skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, I believe it's really important to call out and charge the leadership inside these communities. They know full well what is and isn't legal. If you shut down discussion on these sorts of issues, I believe you allow for abuses to happen and rage to grow against the larger community who are often innocent.

As others have mentioned, the Hasidic community is an insular community. I have interacted numerous times in business and I've never had an issue professionally. In matters of business they learn how to behave with customers and run things efficiently. It was why, until the discrimination charges were announced, I kept going back to B&H to spend thousands of dollars on gear over the years. When I was a kid I thought of them like Amish, but instead of farming and barn raising they just happened to sell stuff.

Unfortunately, just like other groups that rely on propaganda to hide abuses, the good rabbis inside it that act as whistleblowers end up attacked. This sickening NSFW/NSFL article [1] is about a rabbi inside the community that decided to speak out against child abuse. He was rewarded with chemical burns after bleach was tossed in his face.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qbe8bp/the-child-rape-ass...
Tl; dr:
They don't know either
I’ve never used bitcoin, but everyone I know closely that does uses it for drugs, and when someone who doesn’t do drugs is about it I always have this nagging feeling their investment is just to cover up a child porn thing. It’s for sure a prejudice, but i can’t shake it
You can also just tap the Power button 5 times to require your passcode. Seems pretty easy to just tap it a million times while you're handing your phone over.
Except that Dapr is language agnostic. How would this compare to akka.net ? ( https://getakka.net/ )
A lot of people don't want to become a criminal by taking a bag that doesn't belong to them. Not exactly shocking.
Democracy is fine. So is your freedom to choose a different job where you can discuss and do what you want.

The fact that other companies exist without this policy means there is no "power structure" other than a private company deciding what's best for its own culture.
I use the mobile, no-JS Twitter, so I see an error message on every page load. Not as many pageloads lately. Most of my Twitter links come from IRC, where there are summary bots for the text. The pictures and videos are rarely worth the hassle.
Move to Australia!
http://www.mensheds.org.au/
That merge appears to change the policy in ways that render this discussion largely irrelevant (given the current subject line).

It used to say:

We do not currently exclude anyone from being a customer based on moral/value grounds.

followed by a list of reasons why not. It now says:

In some circumstances, we may opt to not work with particular organizations, but we assess those on a case-by-case basis. Some reasons we may choose not to work with certain entities include, but are not limited to ... Making derogatory statements ... Encouraging violence or discrimination against protected groups.
Dialogflow + Manychat + serverless. Use that as your build platform and spend time building something usable then writing tonnes of code. Manychat has some nice videos too
> Also, you have an infinite number of trivially easy to make BTC wallets that are not registered to anyone. That's how you can make it anonymous.

That's not a problem. The problem is that if you are not trading with yourself whoever gets your bitcoins has a connection between a physical "you" and and a wallet that "you" used to transfer money. Now the opsec of the transaction depends not only on "you" but also on opsec of that other person. Eventually someone in that path decides it to cooperate with whoever leans on them in the real, not bitcoin world and the security of that stage is blown. Repeat until "you" is discovered.
xmr.to is illegal in the united states so hackers use vpn to get around it.

And there are legitimate reasons to use monero and bitcoin. Sending money to family in countries such as china, iran, and venezuela is one. Another use is legitimiate "adult entertainment" sites where people don't want their sexual fetishes appearing on a credit card or ending up on a blockchain somewhere where the public can see.
"Lie" might be a bit strong, but the concept of relativistic mass is misleading and technically incorrect in various ways.

As a result, in the last few decades or so the concept of relativistic mass has gone out of favor in physics and its teaching.

The wikipedia section for relativistic mass[1] includes the following quote from the textbook "Spacetime Physics," by Taylor and Wheeler:

> "The concept of "relativistic mass" is subject to misunderstanding. That's why we don't use it. First, it applies the name mass – belonging to the magnitude of a 4-vector – to a very different concept, the time component of a 4-vector. Second, it makes increase of energy of an object with velocity or momentum appear to be connected with some change in internal structure of the object. In reality, the increase of energy with velocity originates not in the object but in the geometric properties of spacetime itself."

In short, relativistic mass is not a good way to understand what's actually happening in these scenarios.

Essentially, the relativistic kinetic energy of the object is being counted as mass, following E=mc^2. However, that only works because E=mc^2 is a special-case simplification that is designed to apply when momentum is zero, i.e. in an object's rest frame, to its rest mass.

If you look at the full mass-energy equivalence equation[2]:

E^2 = (pc)^2 + (m0 c^2)^2

...you can see the separate momentum component p. It's possibly to "cheat" and eliminate the (pc)^2 term and bundle it into a revised value for m, but this loses information and leads to various issues of the kind described by Taylor and Wheeler.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_in_special_relativity#Rel...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%E2%80%93energy_equivalenc...
If you label it weed sales of course, but if you label it gift or whatever there is no such proof.

