skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
no doubt GH wanted to develop their social site aspects to increase engagement and "stickiness" but I don't think they ever succeeded much, so while it's obviosuly different for the author, it's not much of a loss for everyone else.
Well, we usually just keep at least one teacup of yogurt to avoid the situation where none has left as you have mentioned be able to make more :D
This probably also means that advertisers will pay more per impression, with obviously fewer impressions, because whoever sees the ads will be more receptive to political ads.
> Conservatives were all for that or had little to say about stifling free speech concerns. The argument was its private property and companies can do what they want

No one is actually principled. They just use these sort of ideals as a convenient talking point when it supports what they want, and it's not just Republicans.
I have run a relay/entry node at home for a while, just to figure out how all of this worked and with symmetrical gigabit I have bandwidth to spare.

The network never promoted my node to an entry but it operated as a relay.

One thing I noticed that my IP must have suddenly been in some lists. I can't prove it but on multiple forums my IP was blacklisted an I had issues accessing some services from telco providers.
Never had these issues before and never again after I stopped running the relay... maybe I'm just paranoid.
How long does home-made yogurt remain active enough to be used as starter for a new batch?
You claim to be a moderate, but you speak as though you are quite politically biased, and emotionally so (though I can only go on tone here, since you didn't give specific examples). Lately there is a lot of usage of the word "moderate" to simply mean "I have clearly left or right ideologies, but want to sound like I'm above the rabble", and you should consider this pitfall.
Do you find getting an ID to be a significant burden? Probably not.

There exist people for whom this is a real barrier.

Do you have a job that allows you to take a day off work if you need to? Probably.

There exist people for whom this is a real barrier.

Do you have a job that doesn't require you to work on weekends? Probably.

There exist people for whom this is a real barrier.

It's hard to ask someone to just CARE more, if caring more means they might be fired from the job that puts food on their table.

I'm sorry I used your trigger-word "privilege". I do want this to be a safe space for everyone to participate, so next time I'll avoid that word. For my previous post, you can substitute the word "economically able" instead of the word "privileged", and the meaning should remain mostly the same.

I actually don't mind the additional barrier that caucuses create that deter the people that don't care that much. If two people are equally able to attend a caucus, and the activation energy of the caucus filters out the one that doesn't care that much, that seems good to me.

But I really very much do mind the additional barrier that caucuses create for the people that are not able to attend them due to their circumstances. If two people care equally, but one doesn't attend because they would lose their job or need to earn enough money for dinner—then I have a massive problem.
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Continental Europe is considered, by and large, to be "The West", as is the United States. In this context, the US is a new country but very much representative of the Western world.
Boiling denatures some of the proteins, and gives you more of the texture you expect. From what I understand, if you don't boil it the texture will be very runny.
Other languages can do the same, they just deliberately make the decision not to because of performance. Ruby has the same nice stacktrace (even nicer).
Second this. With GH now letting you create Organizations with private repositories, it's starting to transform how I store core on GH.

All of my "big" projects on GH have more than one repo, usually 2-5 depending on what all work needs to be done. Before GH allowed you to create private repos in orgs for free I had hundreds of repositories and had to name them like projectname-website. Now I create orgs for my biggest projects so all my repos are starting to look more like projectname/website instead.

I'll admit, very small change but helps me keep my Github organized.

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Overall Github has gotten only more and more important in my workflow. I find it amazing that this site went from "cool tool" back in my college years to "I literally cannot live without this tool" now.
For anyone wondering why this works, and why the link's technique is so complicated, remember that humans have been making yogurt for thousands of years. So you don't need anything fancy to make yogurt.

Even a fridge is not needed. Put the milk+yogurt mix container in a clay pot placed in a tray of water, and it will turn into yogurt.

Anything fancier on top is just to reduce the amount of work needed or have longer fridge life.
That's why I can never be a conservative. I think sometimes the left is absolutely full of it, but the voices I hear from the right sound as if they're saying "let's do nothing about our current social problems," at least to my ear.

I'd rather have imperfect progress than no progress.
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You're saying that anyone who gets beaten for their opinion had it coming?

Truly we live in evil times.
> A pointer stores a number

Why not "is" instead of "stores" ?
> You’re questioning them right now.

