skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Positive action need not be to fix what has already happened. Steps to prevent a repetition are still positive action, and imo do more to instill confidence that a behavior won't be repeated than an attempt to fix the existing mess.

Not to say that one shouldn't do both, but often it isn't possible to fix something you're apologizing for. That doesn't make sincere apology impossible.
Don't forget radio. A lot of USAians don't realize that in Canada (and a lot of other countries) you can't start a radio station, or change your programming, without the government approving the format you choose.

Want to play country music on your radio station? Woah there, podner. There's already a country station in this town, and if you play country music, too, there won't be enough advertising money to go around. So the incumbent stays, and the idea of competition allowing the better station to survive can go pound sand.
And a fair amount of risk of IPR loss...
> For now, the IRS says, while it agrees auditing more wealthy taxpayers would be a good idea, without adequate funding there’s nothing it can do.

Why not pay out a portion of the tax recovered from audits as a bonus. The IRS auditor gets 1-10% of the tax they recover for the people of the USA.

It'd work like the commissions the big accounting firms receive of the amount of tax they save for their clients.

I bet there'd be a benefit in retaining those really smart auditors who could pass all the tests as well. I can't help but imagine some of those auditors leave the IRS and go straight to those aforementioned accounting firms. Farm team style like the Senators and Representatives do to lobbyists.
Both in trash and energy. We consume a ton per capita.
I am surprisingly conflicted. My strongest urge is to plainly say, screw them. China is a dictatorship, they are actively stomping out freedoms which I very much believe everyone living person had a right to. If they can't stand hearing the truth, fine, no NBA in China.

In the back of my mind, I also recognize that isolation and division breeds more isolation and division. No NBA in China means less Western and Eastern cultural exchange. China doesn't have that kind of influence in our country, yet our American sport is hugely popular there.
Bench marking a “Hello World ” REST Service in Ada
I grew up in an apartment in NYC with all these things except parking — which was fine because we didn’t need a car.

Frankly is was glorious. I don’t understand why more apartment buildings aren’t like this. It can’t be that expensive to make a floor that doesn’t transmit sound.
That's almost comically underspecified. One big concern that comes to mind, is the string a complete view of the object (and thus suitable for serialization) or not? Or is it more succinct and suitable for a print statement?
> All they are asking for is the same basic level of respect and politeness that anyone else gets.

Well no, that is the entire reason the situation isn't an open-and-shut-nothing-to-see-here non-controversy.

The other 97-99% of people go through life without ever particularly asserting that a specific personal pronoun needs to be used for them. They'll get antsy if someone is trying to insult them, but it looks a lot like the insult matters more than the pronoun. That 99-97% of people don't really control their public identity; have you ever seen someone trying to shake a nickname they don't particularly like? An identity is in the hands of the community. Asserting control is actually highly unusual, transexual or otherwise, and goes beyond the bounds of routine politeness.

The issue is that there is an activist minority (who may or may not be part of the trans community) who want to force people to talk in a certain way. That is not basic politeness and respect. It is complicated and context specific - especially once people start getting sacked and excluded over it.
That’s perfectly fine.
Yup, there is. The issue is that the VTA won't release it.
Mods are volunteers, but most mods on SO take their responsibilities very seriously. The terminology that has been used during the last few days has been "firing" rather than "removal of moderation privileges," so I stuck with that.

Monica mentioned in her post that she was the second choice candidate for a community manager position, which is an actual job at SO, but I'm not clear on whether she was actually offered a job and if she accepted. Either way, this indicates she was a fairly active mod if she was being considered for a job.
Transport in quasi monopolist areas is one of these fields where markets regularily fail, to deliver the promised results as railway privatizations have shown. At least from a German perspective the single thing that did the most good for the mobility market were the actions of the national anti-trust institution, that brought us affordable inter-city buslines. The railway service is the typical mess. Privatization improved the service quality to some degree, but made infrastructure debt way worse, because the goal of the company isn’t to give us mobility, but to give their shareholders profits. So instead of maintaining bridges, they let them rot and collapse and then they ask the state to jump in and build a new one. The good old strategy: privatization of gains and socialization of losses.

Railways are one of these fields where markets regularily fail to deliver because you are in monopoly region and building another railway system to get some competition is unfeasable.

I don’t really see this as very ideological btw. I just have never seen a public transport market that developed much in favour of the general population without government intervention. So anecdotal evidence etc.
The entire content of the tweet:

"Fight for Freedom. Stand with Hong Kong"
There was a lot of controversy over that film, much of it rather amusing. A lovely debate with they had back in the day (and utterly win): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ni559bHXDg

To each their own, but I'd suggest that your offense taken was not necessary and could have been misconstrued.
So many misunderstandings around this. For one, in the US we have free speech. That means that you can say anything you want, but you have to accept that you may lose customers for saying it. It doesn't matter if you believe that your customers shouldn't be pissed off. It's the Chinese in this case, but it could be any other relevant group.

