skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No.

What the best interest of us all is to realize that all not hate speech, especially politically related, needs to not be burdened by restrictions on such by any government.

the only entities too big are the Chinese and American governments and both for the same reason, they are very willing to suppress speech which does not further their goals as countries or that of their politicians.

In the US that means they have to resort to scare tactics because our freedom of speech and assembly are protected if not heralded at times. so they have to scare you into believing the democratic process is threatened, that elections are threatened, that your very way of life is threatened, unless you of course give them power to suppress speech they claim meets those requirements. Fortunately courts would stop most attempts but politicians truly think the court of public opinion can be used to influence the courts too.

So yeah I get it, the fad is to hate of Facebook but I would take multiple companies the size of facebook before I let any politician tell me what speech is acceptable when it comes to politics or the like. putting a muzzle on facebook opens the door to muzzling all blogs and sites and that is something the press and politicians would love to have, control over the message again.

edit: just blundered into this story [0] - while more dire than what we are discussing one must understand that China isn't far from what Venezuela is now but for the people there this is what they gave up when they allowed the politicians to control the message and what is and what is not acceptable

[0] https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/10/20/my-so...
> Woah excellent to see Embark partnering with the RLSL project!

IIRC, actually they hired the guy behind RLSL a few months ago.
Typos happen. In fact, you made one yourself just a couple hours prior to ridiculing me about mine:

https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=21312002&goto=threads%...

Don't worry though... I won't make fun of you for it, because I'm not so desperate to prove my intelligence to internet strangers.
Can't tell if a CEO is dodging questions? An AI startup has raised $18M to help
> One of their lawyers once tracked me down because I mentioned some harmless datapoint about a technical problem I had worked on.

Ok so now you said that won’t it be pretty trivial to identify you again? How many “4 digit HN” users have they really tracked down before .. 1?
Unions in Switzerland are not very common compared to France or Germany.
Sure, as were things like CIX, and indeed compuserve in the early days
I may be lost here but...

> Meritocracy is the idea that people get ahead based on their own accomplishments rather than, for example, on their parents’ social class.

> Here’s a clarifying stat: At two Ivy League schools that Markovits surveyed, “the share of students from households in the top quintile of the income distribution exceeds the share from the bottom two quintiles combined by a ratio of about three and a half to one.”

Just me or is anyone else reading this as "kids are getting ahead because of their parents' social status. Let me tell you about why having a system based on merits is failing us."? Because it doesn't seem like we're using a system based on merits (alone) if kids are getting so far ahead because of their parents' social status.

I know wealth brings more opportunities, but is this any different (in practice) than nepotism? I think a lot of us want a system where there is more social mobility, but framing a conversation around our society's meritocracy (which clearly doesn't exist and is admitted in the article) feels more like sensationalism and distracts from the root issues.
> These are facebook numbers. For a bank.

I could turn this around and ask, why would Facebook ever need infrastructure on par with BofA? I'm not an expert on infrastructure, but given their size, revenue, market position, number of customers etc, there's nothing baffling about these numbers.
One thing that has always felt wrong/broken/dirty, is how little people get to know about you when applying for a job. In order to correct this, we schedule a call to learn the following:

Understand experience.

- Learn more about recent projects and you're personal involvement; role
- Understand what technologies were used and your depth of those technologies

Understand what you're looking for in terms of:
- Problems excite you
- Technology and architectures

> So you're a recruiting company that targets layoffs?

A better way of looking at it is, we're a networking platform for candidates and companies to find one another. In addition to this, we do provide a concierge service for companies in which we will send out a curated list of candidates we spoken to personally along with a write up of that persons experience.

> How extremely? In what way?

Our professional background is in software development. We love talking tech! What technology do you use?
How feasible is to run and administer your own VPN in cloud ?
Colocation is another in-between. Build your own server, but the racks / datacenter / power delivery / real estate / network is all rented from another group.

Colocation is probably ideal for anyone using custom hardware: like GPUs or FPGAs. If you're using "normal" CPUs, just buy dedicated instances instead.
I'm not impeding. And I could get behind it. I just don't see what realistically it can accomplish.
Why? It's not like it has guided them for a long time, but still provides a useful distraction for the naive.
Without a voting system, users have no way to find "quality" content. Everything is mixed together, which means that the signal to noise ratio is only going to get lower and lower as more people contribute to the community.
Work: Our team has an extensive set of interlinked linked google docs for everything from how to set up your dev env to the plan for the week and logistics for off-sites. As well as a thorough README.md for every project we work on.

What makes the above work is a simple protocol: if someone teaches you how to do something, you're responsible for writing that something down. It's a simple honor system, but people tend to stick to it, and the result is an ever growing, live body of knowledge.

