skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Especially right now, communication is moving more and more online. Online communication is increasingly mediated by corporations.

If our speech is mediated by corporations, and those corporations tell us what we can and cannot say, what good is freedom of speech?

Companies like YouTube take advantage of their economies of scale to offer video services for free. To be able to do that, they had to dump services at a loss for years funded by venture capital.

How can you build a meaningful paid platform, while a VC-backed company spends tens of millions on R&D at a loss?

The argument thus far is that this is in the consumer's interest - free services at a high quality. That dumping being good for the consumer is contingent on the business being able to monetize with advertising.

If YouTube couldn't make money with ads, they'd have to charge for their services - opening them up to competition. VC backed businesses offering consumer products for free is most certainly dumping. So far, that dumping has been to consumer's benefit. YouTube's behavior is reversing that benefit.

There's also a lot of other options they could go with, all of which would be far less un-American.

1) A Reddit-like quarantine system, and eat the cost of hosting (like Reddit does)

2) Require Ickes to pay for his own hosting on YouTube, at YouTube's favorable pricing and peering contracts.

3) Enable a separate ad ecosystem for quarantined content.
Who chooses whether it’s detrimental to other well being? What if that person who chooses is tyrannical like the CEO of Reddit, who suppresses all right wing posts?
I just received a notice that many CentOS 6 systems managed by RamNode were also compromised; it seems like they were customer instances, but in that case, the malicious parties installed BTC miners on all the servers, and one of my tiny VPSes was collateral damage for a couple hours, as they worked to contain the situation.
Oh, that could be the case. I've always been too literal to ever be good at literary criticism. :P
Do you have a standard in mind that's better than the WHO? Would you prefer content prohibited on the basis of whether it sounds right or wrong to a random Google employee?
Glassdoor data seems years old at best, my conspiracy theory is that they invent data points for companies with no salary submissions
I'm working on a project that uses the Amazon Ion format to store binary data. I wanted to see the textual representation of the data when debugging, but there wasn't any existing tools.
Emacspeak 52.0 “WorkAtHomeDog” Released
I'm curious about the economic impact to CA if a lot of those jobs migrate out. But CA has plenty of other industries, so they'll be fine.
> An init system is harder then it seems ? You and Jonnax seem to think that unless you made it you have no right to say anything. Have you ever made an init system ? Researched what exactly goes into it ? Sure, there's more then just starting programs. But not much more. The only really complicated thing about getting a [linux] computer from kernel boot to firefox is setting up devices. And even that [udev,"hotplug"] is not complicated as much as it is.. obscure. I know about these stuff, do you ?

I know enough to know that you left out networking and authentication, network service dependencies, filesystems, volume encryption, etc. – not to mention automatic restarts, conditional behavior based on the network or other devices (stuff needs to happen when I leave the office), and the various edge cases which I’ve seen in three decades running Unix systems. Every other operating system Linux is competing with has a much better model than SysV init (Windows has since the early 1990s!), and the world changed from static servers which rarely changed to most systems needing dynamic behavior – what worked in an old server room isn’t a good fit for a laptop!

Again, I’m not saying that systemd is perfect but that most of the complaints tend not to acknowledge the many problems it solved and a decade of angry forum threads doesn’t seem to have resulted in any concerted effort to build a serious competitor. The Debian community had a deep examination of the alternatives and picked systemd because it made sense, not because Red Hat has some brainwashing program.
I often see masters in CS as a way that people from other backgrounds transition to CS. I got a bachelors in EE and then a masters in CS. Don’t worry about the piece of paper though, focus on what topics you are missing the theoretical foundations in and take classes that fill in those gaps.
On what planet does anybody pivot to eating home-baked bread without consuming substantially more of it?
Translation: We broke long-standing POSIX/Unix behaviour of noHUP and think that's a good thing.
Cardio builds very little muscle. Take it from the mouth of a quite competitive high school runner. Used to run about 30km per week (not high by many standards, exceedingly high by my current standards). Diet and lifestyle are more important for fitness. Endurance exercise is pretty bad for the heart, just look at the marathon runners. Ouch. The thing is cardio becomes addictive as most people have low intrinsic energy (due to diet, lack of sun, etc...) so when they release stress hormones through cardio they now feel a bit better. Not very sustainable in the long run. Look at our history as a species and nowhere do I see much cardio until the 20th century. Activity for sure, sign me up. Cardio as understood nowadays with endless running and crossfit? Only thing I might actually run away from
If 90% of startups fail, and they are all putting in effort trying to create financial models, what is the point of this exercise other than to follow a broken tradition? The remaining ten percent undoubtedly have deviated far from their seed stage model.

