skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't down voted you, and here's my reply.

I'm just showing how this is perceived from a mainlander perspective, and why people that could be allies have been manipulated into a confrontational stance. I think the best way to fight this is to point out the way they have been manipulated. It's a matter of tactics. I'm making a suggestion, that's all.

> And not complying is us interfering?

That is how it is perceived by mainlanders, due to the way they have been manipulated.

This is a trap set by the CCP. When your enemy lays a trap, saying "I'm completely entitled to go where that trap is, nobody's going to impinge on my rights of free passage" and then walking straight into the trap doesn't help anybody.

I am not advocating stepping on the toes of the protesters, or mainland Chinese. I'm saying attack the real target - the Chinese Communist Party. They are the real opponent here. Call them out. Point out their role. Show how they are manipulating the narrative. That's my advice.
Nobel Prize Awarded for Cells’ Adaptations to Oxygen
At least inheritance was honest - you didn't do anything to deserve it, and everybody knew it.

Meritocracy is a lie, but it's sold as a feel-good truth: you could just come from the ghetto, work hard, and by gosh, be successful! Of course that isn't the way it plays out almost ever - we tell ourselves that the supremely rare few who it does work out for could be everyone else if they just WORKED HARD. It's a LIE.

Meanwhile, we've accepted this disgusting fiction, and we place the blame squarely on REGULAR PEOPLE - any system that requires you to be exceptional to succeed (or even have food security!) is a failure, but one that cloaks the actions of the inheritance class as "merit" (as they are best able to, of course, "compete" - with coaches, perfect nutrition, educational trips, etc) is MORE insidious and evil - and it doesn't actually displace that same inheritance class!

The technically literate, ironically, eat that meritocratic shit up for some reason. The same people who built surveillance capitalism, destroyed the poor with the "gig" economy because it always "seemed to work for them!", built
the methodology of tracking everyone's persuasions and beliefs online to be used for propaganda or ethnic violence, who repackaged sub-prime mortgage suffering as a "data science" problem.

Tech people, especially those who believe in "meritocracy", are so painfully blind, they don't even understand that the wheel will come around for our skill set - we're in a weird period of history where our technical skills are extremely profitable. Rather than making the world better, we've caused the kind of damage that drives a stake in the heart of our very society. Very Promethean.

If we were as wise as we were smart, we wouldn't be here - we're the brightest fuckwits in the whole world.
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Don't want to be fired.

However, what would get me the most is the interaction/attitude between my team and boss.

Also, a terrible salary makes for a low tolerance.

From a programmatic point-of-view, inadequate framework, legacy code, and disagreeable methodologies.
/e/ has quite a few security issues that haven't been addressed.

Infosec Handbook did a rundown when they first came about:
https://infosec-handbook.eu/blog/e-foundation-first-look/

Then they did it again, more recently:
https://infosec-handbook.eu/blog/e-foundation-second-look/

There's also this site: https://ewwlo.xyz/evil.html
FYI: "DISCLAIMER: I work at Graphcore, and all of the information given here is lifted directly from the linked references below."
Harder indeed (in some ways) but the raw satisfaction of booting your first toy OS on bare metal is unmatched.

I enjoyed writing a DCPU-16 emulator very much though.

https://github.com/lloeki/python-dcpu_16
Individual donations, subscriptions, being treated as a goodwill or marketing expense by a company doing working in some tangentially related space (the way YCombinator keeps HN running), are some ideas free of the problems of advertising.

Here the core advertising-related problem is third party advertising. Were Reddit the co. to have some other business of their own that they advertised on Reddit in order to fund the site, there would still be ads, but they wouldn't interfere with the site itself. Here however, Reddit has to be neutered so that it appeals to generic advertisers - any content or communities that they, the third parties may find objectionable must go.

It's hard to a site as Reddit to pivot from the status quo to any of the more reasonable business models, because they were started with third-party advertisements in mind from the get go. The fatal disease was transmitted at birth, but it's only now that it closes on to the terminal stage. Once you get people used to free, it's hard to start charging money, and Reddit the company doesn't have any other business that could fund the site pro bono.
At a time where it's more urgent than ever to de-carbonise our economy, it's quite depressing to see this...
In our experience, scrum teams couldn't scale past 8 members without becoming less effective. The effective communication required for a high performing team suffered, people would tune out in stand-ups etc.
TikTok is brilliant design. Very well done how they break with “conventional” thinking in media. For example that it should be orientated around discussion (conflict), followers, novelty etc.
Yeah, they did this with all the good British bicycle brands. Raleigh, Dawes and so on; they were good bikes. Nobody makes good bikes in the UK any more. The good bike makers got bought by Chinese companies, and the results are crap. Get a USA bike. Trek are good value.
Yes, it's a question of censorship. The people of Hong Kong are fighting for their liberties and this meandering response is a misdirection to that fact.
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I don't buy that, it's a convenient myth. There is obviously tone in written messages too.

