I'm going straight to Godwin's Law on this one:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
Netflix on the iPhone does the same darn thing, and its super annoying. The whole top bar is just hidden unless you swipe down the notification shade.
The main thing that bugs me about CI is that I subscribe to their website and they still want me to buy an upgrade to access all the content. I get that there are subscription tiers but it just somehow feels a bit obnoxious to me.

Serious Eats is good too.

I used to use Epicurious quite a bit back when they were a pretty early-on serious website for recipes. But with the demise of Gourmet and other sites like the NYT upping their game, I don't consider them top-tier any longer.
The problem (as I see it, and agree with gp's formulation) is of communities failing to police their own by using double-standards.

One set for "us", one set for "them."

It's okay for one of "us" to be rude, aggressive, or argue outside of good faith. Because it's in service of justice.

But heaven forbid "they" do the same thing. In which case they're terrible people, how dare they, etc.

This happens in both liberal-dominated and conservative-dominated forums.

And the solution is for each and every one of us, at all times, to call a duck a duck. If someone is an asshole, they're an asshole. Full stop.

They should be held to the same standards as anyone else, encouraged to modify their behavior and more closely adhere to general common decency towards other people, or kicked out of their role within the organization.

Because, ultimately, they're a cancer. It's just a question of how long before it metastasizes. And idealogical purity is no balm for failing to be a good person.

PS: Which isn't to say that one can't pursue just causes. Just make sure your own house is in order before throwing rocks.
Fair, I haven't read the original discussion and was more making a general point about the fact that feeling uncomfortable is the main concern here, not the specifics of the discussion, and it sounds like that's Stack Exchange's opinion as well.
Given that we're able to aim telescopes at things that are billions of light years away, I wonder how close we are to being able to see the reflection of such a thing when it actually happens on some celestial body 3.5 million light years away.
Yes, journal is what I called notes in my post, which is ambiguous because it’s different from my research notes.

I like your idea of monthly summary, I’ll try to implement that and see how it goes.
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Times Open — Sharing our stories of making digital products at The New York Times.

https://open.nytimes.com
Have you ever been to China? You can find yourself cornered by armed soldiers with assault rifles just for taking a photograph of the "wrong" building in a completely ordinary public thoroughfare. Dissent is literally banned and access to external social networks is cut off.

There's no way support for the government is completely genuine in such an environment.
So right-wing that he paid his taxes in Sweden.
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Tik Tok is incredible at marketing. We've never seen anything quite at this level. Originally they were posting videos all over Reddit but eventually those submissions got blocked. They also paid a bunch of meme channels on YouTube to start posting Tik Tok compilation videos, which reach millions of views.
We tried that approach, but it was way too slow.
I don't know how people tolerate the web without ad-block
I am guessing this would lead to solar system-scale destruction? Putting a base on Mars doesn’t seem like it would do much to counter such an event if it headed our way?
It's a quite dirty way to save battery. It may say something about the tendency of certain manufacturers to cut corners instead of walking the right path.
There is this famous scene from Howard Stern's movie Private Parts -

Howard: In a way that I gotta figure out what I'm gonna be. I mean, I don't want to be one of these disc jockeys that runs around the country, you know, looking for work all the time. I don't want to end up like that. It's so sad. It's so apparent to me now what I should be doing. I should be talking about my personal life. I've got to get intimate. And every time I feel like I shouldn't say something, maybe I should just say it, just blurt it out, you know? I just got to let things fly. I got to go all the way.

Alison: You didn't go all the way before?

Howard: No. I mean...No. A lot of times, I'm just holding back.

Alison: Then I guess you should go all the way.

When blogging first came about, lot's of people had the same realization. Because it works, in terms of connecting with people.
It really shouldn't, because the site owner is the one making the choice to use CF; CF is acting on their behalf (and the security-settings the site owner chooses at CF does influence whether and how often captchas are shown to users, i.e. "I'm under attack" mode). It would be different if the user's ISP did this.

