skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why is that interesting and at what point do you notice that every move these companies make, is anti-human?

Hyperbole if I've ever read it. "every move"? Is investing in clean energy to power all of their data centers anti-human as Apple has done? Is creating a $100,000,000 education fund for under-represented app developers anti-human? Is encrypting devices by default to protect privacy anti-human?

Now, as you can see I'm a bit of an Apple apologist and of course all of these are good PR moves. But every corporation is by definition just a "group of humans working together for profit." They will do good things for profit and they will do bad things for profit. But a group of humans working together for profit does not make every move they do "anti-human."
You think thats bad? My mom won't even clean my laundry or heat up my pizza rolls!
good question. The individual is racist, but he/she is probably just racist in the same way that almost everyone is: the society that they grew up in created associations in his nervous system that black people are more likely to be incompetent, unprofessional, untrustworthy, or whatever. Furthermore, the individual may be conditioned by society to believe that certain innocuous elements of black culture or mannerisms somehow indicate an inferiority - they may consider black speech mannerisms as a sign of lower intelligence, or they may consider black styles of hair to be unprofessional. These are all part of a cultural system that stigmatizes blackness and black people. It's not the same kind of systemic racism as racist rules/bureaucracy, but it's still part of a system of racist beliefs and customs.
I've been thinking of doing this in order to save a bit more for house deposit in London.
There certainly isn't much practical career differences between studying physics, cs, or math. The best paying and most abundant career opportunities in all of those fields is some form of software development.

It's sort of a similar situation for lots of engineering too, especially those who study fields with tighter labor markets (aero, biomed, nuclear). Lots of young people set their sights on NASA/Boing/GM and end up not making the cut. I've worked with lots of these people during my career.
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Both Reddit's and /r/The_Donald speech protected from the outcome. From the article is that that the moderators/participants already have a new place to discuss whatever they want on a reddit clone. Reddit as a platform/company doesn't have to choose to be associated with this hate speech.

Both sides have free speech rights and both have outcomes that support that speech...
dude...why am I being downvoted for asking a question? lol...
Cross-type has nothing to do with low light or low contrast. Sorry, I don't understand what point you want to make. There are dozens of things that affect focusing, or to be more specific - focusing speed, focusing accuracy, focusing repeatibility, etc. Many of these factors are tied to the lens. For e.g. Outer focusing points on a poorly made "consumer" lenses, generally, are not very accurate when you're close to MFD, and the focusing system tends to hunt a lot. STM focus motors are not designed for focusing speed, but they are designed for repeatibility. Also, most low light focusing and low-contrast focusing is hampered because of the high read-noise from the line sensors. I have the A9II and it has the best focusing system I've ever used. I thought the 1DX II was accurate, but this blows it away. Haven't tried the 1DXIII though.
It's so hard to read articles like this that are constantly quoting themselves from 5 years ago.
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Mobile only - and it reportedly didn’t support sharing, which would explain why I never saw _anyone_ talking about it. Installing an app is a barrier to adoption and they intentionally blocked the most common way to get over that by letting people on social media convince their friends there’s something worth watching.
Not to point out the obvious, but all of those cases of poor governance have been while the UK has been in the EU (and some Brexiteers would claim that's why we need to be free of it so we can govern things properly - not a claim I am making btw).

This is liable to become a shit slinging fest I imagine

Agree, so best not to make claims that have immediate counters from those on the other side of the debate.

Nobody is necessarily right or wrong here, each side has opinions and ideology.
IF Youtube-style short form content ever fully "grows up" into something like Quibi, the existing Hollywood system has a lot at risk.

So trying to do it first isn't necessarily insane - try to beat the organic disruption there, so they can capture the result.

I'm just not convinced the market for "short [currently free] shit to watch while killing time on my phone" is ever really going to grow into a TV-and-movie-killing Netflix/Hollywood replacement, as compared to a smaller more casual market with smaller returns.
Indian Government Bans 59 mobile apps claiming that these apps are prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, security of state and public order.

Link of 59 apps banned: https://pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetailm.aspx?PRID=1635206

It includes TikTok, Shareit, WeChat, Clash of Kings, Cam Scanner among others.
For me this is something that has more of an application in buisness than in life in general.

A good example is I recently started doing Affiliate Marketing. Specifically I market webhosting products. I chose to do Affiliate Marketing and write about webhosting specifically because I already had a bunch of the core competencies.

