skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If someone asked what are the two most liberal pc colleges in the u.s. I'd probably mention Evergreen and Oberlin. Despite the general trend to move in this direction, these colleges are still pretty large outliers.
To be clear, this is about the phrasing of a resolution, not actual bad behavior, right?

Frankly, I'm less concerned about the words on the paper than what people actually do.
> COVID posts are weighted to quickly fall off the front page (I'm not really complaining, this is a tech link site and I can see how those get annoying

Agreed. There is no shortage of COVID coverage, like, everywhere so I'm glad that they slide away quickly.

That said, I do appreciate the hard looks the HN crowd takes on some of the posted studies.
Hey, developer of both here. It's certainly not a light download, I understand. It's more of an effort to pull CDN requests to known unethical networks, namely Google Fonts, which are known to be used to track users between websites.

I'll be more clear about this in the future, thanks for your opinions!
> You have an undying, oft-repeated support for Israel's bloodthirsty apartheid.

I have literally no idea how you're digging up Israel in this story, and while you are correct that I lean towards the Zionist side I'm not a fan of either Netanyahu or Trump's "peace plan" idea.

> Might that be related to the raw, barely-disguised authoritarian hatred displayed in your post?

Authoritarian hatred? I only dislike people who refuse to accept hard scientific truth, and especially people who willingly and knowingly endanger others with a deadly disease. Murder is punished in almost all countries of this world, and people who are trying to deny the dangers of the inarguably worst pandemic in a hundred years are not much short of accessories to murder IMO.
when i got this site

https://dohliam.github.io/dropin-minimal-css/

I see "unformatted" left aligned site for 1/2 a sec before it centers and get formatted.
High-throughput distributed rate limiter
If you live in any kind of city then your everyday life is made possible by economies running to feed every single person on a given day. You should realise that.
Gotta catch'em all Lambda error mgmt with API Gateway, CloudWatch and Serverless
Same argument, pushed a little further: https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w33mawVRXdE/VL6Wd6Bc3rI/AAAAAAAAB...
At the very least, this seems to me to be a way to avoid the difficult and interesting issues of, and relating to, consciousness. I am not interested in debating whether it is possible to come up with some definition of the word "consciousness" such that one can say that even electrons have it; I am interested in how conscious, self-aware, theory-of-mind-holding minds work.
> A student graduating now wouldn't need one yet anyone because they get two years of OPT if they were in STEM.

Yes, but it's also possible to use some (or all) of that OPT time on internships in industry. I have colleagues who were in that situation, and had to spend a few months back in their native country after graduation, while their visa was being processed because they had no OPT left.
If carbon footprint is that important to you, maybe you should find ways to encourage companies not to solder on RAM instead.
Sorry about that, a more serious answer: There are already hundreds of thousands of webhosts who offer Javascript hosting - what makes this one any less safe?
Never in a thousand years would I even consider being on the same level as oxal's project. It's an absolute honor! Thanks so much for your support.
Heck, a buddy showed me a form letter the IRS sent him when he was first starting out and didn't make a whole lot of money (< $500 living at home). He had filed taxes and the IRS had sent him a letter telling him he really didn't need to file and please don't do it again until he had a higher income. He is doing much better now and keeps the letter as inspiration.
Honestly, slightly more appealing kool-aid.

I interned at one and turned down a grad-job offer. I never was proud of myself for working at a big-tech company that is infamously awful to its more replaceable staff. The pay cut (at least at this point in my life) is worth not feeling like I'm actively contributing to a global evil.
Cheaper, less sexy, and doesn't justify the jobs of several dozen engineers, a few managers and a director.

If you're the director, which would you go for?
Germany's reporting system is also fax based, and while there has now been some talk about it needing to be improved, I'm not aware of any concrete changes or even plans.
Anatomy of a great YouTube video by Captain Disillusion's intern A. Melikdjanian
It’s even worse. They care about their own ideologies that are often at odds with mine.

The difference is that it is much easier to not be beholden to the private corporations you mentioned than the government. Private corporations don’t have the power of the state to take away my liberty, property or life.
Consciousness, at least to each of us individually, is demonstrably real.

Consciousness is a perception and perceptions are not illusions, even if we misunderstand what we are perceiving.

If I send you a message that says "I am not sending you a message", we can argue about what it means, but not that you got a message from me, no matter how much you trust (Edit: Or distrust) what I say to you.

Even if you don't believe you have consciousness, if you perceive you disbelieve in consciousness, then too bad: you have it.

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In contrast, free will is a completely different and easily explained kind of phenomena.

Questions and opinions about free will predate any discovery of evidence for such a thing. (There is no evidence yet!) That is a critical clue.

