skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You would shut someone down if they threatened you or people you care about.

I guess there is some ambiguity in this but large classes of threats are illegal:

https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/crime-penalties/federa...

> A criminal threat involves one person threatening someone else with physical harm. The threat must be communicated in some way, though it doesn't necessarily have to be verbal. A person can make a threat through email, text message, or even through non-verbal body language such as gestures or movements. However, some states require written or verbal threats, and in those states gestures are not enough.

I'm not aware of anybody asking that this should be legal either or of anybody defending this. So at least in this regard I can assure you people defending free speech for the most part (>99%) are not trying to change the law to make criminal threats non criminal.
> You may certainly hold the sentiment yourself but that offers no insight into whether it is valid.

I don't expect my holding the belief to be an evidence for its validity; I only said I hold it, and listed what I consider evidence in its favor - evidence you can verify independently, and draw your own conclusion.

> I have to wonder for example, do you research the claims of every mainstream news article and if so what have you found?

Not really, unless I have a particular interest in the topic. The times I did spend hours on my own research (usually because someone sent me an article in order to convince me of something), it usually turned out the article cherry-picked facts to draw an opposite conclusion from what's reasonable. I don't track this explicitly beyond knowing that, in those cases, bad articles vastly outnumber good articles.

> What's the accuracy rate on mainstream news articles? How does that compare to the accuracy rate of "non-mainstream news articles?"

It's not the question I'm trying to answer. I don't care much about "non-mainstream news" as some opposite category to "mainstream news". I only care about how much bullshit there is in any particular article I'm reading. And when generalizing over the samples I've observed, I came to the conclusion that most journalism isn't much different from blogging, except most bloggers don't have as much time pressure.

> I know if I had such a strongly held belief as this that I would want to investigate if my belief was correct or not and if not, change my belief.

I'm open to changing my belief on this one, but I'm not going to go out of my way on this. For one, because there are many other beliefs I'm working to verify, where verification has a bigger payoff. There's only so much time in the day. Secondly, this belief pays a very strong rent. I don't find myself confused about reality often by following it. If I did, it would be on the top of my verification list.
While oversimplified, I like the diagram.

I remember that my local media staged events in front of good cameras to make their reporting look better. And they also made it look more dramatic. Inserted some small narrative.

This staging often becomes a part of the job, instead of fair reporting.

Now with twitter and such, journalists seem more focussed on the pictures and political black/white narratives. And do forget about the underlying grey reality. So almost all news has become fake.
We have a lemon socialism banking system. Obama made certain that 100% of bankers wiped out in 2007 paid NO PRICE for their recklessness; he prosecuted NO ONE.
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That line read to me more as “[we have found that] donors are reluctant to donate large amounts to female-led organizations”, but I am also hesitant to accept that at face value
literally that land is not cleared well, many land mines are still in the ground, https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-vietnam-war-is-...
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Is there some way to implement this as a service with a chat bot or just prerecorded mumbling and confused statements? I guess it could happen by just transferring the call.

The true future of AI is robots sending eachother spam.
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Except around places like airports, of course.
Article does not contain the word pig even once, maybe check those facts.
and they certainly can. they just can't export their hate and vitriol to people not logged in and subscribed or just browsing all.
>Until we as a people decide liberty is worth a few deaths, it'll be a (slow, because democracy is inefficient) race to the bottom.

We have chosen. This is why cars, sugar, beer and numerous other liberties are legal.

Free choice is woven into the fabric of America. With freedom of choice the collateral death will always be present.

I disagree it is a race to the bottom as we have made life much more livable than in 1787.
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Is there a clever acronym for best low cost countries for Americans' retirement? I think MVP = Mexico Vietnam Panama might work, but are there others?
>Definitions of hate speech vary depending on nation, law and platform

according to the Russian laws and their application the speech critical toward the government falls under "extremist speech spreading/inciting hate toward a specific social group" (in this case the social group is the government).
What if the student does not have a cellphone?
I think it’s the direct exchange of labor for room and board that’s the unrealistic part these days.

Now with a MacBook, you work in a comfy coffee shop to earn enough to stay at a regular motel for the night and get a regular meal.

