skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not trying to discount your experience. I have met people like that too.

I’m just saying, that’s not the entirety, or even the majority of people who are fighting for social justice.

And there are powerful media campaigns working hard to get you to think that they are.

What you’re saying is a little like sating “I’ve been to every Taco place in Chicago, I am speaking from experience, tacos are trash.”

And I’m saying, there are a lot of other tacos out there.
The UK has been testing the reverse strategy to that described in the article. As well as the forty year war on public housing [1], the last decade has seen cuts to safety nets, social services, social care for the elderly and other 'soft' forms of care. The burden inevitably falls on the emergency services and the NHS and this is not only an ineffective way of caring for people but also, as the article notes, a very expensive way to fail.

[1] https://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n01/james-meek/where-will-we-live
Power-to-gas technology can possibly fill that niche.
We had a preview of what was to come in the early 90's right before the Internet went mainstream (though I'll argue the Internet was not truly mainstream until a little after 2000 when broadband connections were widely available).

At least where I lived at the time, it seemed like the number of channels on cable TV quadrupled, and the number of radio stations catering to different genres also increased. So people's attention was already being chopped up and "bubbled". I feel the "fractioning" effect of streaming whereby everyone is in their own personal bubble is simply a later stage of a trend that was underway in the early 90's.

Regarding an algorithm picking what is visible to you, it's not very much different than a TV or radio broadcaster selecting programs that he/she will think will sell advertisements. It's simply faster, more efficient, and outside some legal liabilities because it's done by software and not human beings.

It's a shame that so much is going into making the Internet obey the one-direction broadcast-and-corporate-controlled TV model, though. The Internet was supposed to be for end-user freedom and control.

But Facebook and Twitter, for example, shows that when you give a bit of that capability to large numbers of people, you don't get fantastic results (but the owners will make a lot of money). Most people seem content to take a mostly passive relationship with their screens, participating in their tribes' regularly scheduled outrages, regardless of the size or technology behind them.

I don't think things will ever change too much for most people. Same town, pay taxes to a different king. It's mostly about companies figuring out how to sidestep existing companies and regulations.
Kohls accepts Amazon returns now. Then they hand you a 25% off coupon. People turn right around and shop at kohls with their new found return money. Brilliant strategy.
I just wish that GitLab didn't have weekly (or more frequent) outages. Is this because they are all distracted by the drama ongoing there?
> A MAGA hat can serve as a useful heuristic for "likely to cause trouble".

Wow. And here I am, thinking that we no longer discriminate people based on their political leanings and everyone has the right to freedom of political opinion.

Move over racial profiling. Here comes political profiling.
Not probably, it definitely has.
All the time. I use my email as a TODO list, so I send myself items. Not aware of any products that enhance it, nor can I think of anything I'd want like that.
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Google re-organized with a new parent company (Alphabet) to do other stuff. They didn't change the Google name, so most users are blissfully unaware of the change.
Here is the thread for more context: https://twitter.com/nebrius/status/1191821800302206976

I spent maybe 40 minutes last night trying to find out what Charles did that violated the CoC. The best I could do was find this: https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/1187181890920312833

It seems like he was kicked from the conference for having the nerve to make a youtube video with his opinion.

If someone can show me something more significant... PLEASE... because i've been searching, I just haven't found it.
(Just because this is hn...)

You'd need a 33% growth in population to offset a 25% reduction in pollution, 100% growth to offset a 50% reduction, and so on.
I think it was Churchill that the quote is ascribed to - "Many more men die from whisky each year than bullets. Men would still rather be full of whisky than bullets."

Unfortunately the same holds true when it comes to many people's opinions of nuclear power.
Who said you should spend a portion of your life not enjoying it? Engaging in a problematic behavior is sometimes enjoyable in the short-term, and usually not in the long. In my dopamine fasting 2.0 approach, I share suggestions of what to do during that time that is deeply satisfying:

"You don't need to “do nothing” or meditate during a dopamine fast (unless you’d like to). Just engage in regular activities that reflect your values:

- Health-Promoting (exercise, cooking)
- Leading (helping, serving others)
- Relating (talking, bonding over activities)
- Learning (reading, listening)
- Creating (writing, art)

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/dopamine-fasting-new-silicon-...
It doesn’t imply that at all. What does probation have to do with your public record? Probation is part of your sentence and administered by law enforcement.
Well, if you're willing to accept my paranoia - here's what I did for a reasonable test. Again, it's only a start - there's more fun and paranoia to be had. At the end of the day it's about having an identity, not a blog.

1. Buy a credit card in cash from somewhere without cameras.

2. Use that credit card to buy a phone number through many of the real voip providers.

3. Buy a used laptop on CL/Kijiji in cash, making sure the pickup is someone's house. Bonus points if you make a friend do it.