Free will is just a typical case of motivated reasoning. We believe some things without any rational support because they make us feel better about ourselves, the universe, allow us to focus on more practical matters. Not because they are true, or even a valid concept.

But understanding that free will is a product of motivated reasoning suggests that explaining free will is just evidence-free motivated reasoning will not settle the issue. Because people will continue to be motivated to want it to be true, they will find it hard to simply label it as self-serving, often-useful irrationality and move on.
Is Elon Musk a Fraud?
The giant pool of money is consumed by a desperate hunger for any shred of return it can find, and there is an almost limitless supply of smart, creative people who are well-positioned to capitalize on that.

By contrast, there is a finite supply of regulators, and the people who make the laws that the regulators implement are themselves members of the cadre of hungry ghosts who make up the giant pool of money.

With conditions like those, regulation will be doing extremely well to only be 10 or 20 steps behind the market.
Ironic considering I would _at_least_ double my pay just moving to London (from north Italy, of course col is very different unless you live in Milan which is comparable to London but still with worse pay).
No, it's more like requiring them to use their issued equipment, over bringing their own guns.
That is rough. I had to read your text several times to find anything related to COVID, but I guess it is the "which will allow you to enjoy this confinement" part.

I'm no expert, but I guess you need to try and phrase it like it just the thing you need when you are home, and let the users figure out why they are home.
Why not?

It's a deceitful practice and brings to mind those dystopic novels like Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451 etc.

Urban dictionary has a view, lol:

"Considered underhanded chicken-shit behavior."

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shadowban
The point here is that profit has no place in things like healthcare in the first place. People's lives should not be evaluated in terms of profitability. This also results in completely wrong incentives. For example, making a treatment that can be sold repeatedly is more profitable than making a vaccine that eradicates a diseases. Profit motive is entirely at odds with what's actually desirable in this scenario.
As Epic found out, not if you want to remain on Google's good side. They were facing sanctions from Google due to their sideloading of Fortnight onto Android phones and tablets.
I've noticed the opposite phenomenon at a popular restaurant in Austin. The menu through DoorDash is priced higher than the normal price. Curiously, the restaurant's own, in-house delivery system is the same price as dining in. This is when I stopped using DoorDash...when I discovered that using the restaurant's own delivery system is just as easy and maybe cheaper.
> And the kicker is, consumers don't have a say in this process anyway. I don't know of anyone who chose Slack. It's universally handed down onto you from somewhere above you in the corporate, and you're forced to use it.

The consumer here is the business itself, not their employees.
I imagine if Uber hadn’t pushed so hard for growth most local markets would still be using their old taxi system.
The poster may have been referring to Springfield, IL.
Might be true, but building a multibillion dollar investment strategy that falls apart during a market downturn is a very financial crisisy thing to do. Its easy to make money during a bull market, just toss money into an index fund.

Uber and WeWork were both banking on increased travel and office presence. Seems like a dumb thing to do now that COVID has plowed everyone into remote work. It might have been a dumb thing to do even before.

Crises tend to accelerate underlying societal changes. Remote work and online ordering were already at an all time high. The virus has pushed this increasing demand ahead a decade or more. Now I can even see my doctor from home, something unthinkable a few months ago. Travel is increasingly reserved for leisure. Uber might be okay but WeWork is on the wrong side of this. WeWork was a societal stepping-stone to remote work. We've blown past that checkpoint far sooner than expected
What is more important to me, is 9-9-6, ecology, and the culture China tries to bring to the modern world.
We have some rights for the middle class in both US and Europe. It's not perfect but it's so much better comparing even to 50 years ago, don't even try to compare now and 150 years ago. China is a treat to this lifestyle. It pushes us centuries back where regular people are just a source for monsters like Tencent.

I have a friend who worked in Tencent an iconic Chinese IT company that owns WeChat. They work from 9 to 9, six days a week. This is not an option. It's mandatory.

She literally escapes to the US because been a single woman in the early 30s considered a very bad misdo in their society. The same rule doesn't apply for man btw. So you as young female pushed to work 9-9-6 and do a very bad choice very early because you have to do it before 30, otherwise you're considered a renegade.
Their society is an extremely racist and sexist to the point where their own parents don't want to talk to you if you're a woman who doesn't want to mary a Han-Chinese person( a title nationality in China).

I don't believe that scientists of the western world that put their life for a breakthrough in Computer science, agriculture, medicine, etc... dedicate their life for this kind of society where humanity is just a bio-mechanism that has one day off to clean the room and recover a bit. No social life... nothing.
It's a huge gap. While the western world is debating about 4 days of work week china is double down on 9-9-6 which anti-human.
You might remember GitHub issue with software developers complains about it and how china tried to stop this "leak"
So no matter how stupid it's sound. It's a free world with the neo-feodal country as it is.

