skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We're publishers. Whatever goes through our pipes goes through our pipes. If it's illegal, we'll take it down.

That's a great way to lose users though. They need to provide some limit for abuse. That means either good moderation tools for end-user (which I don't see how they could scale without also providing bad-people-lists) or moderation on their side. Otherwise you end up with /b/ or worse.

If they want their users (and advertisers) to stay, they need to filter content. They're social networks, not limited-scope opt-in party lines.
Look at Google and Maven. Individually, not that much. Collectively? More than you think.
> It's composition meant the star must have come into being before iron became commonplace.

Hypothesis 1: the star formed in a way that did not involve or produce a lot of iron.

Hypothesis 2: the star is older than the universe itself.

Clearly, hypothesis 2 is the more likely.
If you come to my desk while I am working and start ranting about you don’t believe how bad your sports team is, I don’t care about that either.

I have friends. I even have made friends at work (very cautiously). But we shoot the shit after work.
As I've said in another comment, in most of the time since the Big Bang space was been extremely sparse. If there's 1 example of a star that could maybe be older than the rest of it, what makes you think we'd be seeing collisions more frequently if some stuff existed at the time of the Big Bang. I'm not even suggesting there was a second Big Bang that immediately preceded the one we already talk about. But other than theory, we know nothing about pre-Big Bang conditions, so I don't see how we can reason with confidence about how nothing within the current bubble of the observable universe could possibly have existed outside of that bubble at any point. Maybe with the star's current direction it's consistent with the same Big Bang, but we seem awfully confident about conditions we've never observed.
> As long as speech is not offensive, I think it should be protected.

Speech that isn’t offensive usually doesn’t need protection.
They should have tried something far worse, this is not funny enough. I suggest "Gitlab: Eating babies is fine"
It's a question of which words to remove. Information-free swipes make for a lower signal/noise ratio and cause feedback loops that rapidly escalate. The risk isn't "a little heat", it's scorched earth. The purpose is not to suppress intelligent discourse but to keep the forum from destroying itself.
i had the older version of sudo myself so posted the manual style fix on arch for anyone interested:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/dimwhn/how_to_detect...
What came first, the photon or the electron? Can a photon be emitted without a change in energy state?

I’m new here, so instead of answering questions is the protocol just to downvote?
The first developer (who was fired) of the startup I am working for exactly presented this arguments. Not having any experience in developing and maintaining any real system and reading some consultants' blog he was confident that the microservice architecture will solve all the problems. The product got delayed by months, extremely buggy and (god knows why) it was an asynchronous architecture (the front-end would have to poll for basic CRUD operation). This costed us losing a big customer.

If you are starting out, please make sure the complexity and development overhead for a microservice is worth it. Don't listen to hypes.
> There's nothing wrong with the company conducting business compliant with the law, even if it may be viewed immoral from someone's point of view.

Right and wrong are subjective, legal and illegal are objective.

From the perspective of the business owner who is focused primarily on maximising revenue / profits for their business, there is nothing wrong with simply focusing on legal compliance.

From the perspective of the employee who is motivated by things other than maximising revenue / profits / their own salary, there could be plenty wrong.

It’s a free country cuts both ways. Both parties are free to see things as right and wrong as they see fit.
A great cosmology faq, answering this and a lot of other questions: http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmology_faq.html
We don’t need analogies.

It’s fairly clear how these organisations and their internet powered machination work.

So let’s talk about them in that context.
That’s not discussing politics - that’s keeping your company in compliance and keeping them from getting sued. That is work related.

I would go so far as advocating not manufacturing in China because of the current political climate is work related because it can have a direct impact on the bottom line.
The phone analogy is terrible because the vitriol doesn't prevail. You aren't bombarded with 100 people's bigotry every time you pick up the phone.
It's a reasonable hypothesis. But the new physics might also lie in why we don't see more than 3 generations of charged leptons or quarks.
So every time somebody signs up for any service you need to provide your address, name, date of birth, 2 forms of id, maybe even your SSN so they can run a background check on you?

At any random point in the future they can just revoke your access to the service if they decide something you were previously doing is no longer acceptable.
I would agree with this other user. Kid was 15!!! Hello parents, you're to blame for this. Take some accountability.

sigh This is on buzzfeednews.com... It's either made up, not backed up by facts, or just a hit piece to get ratings.
What do you mean, do you think 4.5:1 is an insufficient contrast ratio? I think that's recognized and why level AAA requires 7:1.
I think these bakers suck, but I do agree with the Supreme Court. A private business should be allowed to refuse to serve customers for whatever reason they choose.