I'm not in this business myself but I suspect they don't write these things down in the transaction but I've been wrong before :p
> was it ever under discussion to simply fill in the Fort Point Channel completely?

At the end of the linked post I reference an earlier post of mine where I propose filling in the channel: https://www.jefftk.com/p/fill-in-fort-point-channel
Can you back that up with some additional data?

According to this: https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/federal-poverty-level-fp...

A family of 8 is under the poverty level if they make less than $43,430. I'd not consider that to be a "rather a lot of money" if raising 8 children is involved.
> "I wonder: how has this not happened already?"

It's the sort of thing you spend a few years normalizing instead of implementing in one fell swoop. Rapid changes unnerve people and a rapid elimination of cash could cause civil or economic unrest. I believe India has experimented with demonetizing larger bills, and in Sweden businesses that accept cash are becoming increasingly uncommon, as are people who use cash.

When the majority no longer consider cash important, eliminating cash becomes safer. More people adopt the mentality that cash users are criminals with something to hide or generally just paranoid weirdos, and are consequently less likely to object when the use of cash is further restricted. Moreover, with fewer people using cash, the government has largely achieved their objective already. When few people use cash the haystack the needles are hidden in becomes much smaller.
FWIW, I can tell you that not everyone finds them to be indistinguishable.
depending on how you look at it, this is either a really interesting or really frustrating problem. the limitations of screen technology and the way we perceive colors puts a lot of awkward constraints on how we can represent and transform them. I like to show people this page as a primer on why color is more complicated than they might think: http://www.hsluv.org/comparison/

the answer to the question "what is the best color space?" can only be "for what?".
Show HN: Free Social Network for E-Commerce
Hi guys!

I've created a free social network for e-commerce, something like Facebook meets Amazon, except it's 100% free –no commissions, no paid features, etc.. I've tried to make it as "free" as possible, while keeping it within the legal boundaries. You can have a pretty solid idea of what the platform is about by checking out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB2X1G-cnMo.

The platform (already fully functional and publicly available): https://www.wheelofcommerce.com/.

So, I wait for any feedback. I know the design is dull, but all functions are working, which is what really matters in this initial phase.

Thanks in advance for your constructive criticism. :)
> I predict that in 50-100 years we'll look back on the age of the automobile as one of the biggest mistakes in urban planning.

No need to wait that long, the regret is felt already. Sydney ripped up its extensive tram network in the 1950s and 1960s to improve the roads for cars. Remnants of the infrastructure remain: cuttings through rocky, hilly areas in particular. My mother (in her 90s now) talks about taking the tram to Bondi.

Melbourne was smart enough to keep their tram network.
Talking politics at work is lame anyways.
I believe it's a documented fact that most of breakthrough technology feels like dabbling in triviality.

I read somewhere (will look for source when I get time), that when Thomas Edison invented phonograph, he believed there wouldn't be no other use for it than to listen to sermons at home.

I believe this __could__ over time revolutionize HCI and perhaps gaming.
And now that person knows exactly who you are.
I'm not sure what you're defining as "big enough" here, but localbitcoins.com shows verified, well-reviewed people in my smallish city that would be willing to do up to $30KUSD in one transaction.
My guess is you missed the point of Free Software. Anyone can use it in any way, including selling for profit. "Free" as in "freedom", you know

Recently I created a small homepage with different re-packaged versions of Java: https://jdk.dev

All that alternative packages are free of charge but they have extended support from a number of big companies. All these companies funded separately, there's no common place for donations or something.

That's totally ok in the world of Free Software. Pick any source code you want, repackage, rebrand it, sell it as you wish and may the Force be with you. People do it all the time.
Real-time identification of gang affiliations doesn't seem to be too far of a leap either.
I come to work for one reason -- to get a paycheck. If you want to talk about politics to your friends/coworkers, do it after work. If you don't like your company's ethics-- change companies.
Chris Hadfield [0] seek to ~ 11m30

[0] https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_hadfield_what_i_learned_from...
You misunderstand what I'm saying.

I'm saying when something is open sourced, -the work is done-. You are not necessarily volunteering to work any more. The act of open sourcing something involves no volunteering; it involves giving something away. Likewise any patches you choose to release.

When I say 'support', I mean "Oh, this person filed a bug; I'll go fix it". I was not saying support with an implication of financial remuneration.
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> Which is why the idea of banning cars in the US pretty much anywhere outside of Manhattan and maybe a few downtown roads is fanciful.