VCs need to own this mistake and kill the financial model requirement. Stop wasting entrepreneurs' time.
Ansible will faithfully deploy any security vulnerabilities you tell it to across your whole fleet, in just seconds! Don't make the mistake of thinking it's immune to errors.

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=ansible

Your servers ought to be simple, too. Once you're simple enough, the problems shrink and shrink until they're barely there. Or, you can go as complex as possible and just hide them in mountains of garbage. "There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
The point is that even if Youtube literally censored everything overnight, we wouldn't end up living in hell, we'd be living in the year 2000.
> It's the responsibility of government to figure out the right level.

Which is simply impossible when companies openly pay legislators millions of dollars not to.
I've looked into this, and it seems pretty much down to the retail vs. commercial packaging and the assorted supply chains. Both the packaging materials themselves, as well as the plant capacity to pack a bunch of 5lb bags of flour vs. giant 50 or 100lb bags a baker would pick up. I'm sure FDA labeling requirements/etc. are likely different as well so it's not quite as simple as "find a few trucks worth of burlap bags".

One thing I've done is found a local restaurant supply store and had a friend with a business tax ID add me to their account (account is setup to actually charge sales tax so it's all good there). At these places, very little is in shortage - plenty of flour to be had of all types they typically stock. The only shortages I've noticed have been in chicken at the moment, and of course PPE. Everything else seems quite well stocked for the time being.

The downside of course is that when you want to buy some chicken thighs, your minimum order qty is 40lbs. But I started a co-op buying group with my friends in the neighborhood and just spend some time splitting things up into usable quantities.

It's come in handy for stuff that is hard to come buy in the grocery stores or costco like chocolate chips. Of course, the minimum qty of those is 25lbs so we had to divy quite a few up! The cost savings are absolutely astronomical on a per-unit basis for most staple items.

I've also noticed at least at my local costco they have started to get "alternative" sources redirected from the commercial supply chain. Such as 50lb bags of rice in plane white nylon bags with a sticker slapped on it. This seems to support the theory that packaging (both material and labor) is the bottleneck for retail staple goods.

Add in all the waste of every 23 year old who has never baked in their life buying 20lbs of flour to go bad in their pantry and things.
I feel that this may present overly negative outlook. Sure, you will likely take a junior position but the I think the variance between junior and senior within firms will be less than the variance between firms. That is, if you think offers are low this may depend a lot more on the location/size/type of firms making offers than on the position they feel you qualify for.

It may be worthwhile to consider different sorts of companies: smaller companies may not be able to face the cost of getting you into the position where they feel are profitable and so may charge you a lower salary top cover for it. Larger companies may feel they can more easily cover the cost of training and have you profitable sooner and so they may be better able to look for raw potential, which hopefully you can show. Some larger companies may try to exploit you for cheap/inexperienced/naive labour.

Possibly there is an advantage to being able mix in your mecheng knowledge, possibly not.

The current pandemic is a large confounding factor in any difficulties in your job search. Apart from many companies struggling, others may not have set up systems for hiring while they are wfh, and there is surely more supply of labour than demand compared to usual because of this.

I don’t really know if this advice is any help. I don’t think I’m particularly representative (though I wonder if anyone is). I would take everything here with caution if I were you (this sentence of advice is something which I more strongly feel is good)
here is my own breakdown ranking cities based on software engineering pay and cost of living: (the data is about 4 months old, as I haven't updated it in a while)
https://skilldime.com/blog/see-which-cities-pay-the-highest-...

I did something somewhat similar, except you can break it down by skillsets, city, remote/non-remote, etc:
https://skilldime.com/app.php
When I think of FTP, I'm reminded of chmod'ing 777 until everything worked.
$160K (US Dollars) is definitely on the lower end of FAANG for a software engineer.

My recommendation to folks is work at a FAANG at least for 3-4 years. You won’t be able to afford the kind of home you can get in Houston, Kansas City, Nashville, etc. but the experience and typical scale of problems you’ll work on is well worth it. To be clear, I mean home in terms of Seattle, Bellevue, Redmond pricing. I live in Bellevue, WA.

