skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a pivotal piece of information. I’ve been following the recent RMS developments fairly closely, but I was entirely unaware that he was pulling this sort of nonsense. I was under the impression all the fuss was over a philosophical yet taboo series of statements he made in regards to human trafficking and pedophilia.

Why am I not hearing about these encounters? These are the voices I want to hear. Why have these stories gained no traction until now? Why does it take a scandal to bring these issues to light? Am I just living under a rock, or is there an overarching issue with OSS culture that extends far beyond Stallman? I’m incredibly disappointed that I’m only discovering this deep in HN comments.
I guess a lot of things going online and some going online-only in the intervening 17 years since 2002 has redefined "place of public accommodation" to include cyberspace.
> And to be blunt, they are not entirely wrong

Actually they are. Humans are notoriously bad for understanding risk.

The rise in helicopter parenting DESPITE the fact that in no time in American history have children been more safe [1]
is due to the fact that we (parents) have access to more information and news, and stories of children being harmed are sensational.

Our children would be fine riding the bus and waiting for the bus stop like we did as kids, but the fact that it's MY child means that I must do everything I can to protect them, regardless of the rationality of it. It is very much about individualistic thinking.

1: https://www.childtrends.org/indicators/infant-child-and-teen...
Exactly. This is their audience, so of course they would say that.

It surprising how so many people on HN don't get that. No wonder they think Dropbox can be easily replaced with an SFTP service.
Stupid franchisee. I kept a coupon active for years after the promo ended for one guy. He liked his $11.99 Veggie lovers. The coupon was hidden, but if you manually typed the code, it worked. I called him personally after he complained to corporate about the promo ending. I walked him through how to get the deal and he ordered weekly until I sold the store. The new owners deactivated all old promos. He had my cell phone number, so I got to find out, after I sold the store, thst he now orders Papa John's.

Source: former multi-store, multi-Rolex winning Domino's franchisee.
For a while, somebody (not me) in the infrastructure department was maintaining a greasemonkey (I know) script that would remove the urgency messaging elements from the site. They used it both for themselves and to make a point about how much more pleasant the site was without them.
Are there any non-regime-aligned publishers around in Venezuela? I suspect you start doing that sort of thing and you find yourself facing bigger problems than Adobe Creative Cloud.
Or System 7 Unix, runs fine on a 16 bit processor, has proven history being easy to port, is a fully functional operating system, and would be pretty easy to retrofit some sort of networking to.
This is a subject dear to my heart, so I thought I would answer in earnest.

About my personal experience, I viewed myself as a victim of burnout. It's as if it was a battle already lost once present. That fear in itself contributed to this state of helplessness to something I felt like I couldn't combat.

Each time I burnt out it was related to the stress of the job or, at least, my perception of the stress. I think mild to moderate stress takes a toll on the central nervous system over time -- if you let it. There are definitely coping mechanisms[1] you can put in place; however, I've come to believe a lot of it has to do with mindset and how you choose to see your work and interactions.

As a fellow burnoutee, I would ask you to look over your past burnouts/experiences and see which ones could you see differently? Can you find where negativity and stress started to seep into your daily life? Could you have done something to augment it? How do others around you cope with similar stress or how is their situation different?

Asking myself these questions has allowed me to find the criteria of what I need from a workplace and people around me in order to thrive. Programmers, DevOps, and the like live in our heads and I think a key burnout preventative measure is the developing the ability to get out of our heads. In practice, I think this is different for everyone. Meditation, nature, exercise have all been effective tools for me to come back into the world and leave my head.

Recently, I found an episode of Tim Ferriss's podcast that I found to be resourceful for burnout and burnout-like things. Sometimes, Mr. Tim Ferris can come off as pandering to tech entrepreneurs and name dropping -- but a lot of his content and guests is worthwhile. So, I entertain it. I continue coming back to one of the recent episodes with Tristan Harris [2] because it put into words some of the things I've thought about lately and provided a lot of other adjacent resources. The main one that peaked my interest was "The Work" of Bryon Katie [3]. Her branding can come off as new agey with a Oprah-like feel to it, but it's a solid framework that (seems) to pull from meditative and CBT practices.

I don't think there's a silver bullet to defeating burnout. I think getting to know yourself and who and what help balance your equilibrium is an underrated, essential part of life we're never taught. Best of luck

[1] - https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/psychpedia/coping-mechanism...

[3] - https://overcast.fm/+Kebtdt5RM

[3] - https://thework.com/
I'd rather use something that nobody can arbitrarily take from me any time they please.
At some point it's more profitable to put more money in marketing. Large portions of the market operate like this. People are easily swayed.
I'd rather use gimp than photoshop.