Second, perhaps because most Americans haven't been to China and cannot read Chinese, they can't really appreciate this situation. Hong Kong is a part of China, and they are in the middle of a transition period from British rule. It's inevitable that they will be incorporated into the country, and it's really too late to try to turn that around. They could have tried to stay under British rule, but they gambled on the fact that they expected a very different future for China. The gamble did not pay off, and it is what it is. The rest of China (not just the government) wants them to assimilate, and it will happen. If you live in Hong Kong and you don't like that, really your only reasonable option is to move. It's not a given that the protestors are in the "right" and it's not a given that there is a right side on this. Just misaligned interests.
>Wikipedia had an entry for more than 15 years on its English-language website about a death camp in Warsaw during the years of the Holocaust that did not exist in real life, Haaretz reported on Friday.

why not link to the actual story

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-the-fa...
This looks pretty cool. I have been using a more pen and paper type method. If I find a recipe I want to make, I will print it out. As I am making it, I will note an adjustments I make.

If the family likes it, I will do a reflection on any further adjustments. Finally I copy it into a hard bound book with lined pages.

I don’t add too often to this book as the initial filtering keeps average recipes off.
Curious, but have you (or anyone else reading this) tried out working as a developer online? I've got this nagging dream of moving to Kentucky, buying 20 acres and a mansion for $250K, and finishing out my career working online in my underwear.
I've been trying to sort out all these recent posts today and I think your summary is a pretty good one.

At the risk of being downvoted, as a cisgender same-sex attracted member of the "LGBTQ+ community", I suspect only a relatively small number of outspoken transgender activists would have a problem with revisiting this policy change with the aim of restoring goodwill in the community. We are so often lumped together by broader society as LGBTQ+ (and variations) that many people outside the world of gender and sexual minorities don't realize how much conflict there is between the LGB people and the T people.

It seems ludicrous to me that anybody should care about the pronouns of anonymous question-askers on the internet. But then again I also don't see much sense in performing tons of free moderation labor for StackExchange.
Longer than Alaska?
apparently anything on the site like a code example that talks about people like Bob and Alice cant use He and She - because it might offend the 0.01% of people who think that everyone needs to state their pronouns. apparently even saying They isnt enough.

its what happens when you give in to the tiny minority that will always complain about something
They aren't working at a food bank though. They are helping a company make money. If you heard your waiter complain that the for profit restaurant he volunteered for treated him badly, repeatedly, and had no signs of changing, you might ask him why he doesn't consider not working there anymore.
This is more representing the power of social media mob justice than what "China" wants. It's really not that different from how the left or the right boycott a business after any other tweet
You're not a global power.
US companies are increasingly "owned" by the Chinese government through Chinese investment. None of them are willing to risk the financial backlash that would occur if they spoke out against the Chinese government - so they are willing to censor their own platforms and sacrifice their own stakeholders and users to please them.
Are we all going to become chickenshits to earn Chinese money?

The companies and people of the Western world need to stand up to authoritarian China ... or else, in 25 years our kids are all going to be tasting the boot heel of whatever god emperor China has on its throne at that time (probably still Xi).

We are all underestimating how authoritarian China is and how much crime the Politburo members get away with.
>China really needs to get a grip and understand that with seven billion people in the world, not everyone is going to agree with everything it wants

1.4 billion of those people are Chinese, and they can get outaged over whatever ridiculous shit they want.
Umm...apartments can have all those things. Frankly needing to have a car where I live now is the huge downgrade, I’d much rather live somewhere with sensible transit and not have to deal with the car.
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A bit interesting to contrast this to the NFL anthem protests. In both cases, there's been a lot of political pressure and some social media backlash. However in the US, to the best of my knowledge, sponsors have stuck on the "right" side and, according to wiki, have been rewarded for it.
Yes, but that’s to manage L train shut down problems.

There’s a meaningful difference between a stop gap plan to address immediate problems and larger change in how we think about transportation within New York
Why can't Hong Kong just vote then we can end these protests? The people could vote for a leader who wants closer ties and one who wants more autonomy but let them vote and have a say in the matter. I do not think voting will lead to secession but maybe to a sense of freedom and the ability to influence direction of country.
He didn't even tweet it, just a like. And the media and west should stop pretending that the people don't like and support the party.
"that Ruby dude" is "_why the lucky stiff" for anyone who learned to program post Rails 1. He's probably the reason I started programming.
> They could have tried to stay under British rule, but they gambled on the fact that they expected a very different future for China. The gamble did not pay off,

As if this was a choice for people from Hong Kong
One of the popular existing job scheduler is Quartz, it is solid and does work pretty well up to a limit. The problem arises where we need to scale-out from a single master DB, there are some workarounds for that, but each has its limitations. (https://hazelcast.com/blog/distributed-task-coordination-wit...)

