skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think I was thinking of a specific topic when I wrote that. The OP was about Trump and immigration, which is obviously an inflammatory and divisive topic. The arguments about racism, protests, police brutality are others. It's not hard to recognize these.
Just wanted to say thanks for bringing attention to this interview . I really enjoy Rick's thoughts on these issues
> Linux isn't vulnerable by default, because it's missing features by default. It has no equivalent of Active Directory, and doesn't use Kerberos or anything like it by default.

Could you tell more why do you think so?

For what I remember, Linux in this regard is exactly the same as Windows: you have to install and configure Samba 4 or FreeIPA in order to get a kerberized domain; you also have to join the clients into domain exactly the same way you would join windows clients.

In Windows, your servers out of the box won't run the necessary services, you have to install the AD DS server role. You have to join the clients into domain.

So there's nothing like AD or Kerberos on Windows by default either.
The further in time I am removed from my university years, the more convinced I become that the social interaction was the true root of the experience's value. To quote Stephen Leacock's 1920 take on university life:

"The real thing for the student is the life and environment that surrounds him. All that he really learns he learns, in a sense, by the active operation of his own intellect and not as the passive recipient of lectures. And for this active operation what he needs most is the continued and intimate contact with his fellows. Students must live together and eat together, talk and smoke together. Experience shows that that is how their minds really grow.

[...]

If I were founding a university -- and I say it with all the seriousness of which I am capable, I would found first a smoking room; then when I had a little more money in hand I would found a dormitory, then after that, or more properly with that, a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had money over that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some textbooks."

Source: https://news.library.mcgill.ca/stephen-leacocks-the-need-for...
It would be even nicer if MS didn’t try to force it down your throat.
Yeah, I'm aware of that, however, most Chinese still consider themselves Han Chinese. So even if it is somewhat of a fiction, most people within China consider it true, which is what is relevant for the purposes of having a national identity.
I find it really helpful having the calendar widget on my first homescreen
The overproduction on this presentation is jarring.

Given that so much of Apple's success is based on "simple" and "familiar" things, having Craig Federighi hover of an ominous greenscreen'd floating keynote outside of Steve Jobs theater just feels off.

Surely the best way to make virtual events feel familiar is to have actual humans interacting, touching, etc? Instead here you have isolated individuals floating in computer generated environments. Why aren't we just watching memoji's talk to us if that's the case?
For structural reasons this comparison makes no sense.

HN has one homepage; one sub-community. Reddit has an infinite number of subreddits. Similar for facebook.

Even with no moderation, in no case would anyone be exposed to content that wasn't posted and allowed in a community that they deliberately subscribed to.

Reddit polices what kinds of communities are allowed. HN is one kind of community.
How would that be going "spectacularly wrong" with mentions? It would have been said in a group chat John is in, so it's not like he'd be seeing a message he shouldn't have.
The only "widgets" I use are on my lock screen: time, weather, meetings. Everything else is just a distraction.
I like the ability to see the discourse from all sides of the spectrum (reddit, voat, worldstar, etc.) I'd rather not have the platform dictate what they "think" is going to offend me.
There’s various funds that do.

Eg, https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/profile/overview/...
There are some very big picture items to read up on (including redlining, you can google this) and some individual level items (head to twitter or somewhere that you can read individual accounts of black students' experiences with white educators).
Which commitment and what evidence is offered for that allegation?

The headline number from OP is off by a factor of two. Forgive me if I don't trust anything else from that source without external corroboration.

I looked at their sources. Turns out, several of the programs they want more transparency on haven't yet started:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/pmccf-smcc...

>Update. As of May 19, 2020, the PMCCF was not yet operational. Accordingly, there are no transaction data to report

>Update. As of May 19, 2020, the TALF was not yet operational. Accordingly, there are no transaction data to report.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/msnlf-msel...

>Update. As of May 28, 2020, the MSNLF was not yet operational. Accordingly, there are no transaction data to report.

>Update. As of May 28, 2020, the MSELF was not yet operational. Accordingly, there are no transaction data to report.

>Update. As of May 28, 2020, the MSPLF was not yet operational. Accordingly, there are no transaction data to report.

Looking up the Powell speech where these commitments" were made, this is the paragraph right before the quote in OP:

>To more directly support the flow of credit to households, businesses, and state and local governments, the Federal Reserve established a number of facilities. To support the small business sector, we established the Paycheck Protection Program Liquidity Facility to bolster the effectiveness of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act's (CARES Act) Paycheck Protection Program. Our Main Street Lending Program, which we are in the process of launching, supports lending to both small and midsized businesses. The Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility supports lending to both businesses and consumers. To support the employment and spending of investment-grade businesses, we established two corporate credit facilities. And to help U.S. state and local governments manage cash flow pressures and serve their communities, we set up the Municipal Liquidity Facility.