Also, MacBook freelancing is a higher bar than handyman mechanical work. It requires literacy and training on some skill on the computer that puts you above the Mechanical Turk workforces in much cheaper countries.
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Grad students will just just maple/mathematica to directly generate latex from an expression.
They do set annual goals starting at the team level and then moving up. But, as far as I have seen at the line manager and middle manager level, people are not judged directly on their progress on these goals. At higher levels this probably changes, but I don't really have a good sense of how directors and vps are evaluated.
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If you’re not at a keyboard, or prefer to use a stylus, typing really isn’t an option. Or if you want to capture the actual working-through of a problem, rather than working from an already-completed work. There are a number of use cases you might not find useful with respect to handwriting, but others might find incredibly practical.
"They bought the four-bedroom, 3½-bathroom unit, measuring about 1,840 square feet along with a separate veranda, for about $250,000 in 2011."

I'm sure it's a very nice place, but that sum is nothing to sneeze at. I wonder how much it costs now, and what is monthly expense is.

Good thing is, American government has sensible reciprocal arrangement with many countries that offer national pension system that you don't necessarily have to wait until you hit full retirement age to live abroad and collect social security checks from there.
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Indeed, if you can achieve financial independence before striking out on your own, you will be able to do it with less stress. There is a lot of available information about the FIRE movement (Financial Independence Retire Early) that worth reading for younger software developers who want to work independently.
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I do not understand why they do that.

If a US news outlet has no presence in the EU there is nothing which can be done if they do not follow EU rules.
That doesn't seem remotely practical. Even the tiniest hobby drones can easily and safely get 150ft away along the ground and are allowed to go up to 400ft.

Have you tried connecting to a phone's hotspot or bluetooth line of sight from 50ft away? 75ft? That's like half a second of flight time for drone then it's supposed to just "stop operating". Sounds incredibly dangerous and ineffective to me.

If its from the base station that would probably make more sense but that would require replacing controllers which are the most costly portion of amateur setups (besides FPV setups).
Heck, even as a software developer, which HN heavily skews to, how would we measure productivity? Many fields are very creatively driven, it's incredibly difficult to put a number on it.

Lines of code? That was shown to be a total failure years ago. Jira tickets closed? Some tickets are much harder than others. Hours of butt in seat? Well, sadly that still seems to be a bit in vongue, but is thankfully dying out.

Vlue collar jobs are easier to put a number one, but a lot of white collar jobs don't, and the USA is rapidly shifting to white collar work.
The corrupt way it got standardized [1] [2]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Op...

[2] https://effi.org/blog-kai-2007-09-05-en/
> Typically the democratically elected legislature defines hate speech through legislation and the penalties, if any. The executive branch will generally seek enforcement of the legislatures laws through the courts. Then the last check/balance on power comes by way of the judiciary which may or may not include finders of fact consisting of a jury made up of the very members of the electorate coming full circle.

So tyranny of the majority is okay? There are many nations where the majority chooses governments which violate the rights of the minority. The obvious caveat to your proposal is that you must implicitly trust the government, not just today but in the future. This in spite of the fact that next election cycle the majority can pick someone bad.
I don't get it (probably neither do you). Was using the webserber what she considered cheating? If so, why? You said it was covered in Chapter 12. If it was part of the course, why would it be considered cheating?
FFS, re-read the thread. The conversation was literally about how little there was for immigrants way back then in terms of safety nets but there was more opportunity for unskilled labor.
>I disagree it is a race to the bottom as we have made life much more livable than in 1787.

Then why the constant attempts to invalidate the 2nd Amendment when gun death is one of the lowest causes of death?
What would you want from a book on Serverless architectures in 2020?
Hypothetically, what would you find most useful in a book (say, 300-500 pages) on serverless architectures on AWS in 2020?

A run-through of the different services and features (e.g. Lambda, API Gateway, AppSync) + a series of mini-projects to follow along?

An overview of what is serverless, and how to connect Lambda to different services to build a basic API + an over-arching project that spans across the whole book as we cover topics such as authentication, logging + monitoring, APIs and data processing (queues, streams, etc.)?

A collection of deep dives into successful serverless architectures in the real-world. Looking at architectural patterns, learnings and pitfalls to look out for?

Or maybe something else? (please elaborate in the comments)
In 2020 I would like to read more, study Japanese, and start consulting.

