skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we’re mostly in agreement. Clearly today’s Twitter has a legal right to do what they want with their platform. I think it’s hypocritical to be concerned about Russians manipulating our Democracy indirectly, but not concerned at all about Twitter manipulating it much more directly. And my acknowledging that some people are hypocrites doesn’t imply that everyone who is concerned about Russian meddling is not also concerned about Twitter meddling or vice versa. I’m not persuaded that this all constitutes a conflation; it appears the only distinction is that Twitter is acting legally and Russia is presumably acting illegally (and I’m not sure they are acting illegally), but I’m not convinced that this distinction is a meaningful distinction because there is little consolation to be had in that Twitter can corrupt our Democracy legally.

I fully agree that moderating Twitter while protecting our democracy is a sticky problem, although I think there are many milder options besides those you presented including regulating Twitter as a utility, breaking it up as a monopoly, or even shutting it down altogether (yes, it’s sad to think of the government shutting down a company, but that’s strictly better than a company controlling our government). None of these solutions are nationalizing social media, by the way—not meaningfully.

I’m sure we can find all sorts of reasons why these solutions are imperfect, and I’m sure smarter people than myself can think of better solutions. The fact remains that these big social media companies have far too much power, and even a bad solution is almost certainly better than allowing this considerable attack vector to persist (the attack vector that is open to private companies and state actors alike). By the way, it’s not just our American democracy under threat, it’s every democracy where Twitter et al have strongholds.
> and she tells me trying to keep up with their technology use is a nightmare

This sounds like a good thing. It might come as a surprice but a lot of people in the sex offenders registry are there for victimless crimes (such as sending nude pictures of themselves when they were underage - consider https://metro.co.uk/2019/06/27/boy-15-made-sign-sex-offender... as an example of the >10 instances in news reports that I have read of such situation). The probation officer being unable to keep up with the technology that these people use will guarantee them similar levels of privacy that people like you and me have.

> https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/28/us/child-sex-...

Just an offtopic note, this site is painful to read (on the desktop at least). Whatever happened to simple text sites?
Not on ISO keyboards, which is every European language at least.
Clearly isn't the same
We have multiple of these here in Belgium and the Netherlands. Even between countries.

https://www.thebulletin.be/first-wildlife-bridge-over-brusse...

https://www.thebulletin.be/wildlife-crossing-flemish-brabant...
So a parent who relentlessly verbally bullies their child every day is what, just exchanging ideas?
I would guess octopus is an imported word, so what you're describing has in a sense happened. The scenario reminds me of the (probably inaccurate) origin story for chicken tikka masala, where someone asked for some gravy to go with their dry chicken tikka.

So maybe I could try ordering a char sui tsa sui, then I can regale my grandkids with stories about how I invented the world famous dish :)

I suppose food is literally a melting pot, of cuisines and culture.

Ps, I think octopus would go better with French fries.
Thanks to the article for pointing out what to avoid as I hone my skill of Violent Communication. And by all means embrace it people! So I can stand out more from the crowd.
What good software modeling techniques could one learn instead of OOP?
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It's still not enough if attendees start chanting. Heck some may go only to do that.
Good deduction, Sherlock!
I didn't assume that "a degree in religion" meant a PhD in religion. I thought the more likely parallel was that the school would have considered him if he had a ThD (Doctor of Theology) or a DMin (Doctor of Ministry), or possibly even a DD (Doctor of Divinity, usually honorary in the US but academic in the UK).

I wonder though --- why do you think it's reasonable that a college would require a PhD from all instructors? Why not simply consider the degree to be a plus, but not a requirement? Do you restrict this to "all" instructors in fields where a PhD is common? Would you eliminate artists or authors from teaching creative courses with (or without) an MFA?
I talked to a biologist a while ago who told me that there are species that are so averse to move through 'different' environments that a single lane street through a field can effectively cut the habitat into two different habitats with individuals on both sides never interacting/crossing the street again. That's pretty sad and a way larger effect of land use than I had ever imagined.
This has nothing to do with the "left". Protecting your "brothers" and "sisters" from dehumanized child-killing enemy is the core of all war propaganda.
No, they're not violence. They are a possible consequence of it.

Violence, as per my dictionary, requires intentional action (but is not necessarily physical). The existence of gay people is not intentional, and therefore is not an act of violence against religious fundamentalists.
What did Sweden do to Assange, except trying to assert that soon to be fugitive named Assange committed the alleged crimes against the woman accusing him of rape?
Pipes.

Used Unix every day for 20 years and I'd say 90% of WC use cases is read from a pipe
In UK schools are in session in April, May, June and July (the equivalent of Oct,Nov,Dec,Jan), aside from a week off in may.
> Whatever complaints you may have about ICE, there is no analogy

I disagree.