... very cautiously, very anonymously.
I wasn't saying that's how it happened (regarding the article). It was to expand on:

> and tails uses tor browser which doesn't support webrtc.

and how (in other instances than the situation in the article)
the WebRTC flaw could be used. I wasn't specific enough.
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In my recent experience with forwarding messages from "stny.rr.com" to a new TLD having 4 characters after the dot, I found that Spectrum has a problem with that. What's interesting is that Armstrong has no issue whatsoever, and they are a smaller company. Granted I have not set up an email server in quite some time (I'm retired), so I don't know what Spectrum would have to do on their end.
"Accidentally"? Bring up google maps and look at the forest cover of Haiti vs. the Dominican Republic. You don't really need the border drawn as a line.
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That is literally the issue that Hey is having right now. They have provided no means of subscribing inside the app, but now Apple is telling them that they'll remove the app from the App Store if they don't add Apple IAP. Meanwhile, Basecamp has operated the same way for years. The rationale Apple gave was that Basecamp is primarily a business app, but if that is the case, how does Gmail get away with the same thing?

Meanwhile Netflix, Gmail, Uber, and a couple of other big apps don't use the Apple IAP system.
atlantic fisherman? Seasonal work is not technically a lay-off but for almost all purposes feels/acts like a predictable one.
I didn't commission a study or anything but the first page of results on Google suggested that pine needles are acidic because they prefer to grow in acidic soils but they have no method of acidifying the soil by themselves. Also pine needles can form a dense mat which tends to exclude other species.
What does Putin have to do with anything? He runs a country that is not remotely communist (since at least 1991, nearly thirty years ago, last I checked)
I'm really sick of title editorialization and the constant jockeying in the comments to editorialize the title. It's gotten really ridiculous and tiresome. Link post titles should just be pulled from the target's <title>, because this site can't handle it anymore. If the target page has too many exclamation points in its title, then I guess that link can't be on the site. It would still be better than this.
Possibly stupid question here (this is not my domain), but what is the alternative to pinning the client to use your leaf certs? If it's pinning to your root cert, then isn't that much more of a pain if/when you need to revoke what the client is using? Or is the correct alternative to pin "to one or multiple rsa public keys" as mentioned in the sibling comment?
> If you had a online tool I used to quietly manage production at my cardboard box factory and then you went and added leader boards, badges, xp, recognition points and an influencer score, then box manufacturing better be pretty bloody exciting for me from now on. We now have an entire generation of software developers who have never known these tools without the gamified experience.

Maybe I'm just a little too old, but I've always rolled my eyes at those kinds of features and then ignored them. I find it impossible to imagine anyone actually caring about their badges or XP score on some company intranet wiki.
You have to be careful with what you look at in the US. The media here is definitely cherry picking the worst of the worst to show people. Were some places hit really hard? Yes. Absolutely. Does the entire country look like NYC? No. Not even close.
I think in most circumstances you can't. A lot of the time bad news is known in advance and the timing for release is a carefully controlled process so while you know things are bad you have to lie by omission by not sharing until the designated time the actual decision makers have decided...

I once signed a 12 month contract extension and 7 days later (5 days before christmas) there was a big meeting and I and 50+ other people were escorted off the office by security as the whole project cancelled.

I'm pretty sure the manager know the project was going to be cancelled but he had to issue new contracts anyway he know would be torn up as they were not ready to officially announce yet...
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My website is miscdotgeek.com. This is extremely relevant!
I think the prominence of consumption industries like entertainment, media and social media have hooked us on the idea of happiness/meaning as perpetual bliss. I suspect these industries learned it from advertising, an industry which they created and evolved. The schools and religious organizations have tried to follow suit, with only mixed success.

"Fun" is a very poor imitation of "zen" or "peace" (the Christian concept) or "enlightenment" (the Buddhist concept), but has become sort of the sine qua non of secular Western democratic capitalist societies.
A few updates since I first wrote this up:

- I don't bother sterilizing any more. I make sure the jars are clean, but that's all. I think the culture is fast enough to raise acidity to a safe point very quickly. (I still sterilize for cheese though.)

- I always use commercial culture now. I had off-results after the third round of saving a starter. (Someone mentioned heirloom cultures, which I think would avoid this problem. My wife tried those, but we didn't care for the flavor, and I prefer the workflow of two gallons at a time, done overnight.)

- If you make yogurt, but never started with the high-temperature initial step, I really recommend trying it. It makes a thicker consistency because the proteins are denatured and curdle better. (The downside in my opinion is that it also destroys some of the goodies present in my previously-raw milk.)

- My 20-minute high-temperature hold is often much longer. I try to reach 180 degrees F and take it off the heat, then put the kids to bed. It always seems to do fine.

Anyways, thanks for all the comments. I'm always happy to read a nice discussion about dairy processing! Next time you're passing through central Virginia, let me know and we can share a cheese plate.
I'm in the US tech market specifically, and sorry for a bit of salt. This is all opinion but I wanted to share anyway.

> My personal experience has been when you let people know the facts and act on them, it is amazing what happens.

