skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in a similar situation, except with a worse reason for requiring everyone to come back to the office. We were told that the optics of us not coming back to the office as the city is reopening could destroy the company. I can assure you that NO ONE is going to say "well I was going to spend money with these people but they're not in the office, so I'll go elsewhere".

Further, we are being given less than 24 hours notice to come back into the office. It's just absurd, and it has eroded any trust that I once had in the company.
> who, exactly, deems subreddits not worthy of existence.

That would be the company which owns reddit, through the admins. Is it fair? No, it isn't, but reddit has no requirement to be fair (although it would be nice if it was).
>The crime rate in America is relatively low according to official data:

Come on. And those are aggregate numbers. There is variability between different states, and rural vs urban crime. For example, I just looked up the homicide rate in Atlanta Georgia (17 per 100k), vs Oslo, Norway (0.5 per 100k). That's crazy big.

>have been stoking fears of Americans for decades such that there are people who genuinely believe that America (as a whole) has more crime even when the numbers completely put a lie to that.

Things were really bad in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. The downtown cores of most major cities were dangerous. Don't pretend it was OK before. Things like the 90s 'crime bill' didn't just come out of nowhere. It was bad. Things only started changing the late 90s and early 2000s when cities went through resistance and yes, crime started falling.
Could this be ported to bitcoin lightning ?
Whether they intended it this way or not, users will now be worried they're upvoting the "wrong" thing and will be less likely to vote unpopular opinions and political views, just in case.
Can you elaborate on what you mean by remote security?

- Cloud security?

- Controlling physical safeguards remotely?

- Something different?
Agreed. You cant "plan" an App Store rejection when they did show they make all the effort to comply with the App Store policy.

Again, Hey was really hyped, 70,000 on waiting list alone. They dont even need any of these marketing to get customers. Name me an SaaS product that had these kind of traction baring FAANG.

But this letter, the initial tone from DHH, and no further complains about App Store really leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
And they also have to start charging IAP.

https://youdownloadtheappanditdoesntwork.com/
Now that there's a "healthy" dialogue about the topic of spraying the skies in mainstream science, will we continue to insist that the plumes of persistent white-stuff expelled from the backs of airplanes are just "condensation"? And that suggesting otherwise is disordered thinking?
Some caves have a higher level of CO2, ie 'bad air'. You'll probably notice, one of the more entertaining symptoms of this is a 'feeling of impending doom'.
Yeah I just tried our sitemap and all it detected was sub pages for each of our second-level sitemaps. Unfortunately it wasn't obvious what was supposed to happen so it took me a few minutes of poking about and then watching their sales video to guess what it should have done and why it was wrong.

When I tried with one of our leaf sitemaps that is nearing the 50k item limit it just errored. Given that all of the URLs are of the form `/item/<id>`, I'd expect it to be able to understand that there's only really one page type that they need to represent for that in their visual sitemap.
This is one of the most harrowing stories that I have ever read.
> Python

Well I can't speak to some of the others... but Conda doesn't work at all on ARM today (maybe that will change with the new ARM Macs, though), which is annoying if you want to use it on, say, a Raspberry Pi for hobby projects.

Additionally, many scientific Python packages use either pre-compiled binaries or compile them at install-time, for performance. They're just Python bindings for some C or Fortran code. Depending on what you're doing, that may make it tricky to find a bug that only triggers in production.
What the students I've talked to are saying is, "why put ourselves into $100k worth of debt for online-only classes?" If they're supposed to be doing lab work, why pay any money at all for a class without it? Tuition prices are unchanged even though higher education has temporarily transitioned to remote-only.
Transexual is a porn term and derogitory. Transgender is preferred. Thanks.
Simple, human error and no code review process for your production environment.

Something similar happened to a huge retailer here in Austria where just typing your username without password would log you in. Reason? An intern committed debug code to production and nobody noticed. In my book that's not the fault of the intern but the fault of the CTO/$TECH_LEAD that hasn't implemented and religiously uphold a code review process for everything that goes into production since stuff like this could happen even to experienced engineers that are tired or having a bad day.
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It's already bad enough that the surveillance economy is threatening our civil liberties in more ways than one. It's outright dystopian when you need to organize a social media campaign to get medical treatment. Considering the sheer number of people who desperately need medical help, the chances of succeeding is very very low.
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There are some issues with that approach. Example: the county (and surrounding areas) where I'm typing this has significant enough issues with agricultural & rural crime that they set up a dedicated task force to fight it (this is unfortunately now common with counties like ours in CA).