The analogy may or may not be very good, but there is an analogy that deserves to be treated on its merits.

The Holocaust was evil and horrible, but the lesson we sought to take from it wasn't that it was a singular evil that could never happen again. Instead, it was about the banality of evil (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem), that great evils are often the product of thousands of small steps that individually seem innocuous or trivial compared to what came before.

One point being made by the article is that providers of technology -- then IBM, but here github and the like -- carry a moral responsibility for the likely uses of that technology. If that point is correct and IBM is stained by its initial provision of card sorting machines to the Reich (well before the regime began mass killings), then Microsoft et al might carry the stain of crimes that haven't happened yet.
Miui 11 release date हो गया ऐलान इसके साथ मे redmi note 8 प्रो को भी कर दिया
Since remote work seems to be the topic this article on async communication spawned I wanted to throw this out there for reactions.

First off let me acknowledge that some people prefer remote work and also say up front I do not.

I recent YouAreNotSoSmart podcast interviewed Laurie Santos from Yale and if I understood her research basically claims we often both individually and as a society choose things we think will make us happy but actually don't. Examples seemed to include anything that takes you away from people. One example was the ATM machine. It's more convenient than a bank teller but interacting with the teller adds to your quota of needed interaction for happiness. Things like the fact that you can order a Starbucks coffee on your phone and pick it up with no interaction as another tiny example. I'm sure those were minor examples but she was basically claiming we're often inadvertently choosing things that actually make us less happy.

For me I prefer in office work because I want to be around other people. I want them to interrupt me too. Not 100% of the time but I enjoy the camaraderie, the conversations, going over solutions together, etc...

So in that context, is it possible the push for remote work fits in that line? We think it will make us happy but it for many people it will have the unintended consequence of isolating them and actually make them less happy.

I'm not saying you shouldn't be given the choice. Maybe you are different. Maybe you have special needs (someone you need to take care of for example) or maybe you're remote location has family or friends around. But, if Laurie Santos is correct then maybe a large percent of people are actually making a bad choice?

PS: I don't know if I trust her research. I'm only passing on my interpretation what I though she said in the interview.
No this is a device that is powered by a USB-C charger and outputs whatever voltage/current you want (if it is possible).

So in this case he made an adaptor that lets him charge his lenovo laptop (traditional DC charger) with USB-C.
It can be but nothing about it makes that the default or even easy.

I’d love to see companies abandon chat in favor of discussion threads.

For “water cooler” conversations video is almost always better.
Current technology allows for much better fine-tuning of flagging and getting rid of humans. I recently commented on the usage religious/racial profiling of IBM in The Netherlands in WWII here [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21212341
I'm in the Netherlands now, 'tjap tjoi' is pretty much the most cliche 'Chinese' (in quotes because it's all heavily Westernized) dish there is.

When I was living in the UK (Staines, south-west of London - but this was 10+ years ago) I remember recognizing it on menus, I hadn't had much Chinese at the time and this was one of the few I knew. But yeah I don't know how wide spread it is. Maybe the same decline in popularity the article talks about has happened everywhere.
It looks like there are 66 fans installed with venting at the tunnel ends. https://www.novenco-building.com/media/1166/king-willem-alex...
Possibly the worst platform to ever grace the internet, and that takes some doing when you have Facebook as your competition.

The sooner it kills itself from within the better
this exactly is how the world works. if you receive money, wherever it comes from, in more and more countries it must be taxed as income. if you want it tax free, you must prove that you are eligible to do so.

the question is whether or not it is right for google to act as a gatekeeper here. i think not.
Could this be regarded as false advertising? It's not really free if you have to hand over PII. Problem is, no-one seems to know how much PII is worth.
I don't remember a lot about Looper but I feel like more exposition of JGL's "downward spiral" would have really helped clear things up for me -- for example, how anybody can go from looking like JGL to looking like 2010s Bruce Willis.
Do you mean why does Oracle treat NULL and empty string as the same thing? Internally Oracle changes empty string to NULL values. Oracle won't let you insert an empty string.
I know. They're designed with fire in mind. What I don't know is what they're rated at and if they run at higher flow rates depending on traffic and/or pollution levels.

The alternative was to run the highway around the city, which is probably also cheaper. Though it's nice that they recovered some space and planted grass and trees over it.
> What's depressing about the current world of software?

For example the insanity that it is impossible to understand what actually happens below the surface. The ideal that I have in the back of my mind is that a highly gifted person who can afford to spend a few years of intensive study can really understand each individual line/byte of code that gets executed on the computer (i.e. all of the software that runs on it) completely.