This is another related issue, too, as CF is a data processor, so the controller (=site owner) needs to make users aware that their data is being shared with CloudFlare, as SSL terminates at CF, the content is analyzed and it's then (optionally re-encrypted) transmitted to the origin.
That sounds good! Would be great if you can share the code, or even better, make a PR to the repo.
Take any you like, they all work.

> different mix of pre-installed packages

Like it matters.

> Why should I waste my time on any of it when there are two other perfectly good operating systems that can do this out of the box

Same argument for why I don't like to use windows. It comes with basically nothing out of the box, still has no proper package management and basic things like proper keyboard layouts, ctrlcaps, installing latex, browsers, email clients, text editors etc. take hours of faffing around. And then when things invariably don't quite work, troubleshooting is really annoyingly opaque. Why would I waste my time on that?
>I suffer from deep depression because I wageslave for a surveillance capitalist and I'm also terrible at writing JavaScript. Should I start microdosing lsd or just kill myself?

Ouch.
Not sure why you are being down-voted but air traffic is definitely going to be an issue if we keep going down this route. Same goes to that other article regarding Russian (?) flying cars. Air pollution, noise pollution, crashes will cause them to fall from the sky onto... well, anywhere really, and so on.
I don't literally state we're on a clock, its just that Microsoft teams tells me how long the call takes and its pretty much 10 minutes every time (usually a little less).

I would argue that if you don't have your stand-ups at a consistent time with everyone ready to go (and then back to work) or have enough time to spare 10 minutes a day then that isn't a healthy work environment.

I personally view the negative connotations with stand ups here as a "DAE hate stand-ups?" circlejerk where people get to drag all their concerns about work into a bin of "standup" and blame standups for these issues. Maybe the organiser doesn't respect the start time, maybe you have a "waffler" and nobody has the spine to tell them to be more concise, maybe your IT department sucks so the calls are always full of technical issues.
I would assert that a healthy well-run stand up has none of these issues.

I get that they're more value for some than others and not everyone is into them but objectively they're very useful tool for the health of the group as a whole. Specifically I would encourage more senior members of staff to acknowledge the value they give to more junior members of staff. For some of them the standup is a golden opportunity to seek guidance and acknowledgement.
I have no idea what you’re referring to. Have we read the same article? I haven’t seen the part where the author expresses that they are uneasy about millennials, the whole article is mostly descriptive.
When I read about it first I wondered if it would be a mobile chip - but apparently not (with a TDP of 300w)

I wonder how brittle the performance will be vs other models such as transformers and DRL vs CNN and ResNet.
"can't afford"

I don't think that's right. I think it's less expensive to make stuff that doesn't need to be replaced.
> we're moving towards digital and decentralized currencies.

We'll see about that. So far, bitcoin and the likes have only managed to become another trendy get-rich-quick scheme that goes nowhere in terms of becoming an actual, real currency.
I think the point of the parent and in general that the casino is catered to make the addicts have even less control, stay longer, and have no concept if they been there two hours or two days.
There are good reasons to punch someone in the stomach, such as them attacking someone else.

It seems very analogous: unprovoked punches and unprovoked de-modding are both wrong, but both are also needed to stop some kinds of abuse.
Is this argument different if you replace encryption with the right to bear arms?
Just another point on the argument. If you belive capitalism is the worst for the climate, then check what the most capitalists countries are in terms of ecology in comparison with other non-capitalists. You can use as reference the Economic Liberty Index.
> They were offered free software that would enable them to dodge the Great Firewall of China – which blocks almost all major Western news sites and social media outlets – and browse the internet without restrictions. There was some surprise when it turned out that even elite students in China had little interest in finding out what Westerners were thinking. Only 53 per cent of the participants had activated the software (even after repeated reminders), and about 14 per cent of the ones who had activated it uninstalled it shortly afterwards. Active users were browsing content which wasn’t political.