You vote for that with your money. Right now is a tipping point they either slow down and the CCP will collapse in a natural way or they will be ruling the world means their way to do business one day might apply to you.

I'm not trying to idealize US or any other country. EU seems to be much more socialistic, Canada seems to be much more inclusive ( at least Toronto). EU is putting so much more money into green energy compared to the US. But this competition is a much better direction rather than what Chinese leadership offers. Racism, sexism, neglecting ecology impact, no human rights, no socialism in any form, no rule of law.
Don't get messed with US wrong things.

You have so many reasons to hate Donald and what he's doing but that doesn't automatically make his opponents saint. In fact, Donald will disappear in 0.5 or 4 years. And the threat to the middle-class people's lifestyle because of China and CCP will not.
Well, 3a is always set, so there is no reason ever to fall back into 3b, 3c, 3d, or 4 (unless you are supporting non-mainstream browsers, what does make sense, but the advice is much less wrong than your comment implies).
I don't think these people were paid at all. From what I read about it at the time, it seemed that a somewhat popular Chinese news source pointed out the message put into Notepad++ which caused outraged people to lash out across the internet.

The trolls were just there to ruffle feathers and laugh at other people's misery. Chinese nationalists were met with overt racism, which sparked more outrage by other Chinese people, which was then met with more resistance from people defending the software author from the attack on their Github page, creating an argument between two groups that would have otherwise never considered going up at arms against each other.

There wasn't as much of an agenda as there were just a bunch of angry nationalists (you're bound to have those in a country counting over a billion people) and trolls using their outrage for their own amusement.
WeWork seemed like a poor investment anyway. Pandemic or no pandemic, the economy was heading for a reset after 10 years of a good run. Why they expanded their building so quickly is beyond me, and it's left the whole business extremely open to a downturn. I've worked in a lot of the buildings in London and watched it explode since coming to the city. It started as a great idea and built on community, but it lost a lot of that with generic same same buildings. Money sinks. Something other spaces are doing far better, focusing on certain industries and startup communities.
The Whig party's laissez-faire economic ideology and the belief that Divine providence was punishing the lazy natives[1] were major factors explaining why the famine was so severe compared to previous blights.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/famine_01.sh...
I don't think the parent is surprised, no.
Just a question, but what is the methodology being used to count cases and track outcomes? Are the same methods being used globally so that a fair comparison can even be made? Are there are incentives to potentially 'tweak' those numbers so suit a narrative?

I can only speak for myself, but with the lack of trustworthy information, I find it very difficult to draw any conclusions at all.
In general, in the spyworld you do not talk about your tricks. But if you've already been found out, and your tricks no longer work, there is still political advantage to be had (damage your adversary, obtain credit from partners, obtain funding, easier recrutement).

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/dutch...
Show HN: A two step gradient free optimization for hyper-parameter tuning
Full-time employee, I presume.
I think that's an exaggeration. Uber/Lyft have some standards and questions before they let you join as a driver, not just a plastic sign you throw on the car. And if something goes wrong they have an audit trail. They at least know who picked you up before you went missing and where you were. You get none of that with a plastic sign.
Is that a problem, or an opportunity? If we create an effective decentralized mechanic to act across jurisdictions, maybe we'd solve more than our immediate problem.
because root on ZFS (for Linux) is a painful endeavour that is best avoided
You know, i would say no. I would actually like to thank softbank for taking the risks that it did, as it should be a very interesting business study to look at what, and how, they did what they did.

They made collosal mistakes/mis-judgements, sure - but look at how much can be learned from what they have done.

I would like to know even more about all the details of what they have done. I would like to see if i could learn - even for just the acedemic aspect of it - all the mistakes they made, their reasonings behind what decisions they made etc.

Its a fascinating study, if you think about it.

Look at the companies we are talking about they failed upon; uber, we-work and oyo are mentioned just in this HN thread.

All of which are “household names” to silicon valley.

Recall the articles about how OYO was “revolutionizing what we thought of hotels....

Man, that guy/company got mad press praise.

So, i want to learn as much as i can about everything softbank did.
check the settings on your phone, the ones with location data access are selling it.
> and there is an almost limitless supply of smart, creative people who are well-positioned to capitalize on that.

There are smart and creative people, but those are not the people being provided with capital to execute (see: WeWork, Uber, and most other VC unicorns burning out their runway). But, to your point, definitely right regulation needs to catch up. Fingers crossed it happens before the pitchforks come out [1]. Remember, those who hold vast amounts of the world's wealth are a vocal minority [2]. The same holds for the size of groups with exceedingly high wealth in developed countries [3].