Photoshop, ergg.. what a confusing tool!, who would use a 'cloud service' for your important data.. lol.
As a European who is comfortable with English, I find myself setting apps' language to English, exactly for this. My language (any language the author doesn't speak, I suspect) tends to be half-translated at best, or worse, "translated" into a hodgepodge of Slavic languages (Czech/Polish/Slovak/Croatian/Russian, whoever was at hand I assume), or worst, copypasted, word by word, through GTranslate, leading to bizarre results: e.g. "exit" in English has an "app" context, a "public transit" context, a "highway" context, and several others; most apps just pick one at random: "Press Back twice to exit the app" becomes "Push backbone twice to walk out of the app", and "Take Exit 24" turns into "Pick up the end 24"
Very cool! It would be nice if there was a 'Highlight None' option in the drop-down.
maybe they should have just said they are the 'known' moons.
didn't you see this "as for exact scale, I'd leave that to you. you could easily figure that out as there are ton of such information online"?

i encourage you to find out the answer by yourself.
The houses burned because they were built in the midst of a big pile of tinder. Compensating people for their poor housing decisions is a terrible use of public funds.
The point is that technology is not the point to argue and fight over when it comes to government overreach.

A government needs both the technology and the will to overreach. And you are talking like western democracies, are, well, not democratic. That would be the only reason to fight over the technology, and not try to fight over the will (i.e. legislation) to do harm. And it wouldn't work, in that case, either, because "the government" is always the one with the power. If someone else is more powerful, then that's the government.
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We've banned this account for repeatedly posting unsubstantive comments/flamebait to HN and ignoring our requests to stop.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
Another good reason to avoid any business with companies vrom the USA as long as politics are done by rolling a dice and then twittering about the result.
Blackberry Maps (Blackberry OS 10's navigation / maps app) did exactly this. It pronounced street names and points of interest in the local language of wherever you where navigating. Perfectly. It was released in 2013, but I used the 2015ish version.

It was absolutely mind blowing to me that Google Maps and others don't do this when I switched to Android. Even more mind blowing that they still chose to not implement this to this day.

In non-English speaking countries like Europe, this means you have to literally change the language settings every time you cross a border. Borders are all over the place in Europe. It feels like 1998 tech to have to do this.

And for those claiming that the "Englishified version" of a street name in a foreign language is easier to understand: no. It isn't for anybody who speaks more than 1 language (AKA: most people outside of English speaking and large and/or totalitarian countries).
I wish there was a way to filter out political news here.

It's telling that all of it is about China, and rarely any on Kashmir, Iraq, Sudan, or Turkey.
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You can call them and ask?
Do you have any disability that limits you being able to use services accessible to everyone else?

Do you know anyone close to you that you can comfortably ask what limits and bumps there are out there for them to be able to comfortably use the internet?
> relatively intact

Yes, although a mix of incentives and force has moved nearly all of the people into towns and cities at this point, and in fairly recent memory. I remember when Atanarjuat came out twenty years ago the talk was that the timing was good—there still were many people who personally remembered living in the traditional way, well enough to recreate it vividly and accurately on camera, but they had to be brought out from the towns to do so.
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The discounts are given since orders on phone cost the company more than orders from their website, in terms of employee labor and cost of manning the phones.
>Same quality as a retail CD

Not the same "overall" quality, to be honest. Burned CDs have much shorter life.
> Saudi Arabia (and many others) prevent the installation of Whats App, etc. on phones activated there.

Source?
Sounds like whoever sold her the theme didn't bother with accessibility. I think laws like this are good, but at the same time they will end up pushing people to stick to larger sites like shopify or just listing on ebay/amzn to avoid all this.
I wonder when these are gonna go the way of Pluto: Saturn has n moons and a shit-ton of dwarf moons. Wouldn't know where the threshold is though, because something like Phoebe is an absolute outlier.
Are you saying you never heard of criminal organizations being unraveled by court ordered surveillance?
Thanks, I did not know about this alternative to W3W.

It's nice when people produce free ads for a competing service, though doing it using DMCA takedowns is a bit weird. Be sure not to delete directions of people using your concept on Twitter, it would make it a bit dangerous to use!
I found some serious problem about Hacker News. This sharing was ranked #1 in news tab just two hours ago. But now it disappears in the list. This scares me because someone is censoring Hacker News.
It's interesting that he is from Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia). Of course, his name gives it away (that's why I checked). But what I wanted to say was something else.

> he [liked] the video game Wing Commander [1]

Somewhere between 1990 and 1995 I recall that Windows PCs in South Africa shipped with a games CD. You would get Ultima (immediately banned by your parents), Wing Commander, Sea Wolf and other games and this would be your staple for a while. When Warcraft 2 (or it may have been Starcraft) came out I think it cost about R 350 (USD 90 in 1995) so you would need to be more picky in the games you could buy than today. One should mention the rand's historic dissonance with regard to the exchange rate and PPP, but whatever.

