skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Joel Spitzer recommends this book and his youtube channel on quitting smoking is also fantastic.
Turkey ‘effectively holding 50 US nuclear bombs hostage’ at air base
How much does he have liquid versus illiquid?
I don't buy that.

First, we see that China, for example, has enormous market power that it uses to get its way in just about every controversy.

Second, CAs will get kicked off the TA list only if they get caught.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime
The stated policy is that they would take nazi money.
I dont consider app service serverless. Azure has Functions as their serverless offering. I consider App Service as a shared hosting platform.
I doubt it too, but dislike the meme you cited. Intelligence agencies are very much capable of producing elaborate, long term plans and are quite good with crypto. They could introduce it to the world without cooperation or coordination with regular law enforcement. Not saying that they did.

I have never heard a convincing argument for your quote and would like everyone to at least consider malice when the situation warrants it. Maybe "follow the money" would be an equally valid, but contradictory heuristic to deal with unclear situations.
What about forum software like Discourse or Flarum https://flarum.org? However Discourse is a bit expensive.

In addition, I'm creating a Pay-what-one-wants alternative to FB gropus and Meetup and email lists ... It's sort of a cross between StackOverflow, Slack, HackerNews: https://www.talkyard.io (open source).

What do you like the most about Groups.io? if I may ask
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The US government is practically incapable of taking on that role because that actually would make it a First Amendment issue.

But, as graeme has pointed out, this idea of any moderation increasing a platform's liability is as wrong as it is widespread.
T-Mobile and Sprint get FCC approval to merge in 3-2 party-line vote
That is fantastic news about Linux. I bought a System76 four or five years ago and the touchpad was terrible. It wasn't just false touches; it was really hard to accurately click on something, the pointer kept making little jumps. Would you say that's better too?

If touchpads are good now, then I might go dedicated Linux again when it's time to upgrade from my aging MBP.
> That’s an unpopular opinion on HN

Too bad for HN, then, because commodifying web development has done it no favors.

> Many are still enjoying a low skill/high pay career and want to remain blissfully ignorant of their future.

That's where I was a few years ago. I'm a web developer who recently went back and re-learned all the low level stuff I forgot and didn't think was necessary 20 years ago. I was wrong.
Url changed from https://kaue.me/posts/2019/10/16/jl-collins-why-your-house-i..., which points to this.
Discussed in 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16899376
Probably the paperwork involved.
> A private business should be allowed to refuse to serve customers for whatever reason they choose.

So you're fine with "whites only" signs in shops?

Hope that doesn't sound too extreme but while I understand where you're coming from I think it's important to acknowledge where the rhetoric about not distinguishing your customers based on their personal characteristics comes from.
If that's true, you could consider updating the Wikipedia page [0] for him! In any case, that's what I get for only checking Wikipedia, but I didn't follow that particular drama closely in the first place.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto
You can change the filters and ranking in the HN search page. I find it faster and easier than Google for comment content.
> "If it's illegal, we'll take it down. Give us a court order. Otherwise we don't touch it"

I think that works better on paper than in practice. If I get offended enough by something, can't I go try to sue under the premise of defamation?
I have found their search interface for HN (https://hn.algolia.com) useful. They have a drop-down for selecting how you'd want to sort the results. From how I see it Google is doing more blackbox magic whereas Algolia is being a faithful/predictable search engine.
It's a metaphor to help humans grasp it better. Space and time does exists physically.

Does a shortest path between you and your workplace exists that you can traverse? Is it a straight line? No, it's not, but there's one path that you as a being can walk along physically. The buildings, roads, obstacles force you to diverge from the ideal straight line. That's another analogy of what space & time is. Fabric is just shorter.
Well, since k8s is developed by mere humans on simple notebooks, and initially it got deployed to stock Linux they started with v4. And they had to start with v4. And to get more contributors they also needed v4.

Yes, the network effects are strong with this one.

But soon. Bit by bit, I hope the true dualstack will come, and then the v4 will fade away over generations.
i realize it's hard to draw a bright line on acceptible moderation, but then, is it fruitless to strengthen such laws?

seems like a lot of lawsuts and not a lot of legislating, from the wiki.
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> Would be useful when cooking with mess on your hands and trying to scroll through a recipe.

Even then, your hands might be busy here and a voice interaction may be better.
This sounds right, but what if the corporations are more powerful than the government? What if they have enough money to collectively rent enough politicians so that they never have to face the scrutiny that Naval is talking about here?

