skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I haven't told anyone to quit and start their own company rather than work for Google

Your past comments and submissions to HN say otherwise. You have been very outspoken and proud about the fact that you haven't taken money from "the man" (my words, not yours), and that others should do the same [0][1]. Whether it be a VC or Google, your messaging is clear.

>Who is using SourceHut to build software I disagree with on ethical terms? I am not aware of such a project.

You're dodging the question. Have you done an audit on every single project hosted on SourceHut to see if you disagree with them? Would such an action even be something you agree with? What if someone was hosting such a repository (I'll go create one right now), would you remove it? But that is censorship, is it not? Do you even have the technical capability to do such an audit? If not, that means people could easily use your site for nefarious things, so how do you justify keeping it running?

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23080655

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23073740
I think "everyone in the family works" used to be the norm.
- Not a google employee

- Am an employee of a large company whose practices would probably also not stand up to public scrutiny

First question is has this been verified beyond "someone said so"? Perhaps it has - but any search I do ultimately leads back to the same comment.

Second, google is hardly the only company to occasionally kowtow the the PRC. I don't think any large company wants to a face-off with them. Are there more ethical employers? Probably, but they're probably small and not everyone wants to work at a small company pace. Also, if the company got larger and push came to shove, I suspect they'd do what they needed to do to stay on China's good side. It's a better option than going under.

Really a lot of employers are ethically shaky.

- Is it better to work for the DoD? Some people say no.

- Is it better to work for a Big Bank? Some people say no.

- Is it better to work for Big Pharm? Some people say no.

- Is it better to work for a place that frankly abuses their warehouse workers? I think we've had that discussion.

I'm not sure where that leaves anyone who likes gainful employment, particularly outside the Silicon Valley startup culture.

That doesn't necessarily translate to 'throw up our hands' but it does meant a more nuanced approach to where we work, how we feel about our employer, and how we measure that against all the other places we do business with that also have their dark sides.
It isn't a flaw. It is part of the strength of the system.
> Over population is going to kill this planet

Source on this very big claim?
Good analysis, but - obviously - outdated and besides, the biggest input and wildcard is 'what are the penalties' and without knowing those the analysis is not super useful even if it is accurate to a rough approximation.

Keeping the spammers out is already quite a bit of work so I'm perfectly OK with the secret sauce staying secret.
I'm familiar with graphs but not graph subsampling. What is graph subsampling used for and what are some applications that can use it?
> You're forgetting that you're increasing your equity.

Only if the house's value doesn't go down. Like if the house needs to be torn down because it's been destroyed by a flood, the market crashes, or the major employers in the area leave.
Nit: In November, he stepped down as CTO. He still has a part part-time role at Oculus with the title of 'consulting CTO'
Small claims isn't always a cake walk. The defendant can pay to upgrade to general division, turning the somewhat informal case into a full-fledged case.
Sure, but certainly it's a complex enough scenario with enough variables that we should be able to at least have a conversation around what to do without resorting to name calling, yes?
Eh, I think low volume Y production by the end of the year is possible, but it's unlikely.

On one hand, they don't need to do as much as they did in Giga Shangahi because they already have the Model Y specific bits in Fremont, which they can ship to the new factory.

They just need to replicate all the Model 3 stuff the Model Y uses from Giga Shanghai and install the Model Y specific stuff they ship in from Fremont, which should be faster than Giga Shanghai.

On the other hand, they only have 6 months left to do this and we're in the middle of a pandemic.

What people neglect to consider is that Tesla now owns Perbix and Grohmann, which is very advantageous when building new factories.
Not surprising that a woman of childbearing age turns up pregnant is it?
SoftBank could have saved money on all the high resolution graphics...
>The social contract exists for skilled people through their employers

that's not what the social contract is. and unfortunately, the crux of that very misunderstanding is exactly why the US is being absolutely shredded by a plethora of different and seemingly intractable systemic problems.

the social contract is between citizens and the state, wherein citizens consent to to taxation and governance which curtails some of their freedoms such that the state can guarantee their freedom from certain maladies and undesirable conditions. employers have nothing to do with it because businessess operate within the confines of the social contract at large because they are goverened by the laws of society.

we're in the middle of a pandemic, and there are millions and millions of people who are uninsured and who cannot get medical care because they were separated from their employer-provided health insurance.

pretending that businesses are stand-ins for the services that the government's end of the social contract should guarantee simply doesn't work in practice.
There is a benefit to society replenishing its population and a benefit to the individual not to have to think about income loss or worry about their work status upon return.

Perhaps it would make sense to have policies like when your employer sends you off for schooling, you are expected to stay for x-months and if not you owe them.