Also I’ll toss in learn how to swim.
Except, given the premise that this filtering could be tuned on an individual basis:

Those who want to know the stories around the coal plants can allow them through

Those who choose to avoid the more violent parts can choose to not see them

The consequences of and responsibility for seeing/not seeing any topic becomes a personal choice, not one of any corporation or central authority. I see this as a very big positive step.
Legally, unless you have a waiver, all drones must fly within line of site. K-State Polytechnic applied for and received said waiver for its drone training program.
Yeah, I was also wondering which article they were commenting on. Seemed like a fairly broad base of examples to me.
It's good that each state can determine the laws applicable in its jurisdiction. If you don't want to comply, don't do business in California.
Disinformation is widespread. Even this article contains some.

What the authors should have said about the "pedo ring" theory was not that it was "fake news" and "debunked" but that major portions of it were "fake news" and "debunked." Comet Pizza having a basement was clearly debunked. Bots being involved has shown much of it to be untrustworthy. Yet some of it has some support: Several claims about Jeffrey Epstein came back up and he was re-arrested and famously committed suicide; There actually was a child pedo ring, with at least Jeffrey Epstein involved; Bill Clinton flew in Epstein's plane and was reported to have been on Epstein's island by Virginia Roberts, a victim.

I don't think it's smart to take an absolute one-sided approach to this story. The story is complex and you have to hold some of it as ambiguous and be comfortable with that.
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> I think we can have a society that rewards people for productive or otherwise socially valuable contributions while also taking care of the poor and those who can’t work. If people were paid based on performance and we removed the political advantages that certain professional elites have carved out for themselves, we’d be much better off in terms of both inequality and economic growth.

What does this actually mean? Sure, a few professions like doctors have managed to protect their high salaries by constraining supply, but programmers are paid very well in the US and have no such protections.

It's hard to think of many more examples like doctors; lawyers, for example, have definitely not constrained their own supply and it's debatable how lucrative the profession as a whole really is, despite still having somewhat of an 'elite' connotation.
- Stop smoking so much weed
- Read regularly every night or at least 4-6 times a night
- Exercise 4 times a week (I already do, just gotta keep it up)
- Remain positive
- Leave Silicon Valley
When the other 49 stand still and do nothing regarding the business-data-orgy-that-needs-to-end, yes

Data should never have been a gold rush and we should be more keen to kill it
>One of the design criteria for Go was to push programmers away from being architecture astronauts whose abstraction heavy style results in having no idea how much work you are hiding in all of the layers.

So they chose to create a language where there's no way to get around creating vast amounts of boilerplate. This boilerplate heavy code style results in having no idea of the true logic you are hiding in all of the boilerplate.
> Historically, the Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia were more common destinations for American retirees. But a higher cost of living, especially in coastal areas like California and New York, has pushed many farther afield.

Why would a higher cost of living within the US push expats out of Malaysia into Vietnam?
The entire history of mankind has decided that liberty is worth quite a lot of lives. I feel that the amount of blood spilled to liberate a country highly correlates with how important freedom is considered to be.
Lyft also gave 7 years equity exercise terms starting around 2013, and it was part of the reason for having the IPO when it did, was because some of the early equity holders were getting near to seeing their shares expire.
i see. So, Poland was a victim forced by the occupants to take the lands. "They made us do it!". Well, now that the occupants is long gone, and the Poland is finally free ... When does Poland is going to get rid of this last disgusting vestige and symbol of occupation, ie. those foreign lands forced upon the Poland? As far as i see, judging by the booming development of resorts and everything else going on for example on the Baltic sea shores in the former Prussia, Poland is planning to enjoy these "forced" gifts from the occupants for a very long time ahead. All that while continuing to cry how bad the "occupation" was for Poland. :)
That’s assuming they use a computing device with a hardware keyboard. Since the game is pretty hard as it is, and not really about teaching to use keyboards, I would hunch >90% of 2-4 year olds playing this would use a touchscreen.
Because webservers were not covered in class.
>Good thing is, American government has sensible reciprocal arrangement with many countries that offer national pension system that you don't necessarily have to wait until you hit full retirement age to live abroad and collect social security checks from there.

I did not know this. How does this work?
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More like a savvy deep state drug trafficking plan. But yes, bombing the crap out of other countries does make it easier to walk in and take what you want. And you get to sell more bombs, which is also great for the economy.
Enough people yelling persistently at someone could be perceived as threatening. Might you not feel threatened by people surrounding you, yelling at you, and refusing to leave? Getting that close crosses from protesting to intimidating. Notice that Sen. and Mrs. Cruz were having difficulty getting through the protesters to leave.
Where are you located that retail workers get anything close to 20 days of vacation annually? (Which is also separate from sick time, maternity leave, etc.)

