skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Attitudes towards free speech have changed a lot in recent times. Social media has made it too easy to spread dangerous levels of misinformation and hate online. It started off innocently enough, with cat videos uploaded to YouTube, but soon extremists were taking advantage of social media for radicalization purposes, adversarial nations were spreading fake news to influence who gets elected, and others were even live-streaming mass murders.

This has caused an upheaval in societal mores as regards free speech. Enough is enough! There needs to be limits. Communities started imposing limits to free speech. For example, UC Berkeley, renowned for giving birth to the Free Speech Movement, made news for banning harmful speech, such as that by Ann Coulter. This is a natural evolution of societal mores. This particular evolution was a reaction to the excesses and abuses seen in social media. This type of censorship, as opposed to absolute free speech, will be the new normal. We live in a new world. Malicious individuals and groups now have the power to reach hundreds of millions instantly, at no cost to themselves. The old rules no longer apply.

Some say if you disagree with someone else's speech you should not just ban them, you should defeat them by arguing against their ideas. But when state-sponsored actors spread fake news and divisive ads at a massive scale on social media you can’t simply defeat them by arguing against their ideas. How do you counter it? By buying opposing ads on Facebook? Even if you have pockets as deep as Putin’s, what a waste of money that would be! This is a new world and the old methods are no longer applicable. Communities and social media companies will need to engage in some censorship.
I love Postgres, it’s an incredible piece of software, I have to say though, this is the least exciting update I’ve seen, in the last 10 years that I’ve been using it.
Probably because it’s now so capable, the only major missing feature for me is, automatic incremental update to materialized views, one of the few important remaining advantages that Oracle has over Postgres.
Ah, but the point was about using "their dominance in web search to undercut competing browser vendors".

In this case, ~90% of web searches go through Google[0]. So they are using the fact that they are the number one web search engine to convince users to switch to Google Chrome.

[0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/216573/worldwide-market-...
While I think UBI is one of the better solutions to the poverty problem in the US, I think almost any solution to poverty will fall prey to inflation if we don't address income inequality.

One way to do this is pay ratio caps at companies. It's pretty hard to argue against this: if you really believe that wealth trickles down, then you should have no problem trusting but verifying that.
This is the best argument I've seen for making it publicly anonymous which moderator took a specific action and maintaining a large pool of moderators.

Bad actors can harass a community as a whole (and they do) but it's much harder for them to target specific moderators. The flipside is that moderators have to hold each other accountable for impartial enforcement of the rules.
Yeah, I'm not surprised, since corporations like this are more concerned with making sure the Business Impact Assessment was routed in compliance with Standard Operating Procedures, establishing the Quality Verification Steering Committee to discuss possible impact to critical systems, and getting sign-offs from Validation Specialists and Risk Analysts.

Ask me how I know.
Ah I see. yes as someone who contributes to nixpkgs, there are patches to use the /nix paths rather than the standard posix layout.

NixOS is not POSIX compliant and does not try to be.
No evidence lockdown saves lives – Professor Briggs
> They don’t have in-house experts on these domains, they don’t have a magic epistemology machine that spits out the “facts”.

What are the other options?
Is there any good_or_not(url) API youtube service can call? They are forced to moderate content.
How many people post on here about having hundreds of tabs open?
1) I try to spend less time focusing on short distance. Replacing reading with audiobooks when possible was significant for me.

2) I try to notice the strain in eye muscles. As soon as I notice it I tend to relax and this seem to help.

3) I try to reduce load on eye muscles when possible. Like read less from small screen devices or use bigger font size when this doesn't affect usability.
The "chilling repercussions" of making illicit publishing of personal data illegal?

That is the whole point of privacy laws! It's like saying that laws against theft cost you so much money since they make you pay in the supermarket.
Using HEIC apparently [1][2] requires a license and is patent encumbered[3], so I actually blame Apple for using a closed format by default.

[1] https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/97036
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17587923

[2] http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/833-HEI...
I think you might be right!
That all implies that people won’t be working more - while it’s true commute times being cut is a huge benefit, I’m concerned about employer demands and culture leaning more into people working more, especially across time zones. When there is more competition for roles those who are willing to work more and longer will advance.