If social media platforms are picking the next congressmen and next president, and you’re in Congress vying to keep your seat, do you really want to introduce or sponsor legislation to upset these companies?
This is about technology that identifies people based on their writing style which is claimed to be some kind of panopticon that can be used for tracking you everywhere you go.
Good to know that people believe in making work hostile for their marginalized colleagues. And people wonder why there are fewer women in this industry.
Not yet but few people started receiving it.
I'm not sure if we're in disagreement about what living in a free country means. Everyone has their opinion on right and wrong, but as a society we agree that there's a specific set of laws that we all follow, so we all could get along.
I must be missing something, I buy Bitcoin with a USD bank account, I send to another address and then this address sends to a known drug dealer. How do they establish the second address's identity?
> Buying a house with only the intent on making money is the point they're discussing.

Even from that perspective the article manages to miss a critically important point. Nobody buys a house as an investment and leaves it empty until they sell it. They buy it and rent it out, so any analysis that leaves out rental income is a bit of a joke.
Nice, concise & persuasive article. Do you think the political environment in the Bay Area is ripe for it?
Foreword: I am not suggesting that general political discussion should be allowed at work; it has traditionally been taboo since it gets people riled up.

I am concerned that developers and companies are attempting to somehow opt out and divorce themselves of ethics, and to be amoral. This is not possible.

Ethical considerations are present in all work, especially ours - our work as programmers, leaders, technologists, and so on has the potential to affect large masses of people, even indirectly. Society has rapidly changed due to the advancement of technology and it will continue to do so. I'm not suggesting that every single agreement or project needs to be deeply evaluated for its ethical implications, but projects or sales for questionable organizations ought to have some thought put into them.

I will give an example: should GitLab sell its product to the American Nazi Party, or other fascist organizations across the globe, should they request? It is reasonably uncontroversial to say that fascist parties are vile, wrong, unethical, even evil. Therefore, aiding these organizations and their missions by selling them helpful products is unethical. Saying "we sell to everybody" does not magically make the sale ethical.

To suppress the discussion of ethics as it pertains to a company and its actions is itself unethical, as the impact of a company's actions can be wide-ranging and the implications cannot be divorced from ethics.
Okay, the age at which somebody is exposed to certain media seems like a potentially valid concern. I thought you were making a statement about adults who hadn't obtained those credentials, which would be a whole other bag of worms; it's possible to attend college without a highschool diploma or equivalent, and it's also possible to achieve difficult things without either of those pieces of paper in hand.
The problem is also that they are advertisers, and I'll be damned if I want ads for my company appearing next to "Illinois Nazis" or ISIS or whatever other garbage.

There's another problem: it becomes a race to the bottom if it's nothing but trolls and garbage content.
> Towns and villages in Europe are almost always highly compact compared to the US

That's a political choice. I mean, yes, the US has a lot of land and fewer people, but there are plenty of places that might be more compact if it were legal.
Aren't there bitcoin mixers? Where like, 100 people put in x number of bitcoins, they get combined into one wallet, then x bitcoins are sent to 100 new wallets? That makes it so you don't know which of the hundred new wallets is tied to the one input wallet?
> Refusing to serve a customer when you disagree with that customer's goal is pretty far from being a "moral arbiter for society." Keep in mind that anyone is free to use other services (or roll their own) and gitlab can't do anything about that. Neither would it be overreaching for the workers building that product to request a say in how it's used.

I think this is the crux of the issue. Anyone is of course free to roll their own GitLab (or facebook, or news channel). But this ignores reality.

Facebook control ~90% of social media. There's a very high chance that Facebook could sway every election in America (and lots of other countries also) if they truly wanted to.

I think we are entering a new era. Just as it required a paradigm shift to outlaw anti-competitive practices, I think we need to re-consider what rights these platforms have around speech.
An interesting and tangentially-related concept is learning how to access "Right Brain Mode" for creative work, popularized in the book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain".

https://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Right-Side-Brain-Definitive/d...
In the case of digital astronomy using various opto-electronic devices to take the light and convert to charge (CMOS or CCD sensor or whatever else they use), I wonder how possible it is to essentially sum together lots of pictures one after another where occasionally you would reject photos that had a satellite passing through them? Like is that how they deal with it now? In the case of film there is no "dark noise" that you have to deal with, so you just leave the shutter open for hours. But with digital if you leave the charge well open for even seconds, the dark noise starts to accumulate in the pixel. Not totally sure though how long exposures work on digital cameras -- if its actually a sum of shorter exposures or what..
Am I being daft, or is there not much sbout specializers on the web? Any links much appreciated.
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I think vim makes more sense if you think of it like a Forth. In a general sense, the entire language is noun*verb (zero or more nouns followed by a verb).

