skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Confirmation bias can be nice!

I'm glad not to be alone in using decaf! I too will mix caf and decaf according to how much I feel I need the caf, but the coffee I definitely want because I just love good coffee. A bit of coconut oil in my morning coffee will power me through to lunch. I do also add about ~20g of high-quality 100% cocoa powder to my morning coffee, making it something of a hot chocolate, and the only deeply satisfying coffee/chocolate mix I've found yet.

That said, I've learned to avoid caffeine after noon. So if I have any more coffee after that, it's always decaf. Yes, decaf is never fully decaf, but it's decaf enough to not mess with my sleep.
I really like pyomo, as it has a very pythonic interface that makes it effortless to translate mathematical notation into code. Check some examples in their wiki: https://github.com/Pyomo/PyomoGallery/wiki
Yes, the Port Authority: aka the world's worst bus station. But you go a few blocks and you're in Hell's Kitchen which I find a pretty interesting neighborhood with nice ethnic restaurants. Or walk south 10 blocks or so into Chelsea.

When I'm in NYC I often stay at about 42nd and 10th out of choice even if I'm not at a Javits event. It's near things but is out of the craziness of Times Square itself.
> would making it a bit more expensive lead to nobody bothering to collect all my information?

No

In all respect, this is a really naive view of the ad tech marketplace.

The only thing that would do what you're saying is legislation. Making it more expensive just pushes out smaller players in the marketplace, leading to consolidation towards the Google's / Facebooks of the world.
I read digg multiple times a day.

It is far better than it was over a decade ago.

As an aggregator, it is nearly perfectly aligned with my interests (except for the year they spent heavily promoting Jimmy Fallon).
The missing component of your thought process is who, exactly, deems subreddits not worthy of existence. Many people view pornography as an extremely damaging problem and addiction, would you want all 18+ subreddits removes because somebody “can’t think of a single honest reason for them existing”?
Correct. This was a pointless move. Even if Facebook felt a fraction of pressure from Patagonia, they won't budge because the company will just return in August with ad-buys.

The better move was to stop ad purchases _permanently_.
I cannot think of any plausible way in which Apple could have influenced the date of this announcement, but the timing, given what is expected to be announced later today, is uncanny.
There's nothing wrong with Reddit not wanting to facilitate and provide a platform for that sort of content, though.

It's a massively popular site with mainstream appeal. They don't want to let that popularity and audience be taken advantage of to spread ideas that are hateful and likely to incite violence.

Quarantined subreddits are dumb, but it's a sign that their afraid of the backlash of outright banning them - they are already getting accused of heavy handed censorship.

If people want to talk about that stuff, then yeah, go to gab and voat and ruqqus or 8chan or other sites that allow for it. There's no shortage of places on the internet to talk about anything you want. Reddit doesn't have to be one of them.
> And then there's the ARM in Mac.

Are you posting from the future or referring to the T2 chips?
I've worked remotely most my life but as a new parent...I really want an office.
But it is running HTTPS!

I once had a sysadmin (!) that said to me, "We're running SSL so aren't we secure?" I went on to explain things like SQL injection and XSS. I mentioned how simple authorization bugs can ruin your security. I think he got the picture... I hope.
See also this article from June 18, 2020:

https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2020/06/administration-continu...

> It’s been almost three months since President Donald Trump signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act into law. While the executive branch has already spent much of the emergency aid appropriated by the bill, it has not approached the bill’s oversight and transparency provisions with the same fervor. Without transparency and oversight of the spending, American taxpayers cannot have full confidence that the government is acting in their best interests, or that those who most need the economic assistance are the ones who got it.
Try a teaspoon of coconut oil in your coffee.
I think most people recognize that this is the "new definition" of racism, or sometimes people refer to it as structural racism. But when people use the term racism, they usually mean the standard dictionary definition, which is about being prejudice against someone because of their race.

It's probably better if people used "structural racism" to define what you mean here. Similar to how "sex" retained the original definition of sex, and "gender" was used for the social construct. If people tried to say "There is no such thing as being born with a binary sex, because sex is a social construct" then it would be equally confusing.
Will they still let Facebook buy co-branded clothing?
One only needs to look at Italy, Spain, NYC to spot the main problem(s) with the statement. I'm being generous in attributing them to ignorance - there is a very strong likelihood in today's environment that it's willful mis-statement.

Not the least problem is that it implicitly assumes that others will take steps to reduce the worst effects, so that you don't need to bother. The basic anti-social anti-vax position.