Source: been at two different big tech companies over the past ~10 years.
> I've never seen a bad or immoral or harmful idea die out when more people learn about it and scrutinize it.

Communism.
Here's a question for you: Do you believe HN has an obligation to allow anything to be posted here?

If someone wanted to post about how much they hate a certain race, do you believe the moderators here have an obligation to allow that post to remain?
How do you, though, actually decide in a reasonable and objective fashion who’s big enough to warrant being held to a different standard than others?

How do you really quantify that in a way that is objective and obvious

Look at the rise of tiktok. On one hand at least where I live they had almost no mindshare but in the past 2 months now they do, and they’re growing in user count. Should they meet the same threshold as YouTube now? Instagram?

This feels intractable to me, I don’t have a good answer to this problem. Not to mention it could easily become a gating mechanism to competition

Also, how do you determine what information is harmful? Some of it feels obvious, but some of it not so much
So where are all the 2lb bags then?
> every fascist/despotic state that has implemented it

"For a while," said pretty much every such outfit.
Anti virus n95 mask store.
Now gift cards are avaliable to all customers
Like I said, I [mostly] agree. However, there's precedence that publishers be free to pick and choose the content that they publish. Even if it isn't fair, this is a concept that's already existed at various scales for hundreds of years. To single out YouTube for censorship-by-curation would be much more difficult than to guard against them for blatant abuses.

I'll give you an analogy. In America, businesses can't pick and choose people on the basis of their skin color or their sex. Obviously, discrimination in hiring still exists to some degree, but because it's covert or the result of implicit biases, there's a limited number of things you can do to address that discrimination. On the other hand, if the PR for a fast food chain goes on TV and says that the company only hires white people, that's unambiguous and has no conflict with the rights of the corporation.
Sounds like a variant of rule 11 in the Done Manifesto[1]: "If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done."

You're just posting it to your future self but it still counts. You can then let it go out of your head and think about something else.

[1] https://medium.com/@bre/the-cult-of-done-manifesto-724ca1c2f...
If Youtube really believes this is the right course of action, why doesn’t it’s sister company Google remove those items from search as well? If this is really a principled action, then let’s see some follow through.

They’d never do that because that is the very definition of internet censorship as we know it today.

That’s how close Youtube is with this dangerous game.
I made a bunch of mobile games with Unity that worked as a porfolio for Unity Development jobs. I had been wanting to transition into more traditional software development, and I was fortunate enough to be able to learn a front end stack at my previous job. I made this project over nights and weekends, and it was a significant factor in me getting my current job doing react development:

https://bitmelo.com

My best advice would be to try to make projects that are undeniably good. So good a company would be dumb not to hire you. Def easier said then done though.
Why exactly should students not be able to use CPU cycles while not logged in? I certainly did this as a student and would probably not have complained if it decided to kill my processes when doing so.
Cut and paste your surroundings using AR
There's a video of a grocery trip in Alaska, the prices are insane.

https://youtu.be/3TVlmmVqgnQ
If someone is putting signs on your lawn, you're censoring them by removing those signs.
Ah, the etymological fallacy. Certainly the office of censor started in ancient Rome. However there have been plenty of other censors throughout history, and many that currently exist.

Consider:
1. The Catholic Church's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum
2. The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_Code_Authority
3. The Hays code: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Production_Code
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_Standards_and_Practi...

None of them are governmental. All exist to police speech.

In general, merely declining to publish something should probably not be called censorship. It is indeed a fine line between maintaining editorial control and suppressing speech. However, when one publishes just about everything, but excepts certain viewpoints with the explicit goal of suppressing them, the term starts to fit a lot better.

Is any of this against the First amendment? Of course not. But it's still clearly censorship.
We just need to make the office an optional place that people can gather when they feel the need to. I have no problem at all working a 5 day 40 hours work week from home. But this nonsense of everyone waking up at the same time, sitting in traffic, and cramming into "open plan" work spaces has to go.
States are reacting to confiscations which have already happened. See Massachusetts' first order of medical supplies of China.

Second order was flow in on a private jet protected by the Massachusetts National Guard.

No one knows what happens to the supplies after seizure. There are reports that some get resold by private Trump-affiliated companies. Government claims to be redistributing them to those most in need. There are no audit trails. It's a mess.
Are you saying that I am entering propaganda territory, or instead that David Icke is/was? The meaning is not clear to me, although I assume you are referring to myself.