4. Go to a Starbucks with your new laptop, sign up for gmail or protonmail using your new phone number.

5. Nuke your laptop and reinstall. It's a burner. Make sure you change the MAC address, just for profit.

6. Sign up for free VPN (500MB start) with something like TunnelBear, using your new email address.

7. Connect to your VPN from the laptop. Now use TOR.

8. Remember that credit card? Time to buy another one - this time so that you can pre-fund Amazon credits (or DO). They'll both accept prepaid credit cards.

9. Blog, do your thing - but only ever publish from a dedicated VM on the laptop. Make sure you're using firefox (or something else) in your VM to test your blog - through the SOCKS proxy you establish (ssh -D) to the host.

10/11. Nuke and rebuild VM and machine at will.

12. Every ~3 months, do a Kijiji exchange for a new laptop.

The above is in no way foolproof. But it's a reasonable start. For the record I don't consider this anonymous or paranoid enough.
> your writing through an automatic translator each time

Don't forget that this is a sure way to get deanonymized, if you don't do this anonymously, too.
Could you buy a burner with cash?
You are very casually implying gross incompetence or dishonesty among the many highly skilled individuals working on these projects.

Have you actually thoroughly researched the methodologies they use? Do you have any hard evidence that they are not properly accounting for sources of error or overstating their results?
This is the person and comments he is discussing:

https://twitter.com/mimismash/status/1185942308769976320
The thing is, if they don't actually get it right, and another plane crashes, the stock is going to take a massive hit. So even if all you care about is the stock price, you have to get the fix right.
Oh, sure, I don't mean to minimize the engineering challenges involved. I'm far from an expert in the details of how these particular satellites work; I'm just trying to describe the general principles, to make the point that this level of measurement accuracy shouldn't be viewed as intrinsically unattainable.
I've observed that there is often more to the story in these sorts of cases. Not always, but >50% of the time. The little thing everyone is reacting to is usually the last straw.

The same often holds true with outbreaks of political protest, like the ones in Chile right now. The mainstream story is that the protests are over a subway fare hike, but the reality is that this was just the lightning rod event.
The two are linked, since existing commercial steno keyboards are $$$$$$.
I've heard "micro-types" being mentioned in this context: https://markhneedham.com/blog/2009/03/10/oo-micro-types/
> those who are left behind can look for another and better opportunity. which is better than continuing in a toxic environment anyway.

That's what I'm wondering: what you call a toxic environment seems rather common in my experience. The execs make the decisions, and the developers are lucky if they even get to know what was decided. So while they can certainly look, I find it weird to be confident that they will actually find somewhere better. Gitlab just seems to be reverting to the average.
I like the open and public way of handling such matters. You won't have much transparency in private and that is dangerous. However, i am against their decision. All these "community guidelines" and "code of conduct" bullshit just get abused to attack and censor people.
Hey look, a human-based JSON parser. I wonder what their maximum nesting level is...
Good article, but it and a lot of the comments here seem to be conflating SQL as a language and Postgres (or other RDBMS implementations.)

For the record, I like both these things and they often go together well. But once your data gets too big for Postgres, you don't have to immediately jump to NoSQL: modern distributed SQL tools like Presto are quite good and can let you continue to use the same SQL interaction patterns, even at the terabyte or petabyte scale.

You have to be a little more aware of what's going on under the hood, so you don't write something pathological, but it's quite a powerful approach.

I am even using Presto for a lot of what would normally be considered ETL: using SQL to select from a "dirty" table and inserting into a "clean" table on a schedule.
Consumption is even further removed from externalities than the companies which do this damage in the first place. It always strikes me as odd when consumers are blamed for the damage companies do when producing their goods. It's not like it says on the packaging "During the production of this product, XXX chemicals were released into your rivers" for consumers to make an informed choice in this matter. Furthermore, companies actively try to hide and cover up the damage that they do. Oil companies have known about the impacts of their products on global warming since the 70's and have waged a HUGE disinformation campaign to say otherwise. Now we are in a situation where half the country doesn't believe in global warming, but it's the consumers fault?
Thanks for the first part of your response. Those uses seem potentially interesting.

The second part of your response is somewhat frustrating though. It absolutely does matter what the tax is used for. This can’t just be an excuse for the total tax that I pay to be increased with the additional funds being put towards things like war fighting in far off lands. That’s maybe not as much of a problem in Canada as it is in the U.S. It’s unreasonable to dismiss any concerns about how the tax revenue is used as FUD.
>After Chernobyl we were promised nothing like this would ever happened again because that reactor was so bad, and bla bla bla. Oops then Fukushima happened.