Tone is not only about body language, a lot of it is about the choice of words.

Tone can literally be inferred by machine learning, check Grammarly, for example, they do that now.
choice quote:

“I remember some company moved into one of our old headquarters buildings,” McNealy said. “And the CEO said, we’re going to leave the [Sun Microsystems] logos up because we want everybody in our company to remember what can happen to you if you don’t pay attention. This company could do well to do one-one-hundredth of what we did.”
I've taken over management of a few scrum teams now, and in every case, I've also had to take over standups. One team had somebody who used a time tracker and showed me that the average length of standups before I arrived was something like 37 minutes. Another team, standup was run by the PM and they reviewed EVERY story in the sprint, triaged all new bugs, talked about new features and, worse, pressured developers who were falling behind at EVERY standup.

Given how badly many standups are run, I completely understand why most developers hate them.
One gallon of carbon petroleum fuel weighing 7 pounds becomes 22 pounds of carbon dioxide. Essentially in burning fuel you replace carbon plus two hydrogen atoms- atomic weight 14- with a carbon plus two oxygen atoms- atomic weight 44. That is an increase of 3.14x.
Your job is more than just code. Your job is other people too. Live in a box all you like but you're completely discounting the value of ensuring other members of the team know what's going on with you over your current work item.

FWIW, imagine how a greenhorn might feel working on a team with you. If you feel like giving them some time of your day is a waste or that listening to their problems is a waste they're not going to feel enthused working on your team. Sure, that doesn't necessarily influence your current work item but it might contribute to overwork later if they leave for a team that actually makes them feel like they matter.
Stand ups had one real value for me - maintaining my accountability to my team.

Having to say "yesterday I was too busy arguing online so didn't do anything" was something helpfully painful.
The 2047 Hong Kong fiasco, the Irish backstop, the US left-right divide, blame it all on the British Empire
Not long ago, the center of the Milky Way exploded
People oppose power lines because they just don't want to have them near their house, or run through a forest where they walk.

Some people are afraid of adverse health effects of power lines (claiming cancer issues etc, which are fake news), but often it may also be just that powerlines are considered ugly, and seeing them from your window brings down your property value.
Sure. It seems best to redisplay quickly, then update the screen again when everything is quiescent (the user hasn’t typed anything for a few tenths of a second, and the whole document has been fully recompiled with no changes detected). Usually it’s not even noticeable, though of course there are degenerate cases where a document oscillates, which gets called out in the UI in the unlikely case it happens.
I suspect the reason that some people are so insistent on preferred pronouns, is a backlash against people who insist on misgendering them. They've had to fight for every shred of recognition.

This could have been a complete non-issue if there hadn't been so much stubborn hate and disrespect towards transgender and non-binary people. A single case of misgendering would be easy to take as an honest mistake if it wasn't against a context of decades of hate and denial of their identity. So use of pronouns seems to have become the main signifier of whether they're getting the respect they deserve.

That doesn't make one particular view on the use of pronouns right or wrong, but it does make it complex and laden with a lot of baggage that not everybody is aware of.
Thank you Dave Winer for creating RSS. For a while there, it seemed like we were on a path of making all data free, a truly decentralized web of information. I wish the internet would have continued on that route.
My understanding is that Minecraft exists because Zach refused to takes Notch's suggestions on how to improve it.

So Notch wrote Minecraft, a better version, and sold it. And it worked out really well.

Infiniminer might have sold, but it wouldn't have sold as well as Minecraft.

And Minecraft then brought traffic to Zach (via people wanting to learn about Infiniminer) to drive sales on his other games, which seems to have worked out well in the end.
Are there western companies that do well after being bought by Chinese?

(Real question, because I'm only aware of the opposite).
>It's not a strawman. If you oppose my statement that the Jakuza probably liked using normal telephones without fear of the police listening (on what logic exactly), you do seem do advocate totally outlawing surveillance, don't you?

Well, Jakuza could find 50000 ways to bypass the "police listening".

Tapping telephones had not really helped thwart Latin/Central American drug dealers (which got 10x as big and dangerous from when wiretapping was far more difficult).

Heck, in Italy, where the state could quite easily wiretap anybody, has a much bigger "Yakuza" style problem...

Plus, a state can always get warrants and tap when it's needed, e.g. for suspected or known Jakuza members, without having to do it for everybody...
The other day a song came on the radio that I hadn't heard since I was a teenager. I recalled how much I hated it all those decades ago. After a few seconds I realised that I hated it now almost as strongly as back then. But I'm in charge of the radio now, so I turned it off, and that made me feel quite happy.
Proof that government agents are fomenting and inciting the violence "isn't serious"?
I strongly disagree and would like to apologise on the behalf of devs + managers that gave you this impression.