I remember buying some shitty Disney game for the same amount and regretting it instantly (I played Warcraft 2 instead). It was not until 1999 that I saw games "in bulk" with Tiberian Sun, ReVolt and a multitude of other games being shared on DC.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_Roux, edited for sensational language. Note that he had the console version, but I am not sure which console that would be. The PS1 was the first major console in South Africa (apart from "video games", i.e. famicon or NES clones) but I may stand corrected.
Conservation of angular momentum. Stars and their planetary systems form out of clouds of dust and gas which collapse into a fuzzy disk and then into bodies. The sum of the angular momentum before and after has to be the same so there is a big statistical pressure towards all bodies rotation and orbital planes to be near some average overall plane, there are gravitational forces at work too. Orbits over poles are as far off plane as possible and so are least likely.
99% of the Git commands you'll need at work, demonstrated in a single script
I got a little tired of running to Google every time I needed a non-trivial git command, so I set out to identify all (and only) the git commands I require for my day-to-day and capture them in one place. The result is this script. It can be run fully on your local machine, no remote accounts required. (But it still shows how to use remote repos!)

I'd also be interested to hear what git commands others use frequently (that don't involve a GUI). I'm curious to know which workloads might require some of git's more advanced features on a regular basis.
There's a good point about "the fans" here. Chinese audience is widely considered to be the most fragile and childish out there (though it's likely being manipulated by the goverment).
Most famous examples are Steam (digital game shop) product reviews - if a game offends China in any way it will be bombed with chinese reviews.
Haha! Was thinking exactly of this place. Either lucky coincidence or it's better known than I thought.
I agree South Park could probably move elsewhere after their contract is over (goes through 2022). They were disallowed from showing a cartoon depiction of the muslim prophet Muhammad by Comedy Central in the past and did not leave, they did however make an episode poking fun at the censorship which included a cartoon Jesus deficating on a burning American flag.
I think we need to be really clear when we talk about these things.

When we write “the Chinese” there is bound to be at least some subset of readers who see that and assume the write meant all Chinese.

I don’t believe we can be certain of the writers intent until the writer makes it clear.
Dominoes also literally has a client on every platform in existence from smart tvs to smart assitants to slack.

I'm certain they can figure out a viable option with their APIs
Waze (by default) is even worse - as you cross the borders it switches to the local language, _including the directions_... so as you enter Italy it expects you to suddenly switch your brain to understand the directions in Italian. I come to think nobody at Waze ever thought about this use case...
Theoretically, a government should represent its people, which should be the foundation of democracy. If that foundation were broken, it is far more worrisome than these China/Taiwan/HK events.

I suggest fixing it ASAP. For example, the op can protest to urge his/her government to recognize Taiwan as a country, which will be "a beautiful landscape" as described by Nancy Patricia Pelosi.
This insanity started much earlier than that. For one extreme example see executive order 6102 [1]. In 1933 FDR passed an executive order that made it a criminal act for Americans to possess any private gold coins, bullion, or certificated ownership. They were required to turn over all their gold to the government in exchange for about $400 per ounce in inflation adjusted prices. Refusing to do so was punishable by up to a $194,000 fine and ten years in prison. And this was topped off by the "gold reserve act" [2] passed the following year which let the government artificially set the price of gold. FDR chose a 75% increase.

Makes modern executive orders look downright tame by comparison, and this is from a president that would go down extremely positively in history.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Reserve_Act
Then why don't they orbit in the same direction, as the planets do? Aren't many moons gravitationally captured in any case?
What about Google and other cloud services&
Is this because polar orbits are unstable in some sense, or because pretty much everything already is in the planet's plane?
You have found a category that Anazon serves, but does not serve well. I buy nearly everything on Amazon but I still have to buy her uniforms in person (each school has a specific color scheme, plaid pattern, collar style, etc.). My wife still buys her nurse scrubs from a guy who comes around the hospital and only takes cash. These are things you just can't get easily on Amazon, even though it looks like they have that category covered.

Also, you could compete with Amazon on any category just by having a bigger selection of same day delivery in some niche.
It's a good question. The answer seems to me that they're equally at fault, first because they're the same as what they're attacking, but also because everyone who bullies feels that way. No one ever sees themselves as the aggressor, so if you make an exception for bullies of bullies, you end up with the status quo.

The solution is to be aware of our own aggression and contain it. That's a long, slow process. I'm sure there is still aggression in what I wrote as well.
Users do not care about that. They care about when things they paid for stop working.
Interesting. I haven't watched South Park in ages. The only reason I'm going to watch this episode is because China banned it.