I know what you're going to say, "dw is a verb noun!" but really, it's not. w is verb--it's a function that, in this case, takes the d function and applies it to a word. The fact that it is a verb is proven by the fact that the expression executes when you type the verb. It's unfortunate that the vim verb "w" corresponds to the English noun "word", but that's probably the best that could be done given there are only so many keys on the keyboard.
I feel like I'm missing an obvious point here, could you possibly help me?

Evil Criminal Mastermind amasses wealth in BTC. --> They have that BTC in a wallet. --> The Feds know that Dirty Money has gone to that wallet's address. --> ECM makes a new wallet, transfers BTC to it. --> Feds know that BTC went from wallet A to wallet B.

However many wallets Evil Criminal Mastermind makes, they're still going to be traceable by the Feds, right?
As much as I love Gitlab I've heard more than one rumor that they have weird values internally.
And not against others at the same company.
The latency is interesting, most people can't see it or feel it if it's under 100ms or so. There's already a button press -> screen change latency of ~100 ms in most AAA games except for twitchy shooters

If you're more of a hardcore player, you may feel the extra latency as all your reflexes being off. It's harder to make jumps, perform combos, line up shots, etc.

In my case, I absolutely can't stand network streaming latency. Even 50ms is completely unacceptable to me outside of turn-based games, and I go out of my way to look into the input lag for any new monitor or TV I buy. BUT you might be different, you should give it a shot.
The Register's headlines have always been tongue in cheek, a dig at tabloids if anything.

Not sure where you are from, but maybe this kind of humour doesn't translate well to the US?
If you can have political discussion as long as you have the right opinions, that's not really a discussion is it? It's "affirm you agree with my political beliefs or be fired".

And a few parallels - what do you do about the person who's afraid of being shot if the government comes to take their guns (and thus is going to be uncomfortable with opinions leaning that way), or the person who's afraid of their kids being shot at school (and thus is going to be uncomfortable with opinions leaning towards fewer restrictions on guns)? You can't satisfy both of them without banning discussion, and a lot of issues are like that.
Simple "neutral" algorithms are generally easy to game. If you choose an algorithm that you already know will be gamed for harassment or whatever then you're essentially choosing that outcome.
I'm completely on supreme court's side in the case of the baker (who are assholes but should have their legal right to be assholes). However, this analogy doesn't work with Facebook or Twitter as they have oligopoly status in terms of access to mass audience: there are hundreds of different bakeries that you can choose from, but there's just a couple of SV companies can very effectively silence you.

I still don't know what would be an effective solution to this problem, but giving these giants the same freedom to do whatever as a small business enjoys just feels wrong.
On average, millennial millionaires own three homes, slightly higher than the 2.4 properties the average older millionaire possesses. They also have larger real estate portfolios than non-millennials, $1.4 million compared to $919,000.

3 homes? Really? I assume some of those are investment properties.

If housing prices take a down turn, it's going to hurt these folks bad.
Any particular advertiser needs Youtube more than Youtube needs the advertiser. Youtube has a critical hold on the young adult market in particular. If Youtube just said, "if you don't like it, Pepsi, someone else can enjoy this ad space instead", what recourse would they have? In conclusion Youtube demonetizes because they want to and need an excuse.
— lgbt: Don’t discuss the possibility about being fired for your sexuality because it’s too political.

— Women in tech: Nope, let’s not go there, too political.

— Underrepresented minorities in tech: Sorry it’s a pipeline problem, don’t bring politics into this.

In my experience in tech (though only Silicon Valley tech companies, so that's a narrow sample) this the opposite of what is true. Companies are very eager to display how much they support LGBT movements and announce how they'll increase diversity by offering larger hiring bonuses for diverse hires and institute systems of reservations for women and non-Asian PoC. Both the private and public companies I've worked with have been very active in pursuing these goals. And we're not alone Microsoft offers larger bonuses for hiring managers that hire diverse candidates [1], and Intel withholds portions of bonuses unless diversity quotas are not met [2].

1. https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/19/18508013/microsoft-pro-di...

2. https://www.wsj.com/articles/intel-hits-a-novel-diversity-ta...
Not really. The sorting is based on popularity by default, which you can change. To compare:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://www.google.com/search?q=news.ycombinator.com%3A+ml&o...
Wow... thanks for sharing your story. I always thought it was mainly the feds being completely inept when it came to Indian Affairs but I guess it's not surprising the local governments are the same way.
"One report last February said that two people, visiting Tasmania from Australia,"

...from "mainland" Australia perhaps.

"newly released Australian government documents"

...aren't from the federal government, but from the Tasmanian state government.

These "detailed" sightings are almost universally worthless.
>> However many wallets Evil Criminal Mastermind makes, they're still going to be traceable by the Feds, right?