It's not just equipment or product either (i.e. stealing trucks filled with almonds), but there are methheads who actually steal dairy calves up in the central valley.

Sacramento doesn't really care. The dollar figures are relatively low when you consider the size of the state, there aren't a ton of voters in those areas, and a fair bit of those voters tend to lean further right politically than present leadership. So, the locals have to take care of it.

It is roughly the same argument as the (gulp) electoral college: if the coastal megacities make all the decisions, who sticks up for the person in Idaho and their needs? Also, Sheriffs are almost always elected positions, so the public gets an opportunity to directly influence leadership of their local law enforcement.

That said, I'm not a huge fan of our local PD, and enforcing standards is a fair point.
Corporations don't wear jackets. People do.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/mnuchin-says-u-s-not-aiming-to-...

>Congress last month appropriated $454 billion to absorb possible losses on the Fed programs, which will provide trillions of dollars in loans to businesses and municipalities. The money from the Treasury serves as a buffer to protect the Fed against losses.
Some of Fed’s investments may end up being profitable, while others will lose money, Mr. Mnuchin said on a conference call with reporters. All told, he said, the U.S. aims to at least come out even.

>The Treasury has pledged $185 billion so far from the funds Congress provided to support roughly $2.3 trillion in lending by the central bank, including loans for states and municipalities and midsize businesses. Mr. Mnuchin said he’s holding some money in reserve while he monitors the economy and the effectiveness of the programs.

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN11327

>Although there were no losses from these
facilities after the 2008 financial crisis, some of the 2020 facilities pose greater risk, and assets from
Treasury’s Exchange Stabilization Fund (ESF) have been pledged to backstop losses on several of the
facilities today. To date, $215 billion has been pledged to these programs (see Table 1)

OP isn't even accurate on its own terms. $215 billion has been pledged, not the $114 billion OP claims.
That doesn't really say anything.

I read CNN multiple times a day.

As a news site, it is nearly perfectly aligned with my interests.
India being "a counterweight to the rise of authoritarianism in the 21st century" while Modi and BJP are in power. This is so misguided its funny.
I went to a technical high school, so I definitely came prepared, and I also learned a lot of useful skills during all my semesters in classes.

I didn't mean that the classes were a waste of time, but I wish I had started doing extracurricular stuff earlier.

It is true that the clubs usually do not have a lot of use for the 1. Semester people, as they don't have a lot of skills yet, but the bigger clubs have their own "course" system and will definitely invest in helping you develop.

I actually think all my classes were useful and I am happy I had them. It just that they were not what was fun, motivating and special about my time at uni.

My space engineering class was taught by an actual astronaut, so that was a definite highlight.
> We couldn't allow an UDP since we have an agreement with our uplink that we will make it impossible to host outwards facing services.

Again, that agreement already means you're not providing internet service, even if you provided outgoing UDP you still would be violating the end to end principle. The hardware is just a consequence of wanting to be more (rather: less) than a dumb pipe.
>CTH has some posts that violated a rule but most don't

I'm not familiar with the CTH situation, or super familiar with CTH in general besides knowing them to be pretty far left on the political spectrum.

But based solely on this line, if their admins are not making enough of an effort in Reddit's eyes to clean up and discourage people from making these rule breaking posts, then the quarantine makes sense. Even if only 1% of .1% of the posts are violating the rules, if the subreddit isn't policing that small minority of posts, what is Reddit supposed to do? Ignore it because most posts aren't breaking rules?
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The common definition of civilian is "a person who is not a member of the police, the armed forces, or a fire department".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian

So sworn police officers are not normally considered civilians, while non-sworn personel are:

https://www.discoverpolicing.org/explore-the-field/types-of-...

https://www.discoverpolicing.org/explore-the-field/civilian-...

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
>India currently punches below its weight on the world stage due to slow economic development: 30 years ago, its GDP per capita was similar to China’s, but is now 5x lower. However, if India were to enter a period of similarly high growth over the next 30 years as China has for the past 30, it would quickly become one of the most powerful countries in the world thanks to the scaling factor of its immense population.

And if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a bicycle.
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Caves are generally pretty stable over short geologic-periods. Otherwise they wouldn't be there.

Mines on the otherhand... mines are where you get fucked.
A "log in with Google/Apple/Github/whatever" fixes that issue easily enough.
Eh any company who engages in marketing imo has entered the thunder dome of public opinion. They can’t have their brand be a one way communication channel
humanities departments.