I wonder if it works like that for people who live in China. Is it something Chinese people often do (specifically seek out banned stuff)?
I am from Hong Kong, I can confirm that Taiwanese flag is not displayed in original Emoji keyboard (still appear in third-party keyboard like kaiboard). I am using HK region apple id and latest ios version
Any notion of why the Earth has only one moon and other planets have hundreds?
Definitely coming soon! :P What's your native language?
At the moment I am not upgrading because I regularly use Aperture for photo editing, and it will be unusable after the update. I bought it 5 years ago, and it's worked perfectly since then, meeting all my needs for photo editing and not even feeling remotely dated in terms of UX/UI even with all the OS updates since then. I have no idea what I'm going to replace it with, since I really don't want to go to Lightroom and it's subscription model.
Your bias predisposes you to read it that way. Were you responsible for a community with a wide spectrum of backgrounds and views, you'd quickly learn how unreliable that sense of "clearly" can be.

HN users who are Chinese or of Chinese background have a right to come here and not see comments like that one, just the same as all HN users do.

Edit: actually, once I read the context of the thread, I see your point. The parent comments were talking about the Chinese government, so it's reasonable to see that as having been in scope.
On the other hand if you wanted to get in the business as a freelancer you had to put all the money in upfront.

Being able to pay as you go with no long term commitments can be liberating as well.
So harassing, heckling, and physically attaching people is "no different" from thinking some people are barbarians?

And people who needed to use the road to get somewhere are automatically "pro-china"? And they deserved to be attacked?

Can you even believe yourself? Honestly?
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This sounds kind of like when Steve Jobs threw a fit when he couldn't be employee #1:

> An early showdown came over employee badge numbers. Scott assigned #1 to Wozniak and #2 to Jobs. Not surprisingly, Jobs demanded to be #1. “I wouldn’t let him have it, because that would stoke his ego even more,” said Scott. Jobs threw a tantrum, even cried. Finally, he proposed a solution. He would have badge #0. Scott relented, at least for the purpose of the badge, but the Bank of America required a positive integer for its payroll system and Jobs’s remained #2.

(From Steve Jobs.)
Very good article. The bit about his cognitive dissonance in India really hit home for me. I have experienced the exact same thing where it really feels immoral/unethical to spend so much on one's selfish wants (eg. all sorts of consumerism, much of it totally unnecessary) when there are entire families who need that money to survive. Their suffering is entirely due to accident of birth and an environment which makes "upward mobility" quite difficult if not outright impossible.

What is the root cause of it all? Our current Economic System which is propped up by self-serving laws and Military might euphemistically explained as "maintaining order in the World". All of it lies designed to enrich and keep in power a select few to the detriment of the global population, particularly; the poor and the disenfranchised.

We need a complete rethink of our current Economic System, Progress and Civilization as a whole to bring back "Humanity" into the Human species.
You conveniently missed the next two sentences:

The author of the bill was Senator Jim Brulte, a Republican from Rancho Cucamonga. Wilson admitted publicly that defects in the deregulation system would need fixing by "the next governor".
Is it really communism at this point? There definitely is a lot of capitalism and fascism happening there. It's really about the party and it's leaders and they'll adopt whatever economic or social policy to further the party and its leaders' power and riches.
Have you ever encountered any web sites that you feel went above and beyond in accessibility? I have sometimes wondered while debugging a site for accessibility concerns, fixing the nth input focus problem or what not, whether it would be preferable to actually just design an entirely separate optimized audible experience instead of forcing the user to infer the shape of a designed-for-sighted people website by tabbing all over the place. I imagine that a working implementation would roughly resemble a keyboard navigable phone menu, with the main point being that it would not necessarily correspond to the visual design, but would still offer all of the functionality expected and probably in a more efficient way. Is this a thing? Should it be a thing?
Apple approves Hong Kong protest location app
11 years ago actually, and that was mainly just for the 2008 Olympics, they quickly retreated after the games. The backpedaling definitely started under Hu even if Xi accelerated it.

But there is hope: another Olympics is happening in 2022, they might restart another charm campaign so that isn’t a disaster.
How could this lawsuit cost less then just fixing the website?
Mostly because of conservation of angular momentum: the solar system formed while spinning, and that direction has been maintained. The cases where this is not true (for example, Uranus has its poles "facing the plane" instead of having them orthogonal to it) are likely due to past collisions with foreign bodies that caused the tilt to appear.
They were mocking Al Gore, who made some pretty wild doom predictions which didn’t come true. Even if you’re fully on board with climate change being a very serious issue, there’s plenty of space to mock people. For example, how about an episode which mocks Democrats for coming down hard against nuclear energy (except for Yang)? It’s incredibly disappointing to see the candidates cave to the anti-nuclear wing of their base.
For what you'd pay for a Splunk license that can handle petabytes/hour of data, it would probably be cheaper to just buy Facebook and use Scribe. :-)
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