Perhaps the most compelling reason to do so is safety. For example, it's universally agreed that banning cars from Market St., which was approved yesterday here in San Francisco, is going to save many lives over the years. It is a very dangerous street and was never designed for the traffic configuration it has today. (Search for "sf market st deaths" on Google.) Even if you were to suppose that prohibiting private vehicle traffic on Market is just going to shuttle it onto nearby roads (which is not typically what happens, empirically, but anyway), that itself would be a large safety improvement, because it would help to separate pedestrian/bicycle/streetcar traffic from private autos.
But the post specifically compares the payout with number of years served.
Who said otherwise?
I do think it's more of a tech thing. I believe it stems from valuing "culture fit" more than other industries do. I appreciate the idea of culture fit, but feel uneasy about it because it's also discriminatory and leads to problems like this.

I wonder if it's party because of the generalness and youngness of the industry. I imagine fields like oil rigging, therapy services for children, auto repair, or military service have more self-selecting cultures than building generic CRUD apps or web design for random clients.
there gold in them hills
This depends a lot on what the value of their output was. If they want to do their tasks 5 times faster than the interns and leave then they can do that for intern pay since that's the value they bring. If they are actually doing more valuable work that involves understanding the product, working with other teams, designing new systems, and they can still do it in less than 40 hours then that is fine. Being effective at driving projects and making decisions are a different kind of work that usually take some time.
It’s Russiaphobia gone mad. Yeah just like when Trump withdrew troops from northern Syria and gave the ok to Turkey to invade, the media in the US said it would please Syria and Russia (!)

Like, why would Syria and their ally be happy about a loss of Syrian territory?
At my place of work, when I brought up my opinions on diversity/inclusion/gender neutral speech, I was verbally bullied, and resent this still, after 3 years of working there. Talking politics at work is not democracy, because people with dissenting opinions get silenced by belligerent activists. I applaud gitlab for refusing to be arbiter of morals
> Technical professions are generally hold responsible for what they enable.

Not really. Doctors are expected to do the best for their patient without worrying about societal consequences. If Hitler came to a doctor in need of medical help, the doctor would be ethically required to do their best for him, desolate the negative consequences of Hitler to society.

Same with lawyers. Even if their client is a serial murderer and has co fessed their guilt to them, they still have to do their best in representing them.
There have been tragic results of using automobiles, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't all continue to use them. There have been tragic results of using Tesla automobiles, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't all eventually move to electric, autonomous cars.

You can basically say "there have been tragic results" about anything because there will always be irresponsible use.

I could argue that this is irresponsible use of reasoning.

Psychedelics, used responsibly, have overwhelming positive results in my experience, in scientific literature, in popular culture, in human spiritual history. The problem is that you have to validate this in your direct experience, and many people will either not have the requisite knowledge or open-mindedness to use them properly or to overcome the fear of them in the first place.
How is women in tech a political thing? Just seems like an effort to make the work place more welcoming to people.
Please let's not open up all those cans of fiery worms. It's off topic in this context, and such threads are invariably repetitions of the previous thousand flamewars.

"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Microservices are usually a bad idea for software unless your whole business model depends on lots of people using your software down the line. It's certainly not good for internal software.

What people really need to do is follow SOLID principles, use interfaces appropriately, and just generally practice good architecture.

The real benefit is the separation of concerns, which microservices promises to deliver. But well designed software does that too, and you don't have the headache of coordinating all that hardware.

I guess it's easier to sell something trendy to upper management (we're doing the new, hot thing) than to sell a code rewrite (we're not going to ship new features for a while as we opaquely push around code).
I've worked on getting some individual people into assisted living situations, etc. The problem has never been lack of beds. It has been the individual involved.

There are a few good books on all of this. It's not a resource problem in the Western world. It's a mental illness and drug problem.

EDIT: I should say rather, the major problem has never been lack of beds. Sometimes I've had to wait a few days, etc., or choose a different place. Nobody has infinite money. But it has never been a major or insurmountable problem.
With that statement I was merely acknowledging a fact. Many people have had a fine old time with the aid of the "Magic" Mushroom. It can't be denied. However, personally, I agree with you that "viewing the trip as a recreational experience is misguided at best and damaging or dangerous at worst."
It's a simplified equation which only fully applies in the case where momentum is zero.

The full equation[1] is:

E^2 = (pc)^2 + (m0 c^2)^2

...where p is momentum, and m0 is rest mass (mass in the rest frame of the object.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%E2%80%93energy_equivalenc...
A better example would probably be to search for a way to fix something on your car. The results are overwhelmingly skewed towards selling you the part vs instructions.
Perhaps that is true with Google’s products. As some else here said, they should grow up and figure out a business model that does not requires collecting so much data. I would prefer to pay them in cash than with my information.