It is common for management in the US to become a middleman that effectively acts as a low-value-add component between leadership above them, and the IC's below them. To be a high-value-add it's a complex game of social skills, making people happy, compromise, individual attention/listening, domain knowledge/experience, etc etc. I'll be the first to admit - every time I've had to be a leader it's been incredibly difficult. Although it's common sense, I'm reminded every time that it's very hard to manage problems outside of your own headspace - and that's a hard pill to swallow as a SWE!

Back to the low-value-add manager though... there's a lot of them out there. And for ego, or self-preservation at the company, etc they want to be the end-all/be-all for solutions/innovation that's happening in their team. Ie: if it didn't originate from them they don't want to hear about it, and when presenting to their leadership all of their team's accomplishments are because of them. Often they keep their employees stuck in-place with fear of termination, push-out the high-achievers who will challenge status-quo, and self-market like crazy to increase their standing in the org.

> Why do leaders think lying, or obfuscating works so well?

Because they're playing a different game than you are as an actual leader. Many managers will lie, obfuscate, and generally be assholes because it's how lazy/unsophisticated people get what they want - regardless if it's layoffs or just the normal day-to-day. I know the question is rhetorical but when I read it I blurted out loud "because people suck!" drinking my morning coffee =)
One way to rephrase your question would be to take a look at the sum total of commodities markets, specifically the subset that includes natural resources (specifically precious metals) mineable on mars. How much of that market is bottlenecked by supply?

You can apply this approach to more complex commodities to theorize about the upper limits, but I think this is a good way to get started.
>The Gervais Principle

I cannot thank enough for the article, absolutely nailed it. I have seen & been part of a startup growing from a mid stage to a unicorn and now after reading it I can connect the dots, it all make sense in such exhilarating way. My journey till now has been from over performing looser to a looser which is not bad. I'm seeing a pattern though, every 8-9 month I over-perform become a looser then get completely disillusioned and go off to a backpacking retreat. This worries me a bit now.
The biggest issue is that Google is also a publisher, with comment sections. It competes in the same space, and is pretty much the only game in town for advertising. This is an election year, political biases are a factor in the discussion and other sites on the other end of the political spectrum don't get their advertising removed for speech by commenters. Other sites have comment sections and has its share of trolls (from both sides) and controversial speech that targets identity groups. Does Google hold itself and other sites with that speech to the same standards? This creates an anti-trust issue. And yes, if a company has enough power to control the speech and public discourse with little other alternative is part of anti-trust, just as if there was one phone company to communicate with. There is a double standard here and a conflict of interest (not to mention they teamed up with NBC News to make this happen, another competitor). This will be used as evidence that Google should be broken up. I bet their lawyers are freaking out right now.

Section 230 holds the standard that sites are not held accountable for the speech of their commenters.

Corporations can censor too. The issue becomes when a corporation uses its market dominance to force another company to censor its own speech. It starts slow, but eventually it'll be any speech against Google getting censored, comments, or news articles will earn a "policy violation" with lop sided enforcement.
The go team's attempt at involving everyone in the priorities of the language has meant they lost focus on the wisdom of the original design. I spent 10 years writing go and I'm now expecting to have to maintain garbage go2 code as punishment for my experience. I wish they focused on making the language better at what it does, instead of making it look like other languages.
The channel has moved on to almost exclusively Sudoku but you can find quite a few cryptic crossword videos on Cracking the Cryptic, such as this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jfVumsDGh0 .. the thought process behind getting the answers really is mind boggling to me :-)

Oh, and the New York Times stream solves of some of their crosswords at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCST13QgqzC5r81Fd6OO7nCQ .. I can get along with NYT levels of cryptic myself, but not British style cryptic which is another level.
If you declare a structure of unaligned size, the compiler might (probably must) introduce some padding bytes at the end of the structure to fit the alignment. In some architectures you cannot do unaligned accesses (ARM for example).

Unless you pack the structure with the alignment you want.
This was being proposed by Barr and co a few months ago, the current Twitter debacle (A tweetacle? Tweetgate?) just happens to be an excellent case to push it forward with support.

Before that it was proposed repeatedly by several Democrats, especially during the Birther nonsense.
I'm not saying I agree with Apple's approach, but it does affect you.

Just by having alternative sources, developers might choose to only be available on those sources, whether it's for a better revenue cut or because of their principles.

See for example what's going on with exclusives for Epic store and Steam. Whether that's a good or bad thing is a different question.
OP asked for alternatives, the founder of gitcoin "a platform for you to get paid for working on open source software" comments pointing to their website. It might have been worded better but I think it's a relevant answer. (commenter is https://twitter.com/owocki)
Yeah, the soil up here gets marked as "of local agricultural significance", which means it is technically worthless in the grand scheme of things but people still plant orchards, vineyards and pastures on it.
Field workers do have an office and run software, it's just that it's a little box on the edge of the rig!
Yes, exactly. And do you know of any people of color who want to go back to the sixties in America?