So a guy goes on paternity leave, resigns after coming back, he owes the co. some amount discouraging this practice? If the move is worth it, then they would afford the penalty. Kind of like withdrawing from retirement before maturity.
Others may be profitable, but I'm skeptical that Uber is.

If you talk to many drivers, you'll find a common theme that "bonuses" make up a substantial fraction of their overall income (bonuses are things like "Drive XX rides in a week and get $YYY").

To my understanding, most/all of these bonuses are placed under the accounting budget (under the premise that these bonuses are intended to bring new drivers onto the platform), not the rideshare budget.

So rideshare cost of operations doesn't properly reflect the true cost of operating the rideshare business, which means that unit economics are worse than they appear in Uber's reporting (possibly even negative).
Being -- capable of writing quality software -- should be a base requirement for -- Anyone developing software used for academic research -- in any field -- in which the conclusions are based upon the correctness of this software.

Not all academic research depends on writing software.
They bought a $1B factory for $50M when they didn't have much cash.

Building a new factory in Texas was not an option.
> It's without question the absolute best thing a random American can do to combat climate change

Climate change doesn't matter if there are no people left.
I have not seen it yet. If you saw the inbox you'd understand why. I'll get to it as soon as I can.

Edit: One not-so-obvious reason why subthreads like this are so disastrous for HN is that they suck up all the moderation resources. I haven't had a chance to even look at the rest of the HN front page yet, let alone the emails.
FedEx, Microsoft Join Forces Against Amazon for Package Shipping
I picked up a refurbished Vega 56 last year for a great deal. I suspect it was a mining card. Seems to work fine.
As an aside -- don't let "bad" vegetables go completely to waste. Compost them and grow new ones (if you have the space)!
> For sure Windows is not as user-stupid as something like macOS, iOS, Android, etc... but for me as a power user it's just about as powerful as I need to be.

I guess it depends on what kind of "power user" you are because windows is pretty limited (why else would they frankestein an Ubuntu terminal into the latest Windows versions?).
> Because until that time globalism was pretty profitable in terms of trade and relations for US.

It still is.
> Wikipedia has a high-value because it’s a non-profit - as contradictory as that sounds.

No question. It's the primary reason its community stuck with it across the many years it took to build it up, whereas the editor communities abandon for-profit content farms like Quora or Answers.com.

> and there’s no money in generic ads

Wikipedia could operate the encyclopedia side of itself with generic advertising. There is a lot of money in generic ads, relatively speaking, when you're dishing out static text content and some images at a billion page views per day (especially when the bulk of your platform's expansion is over, so your situation re expenses is increasingly stable).

Could you run the encyclopedia thin for ~$20 million per year? Based on their budget history, you absolutely could. So could you bring in at least $20m in revenue via generic advertising, against several hundred million page views that you're able to show ads on (a bit larger than the English edition's daily page views; ie I'm heavily discounting monetizable traffic down from their global figures to tilt this even more conservatively)?

You need a CPM of around a range of $0.10 to $0.15 to at least have a shot at making it work. It's a very low number for a super premium property that sits at the top of nearly every Google search result.

You could make ten phone calls and trivially fill $20m in generic advertising every year. Pick up the phone and call: Google, Amazon, Walmart, Microsoft, Coca Cola, Procter & Gamble, Comcast, Unilever, Samsung, AT&T. At $2m each, you'd have to fight them off with a stick at those CPM rates for that reach. Procter & Gamble spends $10 billion globally on advertising, they wouldn't take $2m to slap their brands on Wikipedia? They'd probably take that every month if they could.

Would any and all manner of advertising turn off visitors and editors? Probably. That's the far bigger problem than whether Wikipedia could bring in $20m per year in advertising on their massive traffic base. Not to mention that Google might (would) start viewing them as a competitor and might (would) downgrade their content placement to neuter that risk.
Not just people. They are actively screwing over our planet.
These numbers are just for the US. Comparing this to the AT&T break-up is not even similar, because Google has but even bigger market share when you consider their international operations as well.
At least the FSD cars can drive themselves out of state, await paperwork, then drive themselves to customers.
I did the same. It’s been a huge game changer for productivity for me. We have a docker heavy stack that can easily chug 6gb of RAM, and that’s even before considering all the Docker bugs with high CPU usage on Mac when using bind mounts. Now, my computer is silent, and my dev environment is running 24/7 so I can instantly context switch into it without my laptop heating up or needing to close programs or anything like that. It really has increased my productivity substantially.
Replace citizens with children and you would be more on point

If you will be having kids why not save up to be away from work for a year and the take leave paid by your own family?
Show HN: Source Tree to PDF Generator with GNU Global Tagging
> However, that's for an independent legal entity. If you want to start a business, you can simply register a business, even online [2] for about 25 to 100 euros. If you don't have wealth to protect you don't need a legal entity anyway.

