skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As usual, context is everything in communication.

"Males are not females" may be accurate when referring to biological sex, but in the context it is most commonly used (as harassment and as a neoconservative tribal signifier) it is referring to gender, and is roughly equivalent to saying "the gender you have now should match the gender you were assigned at birth, or your gender identity is illegitimate".

It's similar to saying "all lives matter". Of course they do, but the context in which its said indicates that it's an opposition to the explicit statement about black lives mattering, a de-focusing and dismissal. "All lives matter" or "males are not females" are not incorrect statements, but in the vast majority of the times they are used on the internet, they are used to express hatred of a group and the active dismissal of that group's efforts to achieve equal human rights. The context in which they are used makes them hateful. Hiding behind the "but it's scientific fact!" is simply a deflection from the fact that it is an expression of hate in the context in which it is used.

I shouldn't have to explain this, honestly. Please stop acting like a jerk to people online.
Should the device be doing incremental backups to the cloud?

I think one of the key features would be no network connection.
That's just other people using their free speech to call you a racist. Does their speech have a cost to you? Do you want them .. censored? Or should we be allowed to put "Veen is a racist" in all our javascript headers?

As the British version of the Miranda warning says, "You do not have to say anything. But it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court".
It would be nice to be able to at least retroactively anonymize your username. When we were living in a kinder world, I didn't think twice about using my real name as my username, but I echo GP's fear: Norms change through time, and I guarantee that something I posted years ago that was benign and uncontroversial then would get me fired today.

EDIT: Reading the other responses, it looks like HN will actually do this if you ask. Nice to know! +1 to the request to automate this and provide UI for it for users to self-serve.
Only function keys I know off-hand are F2 and F12. Mostly because I prefer modal setups and only ever need those two during boot. Although without checking I have a suspicion that F5 refreshes a browser window. Am I right??
We shouldn't give up our freedoms because you think some people can't think for themselves.

They can think for themselves, you just don't understand their thoughts & perspective through your bias/bubble.

Censoring is wrong, period. Win your arguments on merit, not by silencing the other side.
Facebook has a right to free speech. They can moderate and curate content on their site.

Their commitment to your free speech is "free as in beer" -- as in, you're giving them content and they don't pay you a dime for it.
Yes, but Facebook clearly wants you to believe that it is the user's freedom of speech being restricted, not their own freedom being restricted. At the same time, they want to be a "platform" and claim they are not legally responsible for what is being said, they just promote it.
I'd say the opposite: switch is explicitly about comparing a single variable against an enumerated set of possibilities, the equivalent if/elif construct has those same semantics only implicitly. The surface area of what switch/case means is very small and compact.
People are sometimes capable of making rational decisions, but there's a whole industry (advertising, maybe you've heard of it) dedicated to working against that.

Think of really any common sense regulation:

- Can't use leaded gasoline

- Can't use asbestos

- Must wear a seat belt

- Cannot drive while intoxicated

If people always behaved well, we wouldn't need laws. They don't, so we do.
610 out of ~200 million is almost never in my book. For comparison, the average annual fatalities from lightning in the us is 43.
The point is that the family might actually want to upload their stuff to the social network, while using an OS and associated software doesn't and should never translate into surrendering all use and other personal data.

Would you find comfortable if while eating at the restaurant with your SO, a waiter sat at next table constantly staring at you two, and taking notes on what you eat, how you do it, in how much time and how much you appear to have enjoyed it, possibly also by analyzing your words?
Stupid example maybe, but that would be just one of the many exact equivalents in real life. Don't tell that to toilet manufacturers:)
Someday, Google will be a business school case study on the dangers of a) having all your money come from one cash cow and b) having too many self-directed engineers with no management vision. Google is a car with a 1,000 horsepower engine but which can't drive in a straight line.
A couple dozen billionaire immigrant founders says nothing about the overall contributions (or costs) of immigrants to the economy.
This led me to look up whether the British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Islands), and therefore the British Government, received any money as a result of the .io domain.

It appears not. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io

[1] https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld/ldtoday/writtens/11...
It's a conspiracy theory to suggest that some vaccines or their components may contribute to the onset of auto immune diseases?

No, it's a hypothesis. What makes it a 'conspiracy theory' is that the CDC and other medical bodies are failing to do any conclusive studies on the use of adjuvants (and vaccines generally) and how they relate to autoimmune disorders.

From [1]

> Further research is encouraged into the direct associations between vaccines and autoimmune conditions, and the biological mechanisms behind them.

I guess this study is saying there's a reasonable hypothesis and further research should be done.

Predictably, any scrutiny of vaccine safety is met with calls of 'conspiracy theory.'