Life: Bullet Journal is pure magic, when I manage to stick to it :/
This is just a useful model. All it's doing is allowing scientist to study the effects of disease and later switch it off again. As a kind of control. Plenty of useful data will come from this model, but the model itself isn't interesting to anyone not into Autism and Molecular Biology.

The title is technically correct in the worst way. Sure, it tells the truth, but it implies a lot of things which are not true.
Imgur now is still multiple orders of magnitude better than what Imageshack and Photobucket were when it disrupted them.
> ...it's not super clear to me when tracks are clean encodes sourced from the proper music distribution ecosystem...

Isn't that kind of the point? If you can't tell which is which without a visual cue (aka bias-generator) then they sound the same.
I'm not going to say much about OS's. I will say Elementary OS looks a bit like Mac OS. It's Ubuntu based, so you can get support all over the place. Not my cup of tea but I did start with it. It was nice looking and easy to use.

As for hardware. I always suggest Lenovo X, T, or P series laptops. I use a P52s. You can find one with just about whatever hardware specs you're looking for. Range from about $500 (USD) to $3000 on the high end, they are friendly to most budgets. I've never had a hardware issue myself, however, that is anecdotal. I've had an X220 for 6 years now that I use as an old game system emulator. It's never had an issue.

Plus the keyboards are dope
Yet Singapore, Taiwan, and South Korea managed to get over colonialism in just a few decades.

Please try incorporate all the data when formulating a hypothesis.
I don't understand why such an important appeal/topic touching on public health was flagged the previous time I tried to post it here. Gagging views/research does not put this community in a very good light and it is something way beneath the standards I've seen in the few years I've been participating here.

Now - there was another similar topic a few days ago that was focusing though on the views of a single scientist that has been painted by many as a crook. This topic is about an appeal that has a lot more signatories to be dismissed lightly.

Thanks

PS: Flagged again. OK - seems that the admins here are on somebody's payroll.
to broadcast and spread your mono-culture.

America is, and has been, the polar opposite of a monoculture.
I was surprised by just how simple the 'meet-me rooms' at the core of these internet exchanges were. Basically just fiber from other places and a nice switch...
I've seen very few people who can walk and read content on their phones at the same time effectively.
Eight days ago on Hacker News:

Yup. Happened to me. Big corporate decided most of our floor were surplus to requirements. Got an email on Sunday telling us to be in early on Monday for an off-site meeting.

Got handed my redundancy / compromise agreement and told not to return to the office. And, the kicker, told my non-compete meant I couldn't work for a competitor during the redundancy process.

It was devastating and emotionally wrecking. It was like being dumped, out of the blue, from a multi-year relationship. And being told you couldn't see anyone else. I went through all the classic stages of grief.

And then...

I contacted my Trade Union and explained the situation. They took a look at the contract I'd been given, passed it to a very expensive lawyer, who made a couple of phone calls.

The next week I was free to work for whoever I wanted and was paid ~7 months salary (tax free).

Join. A. Union.

Your employer has more lawyers than you do. Pay a couple of quid per month to have decent legal representation on hand when you need it.

That layoff was the best thing to happen to me. Shook me out of my cosy job, forced me into building my own consultancy, and taught me the power of solidarity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21242176
This is awesome.

My Chinese name is 司馬文 "Sima Wen", with the surname being that of several series of famous Chinese historians, emperors, and generals, and my given name meaning culture.

My teachers were very proud of that one because it closely resembles my English name and they said it sounded dignified. I can only assume they knew what they were talking about.
My take is also that they were moving out. The article does acknowledge that they spent a fraction of that on the next year.
It will likely stifle my salary, and the salaries of a lot of high earning swes.

Or not. Curious what others think.
SoftBank to Take Control of WeWork: Sources
I'm not sure the deaf community's views on cochlear implants are entirely relevant here. There is no 'autistic culture' whereas there is very definitely deaf culture. Also we're not necessarily talking about a straightforward disability. If any of us were offered the ability to gan an extra useful sense then we'd probably take it... If we talk about something that profoundly changes our personality then maybe we'd be a little more hesitant.
> If you allow this for Hong Kong can someone else call out support for other political activities even ones you don't agree with.