If you’re a University student randomly offered “free software” to bypass the firewall of course you’re going to be acutely aware that your activity is still being monitored. Probably monitored even closer than usual. I’m not sure their browsing habits really indicate their interests in that scenario.
I think the main issue here is that resellers may modify perfectly fine phones to include adware. This was pretty common with eBay resellers of xiaomi phones a while back untill xiaomi stepped in and added some method to verify device integrity.

I assume same thing could happen on iOS if one could find a way to make the adware to survive system updates.
I meant that, regarding social justice, my position has become too close to the norm for me to be accepted as an activist. By activists, I mean. But by many civilians, sure.
Where do you see a condescending tone? I didn’t feel that way when reading the article.
Indeed. This was highlighted in the overthrow of Iraq. It was undoubtedly an authoritarian state where dissenters and minorities were murdered. However, non-dissenters from the ethnic majority were largely free to go about their business. The destruction of the state made the place entirely unsafe, with an interruption of basic food, medical and energy supplies.

The invasion happened in March 2003. Sixteen years later the country is still at war at the edges, as part of the larger Syrian civil war. Car bombs still happen in cities.

China appears to have chosen safety over freedom. The outcome is horrendous for minorities (Uighur etc), but for the majority?

(By comparison, the Chinese civil war's combat period lasted about nine years, with a wikipedia death toll of about nine million people. The war is still not formally concluded.)
My opinion is that the idea of a base on Mars is not to somehow secure humanity's position in the Solar System, but to give us something to aim for so we have a reason to pump money into space exploration and aerospace research
I'm guessing you're being downvoted for the pretty uninformed, tone deaf statement below.

>In China, everybody fully supports the government, don't they? I mean that what the Party does, has 100.00% approval rating at all times, there are no Facebook groups for discussing it, there is no activism protesting anything or driving for any kind of change, and everyone there just totally supports everything. (In Mainland China).

No they don't have 100% support. Where are you deriving this information?

Your point about Facebook is sort of bizarre. Are you aware that China has famously blocked Facebook?

There is activism, too. For example https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qidong_protest
But the internet accelerates drug-innovation and drug-delivery to the speed of … well, of the internet. Easy to throw out 'kids these days' but its actually a different thing (at least in quantity if not quality), and kids are actually responding to it poorly.

Outdoor time has dropped precipitously. Coordination and physical agility are reputed to have dropped. Social interaction has been reduced to worse than sound bytes.

Despite its good intentions, the internet is fabulously addictive. This should not be brushed aside Pollyanna style.
I concur. The writing also somehow lacks much depth, at the start it addresses how they crazily follow the son of a rich and his lavish style then jumps out and turns back on money and work ethics without much thoughts on this. He seems just casually drifts around in any issue he can pen on.

A side note, Pornhub also is often praised on reddit for less toxic comments than like youtube
Me too. Also, there are some sites where LastPass could never manage to find the login fields and didn't fill them correctly or at all. I've yet to see Bitwarden screw this up.
> This is an increasing factor in the US motion picture industry.

In the first Top Gun movie Maverick's (Tom Cruise's) jacket had the flags of Japan and Taiwan. Images from the upcoming sequel show that they're gone:

* https://www.indiewire.com/2019/07/tom-cruises-jacket-taiwane...

* https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/19/tom-cruises-top-gun-jacket-s...

I wonder if they'll be any modifying done for the final release: one set of flags for China print, another set of flags for not-China.
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To be fair, the butterfly keyboard failure rate makes it objectively bad. Independent from how it feels to type on it.

The frequency as which i need to spray the thing with canned air is getting quite ridiculous.
Government having barriers up to foreign products and protecting industries seems to have worked out for China.
I don't see that as comparable. When viewing professionally produced media, the goal would be to immerse you in the story as much as possible, so hiding everything except the media itself seems like a no brainer.

One wouldn't expect a status bar on a TV or movie theater, I don't see why it's different for any other screen.
I mean, even if it is like you are saying "He wants to raise money" what of it ? if it is a cool idea and it helps people then by all means good luck! Don't be jealous !
Very clearly, attacking the flag is seen as attacking the country... Especially when some other protesters also wave foreign flags.