Yes, if:

>>ECM makes a new wallet, transfers BTC to it.

But if ECM initiates a new wallet with cash or other methods and doesn't tie their identity to it, then no.
I asked for an example and you're still arguing hypotheticals. And the PRC would not host its code on Gitlab, that's not even a realistic comparison.

So far the only pattern I see is people making up hypothetical situations and using them to claim Gitlab is complicit in enabling human rights violations. But last I checked free speech is a human right!
Okay - that makes sense. Upon reviewing the Wikipedia page, that sounds to be a much more accepted consensus than I thought it was, with more reasons to accept it than I thought.
At least in Europe, many cities have large parking spaces at the city borders where a parking ticket is automatically a public transportation ticket to the car-free city center.
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Ah, so it does.
I think you missed the "and because allowing people to state the 'wrong' opinions would be bad, we'll ban expressing all the opinions" component of his statement.
We edit titles to make them less favorable to companies too. The principle is to make titles more accurate and neutral. If you know of one where we did the opposite, I'd like to see the example.

Moderation rules invariably involve interpretation. That doesn't make them arbitrary.
This is very exciting news. The Coelacanth was also extinct - for several hundred million years - until it wasn't.

Maybe Tasmanian tiger this year and Mokele-mbembe next year? Not impossible. Though unlikely.
> That's a political choice.

Well, yes, in that, among other things, many European towns and cities are shaped by political choices made when population to length of enclosing wall ratio was an important political consideration.
Twitter isn’t a phone call, but it also isn’t a message board. You only see the tweets of the people you personally choose to follow; it doesn’t matter if there are 100 billion spam accounts posting ads to nobody.

There are millions of Twitter accounts in Japanese, but if you don’t follow any of them, and nobody you follow retweets them, you’d never know they exist. You can also block or mute specific accounts, mute keywords, etc for even finer control.
> when we say the universe is expanding, we mean that matter is spreading out

It's been a while, but I recall reading in a book that's actually the space between everything that's expanding, much like you state in your second paragraph. For example, if you blow up a balloon, two points on it will appear to be moving apart from each other even though they're stationary.

I believe this Forbes article is in agreement: https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/02/10/ask-...
I just gained a lot of respect for Git.

We really need more companies to take a stance against all this moral posturing.

It's like at some point people forgot that publishers should not take sides, and only remove things that are illegal.

Burning books has a long, dark history. Even if those non-criminal books are truly nasty. At one time books portraying miscegenation were the nasty ones. One generations nasty books are the next generations accepted ones. Internet media is no different.
Eat, drink and be wary
I don't think you know how drug dealers do it. local.bitcoin.com is what drug dealers use these days. it's non-custodial, is not a "company" (so it can't be regulated) and is trustless because it uses data signatures. (kind of like a multi-sig wallet) I'd say converting to fiat from bitcoin is one of the EASIER things they have to do.

If you want to go to the BTM route, they convert to monero, and use the "monerujo wallet" to auto-convert to bitcoin at the BTM. The only downfall is the btm asks for ID after $2000 or so. So I assume it's taxed in some way. The margins on drugs is high enough where the extra fee they have to pay is negligable
> Credit card processors charge the same fees on donations.

Yes, they charge 1/10 of what Google charges. The 30% has nothing to do with how much it cost them to run the service, so let's not pretend that they _have_ to charge them.

(I'm not saying they should offer cheap/free donations, I just don't think it's fair to talk about how much it costs them to run the service given that that's clearly not the driving factor)
Yup. This image should make it as clear as mud.

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0020/5370/1690/files/ar-pi...
> it’s unfortunate that these type of issues are so divisive.

The reason they are so divisive is because the loud people fall into two categories: 1) people who loudly and constantly complain about these issues and for whom no amount of improvement is enough, and 2) people who think all these problems are greatly exaggerated, part of the liberal culture wars, and find it extremely annoying that anyone would bring it up.

The "silent majority" in these issues are people who say "yeah, sure, it seems fair to allow gay marriage, why not" and "let's see what we can do to improve female and minority representation but let's not jump to the conclusion that anyone in particular is to blame".

The hallmarks of being in this silent majority are:

- being generally well-intentioned

- supportive of incremental, common-sense solutions that are not zero-sum

- dislikes intense conflict and blame games

- does not take a view of the issue that makes one group of people the "heroes/victims" and another the "villains"

So, if you hear the proposal "let's allow politics at work", who do you think is actually going to speak up? That's right, the loud and annoying people that you can hear anytime by turning on the news. Ideologues for whom compromise and assuming good faith in your opponents is anathema. No thanks.
They do, with roads. The point GP was making that it's not feasible to convert roads into bowers.