I'm not sure I follow. If your startup isn't even an independent legal entity, AFAICT you can't pay your employees with equity (e.g. stock options).

If you could, the risk would be super high. If the startup is an independent entity and the CEO screws up (e.g. goes to jail), you can replace it. But if it is a completely private business owned by one single person and that person doesn't want to be replaced, then whatever equity you had is now worthless.
I never said Western Governments are immune to influence from China. They are not. They do have the power to resist that influence with competent leadership, which in the past two decades has only been provided by Democratic administrations.
>As the sovereign ruler of the land, they decide who does business there, and they can set any requirement they see fit.

At the potential cost of a trade war of course.
There are no laws in the United States against hate speech. It is a made up term that changes with the wind. It used to describe speech that was encouraging violence towards a person or group but then it just became "speech that expresses hate." Nowadays it is mostly used to describe speech from a majority group that a minority group found offensive.

What is hate? What is offensive? It's whatever you want it to be!

When in doubt, err on the side of freedom and liberty.
>>>But he also was arguing, IIUC, that the sex for stay is implied for women.

Ok, I see the distinction you are making but....I think all women should operate under the assumption that if a man invites you into a private residence, for ANY reason, sex is on the menu. At least that way one is never (negatively) surprised. If I have daughters I think this is an important thing to drill into their heads. A guy says he wants to show you his collection of Warhammer 40,000 figures, at 1pm? You still won't be taken aback when he's suddenly pantsless.

>>>implying that it is any sort of norm is a very perverted view of couchsurfing. One that I never experienced, or found to be normal from many people i've talked to along the way.

I think my experience is just the opposite, but about 95% of my social circle is manwhores, the other 5% are males who aren't manwhores, but wish they were (a mix of younger, inexperienced officers or civilian IT/engineer guys). But this is why I'm on HN, to step outside of my bubble and exchange experiences with people with radically different backgrounds and perspectives.
Of course I marked it off topic. It's the most off topic thing you could possibly have posted.

Guideline: "Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The point is that you are contributing a LOT as a landlord. Not just "Rent seeking."
Perhaps there's a misunderstanding here. I'm saying that the 1st Amendment is an exemplary rule to follow for private corporations too.

They didn't really have much more for a long time, until the recent addition of ever-changing and heavy-handed limitations.
> In a nutshell: hate speech causes people to commit suicide.

Can you elaborate on how we establish a causal relationship between hate speech and suicide? Let alone specifically hateful comments on YouTube? This doesn't seem corroborated by the suicide rates in the US over time. Rates were just as high (and in fact, higher in some years) in pre-internet days [1].

This claim is made even more questionable when taken in conjunction the previous comments' emphasis on its impact on minorities. Minorities in the US actually have substantially lower suicide rates than Whites [2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_the_United_States#/...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_the_United_States#/...
I think you are misunderstand GP. It’s not that YouTube violates the law. It’s that the law makes a clear rule for the government.

What’s good is the clarity of the rule. Other attempts at rules become too subjective, perhaps.

So maybe it would be better if these companies actually followed the same rule as the government is required to, even if they aren’t currently legally obligated to.

Perhaps if they had to play by those rules, they would come up with a better solution than subjective moderation by a small group of employees.
"This question is locked and replying has been disabled."

Does anyone know about other censored phrases or expressions?

On a completely different note, wouldn't it be possible to create a free (as in freedom), open-source, decentralized search engine?
It doesn't matter that you didn't want to know -- all the people whose knowing of this matters... know, they all know. If you wanted the whistleblower to avoid reprisals by having his identity kept secret, it's too late.
Uhuh. Are you Ted Kaczynski then out in the wilderness right now using the internet through a satellite dish?
It's still possible, you just have to dance around a little more

In one project we work around this by shipping a tiny wrapper in the APK to exec that then uses dlopen() on the target, which is now built as a library.

Pretty sure a generic hack could be made to run unmodified executables this way. Certainly in the security community userland ELF loaders are very old news, even X11R6 had its own at one point
This seems very easy: when browsing the AppStore in Thailand, apps that insult the Thai king should be prohibited. Same with Facebook posts when accessed from Thailand, or YouTube videos etc. When accessing the same from the US, they MUST NOT be prohibited, because it would infringe on the rights of the creators.

Every nation should have the right to impose whatever restrictions it sees fit on companies wanting to distribute content to that nation.

Is it a pain to do this for the content distributor? Of course! But national sovereignty is far too important to be traded for ease of content distribution.

Of course, there is a problem (which some may consider a benefit) with the design of the Internet itself: there is no easy way to define what it means to distribute content to a particular country. But probably using national IP blocks is going to generally be good enough for many use cases.
What is your alternative to YouTube?
Pelosi is effectively right-wing, as far as the rest of the world would be concerned, and the DNC is already supporting McConnell's Democratic challenger.

