skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As much as I'm against combining work life and political life, I think there's a chasm of difference between taking a stance against someone who tweets things you don't like and a government who is engaged in ethnic cleansing.

Politics aside, just doing business in China and the security sacrifices made to do so is, to me, an outsized business risk and a risk that I wish my company would not take. I'm sure many others feel the same. The short term profits aren't worth the long term repercussions. My employer doesn't agree, but I still want to go on record with them saying so.
That's basically what I was trying to get at with the last sentence. In hindsight, it's confusing.
For those on Asia - Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong, you could consider http://peatix.com
They chose to be involved with China, who has been infamous for demands like this.
Yeah, I don't get it. I set it up for a lot of my family, including grandpas and whatnot, taught them how to upgrade packages and basically forgot about it. With Windows that was never possible.
It might be too subtle and difficult to organize but it would be pretty funny and effective if _everyone_ showed up as Mei. It would be really hard for Blizzard to penalize anyone for it but the message would be pretty clear if enough people did it.
This seems like a guide to passive aggressively manipulating others for your own gain. Am I missing something?
Cue, as in it’s your cue to speak rather than queue as in line up to wait for something. Truly English spelling is a delight for historical linguists.
I'll try: is it the doubling of available JS frameworks?
There is an interesting selection bias at work.

1) If someone on the street approaches you, they are probably up to something.

2) If you randomly select someone on the street you have probably picked a moral and upstanding person who would love to do you a good turn.

Because of (1) people tend to be a lot more defensive than they need to be when assessing what the average stranger is likely to do.
Would be cool to see it done with two hands (or one), solved faster than the human world record. It's still pretty clumsy looking.
I'm operating three 10Gb Tor exits in a DC in Amsterdam. [1] It seems like a meaningful contribution. I assume the other operators who are not IAs have similar reasons.

[1] https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/family:38A42B8...
Can you give some examples of how you use this? Do you use the words by themselves? If your partner is being overbearing and annoying do you just say “soufflé” and they stop talking?
NVC is a tool for doing this (along with other goals), not an alternative to this.
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Whilst I wouldn't claim the point made is incorrect, I feel Mr Smead hasn't really made the argument that it's a changeover point. Where's the evidence that this isn't just going to be a continuation of a relatively steady state? He hints that there are others moving up in the cohort behind millennials (whatever they'll end up called) and presumably there's a generation further advanced,but if this is to be some significant changeover then why isn't he talking about how the earlier generation's behaviour differs?
Wrong, it would have got huge media play in China as Blizzard not enforcing its rules in opposition to China. Just like the NBA issue.
Honestly (Aus), relatively few. Drop-offs would traditionally be from about 8:00 am onwards (so kids had up to an hour before hand waiting for classes to start). Not everyone arrived from 8:00, but getting there well before that was exceptional.

We don't generally have "dedicated" buses for school, though there are some schools that have dedicated routes at certain times of the days usually contracted out to bus companies, otherwise its on the parents or the public transport system to get children to and from schools.

When I was younger (sub-12 years old, both parents working), parents dropped me off on the way to work, then we had a kind of neighbourhood arrangement with other parents at the school where we'd be picked up by them (car-pooling i guess) and go and spend the afternoon at their place before my parents picked us up from their place on the way home.

For high-schoolers, its a bit "well, they're capable of getting themselves to and from school by now...", with obvious exceptions if you live out in the sticks or miles away from the school (then the question would be, why are you going to that school without a way to get there?) and no real stigma to it if you can sync up with parents or after-school activities.

You know, i'm much older now, so its possible I'm out of touch, but I doubt I'm THAT out of touch to make a 7:00 starting time seem vaguely sane...

Edit: I've looked into it and I'm not that out of touch. State recommendations where I live are from 8:30 onwards, with most starting at 9:00.
I love seeing how often people's (mostly on Reddit) answer to the question "how do we determine who're the nazis?" and they answer glibly "easy, they're the literal nazis'.

We've seen this all before with the "terrorist" label, the "communist" label in Hollywood blacklists, various Puritan attempts at censorship for sex, films, music, etc.

I wished I believed this much in our centralize opaque institutions to create these red lines consistently, reliably, and fairly. Which is amusing because much of the people pushing for this the hardest are often the same people who would never hand over such power in almost any other scenario.

The only reliable outcome, that we've seen repeatedly over and over in history is that once you start expanding censorship beyond just the obviously bad-guys (spam, violence, etc) and start wadding into the grey areas of speech is that:

a) context and intention, which are critical in day-to-day discourse, are increasing ignored as the system scales and the scope increases

b) the line will only keep expanding into a broader and broader group ("you did it for x, why not y?!!")

c) false positives dramatically increase

d) due process is only afforded in rare situations where the individual is already famous/powerful and can stir up enough controversy forcing the gatekeepers to actually consider it carefully

Everything goes great at the beginning as you sweep up the low hanging fruit. It's the long run where this 'solution' really gets tested - which is the phase we're now entering on many platforms.
This isn't an article about the situation in Hong Kong, it's an article about Blizzard canceling a marketing junket.

