skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Give me six lines written by the most polite kid, and our contractor's child safety system will find enough in them to expel him."
i got it. not sure why you're being downvoted.
I have no idea what relevance trade history from hundreds of years ago has to modern geopolitics and economic globalization.

Historically, Europeans didn’t know North America even existed and the USA wasn’ta country
Could it be a bullshit article to prove the point that they can end up in Nature?

Just asking because some part looked really dubious, but I have no expertise at all in this area so maybe it's fair.
Ask HN: Recommend design guidelines for B2B website
I was not happy to learn recently our school was using google sites and chromebooks. We weren’t asked or even notified about that. Gaggle is another large step in the wrong direction.

All demonstrating that school (and govt) officials are not even aware of the need for privacy.
And as long as the treasury can sell debt for basically nothing it will continue to surpass higher and higher numbers. I'm not holding out hope for spending getting under control regardless of who gets elected in a year.
Exactly. The underlying laws in many of these countries allow this to happen. They don't change the laws because they don't want it to change.
Have any of the writers/editors who resigned singled out the "stick to sports" mandate from this week as their reason for leaving? It's clearly a contentious point between the management and workers, but based on their own reports and some outside reporting the new management was pretty bad.

"After I submitted my resignation, explaining that the ongoing undermining from my bosses made it impossible for me to continue to succeed in my job, and that I believed I was putting my staff at risk by staying, the CEO threw a tinier tantrum. When I passed Spanfeller in the office a week after I put in notice, he let out a cruel barking laugh, as if he was disgusted to be in my presence. I said “you can speak to me, you know,” and he responded in a tone familiar to anyone who was ever bullied in middle school. “I don’t want to,” he sneered."[0]

"Two people with knowledge told The Daily Beast that in a private meeting, Spanfeller reviewed the coverage of Lexus with the editor-in-chief of Jalopnik, a car-focused website, to ensure that its stories did not discourage the luxury automaker from advertising with G/O sites. On a separate occasion, sources said, the new CEO suggested that reporters and editors at Kotaku—once a Gawker-owned gaming website—bring a sales representative to interviews with gaming executives."[1]

[0]https://archive.is/P38Bw

[1]https://www.thedailybeast.com/gizmodo-media-staff-enraged-at...
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America is not a democracy — it is a constitutional republic with democratic elements. America has democratic election of representatives, the the lawmaking is done by those representatives, not directly. California’s proposition system is an example of true direct democracy.

The constitutional part is important too — it limits what people, and their representatives, can do even if they have a majority.
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if epstein's suicide is indicative of anything, it's that a non-trivial portion of gov't is participating
> Am I a freedom fighter if I tell my boss that I'm not going to code that thing they want to get out the door next week, I have a pet project that I really like, and then me and all my other co-workers go on strike when I can't do that?

Yes, if you thought that thing you were going to code was antithetical to freedom. Just because you do or don't do something at work doesn't mean it's exempt from ethical scrutiny by either employees or society at large.

Something similar at Google for instance: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/11/27/google-...

and again regarding a military contract: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-alphabet-defense/google-t...
Bad, bad Mozilla! For me, personally, it's what makes this model so fallible and not developer / community friendly. What if, tomorrow, some country blacklists the Firefox website, and one still needs to load some privacy extensions? This is exactly the sort of usecase Firefox should allow, if it's pro privacy.
Postgres FTS is very basic and requires separate methods and extensions to do things like fuzzy matching. It also doesn't support modern relevance and ranking algorithms.
fuck off loser.
How about “Elon Musk is a jerk”? Bit of a throwback, but it works.
Unless they manage to monopolize communication products. Snail mail has been doing well for me, I guess.
This is completely unnecessary. Has our world really come to a complete dragnet? Anything in the name of safety? Innocent as long as you keep proving yourself innocent. This is no longer the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Let the kids be kids.
Yes - you're able to save data behind a login using the point and click functionality as it extracts whatever data is loaded in your browser ("local scraping").