That said, I also hold out great hope for this development. I’m already looking at places I’d like to live because I’d like to live there, not because there are jobs.
Looks like he made his million on his successful startup (making him a successful entrepreneur) and then proceeded to start a non-profit, which by definition should not make him exponentially richer.
A functioning economy is not built on pieces of paper. It's built on people working and producing value.
Can you actually make a decent income?
Exposure Notification Reference Server
Too expensive. The cost of building the new house is incremental to size, not proportional. And there is probably a larger market for homes with more space. Smaller space works for town homes and condos, but that doesn’t align with yard and basement.
What are the stats per engineer over the past year or 2, including standard deviation? I suspect +-3% is within normal variation. Are you measuring literally the number of commits or number of lines changed? All of these are important metadata.
Wow, I have been using iOS (and keeping it up to date) and macOS and Photos.app and uploading images to sites regularly for quite some time and this is the first time I’ve ever even heard of HEIC. Whatever they are doing has been beyond seamless for me.
What's new in Istio 1.6, a quick walkthrough
>Every experiment in UBI says otherwise.

Has even one of these been a permanent (for the recipients) experiment?
I would have to google but I’m fairly sure Rich Hickey has expressly state’s this sort of project as a motivation for Clojure. Perhaps not with such real-time demands or For integrating with hardware, but certainly from the exploration and theory side.
Yes. People can coerce you into taking down their PII, including photos, in Europe. (Assuming they know of it's existence on your social media account, never gave you permission to use it, and object to it being made available.)

But I know some people who believe that a workaround involves both you and the information being physically in the US, and the information not actually being displayed anywhere in Europe. I don't know if such a case has actually been litigated, but I'd wager you'd be OK in that scenario.
Ok, how long do you think it'd take to get somewhat comfortable with reading/writing such things? Would it really be "so difficult"? You can also write what you wrote in TeX too, it just won't look as nice in the output and might mislead a reader into thinking a multiplication of s, q, r, t is happening as well as wondering what's going on with the "+-". ± is a symbol too you know.. On Linux it's just compose key then + then -. (Edit: while I'm mentioning it, the compose key is great. Could write it as x = (-b ± √(b² - 4ac))/(2a) -- with √ being compose then v then /, and ² being compose then ^ then 2.)

You can also write that in Mathematica, and it will look nice + understand that sqrt() is the square root function, though I think it will interpret the "+-" as "-".

Under what conditions are you writing math on a computer where you don't have proper tools to do it? (Mathematica isn't the only one, and even if you're using a programming language like Python you can write almost exactly what you wrote by adjusting/clarifying the operators.) Where possibly the most math-written-with-computer happens is MathOverflow, and hey, they use TeX extensively. And when you ask a question, they show a preview below so you can make sure your math is formatted in a readable way too and not just in the easiest way to type.
Maybe the patent was stronger than they first thought.
"Be skeptical of the actions of the state, regardless of the action"
When the pipes in your house malfunction causing gallons of water and feces to spray out of the toilet onto the nice wood floor you just installed in your newly government granted free time. But, you can't call a plumber because they're all on UBI watching Bob Ross howto videos and painting beautiful landscapes, remember the name Andrew Yang.
This is silly. You don't retain any claims on images just because they include you. Extrapolating this idea leads to absurd conclusions.

If I take a photo of a crowd at an NBA game and publish it in a book of NBA photos, should any member of that crowd be able to force the publisher to stop selling the book until they've removed the photo? If not, why should it work differently on the internet?
Or you can pay one big bill and still get crappy software.

It's difficult to evaluate the quality of software development contractors.
There are several points that contradict the consensus opinion, at this time. Such as the statement "More schools should reopen in June as ‘children are not the transmitters of this virus’" is totally refuted at this point. There is plenty of evidence that children transmit the disease like any other human.
>Every experiment in UBI says otherwise.

There has never been a test on a scale which would lead people to do it though. If you know you're part of a short lived experiment you're not quitting your job.
I agree with this. I just turned 30, and I couldn't wait to leave SF. Its a great city, I grew up in the Bay Area, but it is nto for me. I am not a city person. I never lived in SF proper, but I would hate it if I did.

So I took the plunge and moved to Washington last October before COVID was a thing. And i couldn't be happier. It was all because my company had a SF and Bellevue location.

I forsee many other people doing the same now that job opportunities aren't tied to location.

I was forced to work in SF because thats where the Jobs were for me, but I never wanted to be so near or work in SF.
Tbray is going to have a different experience at any org he joins.

He's not coming in as a no name peon. He's financially well off, internet famous and would (and could) probably leave at the first sign of mistreatment.

He's in Canada, do health insurance isn't tied to job.
How many jobs exist for things that don’t “need to be done” though?

I’m aware the definition of “need” is a can of worms - but as an example, I know plenty of people who started doing call-center work in their early-20s while they “figure out what I want to do with their life” and by the time they know what they want to do (and it’s definitely not call-center work!) they’re trapped in their jobs, especially as after a few years they will have moved-out of their parents’ home - so having to pay rent and cover their cost-of-living while they’re getting started or experimenting with their own personal life projects (e.g. doing art, etc) is unfeasible - and don’t suggest getting a loan either. Meanwhile people with wealthier and accommodating parents can afford to take their time living off their parents - I see this as an example of the inequality of opportunity in our society.