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5607155/
It’s funny. Apple’s UI has taught me how to use emacs instead of the other way around.

I use Ctrl-A and Ctrl-E all the time.
At home currently I run my machine by default on Win7 and my wife machine by default on Ubuntu (I prefer Fedora but... it is her machine, not mine).

Often we play games with each other and whatnot.

But it is still obvious Linux is behind in some senses.

1. Some interfaces are just awful, Ubuntu default one took me ages to figure how to type addresses on the file explorer thingy it has (seemly you have to type Control+G or something).

2. If you use nVidia, you are screwed, nVidia drivers just suck.

3. Often even native linux games do weird unexpected things, like refusing to close, and the kill interface on Linux is generally awfull, it is hard to track why the hell the game just doesn't close, my wife reboots her computer much more often than me because of something going wrong with a game and make the system go into a weird state of some kind.

4. Installing wine and whatnot is a pain, for example when I tried to install Magic Arena I ended somehow, with many, many copies of wine on the system, and NONE worked. There are multiple game launchers and wine wrappers too, all of them trying to fix this issue, and none of them succeed completely.
You can embed neovim inside VSCode nowadays, you should check it out.
this study exists! it's called the resource curse, it's about (I think) weird inflation effects that happen when all your wealth comes from a natural resource like oil
I really encourage you to try and construct the strongest counter-argument to yourself so that you might at least be able to empathize with why someone might be sympathetic to Facebook's current stances without jumping to the conclusion that they are cartoonishly evil. Remember that everyone is "the good guy" in their own story.

The moral framework where Facebook "isn't a negative for society" is the one that says that a free society should be able to openly express itself, and insofar as there is a high degree of polarization/division, it's because society itself is divided, and the free expression simply exposes that. In other words, how do you know that Facebook caused the polarization? How can you definitely conclude that Facebook isn't simply a mirror on society, and that society was already divided to begin with?
Possibly, but advertising is one of the first things companies cut in a down economy. I want to believe these companies have good intent, but it could also be construed as opportunistic: "we were already cutting our advertising budget, so this just gives us a way to capitalize."

To show they believe in what they're doing, they should donate what they would have spent on Facebook ads to causes which promote voter registration and improving minority representation in tech.
It's so simple. It is by no means easy.

I am a wantrepreneur with 4+ failed side projects. These aren't only solo projects. Two founders: no customers.

What comes first: the first customer or the first iteration of "an idea"?

I yield the time.
That’s not entirely true.

“Every Man Lives By Exchanging” means that everyone is constantly giving and taking in an exchange. That exchange can be free monetarily or not, doesn’t matter.

It’s only when third parties interfere with this natural law that some people take way more than they give.
I’m confused. Admittedly, I’m not very educated on this topic. But aren’t H1B visas used for employees? Why are founders using H1B visas to found a company in the US?

Wouldn’t E-1 visas and investor visas be more relevant to the discussion of people starting companies? Is Trump banning new issuances of those?
How employers are using tech tools to keep a close watch on their remote workers
Yup.. It's how trust is built, familiarizing you with a person or a thing - like a brand - by seeing or hearing about it enough times, automatically builds trust with it - digital advertising which organizations have taken advantage of this mechanism to shallowly in a very shallow, cheap way, manipulate people - tied into network effects that the internet as a platform allows to be scaled.

The article you linked to reminds me that Mark Zuckerberg's moral compass consists of:

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don't know why.
Zuck: They "trust me"
Zuck: Dumb fucks

It's particularly odd to me that he's quoted 'trust me' as if the concept of trust is foreign, non-existent,
Hey.com Review
memory management techniques in userspace are much more diverse, you can reuse RAM efficiently.
Culturally, yes, prestige and a known company is probably more helpful in Asian countries.

Another perspective is that I take the money, help support my extended family and community and feel like a net positive contributer.

Concerns with how social media is affecting relationships and corporate bullying are less real to me personally than the people I meet day to day who I can support.

Again, not arguing about which perspective is right, but yeah there are other ways to look at one's situation.
It's not just the companies they build: H1Bs are my colleagues and mentors and have made me, an American citizen, a better software engineer. I would not be where I am today without their knowledge and guidance.
> Has the definition of "AI" changed?

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

It would seem that the AI goalposts are always being moved.
Nope, if it breaks, it's lost. However, I don't really think that's a practical issue. The workflow is going to be one where you write in chunks, and then copy over to your computer.

After all, part of the appeal is that you can't edit anything beyond what you're currently typing right now, like a typewriter. However, you still need to edit eventually, and that naturally forces you to move data occasionally to your computer.

And even if it does break, you probably remember what you wrote enough to recreate it anyway.