While there are some existing solutions like BigBen from Walmart, it might be possible that they were overkill for the task required.
Whenever I've looked at Gitlab/GH pages, Netlify, etcetera in the past I haven't found a good web/mobile CMS to use with them. Most pro options are too expensive for a personal blog. However ellinokon's suggestion for Siteleaf looks promising.
If the purpose of audits are to recover tax revenues, then auditing the poor at the same rate as the wealthy is very disproportionate.

If the purpose of audits is merely to find and punish tax cheats, then auditing everyone at the same rate makes sense I suppose. Though I suspect certain higher income levels are more prone to cheating.
What does fighting for freedom and standing with Hong Kong have to do with promoting sport?

Why not just shut the fuck to and promote sport?

This is how we know some (many?) successful people just got lucky with the birth lottery and generally being in the right places and knowing the right people.
Ahh... so Human Resource Machine and 7 Billion Humans are closer to your likings?
Products that Google killed in 2019
Restaurants aren't going to change their hours, hospitals aren't going to change their shifts, what motivation does an employer have to make changes? It doesn't cost employers anything so they are unlikely to care and jobs aren't exactly elastic goods either.
I suppose it's for the same reason as why you cannot reset your forgotten private SSH key.

Secrets are only stored encrypted, and the key is derived from the master password, not known to any admins. Cracking the admin account or the entire server gives the intruder very little.

So, it's a feature. You may not want this feature, though.
Tldr: he got addicted to cocaine, got fired from his job because of his drug problem, and turned to a life of crime to feed the addiction.
This is golden advice, especially the last bit.

It sounds mean, and maybe it could be phrased nicer (minus the "I feel bad for you" part), but it's not wrong. All socially interactive sites online will eventually attract people who attack someone doing a service, as in the case of the OP, and they will do everything they can to insult you, make you feel bad, or generally fling all manner of dirt in your direction. Worse, if you stop doing what you're doing you're essentially giving them exactly what they want: Stop posting.

The best solution is to continue. Double down if need be. Learn something from it and move on. In fact, if the OP really wants to get back at them, continuing to write is probably the best way forward. Hell, find someone who would be willing to edit your work. Also, recognize that mistakes will be made. Multi-million dollar publications with dozens of editors on staff sometimes have glaring mistakes slip through the process. There isn't much more you can do as a solo writer without hitting diminishing returns in the pursuit of perfection. Judging by the comments, it looks like the "mistake" wasn't, which makes this situation even more absurd, and the willingness to give in even more so!

Ultimately, just recognize some people are toxic. And like diminoten said: They will always cut you down. If someone isn't willing to offer constructive criticism, or take the time to write it, nothing they've written is worth reading. Treat it that way.

Amusingly, I had something similar happen to me on social media recently over my use of the colloquialism "performant" that's often used here on HN (and plenty of places elsewhere--just search Wikipedia for some examples). Except in this case, it's not a word. Rather than do what they want (I'm not sure what that would be), I doubled down. They weren't adding anything to a technical discussion (and admitted they knew nothing about the subject matter), so I politely told them that if they wanted to interject with anything, to keep it on topic. They didn't. I persisted. They blocked me. Sometimes the problems solve themselves, but it's important not to let them dissuade you from enjoying what you're doing.

You HAVE to be a bit more aggressive. It's not easy (I know, trust me), but in this case, the OP is doing something that sounds like it's beneficial to a lot of people. Don't stop doing it because of one jerk. If you do, we're all worse off.
> they gambled on the fact that they expected a very different future for China.

Hong Kong was always going to return to China in 1997 due to a British-China deal. There's no way for HK to NOT return to China.
I didn’t want to spoil it - some people like the thrill of figuring out the puzzle. It’s eminently Googleable.
China will not allow real democracy in Hong Kong under any circumstances. They take this so seriously that when Britain proposed democratic self-rule in HK in the 60's (in keeping with the democratization of their other colonies at the time), China said they would invade immediately if that happened, and the idea was scrapped.
"pick your battles, life isn't necessarily fair"

What is that supposed to mean?
for some reason, 50 degrees feels more like 35
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This is totally sad. I really wonder how a company could publish a year ago in 2018 "Our Theory of Moderation, Re-visited.":

> Trust people.
> Supporting people should be your default reaction

and then a year later be in this current state.