To be relevant to the article, discussion will naturally center around the company at question. The connection of this particular article to HK is just too tenuous to have serious discussions about HK sprout up organically.
edit: I'm being downvote bombed for this, which is strange. Anyone care to articulate reasons for disagreeing?

Would it be correct to boycott CloudFlare for deplatforming the Daily Stormer? No, because there's nothing wrong with deplatforming Nazis, there was nothing morally reprehensible in Cloudflare's actions.

Would it be correct to boycott Blizzard for severely over-reacting to a pro Hong Kong political act on one of their streams? Yes, because apologizing to a monstrous, despotic regime by throwing tournament players and casters under the bus for supporting Hong Kong is morally atrocious. (As Brian Kibler and other professional casters have pointed out, some generic slap-on-the-wrist would probably have been appropriate, in line with what they would have done if someone took their victory speech to talk about impeaching/not impeaching Donald Trump or something).

This has nothing to do with free speech. I don't care about Blitzcheung or the casters' individual right to political speech on a Blizzard Twitch stream (it doesn't exist). I care about Blizzard's actions, and what they say about the willingness of the company to harm others to protect business interests in a despotic regime during a very important moment in global history.

I'm kind of confused about why you're confused, honestly. It's not very difficult to parse out very obvious essential differences between the two scenarios.
He also didn't start talking about police brutality against African Americans in post game interviews to the media, IIRC.
https://www.drgeorgesimon.com/passive-aggression-top-5-misus...

"Passive" means inaction, it doesn't mean indirect or sneaky. You can be actively indirect, but it still originates with an (active) action. There is no passive action, just as there is no active passivity. This doesn't mean the wording is perfect, just the passive aggressive label doesn't apply here.
It proves your point, but puts up a new one: netconsole isn't possible on OS X outside of Cupertino. I don't want to have to work at Apple to debug this issue that exists on Radar, outside of public view, but isn't reliably reproducible, and isn't even possible to fix in the next release OS X, or a custom kext.
Blind requires verification with a work email.
Maybe not watching as much youtube would help with your problem of seeing every issue through the lens of a culture war requiring you to dehumanise others with lame insults?
Sure it makes sense amortized,
but it's the equivalent of buying a gas engine that needs a rebuild.

It's a significant up front cost to consider against a purchase price.
What’s the alternative? How about a school that does what it’s supposed to? A school where teachers have agency, where kids aren’t allowed to physically assault one another, where creative thought is encouraged instead of stifled. Where students aren’t made to wake up at the crack of fucking dawn and wear giant backpacks everywhere fucking up their backs. You vapid fucking idiot. How is it fucking poor kids over to have that? How am I wrong for being angry or advocating alternatives in light of the fact that there are so vanishingly few public schools that are any good at all? You are clearly the product of one
Oh, man, imagine the shipping on that. If only is was prime. Actually, it would amuse me to no end to know someone abused the Amazon Prime warehoused by showing up with a few house's worth of these in many trucks, and Amazon ended up storing them all for free and them shipping them out for free. Who needs a warehouse when Amazon has plenty of perfectly fine ones just waiting for you? :)
> Manifesto author Michael Hartl received his PhD in theoretical physics from the California Institute of Technology and is only one in a string of established players beginning to question the orthodoxy.

Oh, I get it. Hartl is the Learn Enough[1] and especially Ruby on Rails Tutorial[2] guy. This whole Tau thing is a cryptic anti-Python troll.

[1] https://www.learnenough.com/

[2] https://www.learnenough.com/ruby-on-rails-6th-edition
I rewatched the lecture: Happy to report that Kevin does credit John Gottman. The parent comment originates from the notes I took.

Edit: Added references to Gottman's blog. Thanks.
I don't think so - the compliance strategy vibe is strong.
Blizzard could remove all Blizzard signs and advertising. Make the conference look unofficial.
> Such logic leaves you with no idea if the top X% is qualified or not, just that they are the top X%.

That's what MBA schools want. They want to know who are the top students on the GMAT: how does XYZ candidate compare to their peers?

If you don't have a normal bell curve distribution and the results are skewed hard to the left (very difficult test) or hard to the right (very easy test), then you lose the ability to discern the relative aptitude of the test takers.

> You need to enumerate requirements and test against them.

That's beside the point. The GMAT is just one of many criteria that allow schools to determine who is a qualified candidate for admission into their MBA program.

> Saying "wow, everyone passed calculus, that can't be right" and making the test harder serves no one.