The only exception should be legal monopolies; they shouldn't be allowed to discriminate, because there are otherwise no other options.
(I work at AWS)

One of the more interesting things I've observed over the past few years is the incremental effort to get AWS teams "lower in the stack" onto native AWS offerings. This makes sense: the less parallel or underlying infrastructure you have to maintain to scale and support the public cloud, the more time and attention you can devote to public services. Many (most?) new AWS services are fully native AWS (including the one I work on :)), and design and operational readiness reviews require justification for not using native AWS rather than the opposite.
A company choosing where in the world they want to do business has approximately nothing to do with “cultural respect” as far as I understand the term.
> I'm not sure how the first quote doesn't count as a 1:1 - the goal isn't to have a highly formalized process, it's to have communication. Some about the specific work, some about general work and workplace, but communication.

Yes, you’re right, I guess those were a form of 1 on 1s :-)

> Total agreement about the overloading of management though - I haven't had a boss in years that didn't regularly have most of their schedule booked and often double-booked. I had to fill in for my manager while he was on vacation for week and it reaffirmed my lack of desire to do management - and I only had to deal with pieces that couldn't wait a week! I sometimes think the recent shift to focus on regular management 1:1s is all about reclaiming enough time to actually know what their team is doing.

Absolutely! It’s wonderful to have empathy for this! :-D
> When I first joined Google I remember feeling that it was a pretty libertarian sort of place. In my team several colleagues were openly and proudly very pro-capitalist, anti-communist, small government types.

JEsus that sounds like a nightmarish pack of ghouls.
The opposite claim is closer to the truth regarding "true hierarchical PKIs" versus the WebPKI. In reality, if a state suborns a CA to misissue certificates, Mozilla and Chromium will nuke that CA from orbit. You don't have to wonder about this; Mozilla and Chromium casually destroyed some of the largest commercial CAs. Moreover, misissuance is very likely to be detected, because Chromium and Mozilla have moved towards requiring Certificate Transparency participation.

On the other hand, if a state suborns its DNS providers to inject bogus keys, there is no recourse. You can't revoke .COM. Is Google going to become Google.IO? Wait, no, .IO is controlled by Five Eyes as well.
Are each bitcoin uniquely trackable to the lowest unit (a satoshi), or is it just a monetary value that is traded according to your balance?
imagine you have a single acre of dirt in the middle of the financial district in Manhattan. even if you aren't using it yourself, you really think the value of that land is zero? the fact that you aren't currently using the land for anything doesn't mean someone else couldn't use it for something extremely valuable. you are keeping that land idle at a massive opportunity cost. on the flip side, if you have a huge plot of land out in North Dakota, the tax may well be close to zero.
Do they really? It seems that most people have enough money that they can afford expensive phones regularly and to drive cars. They amount of luxury people consider the bare minimum to survive is quite high now.
I also agree with the parent comment here, but wanted to shed some light on your input.

The problem with your "negative" vs "positive" distinction is that it's quite subjective and not at all clear cut.

> “We want to empower marginalized groups” is positive and doesn’t bother that much people who.. don’t think it’s necessary, because it’s not a political position you can disagreee with per se

There are groups who have very big problems with this statement per se. See the numerous court cases over the past decade challenging affirmative action in university admissions. Many view helping one group as oppressing another (a view I find quite misinformed given the inequities in our society, but not completely irrational, given bad priors).

Maybe what you're trying to get at is progressive politics vs. oppressive politics. This distinction I can understand more clearly, however when you choose to oppress a group that is oppressing others, maybe this is justified?

For instance, banning ISIS from access to Twitter seems like a pretty morally sound decision to me as an American. Given that, is there really a difference between banning ISIS and banning white supremacists who discuss violence? Or Presidents who promote violence against journalists? What's the moral outcome of NOT banning any of these groups?

Any choice, including choosing not to act, is morally liable. I think Gitlab's stance here is quite morally lazy, if not wrong.
Only the criminals get non-DRM 3D printers in the future?
The federal government continues to horribly mismanage reservation lands and the resources located on them.

"Tribes historically had little or no control over their energy resources. Royalties were set by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, but the agency consistently undervalued Indian resources. A federal commission concluded in 1977 that leases negotiated on behalf of Indians were 'among the poorest agreements ever made.'

Unfortunately, it hasn’t gotten much better. A recent class action suit alleged that the government mismanaged billions of dollars in Indian assets. The case settled in 2009 for $3.4 billion—far less than what was lost by the feds."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2014/03/13/5-ways-the-...
> you can contemplate these things because you are overloaded with serotonin.