Worse is, SE seems to unable to reactify the situation in a meaninful and trustful way.
Did NBA compare Xi to Winnie the Pooh? Haha. Seriously, China should stop being so authoritative.
I don't want to live in a tiny house, but I want the right to be able to.
There are, usually, ready buyers for a well-performing business--which is another word for a machine that turns money into more money.

Furthermore, attaining some modest success does not tend to make business owners indifferent to the prospect of having a bit more success. Letting the business wither and die while one takes pills on Party Island is not the way it goes.
You can criticize China, but then you lose their dollars.

So in the end, the thing that rules over you is actually money.
Charging people to pick up their trash generally ends in trash getting dumped or disposed of improperly (eg, contamination of the recycling bin).
> misleading to this form, rather than a profound knowledge

This doesn't sound native either.
I should be able to live where I want.

My inability to not afford housing in the places that I want to live in are not an outcome based on “efficient markets”.

The cost of housing in major American cities is largely determined by whether they can build more housing to meet demand and lower costs. The new housing is blocked most often by people who already live there.

So now the question is how different groups with opposing interests might apply power to get their desired outcome.
Science helps three amputees merge with their bionic prosthetic legs
This is an increasing factor in the US motion picture industry. Major studios are generally unwilling to produce movies that show China or the Chinese Communist Part in a negative light due to the need for financing and distribution.
Chiming in as another American who prefers metric measurements in the kitchen.

I do a lot of baking (mostly things made of sourdough) and always appreciated that King Arthur offers the conversion on their recipes; So much so that I'll generally check there first. When I'm working out a new recipe from multiple different ones, I convert them all to metric in my own version.

I think the only thing I don't use metric for is <= half a teaspoon, because the measuring spoon is far more efficient than trying to measure out 2g on a kitchen scale that has a minimum of ~2g. And it seems silly to me to break out the scientific scale for a 1/2 tsp of whatever.
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> i have no idea what's going on here, but while i remain ignorant, here are some opinions.
> * people other than me are doing it wrong, probably because they're much less clever.
> * building a community is so easy, anyone can do it.
> * the most constructive way to engage is to disengage.
> * some people's hard work is actually useless.
This is one of the first things you'll learn studying Macroeconomics. Any introductory book on that topic will teach you about the concept.

In general, you can look for information pertaining to "How banks create money," which refers to your $100 deposit turning into $1000 after it completes the ownership ladder.

If you're still in college and have the opportunity to take some electives, I highly recommend Micro and Macroecon.
Somewhere something bad happened.

Orange man bad.
Darn I might have to peel the SO sticker off the back of my MacBook.
You'd be more convincing if you said "Don't move there."
It's frightening to what degree China is able to censor people living well outside of their jurisdiction.
>Now, why do you come across as hostile? When you are being assertive, do you do so showing respect to others?

As best I can, yes. Part of it was likely cultural. I was in Europe at the time. But, no attempt on my CTO's part was made to come to some understanding about what was going on (someone claimed I said something offensive, which was definitely not my intent). In general I've never had the authority du jour attempt to be understanding. It's really fucked up my life, and at this point I am angry, have every right to be angry, and have no idea what to do about it.

In this particular case that jackass has wasted/will waste 2-3 years of my life. If I could break his nose or more I gladly would.
>instead of being frustrated at the statement that my TypeScript and the other team's C needs to use the same headers, I focused on how to communicate, in an economy of words, why this API deviation may be a process problem, not a technical one.

The statement actually makes a lot of sense if you don't take it literally. If you programmatically generate both C and TS part from the same common definition (protobuf?) as a part of the build process, API deviation will become an easy-to-see compile-time error instead of a runtime surprise.
Sounds like they are so important they should have been compensated. I mean, if they were so critical to the success.
Why not link to a contrarian take on the Haaretz story and some commentary on the extreme Zionist slant of Wikipedia?

http://www.unz.com/gatzmon/here-come-the-polocaust-deniers/
Sort of like asking why were people screaming about drug prohibition in the US when they could just go to Amsterdam.

"We've got ours, everyone else can bugger off" is a political position subject to debate, not a property of the universe.
i think the disagreement is the trigger.

It looks like the deeper issue is that the way how some SE people dealt with the disagreement has been causing a lot of pain and distrust.
And this is how China slowly takes away American's freedom of speech. This is their 'soft' power.
I wasn't blaming my mother, but I was blaming society. How, or rather why, should I think about what actions I can take to change the situation if there was not some problem with society?

I've been searching inwards for years now, and at some point there is nothing left I can do. I've routinely been fucked over by authority. In this case it cost me 2-3 years of my life and setbacks in school.
“China doesn’t have that kind of influence in our country”. Yet here we are discussing them.