And no - if you choose to also create a cloud recipe that runs on the server, the remote browser instance won't be able to access data behind a login.

It's possible but I'd rather not store third-party credentials for the time being.
The US is ruled by two political parties and neither care about the debt. Saving for a rainy day during times of prosperity is the exception rather than the rule.

If we owe future generations anything it is 1) a sustainable environment and 2) a sustainable balance sheet. We may leave them neither.
> I find that a bit hard to square with the support of Chinese things by the same group, like the Tiananmen Square and Hong Kong protests (for instance).

I can only guess, but it could be explained by mentally categorizing Uyghurs, Hong Kongers and even Tiananmen protesters as "not Chinese." I don't think it's so much racism as a binary "us vs. them" classification system that expresses itself as the opinion that "the Chinese" should be punished for oppressing <some group> by implementing <some policy>, where <some policy> is not specific to oppressors and would also affect <some group>. I'm sure it's often just said in the heat of the moment and not to be taken literally, but it still poisons the discourse.

> it's a derail to bring up on a vague prompt like in the parent of this subthread.

Agreed, but since the thread was already derailed I decided to respond anyway.
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I attended a talk at Strata a few years back by a Spark committer who was talking about how Spark was stretching JVM memory allocations far past how the JVM was originally designed. Do a couple searches for "spark JVM OOM" and you'll see some discussions about similar things.
I'm a great asset to anyone's team.

I learn new things quickly.

I make friends in the workplace easily.

I share memes and various development-related links on Slack (or whatever the company-intern messaging tool is).

I organize after-work outings (bowling, beer, sushi, fare, etc.).

I can grill burgers.

I have a beard.

I have a Switch for lunch breaks.

I'm currently doing an online course for 3D Unity game development, so my value is going to expand into the game industry, too.

I can help out coworkers - often times as their rubber duck replacement.

I have a good taste in music.

I also have a shameful taste in music.

I'm very open about my mood. If the company is sucking the life out of me it can be seen very easily.

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I sneeze very loudly. I'm sorry.

I take my projects serious and I will work to the best of my abilities.

I make mistakes. But we're all human. It's ok.

I will remember the mistakes I've done and avoid them in the future.

I'm very honest. I won't lie for you to clients.

I'm not crass. I know how not to talk to someone.

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I don't do soccer (I tend to break things when I do sports - usually my own bones).

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Holy shiitake, pardon my Japanese.
Back when I was in school, they had a software called “Foolproof” installed on all the computers that largely did the same thing. In addition to that it prevented system-level changes to the computers and crippled them in other ways, like preventing installation of applications and hooking into Windows to implement all sorts of restrictions. It also did content monitoring and would regularly take screenshots of whatever you were doing.

However, the software was poorly written, full of bugs, would frequently crash, and generally ineffective. It wasn’t long until we (kids) figured out its weaknesses and we had full control of it —- we could force it to crash, uninstall it, and we even took over it’s command and control server.

Mind you, this was 20 years ago. Today’s kids are up against more mature software but I tend to feel whoever makes these things is generally bottom of the barrel outsourced devshops, so it’s probably all still very low quality. Couple that with kids being generally more tech savvy and advanced these days with clueless school administrators —- kids are generally smarter than you think and need a lot less protecting. Information spreads at lightning speed in a school. I’m sure they all know all about this software and how to get around it.
Maybe "U.S. to review National Security of ByteDance (TikTok) acquiring Musical.ly."?

I don't envy your work. :)

FWIW, I didn't suspect any foul play... the ByteDance is more accurate but also totally opaque.
How do you say the current rate is much lower? By your definiton everyone on Earth still is at work to respond to their home being set on fire, but now many people are also on call to respond to a shopping website being mildly inconveniently down at a time most people are asleep, in a system which is abusively, inhumanely, choosing to define that as an "emergency" and choosing to make that happen as often as possible by squeezing design and engineering and planning resources, because both of those choices (uptime, and fast development) are more profitable, and screw the human factor.

It's a totally different scenario.