If you're writing hundreds of pages at a time, it's probably a mess anyway.
Just another vote that the right answer is do NOT add any code/plans/schema for “future” functionality.

It’s actually not that hard to refactor things when you do need a new feature... and who doesn’t love refactoring? It’s fun!

It’s also easier to refactor when your code is smaller and simpler because it’s only been coded to do the things you actually wanted it to do now.
The Stacks Ecosystem: Next Steps on the Path to Decentralization
> I would be okay with working for a US defense contractor, ie a company which makes machines that literally kill people

The thought of working for a company like this makes me feel physically ill. Soldiers can at least feel like they are working to defend a country they believe in. Weapons companies will sell killing machines to anyone with money. Few things in the world make me feel the visceral disgust that these companies engender.

By contrast Facebook is icky
... In the sense that there's one naive greedy idiot pulling the strings and he refuses to accept the damage he's causing. Weapons companies and the people who work for them know that their killing tools are sold indiscriminately and will end up in the hands of tyrants and terrorists across the world.
Yes, I think this is an important distinction to remind people of.

On youtube for example, what's "inside the frame" is speech of the uploader. All the stuff around it, especially recommendations, is Google's. Google have the right to not reccommend fascists if they don't want to.
The New Hashnode – Public Beta
SageMaker’s algorithms help democratize machine learning
It seems like if you transfer over your work after every writing session it shouldn't be a serious issue.
If you're referring to Elon Musk, he is not a Tesla founder. Tesla was founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, both California born. Musk was an early Tesla investor.
Some of the entries seem wrong? I looked at Razer Inc's founder and he never did set foot in the USA as H1B, at least based on his wikipedia page. Was it just incorporated in the USA but HQ was somewhere else? If so, this is misleading. Also, H1-B does not allow you to found a startup. The path is H1B->green card->startup?
Fetishization of objectivity

It's a great concept, and is often what irritates people. I work at a national lab, and senior management is absolutely obsessed with metrics, often to the detriment of the purpose of the organization itself.

There needs to be some humility too - especially in our modern data driven world. All that is important, you may not be able to measure, and all that is measurable may not be important.
None of these are easy to quit because of network effects.

Rick has to use FB because his grandkids' photos are there. Morty uses whatsapp because his soccer club posts practice times there. Network effects are essentially like infrastructure.

The problem isn't shitty FB. FB can be as shitty as it wants to be. The problem is their power, especially as a media company.
Your comments are clearly out of line. @dang @sctb

> xenophobia: dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries.

Do explain how my comment was xenophobic and how i am a xenophobic bigot?

> Whether you're American or not is irrelevant

It clearly is very relevant. I have no skin in the game when it comes to deciding whether you should be allowed live in America.

Countries have borders whereby the people inside those borders get to decide the laws of their country. The successes and failures, and targets for quality of life & culture for those people is determined, for the most part, by those people.

> once Democrats fully win, both myself along with millions of other undocumented folks will be able to reside without being hated on.

I hate to break it to you but American Democrats are just politicians just like all the other politicians. Most of their policies and views (as and from Clintons reign) would be considered conservative & regressive for the most part in most other Western countries.

> towards the right of people to live where they chose

That is not a right. It is a privilege when you're not "of the land". Borders exist for a reason.

Just because you want in doesn't mean you should get in.

I will not be engaging further with you as you are commenting hatefully and irrationally.
I would also add old.reddit.com, so long as you can forgive thumbnail images. Disabling custom css, makes the site basically hn-like.
NPR does transcribe (many, most?) its audio stories, but usually there's a delay of a day or so – the published timestamp for this story is 5:06AM (ET) today.

edit: looks like there's a text version of the article. I'm assuming this is a CMS issue: there's an audio story and a "print story", but the former hadn't been linked to the latter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23628790
love the cross-outs section

youtube remains un-crossed, but it will be replaced by better offerings in core categories: vloggers, how-to / structured / lego, and music / covers

love that this person is privacy-conscious but is making 'purchase' decisions based on the fact that the products just suck now
After reading the spec it looks like there is alot of differences... this RFC essentially gives complete control of the resource record set lifetime to the DNS server. This would require major changes on the DNS client side.

Take a look at: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8765.html#name-push-messag...

That section contains most of the RRset remove notifications.
The line is definitely on the side of something needing to be least be in the form of a communication...

But that itself isn't enough. The privilege only protects the communication related to selling or providing legal advice, it doesn't blindly apply to every communication with a lawyer (though that is the presumption the police must overcome). Documents created in the commission of a crime (from planning to execution to coverup) are evidence and therefore would not be protected and moreover your attorney would be legally obligated to turn them over to the police.