You're talking about something completely different altogether. Sure, for classrooms (i.e., a small sample size) there's a valid argument to be made against curving calculus tests or any other kind of test. After all, in a classroom the goal is to evaluate who understands the course material -- not to necessarily to rank the students.

However, the GMAT is a whole different ball game. The purpose is to provide a relative ranking of the test takers. Additionally, hundreds of thousands of people take the test every year -- a massive sample size. You should expect to see a normal distribution if your test effectively serves it's intended goal of ranking the aptitude of the test takers.
It's also known as Compassionate Communication.
Google's browsers don't automatically load your websites with Google's visual branding and Apple's browsers don't load your websites with Apple's visual branding.

There's a battle between some of the large tech companies for appification of the Web at the moment, and that way of thinking is a trap.
Doesn't yahoo use bing for searches? I'd swear it did at one point.
FWIW, there is no visible pressure that has been exhibited from China against Blizzard. There have been no statements from China either in support or condemnation of any of the involved actors.

The situation is entirely driven by Blizzard, for fear of their potential revenue stream out of China.

This is in contrast to the NBA scenario, where China did speak out against the NBA, and later began to cancel contracts.
> Even if you were to trust that Blind would not provide their information to 3rd parties

This is literally 100% of Blind's value prop. It's a fairly reasonable assumption, especially when balanced against behavior your employer may not like but wouldn't be super upset about (eg sharing constructive criticism vs hinting at confidential information).

I've used Blind, mostly read-only, since Google spoiled me by getting me used to an incredibly robust internal culture of open discussion (this was several years ago; I can't speak to the Google of today), and I don't really have any concerns at all about being tied to my real identity.
Protesting against Blizzard may not do enough to have an impact, but it certainly helps. Here's a short article where they claim that the way China dealt with the NBA was doing them more harm than good, so the government started trying to suppress chinese nationalism since it was making them look bad to the rest of the world. I agree that it'd be better if the government did something, but company and consumer protests can be effective as well.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/10/business/china-blows-whis...
Matt Levine today:

"I don’t understand what is happening here. Did WeWork founder Adam Neumann disturb a mummy and trigger an ancient curse? Was a WeWork built on a haunted graveyard, unleashing powerful dark energies and also elevated levels of formaldehyde? How do you have such a relentless parade of negative financial news and then find out that your phone booths cause cancer? “Our phone booths might cause cancer” was not an IPO risk factor.[1] Nobody had “phone booths cause cancer” on their WeWork Disaster Bingo cards."
I can’t tell if you’re serious.
Or having items planted in it.
Did they give a cause as to why it's hard for them to sleep before 11pm? That doesn't contradict what I said in the slightest.
>is pressuring said private company (among _many_ others) to abridge free speech

It was a post-game interview on a Blizzard event in a Blizzard broadcast. How is that different from "a private company not wanting to host <content>" ? The player had supported HK freedom on his Twitter in the past, yet was allowed to play in the tournament. Gaming events have not been places for sharing political ideas, like social media is.
Governments won’t stop Facebook and Google from abusive tracking on smartphones
The only difference is that one type is a type of free speech that people tend to agree with.
This is definitely the case for a few apps. It's why I raise hell anytime I see someone use a private attribute or function from a builtin module.

However, I'm painfully aware that it does not apply to most of our apps and it does not justify using an outdated interpreter for writing new apps.
Not even close. 1% of the company, selected not randomly, not only by who chooses to use Blind, but by employees on Blind who choose to respond to the survey about this issue.
Japan is reinventing itself as China surges and American power declines
So Gosling's story is about as real as the Familia Toledo?
My biggest complaint with ZFS is the lack of flexibility. If you setup two disks in a mirrored configuration, that's the end of it - those disks will be mirrored forever. If you get another drive and want to expand storage while still having redundancy, i.e. RAID5 type setup, you can't. You can increase storage with a pair of drives, by mirroring them first and then adding them to the zpool, but this is not an option configuration from a safety standpoint.

I loved the flexibility of BTRFS in this regard - you could change the duplication level at any point. BTRFS seemed to abstract the storage away beautifully - just give us your drives, any combination of sizes, tell us how many copies of your data you want to keep and we'll handle the rest. It wasn't perfect, but I loved this approach, and I feel like it could go even further, eg. calculate risk of failure probabilities and then just tell it how low you want your risk. If it can't do it with your current drive capacities it could tell you what it needs to accomplish it, and then rebalance the data once you add the drives. Got an SSD? Throw it in the pool and let it optimize for cacheing. I know bcachefs has that particular aspect covered, but there's a lot of other basic features that still need to be implemented.
I'm saying that political advertising is highly regulated in many countries.