Even in situations where there are lives at risk, medical systems, or power grid control, there are plenty of options for planning in advance, for redundancy, for employing people in different time zones. When a peasant has to respond to their house burning, they're motivated to put the candles out before going to bed. When a peasant has to respond to their email system being down, but they're not allowed to allocate more time or money to fix it, that's worse.
It's the debt to income ratio that really matters.
> I suspect this story has such legs because it is about the media.

Well, also it's a popular site—so if it just disappeared, people would be (rightly) confused.
Yes, working on it now.
Standard QR codes can encode numeric, alphanumeric, kanji and binary data. Alphanumeric is the simplest, well supported and most widely used encoding mode.

QR code size increases with the amount of data they contain. The larger versions take up lots of space and can be awkward to use. URLs are popular since they're usually small.
Not caring for the way a piece of art looks is not a good reason to belittle the talent and effort that went into creating it.
In this case they actually cant tell them to do some things. The writers unionized, and there became certain conditions that must be met for management to delete writers stories after they had been posted. There was obviously a lot of work that was put into protecting the writers from management. And management knew of the situation and the status quo when they bought the company. They knew they were buying people willing to write things management might not like (or they should have known, i cant attest to their due diligence before purchase.)
It is still better than situation where everyone would use HTTP and naively believe that authorities will respect their right for privacy.
> In general, whatever model Youtube uses seems to get really obsessed with certain concepts every once in awhile.

There's probably a "new and unique" engine running somewhere.

Most of YouTube content is 99% "same shit, different day" if not "outright copy and ripoff".

So, anything genuinely new and good is actually going to generate more engagement and that probably self-reinforces until it spreads to everyone interested and which point it burns out.
It's much better for things to be released when they are ready than on an artificial and completely arbitrary cycle, brutally enforced.
If you are the citizen of a first world country, you can just go to your embassy without any id and they will sort it out.

These workers origin countries also share the blame, they refuse to help them. In many cases they turn a blind eye to this slavery since these enslaved workers send currency to their origin country.
Does anyone really believe it was a suicide?
If he had not given it away for free, nobody today would know who Linus Torvalds is, most likely.
OK, so if that's an unpopular opinion, then lets at least make voting a national holiday, move it to a weekend day, or make it last more than one day?

A single Tuesday in November seems like an awfully thin window to measure the sentiments of a nation of ~350MM, no?

Why are we married to such an archaic idea of what is a reasonable time to cast a vote?
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Progressive Latino pollster: 98% of Latinos do not identify with “Latinx” label
To hijack the thread a bit, what's your favorite way of accessing your home server that's behind a NAT (and you can't port-forward)?
Given the multiple areas of content it would perhaps be better to look at the writers and the tone and the perspective of irreverence as the feature and, in fact, the the value. We are about to find out what is the true asset of deadspin...the name and the sports articles of the writers and their broad interests. If nothing it'll be an interesting experiment.

You may not want a product, but if you bought the company that makes it, successfully, and tell them to suddenly produce something else you may well end up look like a stupid investor.
I like bug fixes and security updates the day they are ready.

Language updates that change the language I prefer once every 25-40 years.
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I think it's a combination of being tired of constantly feeling judged on a very personal part of your life and a feeling that the dependency and inconvince a child, especially a small child, adds to your life is unmatched by almost anything else, giving other little experience to draw from when criticizing or otherwise "trying to help". Even when coming from other parents, unsolicited "advice" can be annoying because every child is different and every parent likes to parent differently.
The Ubiquiti EdgeRouters can run a third-party WireGuard module [1] and include entry-level devices under $100.

[1] https://github.com/Lochnair/vyatta-wireguard
We don’t need technological restrictions. Laws and education are more than sufficient, as is presently being demonstrated every day in our society.

Yes, these events are rare. The vast majority of people are not murderous sociopaths. That doesn't mean we shouldn't take prudent precautions agains those who are, or simply against otherwise good people who may be careless.