---

An interesting lecture by Jonathan Blow:

Jonathan Blow - Preventing the Collapse of Civilization

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk

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Also read some texts of Alan Kay's STEPS project:

For a well-readable overview, consider https://blog.regehr.org/archives/663

Some progress reports:

> http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2007008_steps.pdf

> http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2011004_steps11.pdf

Lots of additional papers about STEPS (and other topics): http://www.vpri.org/writings.php

(I want to make it clear that I consider what came out of the STEPS project to be very disappointing :-( ).
To everyone saying "but this will be used for child porn!"... guess what else is used for that? The internet.

Should we just ban the internet as a whole?

I understand the sentiment, but I hard disagree with it. Especially because this tool (and similar to it) can be used for good, and might be necessary in the future.

Try to see the glass half-full.
Android support ?
Not every form of depression is pathological. I think our current culture doesn't really provide many avenues to express sadness, so people probably don't tell the truth when they have doubt. And doubt is an uninvited guest for business.

Not directly applicable to the article though, that is probably a completely different effect.
And yet here we are, where giant companies full of people with amazing formal educations are being powered by cheap unreliable consumer-grade architectures built on top of unreliable consumer-grade hardware.

It turns out, evolution doesn't optimize for architectural beauty. Maybe there was a dinosaur out there with an amazing, lean, clean body structure, yet here I am, happily carrying around my appendix ;) Evolution is ruthless.
Yeah I like the cable solution better for a laptop, but this device could be used for anything! It would be cool to have it power an electronics breadboard too, especially if you can get both 20V and 5V off the same charger cord.
In what sense will it be ok? Isn't a lot of the stuff in appstores spyware nowadays?
In this case the answer is: do something entirely different than the program you are comparing it with
Nearly every sizable European city has a through railway, it is super common here. They are rarely any obstacle.
I wouldn’t call it depressing but I think for example, when you look at even the most fundamental types, for example in c#, they have difficult problems.

Floating point numbers for example. Or date times. Egad! Or strings. There’s a Jon Skeet talk that covers this very well. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l3nPJ-yK-LU
I once was comming back from academy, and was late, so I didn`t want to stay and shower there, and decided to go home in may exercise clothes.
When I was going inside the car, I put the duffle bag containing wallet, clothes and watch, OPN the car roof to open the door, and forget there.

When I was on my way home, it fell somewhere. I didn`t even notice.

I got home, showered, I was getting ready to go to bed when I got a call from some guy.

Turns out he was walking with his dog, and saw the duffle bag fall of the roof. He took a look inside, and there was my Id and a business card, but not my contact information.

He recognized the business card because it was someone who got to med school with him. I was my step mother busIness card.

She gave he my cel number. I was incredible luck that day.
We have been trained to use this sort of thing (named differently but essentially the same thing) for when giving performance feedback (especially for very-junior and interns etc).

In the meeting today you <something>
This made me feel annoyed because <something>
I would have preferred you to <do something else>

Facts and specific examples are super useful in these sort of things.
I believe in the cited article the author was simply pointing out to the fact that it is easy to learn the syntax and basic semantics of the language.

It is extremely hard to write high performance Haskell, same as it is hard to write high performance C. And additionally I think it is foolish to claim that "Haskell is no harder to learn than any languages". Definitely there are certain misconceptions (like you need to know category theory to learn Haskell) which needs to be debunked, but it is quite difficult to grasp the evaluation semantics of Haskell and pretending that it is easy and natural will simply shove more users away from the language.
I love the idea, but i'm a little wary of the implementation, we are heavy json-schema users, so i worry that this schema data is not going to track the json-schema standard. we got burned with swagger, where in V2 they where pretty much fully J-S compliant, but then for some reason dumped compliance in v3, so we had to kiss them goodbye. I don't need my schema's tied up in yet another propriety format, even if it is close to J-S. I cant see any compliance statements on the site that tell me what level of compliance exists.
"Android is Android because of these apps" but "Fuck Apple"?

I don't understand.
Then you misunderstand the debate. Russia’s attack model isn’t guns and wars, it’s subverting our democracy by influencing who sees what via Twitter et al. If the Russians can change our laws by using social media to covertly influence elections, then clearly Twitter can as well. And “Twitter getting its chain yanked” depends on our ability to audit Twitter’s traffic shaping, which is nonexistent—there is no transparency.
>>Maastricht uses to be the only traffic lights on route from Amsterdam to Paris. Yes. Traffic lights on a highway, in the middle of a city

Sounds like the beautiful little town of Bad Oeynhausen, which I came to loathe(a bit) - I used to drive several times a year from Amsterdam to Krakow(~1300km) and literally the moment you got off the ferry in Amsterdam you were on the motorway literally all the way to Krakow.....except for having to drive through the very city centre of Bad Oeynhausen, every single time. I think last time I did that trip last year there were some intensive roadworks in that area, maybe nowadays there is a way to drive around the town without getting off the autobahn.
This makes it especially hilarious. You can spot the fake by the utter implausibility of Google giving a single fuck about explaining their actions to a mere mortal. There isn't even a hypothetical mortal in hypothetical existence that could hypothetically expect such abundant largesse.
So? There's no compulsory ID in Denmark either. Wikipedia says France made it optional about the same time the UK abolished wartime IDs. Quite a few of the European countries have IDs but don't require you to carry it or register whereabouts. With mention in the Queen's speech of compulsory voter ID, looks like compulsory de facto ID is now Tory election policy. ID or disenfranchised.