That’s the beauty of freedom of speech but also shows rightfully that it is not freedom from speech.
Chinese scientists turn black coal by-product into white paper
Mother finds acceptance for autistic son in Moncton's 'geek' community
2cents per GB vs 9cents per GB.
> It's gonna take a while but it will without a doubt happen

Vehemently disagree. The assumption that technology will continue to improve to be useful for everything is inherently flawed. We don't know what the hard limits are yet, but nobody understood the limitations of the Carnot cycle for energy efficiencies once upon a time (the ICE will get better and better until no efficiency is lost) or limitations of transmission lines (until transmission line theory was established that dictates 50% is the best theoretical outcome, people thought you could approach 100%). We'll discover some algorithms will never be O(n) but the best theoretical solution is O(n^2).

I don't know where the barriers are or what they are, but it's naïve to assume not only that we will solve everything, but even that it's theoretically possible that we can solve everything.

The obvious generic barrier right now for robotics is AI, but that's a complex subject and could mean many different things to many different people.
Live and let live, right?

Some people are leery about the possibility of their employer turning into a closed shop. I know I would not be happy if my employer suddenly turned into a union shop in a way that strongly affected me and gave me minimal choice in the matter.

I only ask that you consider why people might choose to sit on the sidelines.
I suppose it's awesome for that capability to exist, though it wasn't even close to what should have happened here. Awesomely horrible.
A cool thing about CS is how many different perspectives there are on it. I think you are coming more from the programming or software engineering perspective, which I agree is more art than science at this point in history. I'm thinking more on the theoretical side.
I haven't tried GitHub Actions yet, but Netlify makes this very easy to do.
>Solaris was the most influential Unix of the 90’s so its omission is curious.

I think you meant 2000s because in the 90s Solaris was nothing special. All the interesting stuff (zones, SMF, dtrace, ZFS) was introduced in Solaris 10, which was released in 2005.
The Phone Foyer Method: A Piece of Advice I Wish I’d Included in My Book
Even better. That means less cuts in their business to take the right stand for freedom.
Did you ever look at ScalaJS? I found it surprisingly pleasant and reliable, and while Scala is not Haskell, it is a mature language with typeclasses and probably the best tooling support (in terms of IDEs etc.) of anything in this space.
I'm curious what your thought process was on this. It sounds like you're saying you want to use their service but you don't want to pay for it. Is this a moral argument for you, then?
The Business Side of a Scuba Diving Shop
Mudita Pure: Your Minimalist Phone
it's a single paper by a single author (itself a proxy measure of low quality) about a single population (military), based on indirectly (not-measured) exposures. I don't think you can really conclude anything at all about that paper.
> Additionally, why is a meritocracy even desirable? You don't choose your parents, you don't choose your genetics, you don't choose to be born able-bodied or not, so why should you be rewarded for those things over somebody else?

Why do you think in terms of rewarding? Isn't the point to have people doing things they're most suited for individually?

I guess you could say that meritocracy isn't compatible with free market economy.
Your point is valid but isn't really a counterargument to what OP said. There is a balance to be struck.

Some sort of half-local/half-global optimization algorithm running in the "smart grid" would be a good idea.
Wait until you find out how far the pay of those rich assholes goes when you spread it around!

There are good arguments to be made for unionization. That some people make more - sometimes substantially more - isn't always one of them. Certainly trying to stoke anger might not always be the best of all available ways to win over people trying to be thoughtful.
Everyone keeps saying that, but I don't buy it, and I think it's insulting to think we all know better than the imgur employees who have been dealing with this problem for years, and have likely considered all the possible options.

1) They needed a solution that would still be somewhat meaningful with adblock. That means maintaining user engagement to stay with the site and eventually encounter branded content that is not officially an ad but is still a revenue stream

2) Whatever sequence they chose for how they load the page, it is certain that they considered alternatives and a/b tested them, and what they chose was the best balance of user bounce rates and revenue.

It's not the most user-friendly version, but that can't be the only metric for a free site.
We've banned this account for using HN for ideological battle. This site exists for intellectual curiosity, and one of those things destroys the other.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Another problem that MANY moderated forums suffer from is too much focus on identity. If everytime you posted to SO or HN or /. or wkipedia or whatever, you were assigned a random id (consistent id for all responses to a specific story) rather than linking to your acct/post history/achievements, with a policy against posting with PII... the cliques might dissolve and the trolls do not benefit.
No worries.

The complaints about it not being readable on mobile are legit. If I could wave a magic wand and make it all magically responsive, I would.

But, my original goal was simply to actually make the slides for the presentation, and show them during my talk. I do specifically use the Spectacle React/JS toolkit, as I _want_ to publish the slides online later for viewing on the web (one of several reasons why I don't make them in PowerPoint). But, part of the reason I can get away with that is that publishing them on my blog is just a matter of uploading the built assets and moving on, vs having to convert them from Powerpoint by hand or something.