Every single facility mentioned either has not yet given out money or transaction data has already been released.

There is no broken commitment here, full stop.
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> Being in person has no inherent benefits over being remote.

Socializing. Clearer communication with better nonverbal interpretations. The ability to more easily drop by someone's desk, to whiteboard in a room, etc. For some, productivity. Separation of home and work life. Even an excuse to get out and about.

Yes, there are ways to get some remote analogs for some of these, but they don't magically work the same for everyone.

> Low-fidelity remote work is a cultural issue.

That doesn't make it any less of an issue to implement. If anything, that's harder than a technology issue. Why would you trust these bad companies to implement any sort of sane work culture in a remote setting than they do in an office? If anything, remote only offers more abuse vectors.

> Companies refuse to do remote work correctly so they can continue archaic co-located work.

I think you're far too pessimistic here. Laziness and resistance to change is far more likely than malice in regards to not going remote.
It was, for a time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_Buddhism_in_the_I...
I know one startup learning this. They're ~80 people, and I thought they had a decent chance of making it until this.

They lost their 'backbone' over the return-to-work plan. She was the one who kept everything nontechnical running. She felt the risk of bringing it home was too great, and $CEO pressured when he should have compromised. Now they're losing other key staff and it looks likely to become a stampede.

I'm sure there are many possible takeaways from this, and one would be to beware of soft-power/moral-authority rivals. I think a far smarter one might be about empathy.
No hardware unfortunately, separate budget for that
Well, if we want to get more specific I don't think the terms left and right make any sense: they're just approximations I'm using to speak to an audience which identifies as "left and not right".

In general, most attempts at censorship which I'm seeing are in the name of socially-left issues, such as gay rights, trans rights, antiracism, and women's rights. The idea being to silence homophobia, transphobia, racism, and sexism.

While I am against homophobia, transphobia, racism, and sexism, I think it's important to address the root causes of these issues rather than using totalitarian tactics to simply silence people with these bigoted beliefs.
> Do you think there was a way for you avoid this path? Like more understanding parents, other friends, another therapist? Or was it unavoidable?

>> It was a combination of things, so I can't say for sure what could have prevented this. More understanding parents definitely would have helped. Other perspectives online, as well. Detransitioners frequently get shut down on the internet, as their experiences are often labeled "transphobia." Which is utter bullshit, in my opinion. Perhaps if I had read a similar story as my own those years back, I would have had second thoughts.

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/h9ctho/serious_a...

Ironically, the AskReddit mods contributed to this problem by removing the post.
I agree with you, 100%. But we're a commuter campus that doesn't rely on room/board to cover our bills. I assumed we would see more flexibility.

I guess that's what I get for assuming.
> The Three Body Problem is great, but it assumes the existence of weapons of ludicrous destructive power.. The only other time I've ever seen a piece of fiction where someone had that amount of destructive power was in a cartoon. (And even then I only saw it once)

That part doesn't seem to hard to me. A robotic spacecraft could install solar sales on a comet in such a way as to crash it into the target planet a few hundred years later. This could go unnoticed until it was too late by the target planet. Alternatively, a beam-powered probe (e.g. 'starwisp' or similar) moving at relativistic speeds could be crashed into the target planet.

Neither of these require cartoon physics.
> This is only a problem for take off from large bodies.

Yes, that's what we're talking about here.

> Mass per mass, you'll get a lot more delta-v from a Hall engine than from a Merlin.

Yes, that's what specific impulse measures (which is what most of the larger conversation has been about).

As for bimodal propulsion, it makes you wonder if that would be worth doing at all, or if it wouldn't be better to just have separate engines and fuel tanks so each can do what it's best at. I suspect it might end up being less weight and complexity just to use an ion thruster as designed using xenon propellant. Xenon fuel tanks aren't typically all that big anyway.
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At the last open office I worked at, you could hear people have conversations 8 desks down. I would have quite liked 7 barriers between me and them.
What I'd like to see come out of this is some way to evaluate the value of data collected so that it can be compared year-to-year. One reason the antitrust argument is hard to make is that the average Facebook user pays nothing and it's hard to argue that, for example, Facebook's monopolistic behaviour is harming the consumer. If we could track the "cost" to the consumer in terms of the value of data collected and observe an increase over time it would lend credence to a case for antitrust action.
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I would not, I'd rather they target me with personalized ads like they are doing now. I hate paying for things, and I imagine neither would 99% of users.