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/02/scheide... (The Only Thing, Historically, That's Curbed Inequality: Catastrophe)

[2] https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/1/22/18192774/oxfam-... ("42 million people, or 0.8 percent of the world’s population, have net worths in excess of $1 million. That group — roughly the global 1 percent — controls 44.8 percent of the world’s wealth. So it really is true that a pretty small number of people control nearly half the world’s wealth. It’s just a bigger small number of people than Oxfam’s reports tend to emphasize.")

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Americans_by_net_worth (The Forbes 400 Richest Americans list has been published annually since 1982. The combined net worth of the 2019 class of the 400 richest Americans was $2.9 trillion, up from $2.7 trillion in 2017. As of October 2019, there were 621 billionaires--a record high--in the United States.)
According to the chart in the article, >75% of grad students in EE and computer science at American colleges are international students.

That is a shocking number to me. Entire grad programs are in serious jeopardy if the worst case scenario plays out.
So please explain why Amazon can still operate in Germany at the very same time.
Technically yes (well, the customers, not consumers), but that's the problem itself: the feedback pipeline between end-users and producers is broken because the end-users aren't the customers.
It must be show off your css day today. I was going to say, you might want to change your name to avoid confusion with the project from thoughtbot, but it looks like they're not maintaining that any longer.
I think it is most likely a case of x-y, where they are artificially deflating prices (or simplifying the menu) to get traction for their service. Be aware that this may be a tactic to strangle competition.
There's still a possibility of a Fraud action being brought if the owner is buying their own pizzas in bulk, indirectly, although it would be quite novel. And if they are using virtual phone numbers and other such things it would prove culpability. I'm surprised this isn't buried in some Terms of Service somewhere.
While true, it also had plenty of limitation. You have to keep carrying around a huge legacy, you're locked in to the APIs, SDKs and operating systems of a single vendor, often locked themselves to a single type of hardware.

The win32 code doesn't run anywhere, except on Windows, but most of the compute devices are mobile (non-laptop) systems and those don't come with Windows.

Running your native apps now takes both less work and more work: you can write (Somewhat) universal code but the frameworks and layers required to get it to build and run on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, and any other system the market you target relies on now comes in as a dependency.

It used to be that the context you worked in was all you needed to know, and delivery and access was highly top-down oriented meaning you'd have to get the system (OS, hardware) to run the product (desktop app). That is no longer the case as people already have a system and will select the product (app) based on availability. If you're not there, that market segment will simply ignore you.

That is not to say that desktop apps have no place, or that CEF is the solution to all the cross-platform native woes (it's not, it's the reason things have gotten worse), but the very optimised and optimistic way to writing software from the 90's is not really broadly applicable anymore.
Given the leaders in question I'm concerned about bad behaviour too
In Germany the minimum is 20 days but pretty much everyone I know has either 25 or 30. Plus 10 bank holidays of course.
> I have run several production web apps on sqlite, it’s fine unless you have enough traffic where you really need concurrent requests. If you do happen to get 2 requests exactly the same time one has to wait, this happens in “real” rdbms systems under lock conditions anyway. I think you’d be surprised how much traffic it can handle.

I've run apps that were written like that as well (though not by me). What you say is true, as far as it goes, but those apps have no business using an SQL database: they don't need ad-hoc queries (and usually don't offer the possibility of doing them), they don't need the SQL table model (and usually have to contort themselves to fit it), they don't need any but the crudest transactions... frankly in my experience all the developer needed was some way to blat structured data onto disk, and they reached for SQLite because it was familiar rather than because they'd carefully considered their options.

> A huge advantage is backing up and restoring from backup with sqlite is trivially implemented with scp in a bash script. Ever tried to setup database restore from backup (that works) in AWS?

You're not comparing like with like though: if you're willing to stop all your server processes and shut down your database to do the backup and restore (which is what you have to do with sqlite, you just don't notice because it's something you do all the time anyway) then it's easy to back up practically any datastore.
That, and the name of the fund ended up being hilariously wrong. They have invested in things where a 10 year old could have pointed out obvious fallacies.

Saudi investors must be really pissed off, they look like complete fools now (having just been parted with quite a bit of their money). If I were Masayoshi Son, I wouldn't step in a Saudi embassy for all the money in the world now.

Oh well if they blow up it's actually capitalism working right for once. Too bad they own ARM, that's more or less the only thing of value that could be lost imho.
Israel Timeline from Antiquities to Date in the Book of Rev 12
Agreed.

We offer a public API with no access, so there is limited risk and, in addition, we do not use cookies. There are some dangers, but it's really limited in this context!

An attacker can just as easily perform the same attacks with free webhosting on any of the thousands of free webhosts!
I'm envisioning a UPS. Good question.