And while serotonin definitely is involved, it is only a part of it.

The real "magic" can happen because psilocybin/LSD/etc. allows you to increase your frequency. This in turn allows you to tune in to other ("higher" and immaterial) dimensions that surround us all the time. Most of us normally do not yet perceive them in everyday life, but these special molecules can make that happen for us - for a few moments at least. Some call this state "heightened intuition", others call it "getting in touch with your guides", others call it "opening your clear-senses". The benefit of such a short "peek behind the veil" is that at least your subconscious will always remember that there is an infinite profoundness to life that we completely ignore in our current way of living/culture. This is why many people get out of their deep/long-lasting/clinical depression, sometimes by experiencing only a single dose of LSD. They have seen "it", maybe heard "it", or smelled "it", but most of all, they have experienced "it" and it will stay with them - "it" being this mysterious force of pure joy, love and deep understanding (which is much more profound that any intellectual understanding).

Word of caution: Before you go ahead with such an experience, make sure you take all the time in the world to educate yourself about all of it. Then make sure your source sells you the actual and pure substance; maybe test it beforehand if you can. Plan your trip carefully. Do it in nature and undisturbed.
It is ostensibly illegal to prevent employees from unionizing in the United States.
I'm assuming someone looking to launder a large quantity of BTC wouldn't spend it all on individually purchased shirts. But who knows.
I am not sure why you include Volkswagen in this list. VW was founded by Nazis, it would be strange if it did not support them during WW2. On the other hand IBM had a choice.
It’s not an easy task, especially since the OS competition has sailed long time ago. You either create a linux distro with your flavor, or start over.
Starting from 0 is a very hard task and requires a lot of development time and money.
Also, even if we say you get to a level near the stability and support of the current systems (which is near impossible considering the head start), you need to bring people to it.

Just like how Mozilla phone OS failed and Microsoft Windows Phone and many others. No one would go for a system that doesn’t offer their applications or applications available on other systems.

Of course you will be able to get users interested in niche systems, but these are very few.
For example, i am running clear linux, which is “independent” distro. It’s an amazing system for me, but i would never recommend it for anyone due to the advanced setup

Unless of course.. you create a system that’s a breakthrough. A system that would make a 20yr old dead machine 1000x faster than new machines.
What instead happens is rich parents either move out of San Francisco to the burbs, or send their kids to private school. And so San Francisco ends up both with the lowest population of children of any major city and one of the highest private school enrollment rates in the country (~20%).
Facial analysis Artificial Intelligence can reinforce existing inequalities
I always liked the rules that one prominent local web design company has: they don't work with political or religious organizations. They don't seem to include state organizations in that, but I would. I think this removes lots of potential headache right away.
That sounds fascinating. Are you willing to share it?
God I hate the word bi-weekly; if you hadn't specified 14 days I would've thought it was twice a week. "bi-weekly" is never the right word to use because you always have to add additional information that makes it redundant.
> Interestingly the underlying assumptions in most analyses like this is that everyone lives in US and obeys US laws.

Even better! Stop trying to act like global companies, and pick a jurisdiction to work out of. If Facebook is an American company (which they are), they are held to and follow US laws.

Maybe this means that Facebook doesn't remove Nazi propaganda because of the US 1st Amendment. What follows is actual proper competition, perhaps Germany bans Facebook, which means either a new German company GesichtBuch, can compete by being based in Germany and following german laws. Or, people enjoy Facebook and then rally their government for laws to be changed.

What we have now is companies trying to exist in every country, which means they have to follow the worst laws of every country.
The new text is on a slippery slope: "Derogatory staments", "threats" and "discrimination" are all very subjective and up to the interpretation of whoever-has-power or feels offended by anything, and we've seen this go wrong so many times recently. It's almost a complete reversal from the previous statement.
good point, but from a tactical perspective, not moderating might have made sense, to force lawmakers' hands in passing stronger laws about spam, harrassment, propaganda, etc.

they'd have a regulatory shield and probably retain carrier status, rather than sticking their necks out by selectively moderating content.

a moderate amount of moderation is my preference, but i see the value in freer speech zones on the internet (that i can mostly ignore).
Well, Gitlab just became even more irrelevant in my book.
True. When this topic comes up in /r/personalfinance or /r/financialindependence it's usually from the point of view that an investment is purely a means to make money given some up-front. It specifically excludes things that people want or need outside of the investment itself.