For ambient computing, my favorite things are my Apple Watch and iPods. True enough, using Siri and these devices is using black box devices, but for now I am OK with them. I trust Apple, for now.
AI Bias Adds Complexity to AI Systems
The wording of this statement sounds very poorly thought out. Does a customer have to pay them? What if I argue I don't believe I should have to pay, or I have a moral objection? What if my belief in freedom says it's OK to ddos them? Presumably they'll fall back on something like "our contract says you have to pay us to use our services". Great. So you can and will refuse to work with a customer for a reason you chose, not an externally imposed restriction. The intended meaning is probably more like "we will work with anyone who works within our core beliefs about how society and payment for services should work, but we have not done the work of figuring out what those are in advance".
I think you're wrong that this affects conservatives significantly more than other groups (and maybe that betrays your personal bias).

What is true is that people who are beliefs much are out of far outside the norm for their workplace are discouraged. For example, if you're someone who believes that profit is theft, and you make that clear during work, it will probably have negative effects for you. Whether "conservatives" are the victim of this depends on their workplace and just what views they espouse.
Given the rules specifically refer to "targeted" misgendering and deadnaming, I don't see how your concerns about "keeping up" are applicable. Seems clear to me how it works:
Don't seek out some person on twitter and deliberately harass them with the gender they aren't and the name they don't have. Aside, lots of people in this thread appear to be reacting like this is a very complicated rule, but this doesn't seem like something that needs to be carefully interpreted against the standing fabric of society.

Toward your comment, can't we establish harm is caused by targeted misgendering/deadnaming by asking the transgender people who have been harassed by it how they feel about it? Doesn't that seem not even necessary? What line on harm needs to be drawn exactly before we can make a rule "don't deliberately harass transgender people on our platform via their dead identities."
Not sure if/what Github is doing, but I think you meant Gitlab.
A question - how common are such old stars? Because it is right in our backyard. 190 light years away are nothing. And if those stars are rare - that makes our neighborhood unusual - we have life and some of the oldest object in the universe in almost the same spot.
Sadly you will be met with the same arguments that have been brought out since before the time of the moon landing. Why? The money is better spent on maintaining our military advantage over other counties. It’s better spent on housing programs for the poor. It’s better spent on upgrading our crumbling bridges and roads. It’s better spent on new infrastructure like trains and nuclear plants.

The list will be endless and all of these people are right. Their world views are no less correct than yours and their interpretation of how our shared resources should be spent equally correct.

This is why capitalism is so effective. This is why Monarchies we’re so effective. These systems exist to channel the theoretical 1,000,000 humans away from spending all of their resources advancing 1,000,000 goals a single unit and instead advance one goal a million units (monarchy) or 5 goals 200,000 units (capitalism).

Speaking more to the topic at hand, it’s great that we were able to make the progress that we have and let’s be honest that’s owed almost entirely to the moon race going public (same way gluten free everything is available now making the people that really need it very happy because they never would have received nearly as many units of productivity spent on advancing their problem if it hadn’t gone mainstream for a time).
All societal problems are solvable. Bitcoin is by no means a silver bullet. It requires 600kWh and 95g of e-waste per transaction (and rising). It allows all sorts of transactions we don't want including avoiding sanctions, funding terrorism, wealth accretion by rogue states, extortion scams -- the cost of which far outweighs the transactions we do want but can't have under our current system. It's not the answer to this question, or any other IMO.
OK agree to disagree then. I spent a year on a team trying to break a monolith into microservices generally we failed. We ended up with microfrankenservices that had no clear seams. Problem is generally the state gets mixed up throughout the app. Unrelated entities participating in the same transaction for example. References to domain objects everywhere in the monolith.
If it's a web property or SaaS, I think people have posted here a few websites that intermediate buyers and sellers. Unfortunately, I don't remember any of the names but it seems there are 1-2 that are trustworthy out there. Does anyone know?
> we encourage diversity of ideas. We respect the uniqueness and autonomy of others, even if we do not always agree with them.

I like this. I like this a lot.

I've never been a fan of the way the Contributors Code of Conduct does explicitly allow for people to have opinions of their own outside the projects so long as they don't try to represent those opinions as being a representative of the project.

If it had, and offered remedies, the guy in the Opal situation could have just removed Opal from his Twitter profile, instead of being asked to leave the project.
I could see this being extremely useful in the health space, since you could interact without touching anything and transmitting bad bugs.
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Europeans in general just seem to be more open to political discussion. When traveling I've heard many Europeans tell me that Americans tend to be very sensitive when it comes to politics, and I've found that to often be the case in my experience as well.