Another example is the unseen and underreported unpaid work that exists, such as when a family has a child and the child has a disability that requires extra care: if they’re a married couple then one of them would drop-out of their career to become a full-time - unpaid - caregiver. If it’s a single—parent situation then the outcomes are often heartbreaking. This isn’t the society I want to live in.

UBI would mean the cost of labor for “McJob”s would rise - probably significantly (UBI would mean the end of the minimum wage, however) - but having fewer people doing jobs they don’t want to do means greater net happiness and we’d see further rises in automation - which further raises GDP. I see employers using human labor for unrewarding work because it’s cheaper than automation as a terrible local-maxima in our system. We just need to push past it to get to an even bigger maxima.
Are you joking? Number sense is hugely useful in daily life. What if I have a recipe for three servings but five dinner guests? If I just passed milepost 472 and I average 55 miles per hour, how long will it take me to reach Mexico? How many bottled liters of water can I fit in this box? How much is the 1.35% annual property tax on a million-dollar house, per month? You really want to whip out your laptop for all that?
Any idea if there are Open Source equivalents?
>I couldn't understand why he didn't realize that MFA is the way to go.

Maybe because that's not a fact. MFA might not be the way to go. This isn't a simple binary issue.
I cant view the article, is there a way around the paywall?
Really really bursty loads. You have a customer upload a data file and you have to process it. If you crud it, you have a worker chopping it apart and making sync API calls. If something fails in the middle, it has to retry, but what happens if your container/database goes down when you're halfway through? Now you have to reprocess that file again, etc.

You move this to a queue, and have a worker chop that data file up into individual records, those records go onto a queue, and you can process them however you want, no worries about something crashing and not being able to be retried. If the database goes down, everything just pauses until it can go again. You can limit the queue throughput to whatever you want to avoid having to scale your API/Database.

Can you handle stuff via all CRUD sync APIs? Sure, just like you could handle running a restaurant where you have one person who takes the order and cooks it and delivers it to a table. However, it's more efficient to have a waiter (API) take requests and give them to a cook (queue based async worker) to handle stuff that's not as time sensitive. This saves you a lot of money in certain situations.
But no browsers do [1]. For an OS that does its best to hide file types & extensions from the user, it's absurd to not have robust file type conversions when moving/sharing files between apps.

[1] https://caniuse.com/#feat=heif
You bring up a really good point that I didn't consider, that iPhone SEs default to HEIC.

Thank you.
Maybe Chopin took long walks in the garden every once in an while.

And maybe, just maybe, universally acclaimed musical geniuses are not a good point of comparison for common folk.
The best way to protect against DNS rebinding attacks is at the DNS server level on your local network.

https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/documentation/unbound/unbound.conf/

the private-address directive and setting cache-min-ttl to a value of higher than 10 minutes or so both do a lot to neuter dns rebinding attacks.

Other DNS Resolvers have similar settings.
Thanks! That’s what I was trying to refer to. But that seems different in a few ways. First, there’s actually physical open spaces in malls where the public is invited—you don’t have to shop. Second, the protest in a mall is ephemeral. Youtube is like a store in the mall, not the open forum (I don’t think Macy’s would be required to have a protest in its store); the internet is like that open space. Second, extending this to YouTube would require YouTube to proactively host a video on its servers, pay for costs to play it, and host it forever (until the protestor takes it down).
What do you mean no one is working ? There'll still be people working.
I'm working from home in just such a mountain town right now.

If you're willing to go far enough up the mountain, real estate is still quite affordable.

And I think you'd be welcomed if you actually live in a small town full-time (as opposed to keeping a vacation home) and get involved with the local community. Many of these places -- the ones just out of organic-grocery-store range -- have been losing population for decades.

Of course, in California, you have to make your peace with living in the Red State within the Blue State, in case that's a thing for you.
A Qanon guy brought a gun into a pizza place and one tried to mail bombs to politicians.
>HEIC (image encoding) is available without royalties

As stated by that Wikipedia article, HEIF is the royalty-free container. HEIC means the content is encoded with HEVC, which makes it not free.
Anything less than 2 fiscal quarters is a hot fix for these people.
There are endless other "built-in opportunities" out there for socialization, and remote work gives the freedom to choose them for yourself rather than being forced into an arbitrary office for the majority of your life.
I can chime in that a lot of this rings true for me. I was also an SDE-II ( started as one ). I also was loaned out to other teams. I also suffered the idiocy of being locked into 2 years of work or get saddled with a huge amount of money to pay back.