As mentioned, the party actually has a flag, if they wanted to make things beyond doubt.
This is how I write so no. But I did not actively choose to avoid using pronouns, only gendered ones. In this case it was easy because there was not much need for them anyways.
That breakdown really surprised me and really goes to show how unbalanced the division already is. I'd love to see that breakdown on an interactive map for the entire city but couldn't find anything, though I expect similar ranges (minus the expressways).
Thanks for the pointer, will check it out.
So my concept for how it works was you're putting the random bits into the mantissa while holding the exponent constant, then normalizing the result.

Is that accurate? Is there any concern there for never getting the smallest possible values? Or is that acceptable because you can't generate values very close to 1?
>OR they need to be the source of information that the chinese are missing...

That's exactly what I am advocating, in a smart way that effectively counters the CCP narrative.
the only obvious choice of language, of course, would be TLA+
I'm from the US, specifically Richmond, VA and we've been hoarding your warm air. We broke multiple heat records last week with 98F highs.
Everyone should learn to code, but not everyone should bother showing it off, apparently. /s
Hm. Bitcoin seems to be dependent upon Exchanges for practical use. Which are just unregulated third parties, subject to (demonstrated) scams and ponzi schemes.
More aware. She's over here for a few years studying as a postgraduate.
I, for one, cannot wait for mid-air collisions and parts falling down on residential areas, which is of course just the tip of the iceberg.

Seriously, I doubt they care. They probably know about these negative impacts, the risks, etc. but money is money.
The weird thing to me is that it's not like the term "Millennial" was self-adopted by the generation it describes. It was pretty much involuntarily assigned to them. And the word alone just has such a lightning rod quality to it.
The first thread was better. http://rbt.asia/g/thread/S38087806
Assuming objective tone interpretability seems like a leap.

Some people are Shakespeare with words. Others, especially those for whom English is a second+ language, may not have such a nuanced box of crayons to work with.

So one person's intended offense may simply be another's obliviousness to the particulars of their chosen phrase.

It'd be better if everyone wrote with care, sure; but I'm not ready to hold everyone accountable for premeditated tone violations.
How are you, your family ?
What happening in your personal life ?
Are you saving and investing your money well ?

If I got asked either of those questions a in a work-place one to one I'd find it very odd. Especially that last question, that's none of your business!
"Master" would also work well. Or "Daddy" if you're into that kind of thing. Hmm, I'm starting to actually like this policy...
Just an overall impression, in the idea that "Millenials are this", "Millenials are that". Most of the times when someone frames a group of people into common characteristics, it sounds condescending to me.
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It's not transformative. It does absolutely nothing to fix traffic/congestion. Because the real limitation is above ground where streets where people are being dropped off/parking/living/etc which have limited capacity and cascade into backups from local streets and onto highways. This just means there'll be back ups underground as well.

Unless people are going to start living underground. Then you start to remove the above ground choke points ;)
I just set up my own Bitwarden server the other day using bitwarden_rs, a third-party implementation written in Rust.

It basically gives you all of the premium features for free, as opposed to the official server which requires a license.

I really wanted to run the official server, but they offered no option of a lifetime license (only a yearly license). For what it's worth, I would have been willing to pay a lot more for a license that never expired.

The whole reason I'm hosting the server myself in the first place is because I want _full_ control, so a subscription based license doesn't really fit well there.

Given that the project is licensed under the GPL, the license is effectively a donation anyway, so I hope they consider offering a lifetime license for those who want to self-host.
> In China, everybody fully supports the government, don't they?

Do they? I remember a Chinese friend telling me about how elections worked in his town. When he was a student, their voting cards were checked by the teachers to make sure they supported the principal's friend. So maybe 100% support on paper, but definitely not 100% voluntary. (That's only one small part - there's definitely more opposition, not full support either way)
> decent political discussion

I have never seen that on reddit. Every thread with politics in it seems to only allow one side of the discussion be heard, with the other being downvoted to oblivion. Which side is heard depends on the subreddit, but either way there is no discussion to be had.
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