There are only 100+ years of case law on this...
American free speech is a legal concept from the late 1700s, before germ theory, trains, antibiotics, flight, or even the Civil War to end slavery. Free speech is a concept from the time where a majority of US power was in the hands of slaveholders...when "speech" meant what your mouth or printing press could produce.

Can we really expect this antiquated legal concept to neatly interact with technology from 2020? Did the founders think it a good idea to allow incendiary and dangerous communication to millions instantaneously? We can't know, they didn't have that debate.

Edit: Someone want to comment and explain why this is downvoted to -2?
A very good suggestion and something we need to look into. Thinking about it, the techniques will probably be similar.
You are typically an employee of the startup that you create.
They also lost the trust of their users. They didn't drop the "don't be evil" for nothing..
Are people doing anything complex or performant with Node? Isn't it just good for non-block ops, like a proxy or something?

Usually the more complex systems that use Java are going to hire more experienced/better devs. So higher pay.
> Too many beginners only work on neat / ready datasets. You'd be surprised how many candidates get completely blindsided when asked to do some trivial tasks on pre-processing data.

I would argue that beginners only -work- on neat/ready datasets and lack the appreciation or understanding that most of the time the data does not already exist in a usable form, and sometimes not at all.

The process for making model training possible, and the process for applying models in a useful way are not taught in curriculum, tutorials, and generally not addressed in other literature (e.g. academic/research pubs)

"Amateurs and beginners focus on trying to get things right. Professionals focus on making sure things aren't/don't go wrong."
> What makes it a 'conspiracy theory' is that the CDC and other medical bodies are failing to do any conclusive studies on the use of adjuvants (and vaccines generally) and how they relate to autoimmune disorders.

There's that conspiracy theory again. Vaccines are definitively, unequivocally safe. So are adjuvants.

Juts so we're on the same page common adjuvants include aluminum hydroxide (which numerous studies since the 1970s have shown a lack of adverse effects) and paraffin oil (in use from 400BCE).

Vaccines generally are studied unbelievably closely, in no small part because of the unwarranted attention they've been receiving, wait for it, from conspiracy theorists. It's like aspartame.
Sinofsky on WWDC2020
The point is, you don't know today what will be sensitive tomorrow. I've posted content in the past that were benign at the time, but totally unacceptable in today's environment of heightened sensitivity. The online mob doesn't care how old your quote is. Look at all the people still drudging up Zuckerberg's "dumb fucks" comment.
it's a list of former H-1Bs (presumably now green card holders or citizens) who subsequently did X.
Ha!

Google as an oil emirate is not a bad mental model. Thanx!
Why Apple's 3D touch failed miserably? (2018)
Malazan Books of the Fallen by Steven Erikson.

They've got more than a few roots in fantasy gaming, which in turn does owe something to Tolkien, but they're unquestionably high fantasy, and they certainly struck me a very diffent from Tolkien.
I wouldn't go as far, the typing feel isn't as good as old Thinkpads and the keys are definitely more fragile. Can't replace them, either. A device of the same form factor, even display, with an Arduino for tinkering and mechanical keys would be a godsend.
And Page isn’t an immigrant.
For Google Translate you should check out DeepL https://www.deepl.com/translator

It's absolutely insane, blows GT right out of the water with its accuracy.
> It’s amazing how they have four monopolies and only monetize one of them.

They appear to me to have begun monetizing google maps. And it is awful.
> Nothing that don't matter or are relevant to me since I live in northen europe.

Everybody knows there are no black people in Europe! Problem solved!
ARM technology is now powering the world’s fastest supercomputer
Hey! Never meant to state that all these founders came here on an H1B; just used that in the website name given what's been going on recently.
Won’t work because of the lossy compression in voice codecs.
Also have wanted to find/build this since forever, though I’d like something simpler and sturdy.
Yeah, came here to say the same thing. Disappointing to have to write this:

match shape:
case Square(l):
area = l * l
case Rectangle(l, w):
area = l * w
case Circle(r):
area = (PI * r) ** 2

when I want to just write this:

area = match shape:
case Square(l):
l * l
case Rectangle(l, w):
l * w
case Circle(r):
(PI * r) ** 2

I'm almost guaranteed to forget (or mistype) the `area = ` at least once in any match clause of length.
The British shouldn't get money, but the Chagosians forcibly evicted by the British probably deserve it more than most: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagossians#Eviction

Sad that they aren't seeing a penny, apparently.
I wonder if the move against H-1Bs is good for the rest of the world.

How much would Evernote be contributing to the Azerbaijan economy if Stepan hadn’t left? Would London have more larger start ups?