Even at a fairly cushy corporate job I don't get 20 days of vacation time.
> I remember that my local media staged events in front of good cameras to make their reporting look better. And they also made it look more dramatic. Inserted some small narrative.

One nice side effect of ubiquitous cameras is that, every now and then, some news service gets caught staging shots. I'm reminded of a time in Poland when a massive march was reported, coupled with a photo seemingly showing lots of people... only for that photo to be revealed as a very clever play with camera angle - other photos from that same time, posted on-line by people living on the route of said march, shown that the couple dozen people on the original shoot were the entirety of the event.

Situations like this, and every local news station going out of its way to lie with charts when reporting on elections, made me no longer care about following local political events. I'm actually surprised that people can witness being directly lied to, and then still assume that everything else in the same article must be the truth.
> for about $250,000 in 2011

I can't tell if the LA Times are thinking this sounds cheap or not?
Using heuristics on smaller sample sizes is inherently less efficient. You can get reasonable polling data on 50 million voters using 10,000 samples. That’s 1 sample per 5,000 voters. Drop the election down to a local election with 10,000 voters and the same ratio provides 2 samples telling you almost nothing.

Thus, if 5 insurance companies send patients to the same doctor you simply have more overhead.
Funnily enough my computer engineering course in college was pretty much this comment.

Learn to code in C & ASM. Learn to hand-compile to ASM, and hand-assemble to machine instructions for the CPU we were using.
Now learn VHDL.
Implement a processor on an FPGA.
Write a (tiny, minimal, not fully standards compliant) C compiler for it.
You're back to step 1.

Of course we didn't implement the synthesizer, or place & rout logic, or bitstream format, or the FPGA itself. You have to stop somewhere.
Looks fine to me. What's wrong with using asterisks as bullet points?
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I don't think it's 'intelligent' to be anti-religious. Numerous studies have shown that religious people tend to be healthier, live longer, and have higher levels of subjective well-being.

I'm not saying it's for everybody, or that everybody should follow one flavor of religion. But it's definitely wrong to look down upon those who choose to be religious, as there are several advantages (in the here and now).

Here's a Harvard paper and another, for good measure. The internet is chock full of papers like these.

https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/December-2016/The-Menta...

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=40219
Exactly. At best you can ask teammates, but as soon as this becomes an important measure, people are incentivized to back scratch. Plus, people would have radically different standards for productivity based on their own experiences.
What do you need an acronym for?
No. I managed to run a business since 2007 without sending out a MSOffice file to a business partner even _once_.

The dependability on MSO file formats is a myth, perpetuated by those who are too intimidated to fight for the right thing against the indifferent majority.

Also. Office-format-first approach is NEVER going to work for alternative products, MS has taken care of it, and will continue to do so.
Personally I think it is appropriate. California has long been known to do such things, for instance having different requirements for cars regarding emissions.

In general I think California is using their huge size and role (obviously, as home to most of the dominant internet companies like Google and Apple and Facebook) to push the rest of the country forward.
Of course the question when you want to block California or run different code for users in California is "how do you legally and reliably tell if a user is in California"; eg. if they're using a VPN to new york could they sue you/file a complaint and win? What if Maxmind's IP database is outdated and you miss a bunch of California users?
I have no clue as I was just a player - perhaps the client issued "shot fired" messages tied to frames per second
I would guess they save less so have to retire to cheaper places.
Hah I feel you on the smoking, with vape pens it's almost too easy to take a quick hit here and there. Cutting back weed is probably number 1 on my resolutions for next year.
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I do too, mainly C + Win32. Besides Asm (which I use a little bit of too), it's the only way I've found to write applications which are a single tiny executable with no dependencies nor installation, and will work from Win95 upwards (and likely WINE as well). I'm a little surprised that the author didn't mention efficiency.
I'm more familiar with the opposite experience, when the entire universe seems perfectly meaningless and utterly uninteresting. Perhaps it's the same thing, experienced by a different personality type :-)
> Suppose everyone who doesn't want to act on climate change just filters out any information related to climate change. Do you think that is helpful for the world?

If they've already made the conscious decision to filter out that information, forcefully shoving it down their throat isn't going to change their mind, and may even reinforce their beliefs.
Yeah that price is similar for places you can find in the rural midwest US.
Interesting/fun fact: The scientist who was tasked with investigating Tesla's stuff after his death was Donald Trump's uncle.
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They can always run a different website in other states. This is basic exercise of state’s rights.