Again, the distinction here is that I don't think being wrong (even if you think it's intentional) is something we should try to suppress. And the reason I think that is because right/wrong is ultimately a value judgement, and thus opens the door for equally flawed individuals to castigate a viewpoint as false while conversely spreading their own falsehoods (which they themselves view as truth).

As far as advertising revenue is concerned, I understand that business incentive. So, if they want to use Reddit's quarantine concept - or even boot them off their platform as they are doing now - they're free to do so, but I don't think that it's the _right_ thing to do.

In other words, we can agree that a business is acting in its own self-interest and thus would want to get rid of these types of people. I believe that they have the legal authority to do so, as well as all the incentives. But where I don't agree is that I don't cheer them on when they do it. Rather I think it's very dangerous.

So in other words, I suspect the difference between our beliefs here is that you are cheering on YouTube for doing this. You're (correctly) seeing that David Icke is a total fucking wacko and saying to yourself "good riddance". I certainly understand that inclination. I just don't believe in it myself, for the reasons that I've outlined. (I hope I haven't mischaracterized you there - sorry if I did)
video demo: https://twitter.com/cyrildiagne/status/1256916982764646402
Nice work done :) systemD still working on entropy system while NetBSD has it since ages
A friend of mine runs a relatively popular blog on climate change. In this blog he discusses current research (including his own) in a manner targeted at relatively educated people. Its exactly the sort of thing you want.

He receives hate mail constantly. Major players in political administrations troll his comment section and evade bannings. Its a mess.

I don't know if what you describe is feasible.
KiCad - powerful, 3d modeller, Spice integration, funded by CERN

Autodesk Eagle - adequate but commercial/cloud now.

LibrePCB - alternative to KiCad if you're ok with a one-man show.

See my comment above for more info.
I was hoping someone would ask that.

I don't actually know. At some point, we need to figure out how to address that question. I think it can be addressed... I just don't have a good idea, and I don't know that anyone does. But we've been kicking that can down the road for ages.
States are supposed to be using national guards to protect things they buy from seizure by the federal government?

Can you explain why you believe that?
NASA faked the moon landings, UFOs, Elvis is not dead, JFK second shooter, Marilyn Monroe murdered by FBI/CIA. These are examples of some of the most popular conspiracy theories from the US from over half a century ago. Apparently early 19th century US politics was also rife with conspiracy theories.[0] This even happened in Rome: Mark Antony and Octavian battled with each other using misinformation. [1]

[0] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/conspiracy-theories-a...

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/aaf2bb08-dca... (amp link bypasses paywall)
I have about 10 years experience across different big tech companies. Kudos to you for a well written, realistic response.
I'm fairly sure that if you install Python using the official installer and select the "Add to PATH" option that the actual executable will be used. I'll check later in a clean VM to confirm and update this comment.
Yes. But association with those unregulated and unmonitored sites will hopefully assist viewers with putting the content in its proper context. Having your content on a major broadcast network is different than having your content on public access. If YT decides to regulate content, it may provide a measure of credibility to popular content still on YT, and that is certainly something that may be beneficial to their brand and something they should be free to do.
The comment is about total bread consumption, not home-baked bread consumption. Home bakers and factories are both using the same basic ingredients, so why can’t supply chain’s easily swap?

And the simple reality is they use different bags for transport and factories to fill the bags. Thus it’s a bag problem not a flour problem.

PS: What’s so interesting about the shutdown is it exposed so much about the supply chain that’s normally hidden. It feels like debugging some third party API has a bug, except on a much larger scale.
I completely agree. For the simple fact that no human or organisation can be trusted with the power to silence anyone or any group.

I Think this should apply to functional social monopolys as well. YouTube/facebook/instagram etc shouldn't be allowed to remove content they deem untrue.
What's the latency story for VoLTE? Hard to beat analog circuit switching.
I agree anti Vaxers are ridiculous. But just to play devils advocate. What if there ever was a dangerous vaccine out there, wouldn’t we want people to be able to speak out?

Honestly I don’t have any solutions. I don’t like either option.
Capitalism is a beautiful thing.
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> I hear this a lot. Light is the best disinfectant. What evidence do you have for this?

The propensity of totalitarian governments to censor dissidents is proof of it.
1) YouYoube has the right to practice censorship on their own Web property. We may not like it but that's how it is and how it should be

2) Icke should have expected this and primed their accounts on alternative sites

Fxxx YouTube, Google and the rest of their globalist friends.