The Education Act simply requires full time education without explicit mention of home. Home schooling in Europe isn't exactly rare, though I know many do rule it out - perhaps around half - Germany for instance. Perfectly OK in France, Italy, Belgium and plenty of others.

You seem to be making a distinction without a difference.
Every time I come across a use case when the "for else" construct would be applicable, I decide against using it just because the "else" keyword is just very unintuitive to people not familiar with this rarely used construct ... so yeah, I too wish it was a different keyword :)
> As for Julian Assange, the hearings with the two alleged rape victims DO NOT describe rape

They do by the Swedish law.

> with star struck women.

So justice to you means blame the alleged victim?

I still prefer the Swedish way, the tribunals, the judges, and all the ceremony of a real justice system to your tribal "white men are always right" rite.
> I honestly think that EVERYONE should be using a ticket tracking system and just put assignments in a person's queue. I don't see why this is such a big deal or looked down upon.

As I see it, none of the queuing stuff is really controversial.

> It's so easy to see what everyone is working on, run reports to see how long things took

This, on the other hand is usually what's controversial, and the reasoning behind that is that it often leads to management using past data as a stick to drive "faster" future development, with silly statements like “Well, the average plugin took 2 days to write, why is this one taking 7 days? Oh it must be that the person doing it is lazy. Better give them negative feedback on it and tell them it can affect their promotions”.

The example is contrived, but the motivations and behaviors are very real. Competent developers tend to leave companies where they are constantly badgered about stuff like this by managers who have never developed software. In the extreme case (very few organizations are this bad, but they do exist), all you end up with is the remaining ones who know how to show that they are doing a lot of work, but are generally afraid to show their lack of knowledge in any area for fear of being dinged by the data-equipped management for it.

Since this is not conducive to the technical health of a software development team, estimation practices that purport to be unrealistically accurate are what's looked down upon.
Okay okay it's a mixed metaphor. It could have been written something something about the Russians sewing divisiveness in the common ground. We need to counsel the common factors that divide us before we can multiply the ties that bind.
The term "nonviolent communication" is itself violent, because it implies everyone not following their method is a bad person.
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I watched it this morning without knowing anything about the creators beforehand, so came to it with a reasonably open mind. As it progressed I kept on expecting something explosive, perhaps akin to what I saw in Outfoxed. But the whole thing completely fizzled out and ended with the creators basically begging for whistleblowers. I hadn't had my morning coffee by that point - was there something there I missed?
Yeah that's my experience too, which is why I asked. As you say, sending a secretary to an 'advanced Excel' course is common enough, but for real tech topics, there isn't anything you can really teach in a few days that you can't learn yourself from a book and some websites in the same time. And getting some budget for going to a conference a few isn't usually too hard, but it's still completely self-directed learning.

I'm not complaining, I was just wondering what is 'normal'.
>The left usually hates war.

Do you mean the politicians or the public? If you mean politicians, I haven't seen much evidence that Democrat (center/leftish) politicians hate war in the last few decades. Wilson was president during WWI, FDR during WWII, LBJ during Vietnam, Bill Clinton had Bosnia and Hillary Clinton voted for Iraq. Obama presided over quite a few conflicts. Maybe Jimmy Carter?

>the current left is mainly dominated by the maternal instinct

What are you basing this on?

>Simple. Invent a weak, childlike ally in the middle of the war zone, who are being attacked by a notorious hateful predator, and we would be abandoning them if we dont put our troops in harms way.

Typically war has been based on pushing a fear of "ism." Anarchism in the early 1900s, Communism middle 1900s, Terrorism in the 2000s.
What Is Intelligence Augmentation?
> Google Contacts has privacy problems

can you name a few ?
Cool, so we agree? Twitter’s moderation is completely opaque. All sides of this debate acknowledge this much.
In theory, in cities without good metro systems, taxis are the train-station-to-business-district-or-hotel link needed for business visitors and tourists to travel by train rather than driving directly.

Whether the same logic applies in London (which has a world-class metro system) is debatable, of course.
Love that illustration. Do you have a source? I'd like to pay attribution when I share it elsewhere.
Socialism is not Marxian.
I thought this was a Apple only thing and Google doesn't do this. For example, you cannot buy Audible books frim iOS apuo but can from the Android app.