Since me and the other 99% of people contribute most of the value to Facebook for you, would you be willing to subsidize the other 99% of people and pay $1700/year?
Totally dry and corporate. Long gone are the Steve Jobs presentation days unfortunately.
> The entire US education system needs an overhaul. You can't really fix our university system without making corresponding reforms in K-12.

Sure you can, have an opt-out model for students like they have in Germanic countries by the time you're in your mid-teens and apprenticeships in a various crafts and professions to help them into working Life. It works really well, and prepares them for a life in a ROBUST manufacturing Industry, especially now as the West is finally trying to decouple form the CCP's horrible Human Right's violating dependence and corruption.

I'd say outside of STEM there really isn't a need for most to go to a University campus, there really isn't. I often philosphized with grad students despite declining my honorary position in the department as I couldn't afford to deviate from my studies and debate moral ethics for fun, despite being promised a 'fast track' career in Law.

I could enjoy music, without the theory or the knowledge behind it, and began to bedroom DJ, eventually I even got to meet and know what would later become really famous EDM composers from the UK by going to clubs and just talking to them on the forums and eventually going on the decks myself in a club. Many of them super eager to share their knowledge, some were classically trained, and did Master Class series for free on Youtube!

I could go on, but I think most non-STEM degrees, and even the ones that don't require physical labs like Math or CS, can be moved to an Online model saving the resources for those that do require Laboratories and guided lectures and office hours for experimental designs and Scientific Journal publications.

I'm sorry to say but if you go to University to study Classics, Theology or Music Theory (or any of the Arts really) you really are doing yourself a great disservice if Knowledge is your real aim as so many more opportunities exists outside of academia. And you aren't stifled by a curriculum that forces you to limit your breadth or understanding of a subject in order to fit a paradigm of what pretty amounts to a churn system trying to maximize its profit model to the detriment of what an Education should be.
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If you want to get experience of working with higher node counts without breaking the bank, people do case kits for raspberri pies so you can build your own cluster.

For actual computing a modern higher end processor/server will murder it but its' closer to the real world of clusters than anything (so much so that there is a company that does 100+ pi node clusters for super computing labs to test on, you can't obviously run scientific workloads but it's cheaper than using the real machine as well).

https://www.zdnet.com/article/raspberry-pi-supercomputer-los...
For a contrary opinion, see this famous Hacker News post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18451311

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941 (parent)

(or at least it's famous to me)
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Right, that's why I use heroin.
That page correctly notes that 'transsexual' "originates in the medical and psychological communities", much like Wiki itself does. While 'transgender' may be naturally broader, there's nothing hateful whatsoever about using that term; it's quite well-established.
The article mentions a compromised user account so the attackers were probably able to just upload files directly through the compromised hosting account. Plus what's interesting is they don't mention the server itself being compromised. I'm wondering if this was a permissions issue that allowed the attackers to traverse directories on the server to the other hosted sites.
Yes I'm in the middle of many Microsoft papers[1] to add model checking to Nim, in particular CHESS.[2]

[1]: https://github.com/mratsim/weave/issues/18

[2]: Finding and Reproducing Heisenbugs in Concurrent Programs, http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~neamtiu/pubs/osdi08musuvathi.pdf
Same with my company. People who must be on campus can go back to the offices by the Fall, but everyone else - probably not until next year.
Where's that picture of obama giving himself a medal when you need it?
I tried it on my company's website, surroundtech.com. It just produced a parent node and a very wide tree of child pages. Not useful in any way.

The website is built using a CMS that's part of our product line, which auto-generates a sitemap.xml file. It also automatically produces a Sitemap page: https://surroundtech.com/sitemap. The two tabs of interest are "Cards", which shows how each page would look when shared via social media links, and "Sitemap Tree" which shows the (non-graphical) page tree.

To be fair to the visual tool, our auto-generated xml is just a flat list of urls, and our auto-generated url routing is a flat list of uniquely named pages rather than a /-separated hierarchy. To create our own sitemap page we use the hierarchy that's built into our CMS, which also creates the top-level menu on the site.
An incentive for people to post a greater volume of shit to the web than they do already? I approve this acceleration toward total data anarchy.
The difference is that a store doesn't spend significant amount of their resource on you when you just look around, but most of websites do.

Suggesting that sites do not have right to retain information about what you asked them to do after you've read an article or created an account, would be similar to saying that bookstore should allow you to read entire books standing in the store, or that they can't use their security cameras because you may be visible on them.
Ah, got it! I admit that I didn't want to come across as disputing the claim by addressing the elephant, since I'm not really qualified to dispute the claim. I wanted to plant the seed of skepticism in my links, which make your present point better than I could in an hn comment. I actually agree with your analysis.