Also, I consider that my child is dead because of what happened.

See https://amazonandmykid.com for the full story.
Yeah see, people don't think, deeply, about anything.
Because company policies were not as open to remote talent. It took us over a year of lackluster local talent interviews in SF to convince our CTO that we have to go for remote talent.

By the time the pandemic hit, we were ready to be our most effective as a geo distributed team.
> Very sad when you think about it. Wasted potential.

Eh, you leave the university environment of all its clubs, hackathons, etc, likely to another city where you know far fewer people. You need to wake up the next morning, so gaming until 5AM with your friends no longer works. Someone is also on on-call, so they can't join, so you postpose it further.

The end result is a lot more free time.
Laws are different per country but usually it has to do with the intent of the picture, if I'm in background of your NBA photo I'm not the main subject so it's ok and I have not right to ask you to take it down.
As long as they follow the guidelines of the medical experts, everything should work out in the end. We are all in this together.
When you say a "doubting agnostic," I guess you mean "agnostic but doubting it, i.e., maybe there is a God."

a) I really like the Narnia books. I tried once to read one of C.S. Lewis's apologetics books (can't remember which now), but gave up very quickly, because the writing style seemed highly disingenuous. I didn't sense much potential in his work to have a strong, rational argument that someone not already committed to faith would accept. Maybe I should try again, more carefully. Is he the best apologist you can recommend, or is there someone else?

b) What is the evidence in the physical world that you are talking about? I take it that this is in addition to "word of mouth" across the centuries. I'm not aware of any such (additional) evidence. I think Jesus was a historical person---there is enough evidence for that. But that doesn't prove the religious claims. Undoubtedly you would agree that there have been many false prophets (e.g., Zoroastrian prophets, to try to pick something not likely to offend or be controversial).

c) Would the evidence you point to be enough to convince you to believe in Christianity, or is "personal experience" necessary to bridge the gap? If it's the latter, what kind of personal experience is it?

In the interest of full disclosure, I just want to understand what makes religious people believe what they do. I'm not even remotely open to accepting religion, myself.
In US, if the child is under 13, they'd be covered by COPPA and it'd fall on the service provider. Can't answer for GDPR.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Pr...
IBM, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Control Data Corporation (CDC), Cray Research, Motorola Semiconductor, Commodore, Atari, Silicon Graphics, Burroughs, Sun Microsystems.
Does your manager love your guts? Are you good at your job? Hopefully that paycheck can bleach the guilt of your colleagues losing their jobs because you are good at yours. That toxicity could also be because they are either selecting or creating people who are okay with this.
I can’t tell if that’s an actual request, an extremely clever meta-comment on the viability of online journalism, or a bit of both...
"in my time there I worked during the weekend 3 times (i don’t count oncall here)"

Why wouldn't you count it? Do those days not-count somehow?
Umm, what if I take photos in a public place with you in them and the laws of the country allow public photography? or posting images which are public record such as mugshots/booking photos? (not that I agree with them being public record anyhow, morally I'd agree with you but it would be perfectly legal to do so)
Honestly, I feel kind of the same way and i'm not really a big fan when I find pictures of myself online I didn't know about, but it's fairly unrealistic to believe you can stop people from doing this.

Nothing was stopping people from taking your picture and posting it around town, or in a classified ad or something before, nothing's going to stop people from doing it now.

The best thing to do is decide if it's a picture really worth being upset about existing and if it is, kindly talk to the people who posted it, otherwise it's probably not worth worrying about.
As a city guy, I'm somewhat concerned about how this pattern of remote work may permanently change life in the cities. I enjoy living in a densely populated area and being around people walking to and from work and having spontaneous interactions. If knowledge work becomes largely remote then I think cities could lose a lot of this vibrancy as people may not have a lot of reason to cluster in this way in the future.

Side note, Richard Florida's "Rise of the Creative Class" talks about a lot of the effects and benefits of people clustering in cities (but in my opinion he only does a so-so job talking about the causes), and I'd be curious to see what other urban planners think about changes like this.
I wanted something like this for my free-form note taking. Here to answer questions if there are any.
Youtube can do what they want but let's not forget that they use WHO as a guideline for what is considered within the Overton window. WHO has repeatedly been wrong on a number of occasions not the least mask, travel bans, and very slow to call this a pandemic.

The is btw zero evidence that having fake prophets on youtube is endangering public health and this is unfortunately an excuse for people who like to tell others what to do, to pretend they are doing it for the public good.
What other major things are needed?