Most science and engineering depts have been doing research justification, financing, hiring from industry, etc. for awhile.
So what? Institutions are made of people.
Gmail killed bundles (Google Inbox) though.
That can happen when maintainers are professional scientists rather than professional web developers

update: added "professional" before "scientists"
I don't disagree that eating plants is more efficient than eating animal products, but what I'd like to know is how much it costs to transport these products.

Is coconut oil grown and processed in Thailand, then flown to Europe and transported by truck another few thousand miles, still better than butter made from cows milk that are raised 20km away?
i thought anki was written in python - was it re-written in rust?
You'd be surprised how many people don't. I've had arguments about things that we were supposedly contractually obligated to perform. I ask, "where does it say this in the contract? It's not there." I'm told I must be wrong. (I'm not.) Mad page flipping through the PDF follows. Ultimately, I am proven correct. We are, indeed, not obligated to do a thing...
The analogy falls down because stores generally don't benefit a great deal from having products in their store except insofar as the money they make for the store, or occasionally the money they'll make by consumers buying other products in the store (in the case of loss leaders).

The iOS app store could be 100% free apps, or even 100% apps that Apple doesn't get a cent of, and Apple still benefits from those apps existing.
Toronto would like to be seen as the nice person's Silicon Valley
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I've had a rough time with GrandPad. Tried to set it up for a family to use during covid, the mother is in her 60s and pretty competent with tech - they use iPads, Kindles etc just fine. We tried to change the registration of the GrandPad from her billing and they said they needed to ship us a whole new device. Then they said they could just ship a new sim. So anyway she's gotten the new sim in the mail and has had such a frustrating time with it & can't get it to do video calls. She's wanting me to take it back.

The whole idea was that it would be simple enough that her son with Down Syndrome could use it to keep in touch with friends. He's smart, he can use gmail, but he can't use this thing.

Honestly my perspective on them has been that it's a cheap thing, UX is a real mixed bag, customer service not great, & I deeply regret losing the time we've spent trying to work with it vs exploring other solutions. Ugh. I even don't want to go pick it up to try and deal with it from my side.

Glad you have had a better experience, but let's just say it's not universal!
For one thing, LEOs receive governmental and societal sanction, are armed with lethal force, and receive legal immunity, and so clearly should be held to a higher standard.
Yeah this is really a move to make it cheap for any company to buy your data.

Currently data is held by a small number of companies who invest a lot of money protecting it as a business secret.

The goal of the pay-for-data movement is to make it easy for any fly by night operation to have access to the same data without earning your trust.
I was thinking Google home devices might work. Is assistant actually a problem? I wondered if it would be actually useful for some people.
It also keeps people from flooding into the rest of Reddit. When /r/fatpeoplehate was banned, their users flooded and spammed most other subreddits.
Do you also disagree with musicians refusing their music be used in certain contexts? This seems like a form of 'refusing service'.

For example:

https://www.vulture.com/2018/11/the-history-of-musicians-rej...
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Hi Max -- as a labour of love, I've been working on AI-driven news products and ideas. This also includes 70+ interviews with people who spend at least $1000/year on news products. See here: https://10millionsteps.com/lessons-for-news-startups and https://10millionsteps.com/future-of-news

Let me know if you'd want to chat. Always happy to see what folks are doing in this space.

EDIT: also just filled out the survey. Good luck.
When I see these breakdowns I think I’d pay $17 per year for Facebook without all of the ads and tracking and data mining and knowing I was just getting a good service optimized for its customers.

Why not ban tracking and ad targeting and selling personal data, and force that business model to go extinct, and now they have to start charging for service and their users become actual customers.
Glad I learned to drink coffee the italian way : one expresso cup (20/40ml). Strong, fruited, less caffeine. Loving it every morning.
> I'd like to see studies where the same individual both drank 4+ cups of coffee everyday for 6 months, and then quit caffeine entirely for 6 months

Ow!
Didn't it have shapefile support since forever? What's the difference?
The reality of post-coved is that such employers will start losing people as never before. Most businesses are now transitioning to remote work as default.
What not to love, they begin the class segregation early. Wait what? Guess they are that way after centuries of pretty authoritarian governments. Every one knows their place /s
They can and they do .. but it has to be done in the third person and not by advocates. Effectively this is what "post-colonial studies" is about.

The opportunity existed to put statues of racists behind glass, for example, away from their positions of public prominence and celebration. I don't think too many people would object to the university of Oxford having a statue of Cecil Rhodes that they kept in a cupboard.
Heya, I haven't gotten out to most of the western US apart from a bit of TAG and Mammoth / Fisher Ridge. Working on that cave diver cert :D.