In any case it's so easily dissected that I'm going to invoke Brandolini's Law [1] and decline to waste the time to refute BS.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law
Our University has a Makerspace that is frequent by a lot of people outside of University. The trainers for the machines and such are also not from University, but have gone through vocational training are experienced metal workers, wood workers, textile workers and so on. These interactions are definitely awesome for the students, to learn about their perspective, and the other people also gain insights in uni work, i.e. supporting students with prototypes for their thesis projects and so on.

I definitely think University should be open for all people and there is a lot of cool things you could do if you attracted morn people from different backgrounds.

When I ever move back to the countryside where I grew up, I definitely plan to start a Makerspace that combines an open workshop, a youth center (with tutoring), some low level research work.

Actually, this conversation has me excited to go do that :)
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https://www.redditinc.com/policies/content-policy

Calling for murder and doxxing isn't the only thing against the content policy. Lots of those policies will have a very subjective line in the sand.
Not a chance. To Wall Street, social justice, "good morals" and ethics are not profitable.
If Facebook's abuse of everyone's personal data was as strikingly abhorrent as say, organ theft, Andrew Yang would write the policy to give me a $4.56 USD check while I lay bleeding in a tub of ice.
I think the issue people have with the BBC are that it is very much controlled by the government/elite. This is the case for most British media though - compared to the US there isn't anywhere near the level of independence.

(Also the BBC isn't currently funded by tax payers, but most likely would be if the license fee were abolished https://www.bbc.com/aboutthebbc/governance/licencefee)
As one current example, if you start looking at who is bankrolling and moving money for a lot of the current Amazon Forest destruction you will find the likes of Chase JPM, et. al. To save from picking a source, I'll just say it's a pretty easily duckable.
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Classic whataboutism.

EDIT: The commented post was edited after I wrote my original above comment. Now it’s more like victim-blaming.
I think it was set up (or at least supported for this long) mainly due to thedonald subreddit. The admins were too weak-willed to outright ban that subreddit and deal with the PR and political fallout, but they wanted to prevent those posts from filtering up to the main site. Now that all the Trump people have left reddit I would guess that the concept of “quarantine” is no longer needed and goes away soon, in favor of simply banning subreddits. But we can all rest easy knowing that we can still watch people die or all sorts of weird porn - reddit has really cleaned up their act.
You're right in that they are trying and have a good track record in terms of environmentalism. However, when producing something for comsumption, there is always impact.

As someone from the Coca Cola company said once:

"“When we look at a different material, you look at all of the levers: the carbon footprint, consumer preference, energy, water...There’s a mix, there are some things that are not that desirable, but if you have five good things and one that isn’t, we’ll all have to make decisions.”

“It’ll never be that clean.”
$50 a month for a family plan would be acceptable to me.

Side topic: do parents who hand kids iPads to watch YouTube worry about the advertisements? That used to be a concern on regular cable television.
I know this is well–meaning but I think it's ultimately misguided. The root issue isn't that people aren't getting paid for their data — it's that their data is commodified in the first place.
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A couple observations:

1. The design looks similar to Hey.com

2. The domain name/name is like Octopus Deploy.
A simple solution would be `dnsmasq` which provides DNS and DHCP, but it cannot be used on a public network. More complex setup would be ISC DHCP server that maintains a dynamic subdomain in BIND.
> Very few conflicts and problems require a gun.

The people reading your post here are not the ones you need to tell this to. You need to tell it to the criminals in many areas of the US who do indeed think that all their conflicts and problems can be resolved with violence. And then get them to believe it. Good luck.
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> Face to face interaction is much more high bandwidth

I'll take quality over bandwidth any day.
If you cut out the Kubernetes hype, you could simple use AWS' own container orchestration solution (ECS) whose control plane is free of charge to use.
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You're making their main revenue stream more costly - why wouldn't they instead double down more investment to make it _more_ efficient to get your data so that they recoup those margins?

They might diversify a bit (which they already have, with their hardware plays and all that jazz,) but let's not pretend this is going to be the game changing investment mover we hope it would be.
Scaling Kubernetes Jobs for Unity Simulations
Interesting, but in that case you changed OS rather than changing CPU ISA, so not quite the same thing.
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> Once you've deemed a community so harmful that you don't want people accidentally stumbling into it, why go out of your way to allow it to exist behind a curtain, instead of just outright banning it (unless you want to support it discreetly).