To try and rescue the discussion, it's interesting to observe that many "healthy" things are "also" revenue-generating narratives. For example, "exercise is healthy" is great for the sportswear cartel, which has a similarly poor track record on human rights.

It doesn't mean that the thing itself can't be objectively healthy, but I totally agree with you that we should take these projections for what they are, especially when they're sponsored by the business that profits from them.

If you're curious in reading something that builds on the "revenue-generating narrative" idea more, I recommend the new yorker link, it's quite good. :)
I don't know about LSD, but definitely milk for muting a shroom trip...
> Mostly it's because I'm facing a problem I don't know how to solve. And I'm expected to somehow predict when it'll be done.

Does your team allow for knowledge buying tasks? For example, if our team needs to implement a continuous integration solution I might suggest to first create a research task to evaluate the tools available. Once we have that knowledge we can choose the best option for us and create the task to implement it. The way you can sell this is by saying, "I can give you an estimate now but I'll know a lot more after a few hours researching the problem. If you give me that time then I can give you an estimate with a higher level of confidence."

> Another scenario is when I'm asked for updates but in reality the status hasn't changed

I've struggled with this as well. Especially when the person asking for the update is not technical and therefore has a hard time relating to the complexity of the problem. In this situation your instinct may be to tell the person what you think they want to hear. Something like, "I'm figuring out the solution and should be done soon." I know it's uncomfortable but you are better off being honest about your progress. Tell them that the problem is more complex than you initially thought and you are having to do more research to find the right solution. Don't forget that research is part of the job so looking for solutions is doing work. Don't feel bad about that.

With that being said, there is nothing wrong with asking for help from other developers when you are stuck. Asking for help is a sign of strength. It is good to try solve problems on your own before asking for help but do not drive yourself crazy. I have spent far too long banging my head against the wall looking for solutions. These days I am much more comfortable asking for help.
Well there obviously is interest in running simulations and other HPC applications on systems of public commercial cloud providers and there are specialized offerings including high performance interconnects, GPGPUs, large memory VMs and schedulers. Don't expect the largest of the top500 clusters to be replaced anytime soon by such, but for lesser demands people will be maintaining spread sheets and calculating the break-even point of renting vs. owning so to speak.

I'd expect in the long run, there will be only few data center operators.
> Heritability does not imply the existence of a genetic mechanism. Twin studies have a number of flaws that further demonstrate my points about standards of methodology that geneticists wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole. Even not taking into account stuff like equal environment assumption, identical twins simply do not have the same DNA. Yes, even identical twins, look it up. There are also a number of things that are heritable without involving a genetic mechanism at all, such as the various microbiomes or epigenetics. And of course there are things like transmission of de novo mutations over up to two generations (e.g. affecting germinal cells of one's fetus).

...I think you're missing how twin studies work, here. Yes, they can't distinguish between epigenetic and genetic traits, but they DON'T require twins to have identical genetics, and DON'T require equal environments. Specifically, they work by

1. Measuring the correlation in identical twin IQs (or other traits)

2. Measuring the correlation in fraternal twin IQs (or other traits)

3. Comparing the correlations. If identical twins have a 50% correlation and fraternal twins 25%, well...

Identical twins not having identical genetics makes it harder to find genetic influence, but doesn't make it impossible. (it just means that the twins share 99.9...% of varying DNA instead of 100%, which is still far above fraternal twins and enough to establish a difference) And the reason you use twins is to control for varying environments. (And for that matter both identical and fraternal twins will share germinal cells/microbiomes/etc, too)

Yes, it's fuzzier than a physics experiment. But it's certainly not worse than "this gene causes a 0.1% increase in the chance of breast cancer".
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It's not "should" in the sense of some moral obligation, but rather your main aim in life: once it's realized, you can move on to realizing other aims.

Of sourse many people really can't do it. But there are many who can but choose short-term gratification instead. I'm telling them: you're making a big mistake.
I abhor right wing politics but I agree with this. Reddit needs to extend this attitude to moderators. Moderators should not be able to delete content or ban people that post legal content.
India is striding away from these practices. The ground reality is quite different today, unfortunately, the outside world has this impression from historic books or articles about India which are largely outdated now. There is very little information on the internet regarding the improvements and the shift of the young generation here in India away from such practices.
Indonesia, Brazil, Guatemala, Argentina, Chile, Iran, KSA, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Panama, El Salvador ...

https://www.amazon.com/Jakarta-Method-Washingtons-Anticommun...
How long until this is built into a decentralized PopcornTime-like service?