We can dethrone both.
I love that book so much. It makes me sad sometimes that I missed those days of programming in the 90's.
Took a quick look: how is this different from having a notepad++ file open? What happens to the tab if chrome crashes? Are the notes saved?
At risk of nitpicking, why do say "controls" rather than e.g. "services" or "handles"? When you say "controls" it's like you're saying Google has some kind of monopoly power that makes it hard to switch. And yet anyone can easily switch to e.g. DuckDuckGo. If that's a monopoly, it's not quite the kind of a monopoly we should generally be worried about.

Browsers would be a different issue. In that case, there are network effects like about what standards are supported and how, which make it difficult to launch a competing browser, even with technological superiority, and in that case, it would be reasonable to worry about too much market share.
Sex is NOT mutable and is NOT a social construct.

Gender is.
From the README:

PDFCode is a source code to PDF generation program.
It creates a listing of your source code with hyperlinks
to the various definitions. It uses GNU Global (potentially
with Pygments or some version of Ctags) to link code together. For example, uses of a struct or function are linked to their
definition.

PDFCode was inspired by the htags program of GNU Global.

The main reason for designing PDFCode was to test the
ability to use programs such as Noteability or GoodNotes
etc. to annotate source code. Linking of the code was
done to facilitate a more editor like environment.

As of current, this is a spike version. It is more or less
functional; however, it still has its issues. Some special
characters used in LATEX are escape in a weird and noticeably
non-original source code manner (ex. _ is _)

We use pipenv to list Python3 required libraries.

Pygments and LATEX must be installed to generate the PDF.
Furthermore, you must have a version of GNU Global installed
with sqlite3 support.
A couple of decades should do it then.
You don’t really need cellphone data to guess that traveling and meeting people may spread viruses, right. I don’t think it’s a secret these people don’t all live near the protest and that’s all the data revealed by this ‘study’.
its not just political. The rich and powerful have too much influence. Countries with high income equality are the ones with successful lockdowns.

When your president is one of the richest men in the world its hard to convince leadership to shut down the economy.

And the US is pretty much unique with the whole "corporation is a person" nonsense
A strike causes change when management can't hire enough workers to replace the strikers. My entire point is that they can. You can probably successfully strike against paying Andy Rubin hundreds of millions of dollars for creeping on employees - while there are a handful of folks who want that same life for themselves, there aren't that many. I'm claiming you can't strike over censoring some words on YouTube because there's no shortage of qualified-enough people who don't currently work for Google who would be glad to take your job.

(And you still haven't addressed my point about, suppose they strike successfully and Google decides it won't help the CCP at all and the CCP bans Google and has Tencent step in - what then? Did you save the world?)
Without formal provability, yes, it's impossible to know there are no mistakes. Even then as most formal methods appear to operate on rules and requirements rather than on the actual code, it's still not possible.

However - with well formatted code that's had a review process of some sort, it's going to be easier to cut down on the glaring errors even if there are less obvious problems lurking.
My best friend is working on novel targets for hepatocellular carcinoma. Does he know science? Yes. Does he know how to bring a drug to market? God no. Everyone outside of your field is a lay person.

>Med school doesn't qualify you to opine about novel therapeutics

Actually, it does. Especially when we tried hydroxychloroquine and it didn't work. When you go to a hospital with medical students 60% of the time our recommendation to the attending is what the care plan ends up being.
First Amendment maintains freedom to express but does not state there's an obligation to be heard.

You are free to ignore people as much as you want. You should not stop them from uttering those words in the first place though.
I didn't delete it; I downweighted it. You're running into the pagination problem (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23184485), which is that you've confused the first page of comments with the entire thread. Click More at the bottom and you'll find it perfectly intact, just lower.

We don't delete things outright on HN unless the author asks us to. The most we ever do is 'kill' a post, meaning it's still visible to anyone with 'showdead' set to 'yes' in their profile, and even that's rare. Beyond that, we'd never kill an entire subthread with dozens of replies. We might downweight it or we might auto-collapse it. That's all. By the way, if I had actually deleted that thread, you'd not have been able to find it via my profile. I'm not sure whether to be more hurt by your assuming I'm such an evil censor or such a bad programmer. (<-- that is an attempt at a joke)

It's routine HN moderation to downweight off-topic subthreads, especially when they're at the top of the page, and especially when they're indignant+offtopic: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Mercedes-Benz onboard logic unit (OLU) source code leaks online
Interesting take, but I think the compensation only takes it from an act of charity down to exchanging favors, which isn't unethical in itself. The very act of buying a pizza is a quid pro quo. This money for that pizza.