This is remarkably sloppy logic. Chernobyl was a questionable design. Fukushima was a different design that's more common, but still old.

The two accidents had little in common. Did you really think when someone said that Chernobyl wouldn't happen again that they meant all reactor types everywhere would never have another accident of any kind? If so, you're pretty naive.

>There will always be something you did not think about.

True about every technology ever created, and not a good enough reason to avoid progress and invention altogether.
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Literally the only evidence presented was a polite call for discussion, and a picture of the guy wearing a MAGA hat. Then the org directly responded, saying they reviewed the evidence and found he violated the code of conduct. Regardless of what they may claim or of how much anyone may try to dissemble, the MAGA hat picture was clearly the impetus for the decision.
>> Chernobyl cost tax payers 235 billion dollars to clean up. Fukushima cost tax payers 183 billion dollars to clean up.

> Source? Neither of them are actually "cleaned up", you know. Also, both of these are very old reactor designs. You're complaining that a piece of 1950s technology which qualifies as an antique has problems 65-70 years later.

For Fukushima, the 200 billion figure came from opposition politicians who used the plant failure as part of their election platform. Japan has spent nowhere near that amount of money.

And the irony is that this decision to close nuclear plants likely killed more people than the plant failure itself: https://www.economist.com/asia/2019/11/07/was-shutting-japan...
Hi All,

I've been working on Terraform provider for Azure DevOps. This tool allows you to model Azure DevOps projects, security groups, Builds and more as Infrastructure as Code (IAC).

I wanted to get the word out and solicit any early feedback. Thanks!
People rationalize that political profiling is acceptable using the paradox of tolerance[1]. Basically, if you can convince yourself that every member of a political party is intolerant due to their worldview, you no longer have to be tolerant of anyone in that party and you are allowed and even encouraged to politically profile them, name and shame them, or any other tactic you think will make them less intolerant (such as getting them kicked off of github projects, kicked out of conventions and events, etc.).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
> These statistics don’t take into account things like the disproportionately high cost of healthcare in the US, so percentage of dollars spent isn’t an especially meaningful measure

Yep. The US spends more than double what countries with universal coverage spend on healthcare[1]. Those countries also have better health outcomes on nearly every metric[2] and manage to cover all of their citizens.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...

[2] https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/quality...
How will it come back to haunt? Again, just curious.
It would be nice if they provided some exploratory data for these reports, such as a notebook that people could use to see the actual data that they're looking at.

I've always felt like these government agencies are continuously moving the goal posts around so that everything appears like they're doing a good job so everyone can keep collecting their paycheque and government benefits. I don't want to read a massive wall of text, I'd rather see charts that show what's really going on.
And this is not impossible. The obvious example is the north vs south Korean. The same people, but different nutrition, different lifestyles. Now the NK people are obviously smaller and I'd bet, have a much lower IQ (the lack of food doesn't help with math activities!) I'm certain that there are many subtle differences in how people live in Netherlands and Denmark.
I met someone at a conference who was both a stenographer and a developer. Because the dictionaries which convert the keystrokes into words are just JSON, he changed them to common commands/code snippets. Watching him code was mindblowing.
This has some very interesting parallels to the current drama at Stack Overflow w/Monica Cellio. Someone is accused of breaking the CoC. The governing body expels this person in a public an explicit way. Looking into the details shows that really that person was just not following $GROUP_THINK.

In Stack Overflow's case this seems to be headed towards a Slander/Libel. I hope we don't end up in a world where this is the only way to follow $GROUP_THINK.
After a certain threshold, earth as it is can be seen as a tool for powerful processing. At least, that's what a little white mouse told me.
Typically one refers to the CS definition of automatic memory management, using accredited references like "The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management".

Everything from "ARC" is there on chapter 5.
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Not only that, most of those countries have socialized medicine -- but socialized medicine isn't exactly an anti-poverty program. When the government takes an extra $1 from someone at the mean income and then provides them with $1 in health coverage, it shows up as $1 in government spending, but that's not redistributive. If the program didn't exist they could have taken the $1 and used it to buy $1 in health insurance, which is what happens in the US. Socialized medicine is only redistributive to the extent that the money comes from someone other than who receives the benefit. For healthcare spending probably 80% of the money isn't that, because it's mostly going to insure the same people who are paying the taxes.

The US couldn't raise taxes by an equivalent amount unless the money specifically went to healthcare in an equivalent way (because otherwise taxpayers would still need to have that money to buy healthcare), so you couldn't use it to solve homelessness.

The problem is that Social Security and Medicare in the US completely dominate social spending, and they're also the same thing. Or worse, since Social Security even gives bigger payouts to wealthier people who had higher incomes before retirement -- the least it could do is give everyone the same amount.