I've got a ton of other priorities and tasks to deal with, and figuring out what's needed to make the slides well-formatted on mobile realistically isn't anywhere on that list. Honestly, this thread is the first time anyone's actually complained about that.

I'm not sure how much of the formatting issue is due to Spectacle's own styles, vs the typical slide layout that I have in there (which is mostly flexboxes with two items side-by-side). If anyone has some specific suggestions on how to alter the styles to make them work better, I could try to apply those and rebuild it.
Is this a clone of ipinfo.io?
This must be a jab, but obviously yes.

Last year they had $28 billion in net income. With that kind of money you can hire the best in the world to build literally whatever you want. They could go build a space shuttle if they felt like it - probably without much trouble.

In the unlikely situation that it didn't work, they'd pay someone else to fix it or re-do it. The least likely (albeit not unprecedented) end situation is that 'none of the things actually work'.
vs. Code themes compared – an opinionated review
Based on my experience, people sit on the sidelines because they're comfortable. People advocating for change should be polite first, and then not polite if politeness fails.
Mods: Please put (2010) in the title.
Norilsk is famous for their staycations
Yes. Also, classic whataboutism.
Putin is a bad man.
That's counter to what i have found. Are you just seeing this on local or location related searches?
>Listen, companies have their own cultures, and if you're not a fit to that culture, bringing you on runs the risk of ruining the culture they have been building and making their employees quit.

"Culture" has been deemed the #1 important in hiring in the startup culture in the last 5 or probably 10 years. Even large old-school companies seem to go for this. The reality is this: just open Glassdoor, a newspaper or talk to people directly and there are always people who can tell you how bad a place is. And if it's not that, then people might be in complete denial, wondering why things don't work, why the company is not able to reach any business or technical goals.

The reality is that most workplaces are pretty bad places to be, that's probably also why so many found their own companies or just freelance. That said, places with strong cultures seem really attractive to new employees but the places with the weakest (=non-existing) cultures are usually those where employees get most opportunity to develop and stay the longest.
9 years ago I joined Superuser (it was in beta at the time IIRC) out of pure hatred for Experts Exchange and how every time I would put in a technical question in Google, their paywall site would come up.

I'm glad Stack Exchange beat Experts Exchange and will always contribute to it no matter what the politics. Because that's how much Experts Exchange pissed me off.
"Home" computers in those days used to be creation devices by default for nerds. To turn them into something that provided consumer entertainment took real work and in-depth knowledge.

Personal computers today are entertainment consumption devices for the masses. You can still use most for creating, but only a tiny, tiny fraction will ever go there.
Voodoo Fusion – Princeton Plasma Physics Lab
The sell-side investment bank alone is a huge consumer of this tech budget.

13 exchanges x 3000+ securities x 2 quotes for each security x 23,400 seconds in the trading day (with the very very very generous assumption that quotes only change once per second)

That’s the inbound data alone, now consider all the algorithms they have to run on it, the models, the strategies, etc.

And then to each of their several hundred institutional clients, they have to give a unique and dynamic price.

Again, this is only the sell-side investment bank, not even looking at their absolutely gargantuan consumer bank business
Thank you for the elaborate response, this is helpful
Why do you say they have bad security?

I've talked with info sec employees working in their Charlotte office, and have not been given an indication that they are slacking.
Do you think they would get more money by monetizing you with a credit card than they do by monetizing with ads? I hear this argument that people don't want to pay with money as opposed to attention, and I always feel the opposite.
> AWS is combining all your networking charges into one lump "outgoing data transfer" fee

> So it might be fairer if AWS broke out separate line items for internal, incoming and outgoing data transfer

This explanation doesn't cut it for me - most (all?) "traditional" VPS providers don't charge for ingress traffic, and I doubt anyone, ever, has charged for internal traffic.

So what exactly is 'all the networking charges' comprised of, other than egress data?
More than half of Swiss workers are covered by collective bargaining agreements. That's much higher than in the US at least; not sure about France/Germany.
I think an actual problem with Stack Overflow is question quality. Oftentimes askers will include massive code samples, so it is hard to determine if their question is also your question.
> Good conversation piece, everyone has an opinion on the subject, but the experiment is rubbish.

Agreed. The paper also seems to be promoting a view of wealth inequality that would support modern socialist policies.

The paper seems to be trying to scientifically support redistribution of welfare, without actually doing or saying anything, or posing the question directly.

Someone is warping the numbers to fit their agenda. Since it's a popular (and polarizing) agenda, of course everyone will have an opinion to chime in with.
Firing, sure. But they could have also condemned the comments without firing him which would've helped the Chinese revenues while having less of an impact elsewhere than firing him would have.