I was fortunate to work with people that ran proper stand-ups (5-15 minutes at the beginning of the day, actually standing up). Senior, junior, management, devs, it felt like we all benefited from a quick huddle before starting dev. Even if we Slack troughout the day and raise issues, having a quick sync session seemed to have a bigger impact.
His is a very logical argument.
I've done standups (not scrum, just standups) with up to 16 people and it was quite effective. It just required a concerted effort to keep it short.

The nature of the work probably also helped because tasks took a long time so on any given day only a handful of the people would have substantive updates.
> DNS and caching services mean that broadband providers do more than simply move bits from place to place.

With widespread adoption of HTTPS, and now browsers pushing towards DNS over HTTPS, it could become harder for ISPs to argue they provide more than communication. Most customers will then not only not be using their ISP's hosted services, but avoiding them, and enforcing their non-use by means of public key cryptography.
Ask HN: Does Digital Advertising Alliance's Opt-Out Tool Work for You?
No matter how many times I try in it my browser, the DAA's WebChoices Tool never really seems to do its job. I want to opt-out of all ad companies listed in it. However, it always ends up succeeding for less than 10 companies from over 100 in total, with sometimes just 1 or 2 requests going through. The rest end up showing the message - 'Opt-Out Temporarily Unavailable'.

If you have tried it yourself, please share your experience. To me, it all looks too fishy.

Go try it - https://optout.aboutads.info
Capitalism's democracy.
Here is a Dave story...

I once wrote an early web server using his Frontier Scripting platform which ended up serving up a large corporate website that my company built. Crazy early days of the web. So, I got to 'know' Dave a bit online.

One time I was at a bar (that no longer exists) in San Francisco at some MacWorld event in the 90's and Dave showed up. He and I had previously had some emails back and forth that were not necessarily pleasant, probably some silly flame war of some sort that I can't remember. I was definitely young and stupid and this was the .com 90's!

When he was near me, I jokingly said: 'Hey Dave, bite me!" and a bunch of my friends started laughing. Mostly because they knew his reputation for flame wars. He immediately got over the top furious with me, said 'Never say that to me again!', walked away and we never spoke again.

Anyway, I just want to apologize, I shouldn't have said that.
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It depends on whether the federal law says so, assuming the Commerce Clause permits it. Read about the Commerce Clause for examples.
Standups (as implemented) or another way management thought they can do the same work without hiring real developers.

You can come up with any process you want, if you don't have the people, you have nothing.
Will there be a customer grade TPU in the near future?

Or won't they be able to be as price/performance efficient compared to (nvidia) GPUs?
Playstation Gamers Will Be Able to Play PS4 Games on Android Smartphone
Do you ever take pause at the probable environmental hellhole you are helping creating working on this?
>That's why I said the Jakuza and other criminals in Japan probably liked that policy...

Well, they also liked that other policy, that suspected Yakuza members can't just be shot on sight -- but had to be arrested, go through trial, etc.

So?

Bad guys liking a policy and the policy being generally bad is not the same thing...
> But the search for power and gratification by the few at the expense of the many is an inevitable feature of civilization that could be better controlled than it is, even if it can never be banished once and for all.

It's disappointing that there are no suggestions around how to better control this
There absolutely is tone in writing. But people shouldn't be negating each other messages based on it, and drawing attention to the tone instead of the content is just a way to derail the conversation and not actually helpful.
That aligns with my experiences, we aimed for 6, with a max of 8, with a min of 4.

I will say, Scrum was really helpful for us, but only because we took "iterate on your process" seriously, and had a culture where teams could experiment with their process.

In the end we outgrew it, but Scrum helped us reach the point where we could do so.
There may be substantial digging works to be done if you need to install new power lines to housing, which is not cheap, and various installation works are costly when done afterwards.

I live in Finland, where it is typical that blocks of flats as well as terraced and single-family houses have parking lots where there already is an electric supply to each car (for the purpose of heating the enging before winter morning starts). Even here it's not directly suitable for charging, because the feeding capacity is OK for warming cars, but not for quick charging. Fuse boxes and feeding cables have to be replaced, at a substantial cost.
Simplifying the tax code would allow more audits for a fixed amount of IRS funding.
NBA players do not depend directly on Chinese money. A Rocket manager does.
Solution: Android One devices
I'm not sure if it's possible to please everyone in a world where it's easier to call a lynch mob than to parse a compound sentence.
The Nokia phones you investigated [0], were they on Android One?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19449824
>what about people fucking for the sake of proving a political point?

Then they can always find another way to make the same point.

>what decides which way their motivation swings, legally?

Society, courts, etc.

>it's an issue that some of the most important law-shaping courts in the world have argued back and fourth about for years; the criteria for concluding what is or isn't indecent.