Perhaps this is a way to sidestep claims of censorship. Deleting subs can embolden some community themes and messages by allowing them to play victim of censorship and bolster claims of conspiracy via attacks from left/right/government/lizard people. So let them carry on while alerting people of what lies ahead.
Thinking "aloud" here, but you might be able to get something like this with the macvlan network driver with docker. On FreeBSD I'm able to use a bridge interface that has a VLAN interface as a member (e.g. bridge10 with vlan10), and then have my jails create a vnet interface within that bridge. To the rest of the network it looks like yet another host (including showing up in Unifi).
Some folk make more money renting office space to their own companies than they do from the companies.
Theres no upvoting on 4chan and bumping a thread (or on reddit upvoting) does not kill and cannot kill anyone. The people making the threads end up killing people (very rarely) not the randoms that reply (or upvote).

You don't even know what the account upvoted, and upvoting isn't hate speech (or calling for someone to be murdered). Do you have a bunch of unknown information on this or are you just defending reddit's continued slide to dystopian horror for no reason?
You did use University correctly. But your example could just as easily been prison. Some people use prison to get off drugs, get an education, learn a job skill, develop a moral code and purpose.

Something that can cost so much, and require such a huge time commitment shouldn't have such a high failure rate of people who fail to "figure out how to use it".
Yes. It's all about PR, and if a company looks bad because it's forcing its employees to return to the office, amid a global pandemic and health concerns, that won't bode well, and they are likely to buckle under the pressure.
Problem is, while Netsential and the cops who use their services may feel embarrassed, the ones really hurt by the leak are going to be the victims and suspects whose personal information (addresses, ssns, employers, banking info) are now exposed. Now they get to suffer even more because of their interaction with the police.
I don't know if you saw it here, but a similar point is made in the readme section "Why should I care about this implementation".[1]

https://github.com/jonathan-laurent/AlphaZero.jl#why-should-...
I went to a state school that still had one of the best CS programs around. Some decent teachers, a few great ones (and some noteworthy awful ones), and tons of under-subscribed hardware, and self-starters bouncing ideas off of each other.

Most of the time you could find an unused computer to work on your own thing. Frequently you could find several contiguous ones for you and some friends. Some of the most capable people in my class were pulling B-C grades because they spent so much time working on their own projects instead of cramming for tests.

I had hardware problems for four classes, but only one of those was a CS class, and by then I'd written enough code that I'd just shell into a machine to get a rough draft to compile, then spend a couple hours in front of the box debugging. Get an internship or programming job on campus, kids. Programming assignments are a lot easier once you've written real code.
It is mindboggling how shitty everything around these companies are. Anybody with 10 minutes of time can clearly see how fake they are. And they didn't even try to keep low profile; they got into the top 10 of producers of those experience letters. What did they expect would happen?
> "I think vocational education could have been better conveyed online, but with perfect pre-recording and editing. Coursera and Edx are a good example for a forerunner though."

Completion rates for Coursera and similar online courses are notoriously poor. See, for example, https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2019...
As a (not quite so new) parent I really want a coworking space that's a five minute walk from my apartment. That way I can do school dropoffs and pickups so much more easily. In my dreams expanded remote work means lots more coworking spaces popping up. I know, I'm a dreamer...
PR is the whole point, but it's also PR against Facebook. For sure this won't make Facebook cry for the lost of ads dollar, but it's another day in the press where Facebook is being looked as the bad guy, and ultimately that might influence Facebook.
Disagree, these companies try to buy credibility by association and not being party to that trade is a very correct and conscientious approach to take. They can just as easily buy North Face or some other tat.
But what is the difference once you disable JS and CSS? And reader mode? I find it great that I can progressively enable features.
> The issue is, I know I would be fired, and cannot afford to lose this job. There is no one hiring in the area, and we're geographically locked due to factors around my child that I don't care to get into here.

Unionize.
You just have to be in the proper small subreddits. Reddit is where I get the highest quality of discussion (especially since Covid-19 as small subreddits stayed small but HN went downwards)
An obvious concern of this would be just silencing content which isn't violent or morally wrong but just not wanted in a large commercially viable website. This is obviously polarizing but something I'll be watching is what happens to /r/chapotraphouse.

CTH has some posts that violated a rule but most don't, the admins claim their quarantining was never well communicated and intentionally vague, posting screenshots of lack of communication from mods.

If people get suspended for just participating there without any clear violations of calling for violence/brigading/etc then that's not really a great sign for transparency.
People are on the phone much of the day in lots of jobs. And the newsroom in that picture isn't some modern open office fad. Go look at any film that's concerned with the newspaper business. It's more or less how newsrooms have looked for many decades.
How did you arrive at your 80% number?
This is what happens. Banned content by reddit policies is hate speech, far-right politics, and targeted hate. People who leave reddit for somewhere else do so because... they want to do those things, and can't. It's no wonder that any forum they then choose would become dominated by those ideas, that's the entire point.
Enslaved people are property which is the whole point. You can't sell worker to get money for project nor use him/her for collateral for mortgages. You can do both with slaves.