Then usually the conversation follows into your point. There are plenty of other reasons to buy a house. Buying a house with only the intent on making money is the point they're discussing.
You would probably get some benefit on a per CUDA core basis, but the extra space required would mean less CUDA cores, overall it would probably be a net loss on problems well suited to GPU acceleration
Let's not forget office politics. In that case, you basically can't discuss anything at work.
The idea is sound though.

Calculate how much that particular wetland is worth ecologically and find a low-price equivalent somewhere, buy that.

The Bay gets more space to sprawl their ugly single family madness and the wetlands (or more precisely the wetland equivalents) are safe too.

Furthermore, it's possible to simply incrementally move the wetlands toward north by filling in a southern patch and wetland-ifying some of the southern parts of the Bay's open water.

And ... this modest proposal is very much the mirror that the Valley needs. Not that it will help much, but still. It would eradicate the wetlands and the Bay itself before allowing proper high-density development and mass transit.
That's a great way to lose advertisers. Case in point: Youtube's demonetization policy.
That's assumed by saying houses are terrible investments. In many countries, stability is probably the number one reason why buying a house is ideal. In others, you can safely rent knowing you won't get kicked out thanks to strong tenants rights - in these countries, many are happy to rent as they get the stability they need without the hassle of investing.
He's exactly right on it. Facebook is not a court. If certain speech is illegal, how would they even decide? If certain speech is illegal, have a court label it illegal and send them an order to remove.

That concept exists within our system.
I think this is a good decision. I actually hold similar beliefs to many of my coworkers in SF but I find it horrifying how common it is to dehumanize nearly half the country. I've lived in three major cities in the US, two on the east coast. San Francisco is the only city where co workers routinely disparaged people living in other states. I do not think employees in tech companies have the capability to be arbiters of anything cultural in this country. Leave that to governments.
I actually find the opposite to be true. I enjoyed not having a clear idea of what everything did when I was just starting out. Once I knew what I could do with most things it became annoying that I didn't have an easier interface because there wasn't potential in the complexity anymore
This is a false controversy. The people that "can't" run their own resolvers are, overwhelmingly, using their ISP's resolvers. At least in the US, all of those ISPs are actively attacking their users. Users are better off using practically any other mainstream centralized DNS provider than their ISP default.

But this isn't a stable equilibrium; as I said, it seems clear that privacy-minded organizations will eventually stand up their own trustworthy DoH resolvers.

DoH makes things somewhat better today for all users, and much better for power users. In the long term, it's easy to see how DoH makes things much better for everybody.
Exactly. At face value, I'm firmly in favor of what Ravikant was saying, but even the simple example of a spam filter proves how it's impossible in practice: without basic spam filtering, something like Twitter would be absolutely unusable in the face of endless crypto and malware spam. At some level, Twitter/FB/et al have to do SOMETHING to shape/filter the volume of traffic they receive.
I suppose you could have blockchain DNSes. Indeed, attempts have been made. Of course, then you get the same problems as with cryptographic coins, where getting 51% of mining resources lets you double-spend, which for DNS would mean letting you MITM specific targets. And guess what governments would do about that?

Repeat after me: rubber hose cryptanalysis is unbeatable / cryptography cannot solve political problems.
If you have 5 children already, the additional cost of raising another one is greatly smaller than is the cost of raising the first one. The most likely scenario is that there is already a full time stay at home parent, so they will get additional workload, but won’t incur much additional expenses beyond some more food expenditure, some extra clothing if whatever older siblings have been wearing is too worn out, and extra bed. If the cost of children for you is daycare bills, private school, after school organized activity and college fund, you’re most likely not the kind of person who ends up having 6 children.
It wasn't misleading at the time that the article was written though, or even at the time that it was submitted. This article was posted here two hours ago, and the changes on the Gitlab repository were made an hour ago.

Is it now the policy of HN to keep titles up to date as events change?
So basically any AAA game has bad performance.
They do! Gravity is an r-squared law.

(If you're confused about constant acceleration due to gravity, Galileo's experiment and all that, well different masses fall to earth with the same acceleration from the same height, but g decreases with distance from the Earth. It takes the familiar 9.81 m/s value as an agreed averaged value at the surface).
What a complete moron.
I didn't claim that I hear notable people say this frequently. I just claim that I have often heard people make this claim generally.

I'm honestly confused about why my comment got downvoted. I was not making a comment about capitalism itself, either for or against.
what you suggest is probably close to the party based voting/elections/representation in Europe countries. Whenever there is a significant interest group they could/would form a party, like Pirate Party https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Sweden) or Green Party for example while the majority of people is just covered by the typical couple of the Pepsi/Coca parties.