So we end up in a situation where we are at the same time spending too much on government programs and not spending enough on government programs, not because the amount of tax revenue is too low, but because the money we currently spend mostly isn't actually going to anti-poverty programs or public infrastructure or scientific research etc.
Rooftop solar is available, but you can't exactly get a 30 kW washing machine sized nuclear power plant to install in your basement, can you? It's mainly due to non-proliferation risks. Remove some of the regulatory hurdles, like requiring airplane impact proof reactor containments (after 9/11 of course) and we'll see a boomibg nuclear industry.

https://www.troutmansandersenergyreport.com/2009/02/nrc-requ...
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Can confirm. Am data scientist. Am mediocre at everything :)
Last week people were mad that Microsoft complied with an order from the Spanish government to remove a controversial repo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21395629

And before that some anti-Microsoft people were mad in general that MS bought GitHub.
Well there is the whole MtG novel series for the (relatively) newer blocks and sets. I wouldn't be surprised if some flavor texts are direct quotes.
> The nuclear power plant by me is shutting down early due to being too expensive compared to renewables.

This seems inane. Keep the nuclear plant running, even if it's more expensive, and shut down a gas plant instead.
Yea, I'm glad it turned out to be nothing. I was pretty concerned to see my valid credentials in the subject line. The PDF was reasonably convincing, and very threatening. It got me thinking about things like "this can't be real, right? but what if it is? Should I just pay it to make it go away?" I figured if I was thinking those thoughts others might, so it was worth the investigation. Thanks for reading!!
I really, genuinely hope I am wrong and that this program works out. I am 100% on board for expanding it if the trials works.

First, you risk creating formerly-homeless slums. Any landlord that accepts homeless ends up upsetting paying tenants. As much as we love to help homeless--there is a NIMBYism here. Most of us are all for helping the homeless until we are finding needles in bushes and our kids are accosted by drunkards.

I hate to be so harsh, but the bleeding hearts would be a lot more skeptical of housing the homeless if they started moving into their neighborhoods.

Second, municipalities that offer generous support for homeless may end up with a greater homeless population because of immigration from other cities/towns. There isn't much of a solution for this so long as homelessness is tackled on a local basis.
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> Not allowed to call it that since when?

It's not politically correct to call it racism. According to the powers that be, we should call it "economic anxiety"
This will most benefit the deep sea mining industry.

http://nautil.us/blog/we-are-about-to-start-mining-hydrother...

http://www.nautilusminerals.com/IRM/content/default.aspx

https://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/industrial-robots/seabedm...
>Note that your employer can't terminate you for attempting to unionize in the US. I could understand those with equity being fearful of championing this (and possibly losing their lottery ticket), but if you have no equity, you have nothing to lose.

They have a job to lose. Which starts to matter when you have a family, kids and mortgage to support. Then there's health insurance and possibly having to switch all your doctors.

More broadly, if you think your next job will be better then you should just leave. If you don't then you have something to lose.
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Because unknown gives anxiety.

Robot:

if !request.get?
do_nothing
else
kill_one_person
end

What are possible states for NOT `!get?`, I have to think twice or all day thinking.

The problem is that real world program may have exception state you can't think of. If you write down a set of finite state; {A,B,C,D}.

if A
# For A, do nothing
else
# for B or C or D, kill a man
end

It's sure that if not A, it's going to be B|C|D. But what if it isn't? You could get an exceptional Z which will kill a man too. You know A better anything "else".
I think both have content pinning and/or HTTP gateway services; one example is Hashbase: https://hashbase.io/
Absolutely, I should have made this clearer in the article. There have been many breaches in the past and the more places you put your sensitive data the more likely it is to be lost!
But you'd still need to be able to run the classifier, right? What's the difference between that and a piece of code that just knows the format? There's still a format here, regardless of how it's being decoded.
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One of our company branch got a mass layoff with 80% employees gone due to merger. Some of the middle and upper management was shocked and told us that they really didn’t know. I am not buying it as some of the people who remained in the company clearly has influence and selection of layoff seems biased towards certain employees.

Can HN managers throw some light on this ?
This is demonstrably false, please stop perpetuating it. CO2 emissions are 90% down to tragedy of the commons.

I can have the exactly same
lifestyle in Saudi, in USA and in France, yet per capita emissions in France are 3 times lower than those in USA, and 5 times lower than in Saudi.

People in Saudi do not have 5 times better lives. In fact a huge chunk of the population is an underclass, some work as slaves on construction sites.

Competent management and regulation matters, a lot.
They do: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9370220?hl=en

You as the site owner would still need to set up the redirects and DNS changes, but the tool basically tells Google to emphasize indexing the new site over the old one.