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More precisely, certain areas of the US (parts of certain large cities) are a big outlier in violent crime compared to any other large 1st world country. The rest of the US is not.
This is true in the case of manufacturing based economy, which world is currently now majored in.

But with knowledge driven economy coming into picture, Having a huge population has any advantage?

First world countries certainly have head start in this case, who are already attracting best brains from across world ( universities and companies)

So, India will retain the importance only if it can sustain current brain drain which means huge investment in younger generation.
It's not mandatory to be against the things that you listed. Many people enjoy reading and talking about things they're legally allowed to.
I imagine the mods have a fairly finely tuned sense of which threads will turn into a shitstorm and don't give a fuck about pre-emptively killing them.

And honestly I WISH nobody used reddit anymore, maybe it could roll back 10 years when it was frankly more fun, but it sure seems like more people than ever are using it.
My apologies for misinterpreting what you intended to say.

> Minor inconveniences are not the same as a loss of rights, and it’s astonishing that anyone would try to conflate the two.

They are not entirely the same, but a world with less standards (that are high quality and open) seems like a better place. I enjoy being able to use USB ubiquitously. If every company had their own screw head standards that seems objectively worse. Apple's product design definitely feels like they want it to be as difficult as possible to open.
Hey now, that heat sink is going to be the main difference between an Air and iPad before too long.
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i think the difference is that you see the government as a coherent body acting in unison under the direction of the president, and i see a bunch of thugs using both the government and corporations (and other institutions) as tools to oppress in many different and loosely coordinated ways.

i actually don't think trump is an overt racist per se, only a highly self-centered opportunist who advances the white supremecist agenda because he couldn't care less about anyone but himself. an equal opportunity disregard, if you will. not a defense though, he's more suited to prison than office.
> The missing component of your thought process is who, exactly, deems subreddits not worthy of existence.

The same people that deems them worth quarantining, presumably.

We could have a debate of the benefits and drawbacks of moderation, but by the time you have quarantines in place, the ship of not considering yourself a moderator has long sailed, which is why it doesn't make sense for me as a measure.
> making the point that computations happen where the data is gathered and the output is required

This is how literally everything was done before the internet. It shouldn't be thought of as a new fancy concept.
I see people writing this for years now. I guess at some point in history it will become true but I don't see a steep decline that would justify it atm.
Except many corporations aren't particularly diverse. Discriminating against the NBA is going end up being pretty racially focused.
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And most websites implement that? I like r/factorio on reddit. Factorio official forums require me to register with a username, email and password. I simply don't want to do that, and will not do that. I'd much rather not engage with factorio content than register a forum for 100s and 100s of things I'm interested in.
> terrible people instead

Just different terrible people from the terrible people who dominate reddit is all.
This was actually earn.com
There's a lot of inconveniences with drugs that have very long half-lives and very low effective doses. Alcohol lasts for an hour or two; with LSD, you're out for 24. You can't just take less, or it won't work. So this would allow for shorter trips.
This is most definitely the case. The outrage inside Reddit is massive when there are signs of censorship, even if it’s just a very vocal minority: they set the tone.

Keeping this group of people happy, while at the same time trying to maintain a somewhat “clean” site, is a delicate balancing act. I am certain that quarantined subreddits is a result of this.
Because letting the police seize cash worked wonderfully.
You can use any app that integrates with Basecamp without paying a cent to Basecamp for the integration itself. You can even browse a list of integrations hosted by Basecamp. https://basecamp.com/extras

Basecamp isn't free, but neither is an actual IPhone. In the case of the tools that are enabled on their platform, Basecamp's library doesn't require paying basecamp, and Apple's does.
The clubs are definitely advertising and trying to find new people.

What people don't know is how good this stuff is, that they can actually get it done in parallel to the classes and how rewarding and educational it is.

This is definitely something where kids with parents who went to uni have a benefit, since they will know more about how to navigate the system and about things like this.

I didn't have this benefit, my parents never went to uni, but we had a lot of books and dad taught me to poke at everything :)
Regarding the "market rates", you're right, it does sound like unionizing. I suppose it shouldn't be as much of an issue if there was more competition so that companies would need to offer "better free services" in exchange for data. With network effects, that's hard to achieve, though.

Something where a switch is easier and doesn't cut you off from the old platform would be nice, similar to how domains or phone numbers work: you own your profile and all the data, but you can switch platforms at any time without losing contacts or abilities, keeping the competition between platform-providers alive. I have no idea how that would work out though. Does FB have actually any value besides the fact that everybody you know is there? If you were able to connect with them while they're on FB and you're not, would a lot of people decide to stay in FB because it's such a great platform?