It is not proper to classify slaves as labor.
Reddit is an anonymous website, in a unique way that Facebook, Twitter, and even Hacker News (simply because of the small community) are not.

A lot of its success is built on content which is not as acceptable as one might desire. See what happened to Tumblr when they cracked down.
I just ripped a new CD yesterday. I get a holistic album experience with all pregaps preserved. Something streaming and digital downloads won't provide.
When two things are directly interrelated (attitudes among police and attitudes among criminals), are we not allowed to discuss them both? Why not? Seems like you're trying to purposefully shun context, which isn't a practical way of understanding reality.
I'm inclined to agree, but I do wonder how we avoid people just adjusting their risk threshold to account for the welfare state. I know it seems to work in other places, but I'm not convinced that what works in Scandinavia (or wherever) will work in the US. It seems like the US has a lot of other problems that it needs to sort out in order to be in the same ballpark as these model countries with respect to successful government programs. Notably, our bureaucracy seems distinctly ineffective and incompetent, our body politic is highly divided, and our media apparatus optimizes for divisiveness and misinformation (maybe some or all of these are common problems among countries that have strong safety nets, I really don't know). This isn't to say we must sort out our government competence, etc before implementing a stronger social safety net, but I do wish we at least tried to solve for these problems in tandem with other policy issues.
It happens for far left content as well. I don’t think it’s limited to hateful content. At least, that’s what I’ve read from the chapotraphouse subreddit. Example being upvoting some far left stuff in r/politics.
Perhaps a new user sandbox would make sense. A place where new users can work together to triage each-others questions into something good enough.

If SO was a video game, it'd make sense to have newbies team up.
Why would you pay for something people are giving you for free? If people are volunteering that information, I think it’s fine to use it to finance the free product they’re getting. I’m totally free to not use Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc.
I don't want to register zillions of forums and manage my passwords. I contribute to hundreds of subreddits. If reddit dies I'll find a replacement like reddit and move on.
Not really. And forcing all of your unwanted/toxic subreddits to Reddit clones only damns them from ever gaining traction.

Take a look: https://voat.co/
agree on the bigger desks bit, but what difference does a 12" tall barrier make?
One of the easiest reasons is the order of these things: post being made, post being upvoted, post being recognized as tos violation
Maybe they should have, instead of holding a vigil and a march. If they had yelled at cops and the DA they might have seen faster progress, rather than it taking 9 months to charge him.
...during July.

Goes to show which of the two companies is actually more powerful.
This is one of those scenarios where the Huel/Soylent style mixtures come in handy. It can be difficult to "eat" but sometimes you just need Calories™
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It continuously baffles me that some people don't learn from unmoderated online communities. They become dens of bigotry, doxing, attack mobs, racism, misogyny. Saying your site is driven only by "free speech" is the cowardly reply that refuses to stand up to these things.
There seems to be a divide between people who think discourse is a progressive art of the exchange of ideas, and those who use language as a pretext for political struggle where the role of ideas is to act as provocations that yield a persons "true," alignment and identity. The latter view means engaging ideas compromises your ethical purity, where the former one means people can express abhorrent ideas without physical consequences.

There isn't a short answer to what's probably an eternal conflict, but I do know a lot of people in tech who might benefit from reflecting on the question of, "are we the baddies?"
AT&T Has Now Eliminated 41,000 Jobs Since Its $42B Trump Tax Cut
I'm not a lawyer - I took something from https://www.docracy.com and made a couple small mods. FWIW, I'd put this up as an MVP at https://mutualndas.com but... didn't want to shill here in the main post. I may update/revisit this in the future, but it was sort of a 'scratch my own itch' issue, and I've used it a few times in the last year.
This sounds plausible and if I had to hazard a guess as to why efforts at reform have failed, I'd say it's because people who haven't thought very much about the goals of education have an idea in their heads of what education should look like and it is our current system. I think parents and politicians have a lot of control over the system and just like the "butts-in-seats" theory of business management, a lot of people think if kids aren't doing copious amounts of homework, they're not learning anything.

We're homeschooling our kids and we track their progress compared to the public school curriculum closely, and we do remarkably little that looks like formal education. The kids are easily on schedule with everything, a year or more ahead of the curriculum benchmarks, but people see what we do, and then ask when we're going to start teaching them stuff.
Is that really true? There are "customer research" apps that will offer you small, but non-trivial amounts of money for basically selling your personal information.
They certainly do not.
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