Yes.
We can still get on track provided we do not get fascinated with Data Silos in the name of Social Media.
Sure. But even if you handle the windows, doors, and have 3.5" for the wall (2x3 partition wall with half inch sheetrock) it's still i prohibited.
All TeX rewrites seem to keep the batch oriented architecture.

What could improve usability and add the possibility of a modern UI for TeX/LaTeX is to have an incremental TeX engine, that only computes the changes in a document instead of everything from zero each time.
George Carlin also said this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9n8Xp8DWf8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h67k9eEw9AY

It's also not always clear cut who is the real underdog and who the gentrified upper middle class finger-pointing comedian who pretends to be the greater person...
It's not easy to check whether a phone has malware.
It's easy to check whether a phone supported by LineageOS. Just like home routers and OpenWRT.
I see what you're saying but don't quite get it's "discrimination" if the terms are the same for everyone and gender is not even visible if the site is used in accordance with the terms.

I go to SO to solve problems. I couldn't care less about pronouns one way or the other. I'd use the "anonymous" version of the site, no problem. In fact I'd prefer it that way.

And Twitter? Really? Who cares? It's not like people would stop using SO just because a few activists shit on it on Twitter.
We are anti-CCP because it is the CCP who has negotiated in bad faith, by agreeing to, and then not, allowing us to vote for our leaders. They have claimed there are 2 systems, yet they kidnap people in HK. They have said they were not behind the Extradition Law, and yet they force our government's hand. They have said HKers have freedom, and yet they call us terrorists and cockroaches for exercising it.

The protests started because of the Extradition Law, but had to morph because of the government's response: 五大訴求 缺一不可 (5 demands, not 1 less). Not a single one of them is about independence nor are any anti-China. You know that as well as I do. Mainlanders should actually read what we want instead of believing their government.
“Here’s the thing about car crashes: They are blessedly pretty rare. In the US, nine people are injured in motor vehicle crashes for every 100 million miles traveled in cars, according to data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.”

There are 6 million accidents every year in the US alone. 90 people die every day.

I suppose it’s just a matter of which statistic you choose. However, in my view accidents are not rare.
No. Officially, no (i.e. not branded as such).
I was referring to another class above regular, but not a CDL. People who drive SUVs don’t need a commercial license.
It's an illusion, most people don't have a good sense of time. Just getting everyone in a room and waiting for the last person to arrive and everyone to leave, grab a cofee and start working again is at least 12 to 15 minutes for that amount of people.

Next time you have a standup, look at the clock once you get up to the standup, or that you stop working normally and start looking around to see when people are leaving to the meeting. And then look at the clock when you are back at your seat working again.

People start getting ready to the standup 5 to 10 minutes before, chatting while waiting, etc. Count the time that you have stopped working normally, where you can't do any large task because you know there is a meeting in 10 minutes.

Don't just count the time literally from the moment a person starts giving their status to when the last person finishes, as the real overhead of the meeting is not that.

I guarantee you if you do that systematically and count the complete overhead and not just the literal overhead, that at best it will be typically 15 minutes and for longer sessions half an hour.
>There is nothing whatsoever preventing automation of craft beer

In theory there's nothing to prevent the automation of any process. The question is cost.

For craft beer there's 10,000 different kinds for every 10 million liters drunk, all with a completely different brewing process and consumer tastes keep changing in this market because consumers seek novelty.

Whereas for Budweiser there's just one, unchanging process.

So yes, it is much harder to automate than Budweiser brewing and is much more labor intensive.

It's far from the only market where this happens, too.
"The tricky part is the retrieval of duplicates, which on the same 10K dataset takes a few minutes"

"Doesn't sound too bad."

I doesn't? As a word of caution: If a 10k dataset takes a few minutes I would be careful how long 10MM pictures take. I predict it does not take 10MM/10k times a few minutes.
>education is a major source of brainwashing and do not discount mass media either which still shapes culture even in hyper connected countries like the US

How much of your belief that the Chinese are brainwashed people who's opinions should be ignored came from school and media?
Do you use OCR on the documents?
This just happens in every programming language. I can tell you because the large Haskell systems I worked on were also incredibly hard to reason about. The analog of garbage collector pauses was accidental misuse of eager evaluation, but buried in misdirection through a sequence of specialized implementations that get called due to type class.

Big codebases becoming ugly messes is sociological and pressured by bureaucracy. It is not something that stricter language designs can seriously mitigate, even a little. Meanwhile, very disciplined and experienced teams can avoid it in virtually any programming language.

Some of the cleanest and safest huge software systems I’ve ever worked with were written in C, C++ or Python. Also some of the worst huge systems I’ve seen were written in C, C++ or Python.
Why won't you just hand over your passwords and put this whole matter — for both sides of the argument — to rest?