Sure, you can do bad things with gasoline. But it's not that easy, you need a lot of it to do significant damage. And you can't just jump in a plane, their use is strictly regulated for precisely the reasons we're talking about. To do bad things with an airplane, you still have to be in it to boot, which cuts down the number of potential bad guys by a couple of orders of magnitude. And there are lots of stabbings, but if you're going to do a mass attack, guns are so easy to get here in the US that it makes no sense to do so. Mass stabbings only happen in places where guns are tightly regulated, and it's worth noting that the death toll is (predictably) much lower than in a mass shooting with semi-automatic weapons.

We clearly do need restrictions on the availability and use of potentially destructive technology, which is exactly why we already have them in many cases. That need is demonstrated every day in our society.
Again, it's not a perfect measure.

Where I live, there are options to either cycle on a park path or on the road with car drivers. The death risks are completely different for those modes.

When on the road, your primary cause of death will be an accident with a motorist.

When on the bike path, it'll likely be heart failure.
I lift. Focus on form and crushing the weight. Form form form.

It's a great way to wind down the day after using your brain all day sitting in a chair. The pump you get in your arms, chest, back and legs feels awesome.
It's terrible thing which should be addressed.

But it seems to me that accusing Apple/FB/Instagram that those platforms were used for it is exactly the same as accusing Toyota/Nissan/Ford that vehicles they made were used for transporting slaves.
Most AI seems to be either that, human workers pretending to be AI, or some half-baked, misapplied and not working deep neural network. I have a huge respect for companies that know about linear regression.
How is this legal? I'm not doubting the school's intentions but this is a massive breach of privacy, a sort of dystopic 1984 scenario.

"Believe happy thoughts! You are happy! Smile please!"

I think the solution lies outside the tech world and in face to face solutions; train teachers to spot problems and red flags and possibly have a tally system. Are several teachers reporting issues? A student missing classes, showing up long sleeves, withdrawn, depressed? Grades slipping, unable to focus? Set a counsel meeting and get to the bottom of it.

An abstract and mind-you poorly run AI is just a nightmare scenario. I feel sorry for any students going through the system now.
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I upvoted this mostly so it would get visibility and we can remind ourselves if we were outraged about Blizzard's Hong Kong related fiasco, we should remember that when Diablo IV is actually released and not line their pockets.
Even in countries where it's illegal, it's common practice. It happens regularly in Singapore, one of the world's wealthiest nations.
That was for 1024-bit SSL keys with specific primes, going to 2048-bit will not scale with $11B
And the kids will pay of course

And that's the big problem here. The policy of "run large deficits funded by residents buying government bonds" effects a large wealth transfer from millennials and post-millennials to baby boomers.
> All your doing is preventing communication using school provided technology and eroding students trust in the school. You're not actually preventing a shooting. Kids can still do whatever they want and there's nothing you can do to stop it.

From the school's perspective, that's likely still considered a success. Lawyers are creative, and school systems (as an extension of the government) are rich targets.

If someone is naive enough to use the school communication system for those things and the monitoring software gets triggered and intervention occurred, then the school has documented proof that they did what they could. If something uses the school system and the monitoring software missed signs of it, then it's the software's fault and not theirs. If someone is shrewd enough to not use the school's system for that because they know it's being monitored, well then you can't blame the school for not seeing messages it had no access to.

Only one of those three scenarios does much to prevent things from happening, and is the least likely one. But all three of the scenarios limit the potential to somehow get a multi-million dollar negligence judgement out of the school if something bad actually happens.
In the "now that I think about it, it was silly" category, I "copy pasted" a mail using QR Codes from the computer to the phone while in a train. I could send the mail from the phone, but it was more convenient to type it with the computer.

KDE Plasma provides a QR Code for anything not too big you copy-pasted by clicking on an icon. "It should be more convenient than using the computer as a Wi-Fi hotspot for the phone, which is a two clicks operation, right?"

Wrong. It was painful.

We should reuse the idea of Quiet.js, seen today on HN [1], to solve this kind of situation.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21415946