Change is uncomfortable but necessary.
> It does make a bit of a difference if the job lead to switching countries (mostly "expat"), or switching country lead to getting a job (mostly "immigrant").

Does this distinction actually exist in how people use the words "expat" and "immigrant"? A lot of the time, immigrants will have accepted their job offers already before entering the country, and if they did not switch countries, they would have the same kind of job in their home country anyway (e.g. immigrant nurses recruited by the NHS).

The dictionary definition (OED) talks about the immigrant being a person who enters a country to live there permanently, but in reality, even those who enter with the intention of leaving after a few years are considered immigrants by everyone around them if they are from a third-world country.
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> In python, we had to have tests dedicated to ensuring the right types were handled the right way. Is it a string or an array passed in? Welp, need a new test to cover that

def foo(arg: str) -> int

vs.

def foo(arg: List[Union[Set[int],Optional[Dict[str, Any]]]]) -> str

But...Python has a static type checker with a more expressive type system than Go.

Also, IIRC, better type inference.
The article has good points, but all of them summed up times 10 is still child’s play compared to the Cultural Revolution proper. I’m sorry, but this kind of sensational labelling is exactly the one thing Americans don’t need right now, and it’s a shame since, again, the article does have many good points.
That white guy is Pitbull.
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The freedomsponsors.org one doesn't render correctly and gives warning popups on both firefox and chromium here. Doesn't look very assuring.
Do you think zuck cares if he’s worth 100b vs 20b?
I agree, practically everyone who's upset in that thread is villifying "SJWs" and "thumb democracy". I get this is a hot topic and people have strong feelings about it, and it's important to consider that the maintainer of this project probably feels personally attacked by this. But this is how discussions happen, respectfully, calmly, with educational links. 15 issue comments isn't "brigading". Asking someone to consider that the name of their project is problematic isn't shaming.
You probably weren't getting much "good" sleep time. I know the anxiety of anticipating when the next wake up is going to be, it's like trying to sleep with one eye open.
When I eventually leave London, I feel like some of my favourite memories are going to be sitting in the back of an Uber driving from Sth to Nth London at 5am.
You're not paranoid, many providers do this despite the fact that running a relay doesn't generate any malicious traffic. Here's a similar experience from Filippo Valsorda: https://twitter.com/FiloSottile/status/1257714275763851264
The approval and screening process were not adequate and stuff like this were always happening. Google still thought they are entitled to get 30 percent.

I am not sure how or when it has improved but my trust was breached and it was not restored still today. There are a lot of junk/fearmongering/placebo applications in Play Store, e.g. "RAM Cleaner" or random "Anti Virus" applications.

Apple should relax their requirements, sure, but I am really willing to stick to the Apple store to prevent stuff like this.
Question on the background: did Apple announce this change long in advance and this start enforcing it (as advised) after the window for remediation elapsed? Or was it sudden?

A sudden change is just bad form if that was the case.
I always get the feeling that a lot of languages would be well served by having an APL or prolog implementation added as a library or macro; this would let teams leverage these tools down in the core of their application without having to compromise on how they create APIs.

Closest I’ve seen to this was core.logic in the Clojure community, but it appears to be dead.
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It was a long time ago, but I recall reading once that in some cultures the voices and delusions of schizophrenics tend to be of a more positive nature. In our culture they tend to be almost entirely menacing, paranoid, accusatory, etc.

Makes me think about set and setting with psychedelics. Maybe our schizophrenics have menacing delusions because our culture is full of hostility and negativity.

There are counterexamples in our culture though. You find them in the new age, occult, and some religious communities. I think some channelers, alien contactees, prophets, etc. probably are schizophrenic but some of them relate positive experiences and messages. Maybe high functioning schizophrenia is just a very non-neurotypical edge case.

I'm not downplaying the other aspects of this case though. In this case actual novel and objectively verifiable information seems to have been learned. It's a particularly compelling one because it happened under the loose observation of medical professionals, but if you talk to people you hear less extreme anecdotal experiences like this all the time. I've heard tons of parents tell me stories about spooky parental intuition, things like "knowing" that a child is in danger and going and saving the child just in time.

I'm an open minded skeptic on this stuff. I tend toward the skeptical but don't completely dismiss it. Speaking of delusions, the idea that after methodically doing science for only ~200 years we know everything is a peculiar delusion of our culture.

Always makes me think of this:

https://xkcd.com/638/
Early exposure has some impact.