You're not entitled to the services of any vendor, however, in pre-election period media outlets are (in some countries) prohibited to have any political ads (including pseudo-ads like "accidental talk show interviews with the candidate we like") unless multiple specific conditions are met, one of which is equal access to all parties/candidates. Even if you hate them. If you don't like these conditions, you can refuse to participate in political ads at all, which most media companies won't do because it's a decent source of revenue.

One way how this is soemtimes implemented is that before the pre-election period, you have to submit a public offer for what conditions and prices political adds will be available to any and all candidates; you can refuse to make such a public offer because you hate some of these candidates, but then you're not allowed to place advertisements from the candidates you like as well. Or if you're a foreign company (like Facebook) that doesn't care about some elections at all and does not submit such an offer, then all candidates are prohibited to buy political ads from you.

If your media company wants to support a particular candidate, then the only legal way is to donate money (which gets appropriately reported) and the candidates can (within specific campaign funding limits!) buy ads on equal conditions at equal prices. There's no "corporate money is free speech" assumption like it seems to be in USA, doing "free ad publicity" for candidates is a violation of campaign finance laws and would incur significant fines (IIRC double or triple the market value of that publicity).
It's definitely not no-win. They can completely exit the Chinese market. The company will still survive if they do so. Earlier in this thread it was pointed out China generates only 10% of their revenue.
I haven't followed the situation closely, but we never get to A/B test such decisions. We make a decision and see the outcome for which one we chose.

Saying they created this situation is a little like blaming a casualty of war for living in the country they were born in. China exists and it's a large country with growing power that has fundamental cultural differences with the West and always has.

There may be better and worse ways to respond, but we have to recognize that everyone is, to some extent, just a bit player on a world stage where many other forces are in play. Not everything that happens in our lives is a thing we directly caused.

It's common to take it for granted when the existing world stage benefits us and wonder where we went wrong when it shafts us. Both views are only partial explanations at best.
The number one mistake in NVC is leaving an implied threat of "and if you don't, I'll lose control and stop asking nicely" around in the social atmosphere. There's a lot of groundwork you need to lay in order to have the conversation actually be about observations, needs, and emotions. If you don't have it, NVC can often be a tool of aggression.
That's what money is for...
I've found a bunch of secretish bunkers and tunnels in San Francisco. They're all over the place starting at ocean beach and going towards GG Bridge.
Not abnormal, maybe a bad choice of phrasing there. Rather that during puberty people need more sleep and their rhythm shifts forward. This is exacerbated by poor sleep hygiene (eg screen use), but in general teenagers get tired later on than their parents.

Hence suggesting that kids will just stay up later is missing the point. The stereotype that kids stay up late partially arises becuase they have shifted circadian rhythms and they can't help it, not that they want to take advantage of later school starts.

And so the benefits of later starts are important becuase it more naturally fits with teenage sleep patterns.

For more info:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/19546564/

> Adolescents continue to show a delayed circadian (or internal clock) phase as indicated by daily endocrine rhythms even after several weeks of regulated schedules that allow for sufficient sleep. This delay is maintained under controlled laboratory conditions in which there is limited possibility for social influence
I mean. Donald Trump has committed treason and multiple felonies on their platform for years and they've done jack shit, so as far as I can tell they're an accessory at this point.

Why should I give a shit about this?
They're too honest about the product for it to be considered a sales job.
It's possible. At least you know the answer :D
Keeping a language simple just punts complexity from the language to the implementation that uses that language. This is all the same problems that C has and Go chose to for some reason copy this poor philosophy. It's like Go designers decided most programmers are too dumb to understand complex languages.
I haven't read the NVC book, but I've read /about/ it. It sounds like it's a great technique for peers, but I'm very glad you brought up that it can come across condescending and manipulative when there's a power differential. Since I often hear this brought up as a management technique and in business settings I'm surprised that part isn't discussed more. Your's (and tangentially the parent) is the only comment I've seen so far mentioning it.
They banned him because he spoken about politics which have nothing with video games. I don't think that they tried to censor exactly HK speech. I guess they would have banned him if he would talk about Putin as well.
Veeeery funny >:(
That's true, but even for example, I've cartoons with the same thing.
FYI if you get flagged again: HN reacts harshly to mentioning misogyny because it believe it is a false concept invented by evil women that should have never left the kitchen.
As much as anything I believe it's a mix of nostalgia and appreciation for what came before. I don't think anyone is suggesting Amazon crank up micro VMS instances for taking on modern workloads. Although as the person below me suggests there may also be a niche market for hosting legacy applications a little while longer.
For a start it's time we created a universal service obligation for online companies that create a high bar for deplatforming or service refusal.

This is fairly simple and not particularly radical, through anti-discrimination laws we already force companies to do business with individuals regardless of whether they want to, it just makes it universal.