The way I think about it, to start an Affiliate Marketing site (at this point I'm using it purely as an example), I have to have several competencies including:

- Knowledge of my Niche
- Web development skills
- Writing skills
- Marketing / SEO

While I am was not the best writer and knew little about SEO. I also knew I had a significant advantage over my competition because I already had a very good understanding of how to run a website and when learning SEO things came much easier because I could connect the technical dots that much faster.

I would characterize my decision to start this business is based largely in the fact that a good chunk of the skills required were already in my circle of competence. So I would never want to base my entire life on this theory, it works well when you are trying to work on something new and maximize your chance of success.
And I find that great :)

I had the opposite experience ;) And is not the big/small town thing. I actually moved from my 'perfect' place, and it was a 4000 people village :P I actually prefer that! Just my hometown, I don't know exactly why (I have ideas) rubs me the wrong way.
I know some people who do that. They are still single years later, but they saved a lot of money.
Exactly.

I only know two persons in real life (other than me) that care about data privacy and act on that. Of course if you ask most people they will say that yeah they care about privacy, but their actions tell a different story.
I have no idea what I just read but I’m pretty sure that even if it was a cohesive thought that it is incorrect. Look, if you want to spend your time building a platform helping extremist groups communicate and coordinate, go right ahead. I think that’s a bad idea, and yes I am fairly certain I am right. Also, as someone who lived in an actual totalitarian regime, I think I know when I see a bad faith usage of totalitarianism in an argument.
I’ve got to pull the alarm on this one. This is a huge liability to objectify and promulgate prejudice. It’s literally teaching people to associate good or bad distinctions with specific faces or facial features. How is that not objectifying? I think this should be treated highly suspiciously and probably not done at all.

Edit-I see people may take this as a joke. Sorry, not funny. Especially not right now.
I agree. Honestly, I'd take the gaudy animated GIFs and marquee tags back if it meant there was less reliance on Medium / Facebook / etc.

For me the biggest change is the shift from content to consumption. 90s web was generally content first. Today's web is all about lower quality content and force-feeding consumers until they're addicted to it like crack (some massive generalisations there)
One of my first pick-ups as an adult in a bookstore was Gödel, Escher, Bach. People thought I was crazy for grabbing it. One of my friends was fascinated by it and I ended up giving it away. Hopefully he did good things with it!
I’m tired of websites asking if I want to enable push notifications from them. The answer is, and will always be, GTFO.
Never checked it out. Don't regret it
That's one way to correct the record...
Press F to Pay Respects.

BTW, the unofficial successor (as listed on the subreddit itself before the ban) is alive and well at thedonald.win
does this mean iOS is less user friendly on the web then? (obviously not their fault, just asking the logical question)
>It seems futile to resolve each individual's sense of welcome; to provide a safe-space concurrently for religious white nationalists and black trans activists, and assorted fringes.

That's easy: I don't want to participate in spaces where religious white nationalists feel safe, as don't I suspect a lot of people on HN (most?). Spaces that prioritize making religious white nationalists feel safe are not interesting spaces to participate in in general (check out the front page of Gab (edit: I think I meant Voat) if you need a sense of what I mean).

It's also not really about being nice or mean, it's about comments like these suggesting I want preferential treatment from moderators. If my original post wasn't clear: I think the moderators are basically doing the best job that they can at weeding out obviously sexist, racist, and otherwise unproductive comments.

So, I'm not really complaining about how the space is moderated, I think it's at a pretty stable equilibrium and I'm pessimistic about it getting much better than this for women, with what it prioritizes (primarily, open discussion about controversial topics, so long as it remains civil, even when one side is expressing repellent views in a civil manner). Obviously, this is not disqualifying for me, because I'm still here, and I have a lot more karma than you.

However, in my years of being here, I had never read this piece before, and I frequently feel pretty alone as a woman when there are comments that make me uncomfortable. It is just nice to know that there are other women in the space who share my experience, and I wish there was something like a women HNers social group or something, I guess.
> Both sides have free speech rights and both have outcomes that support that speech...

"Free speech rights" don't apply between two private entities, only between the government and a private entity.
Worth taking note that in today's climate, you really cannot win when you are in a position to moderate important things that a lot of people use.

There is constantly tremendous pressure on you to perform opposing actions, and even making no decision at all will cause you significant mental stress and harassment, regardles of what the issue is.

You have to pick who you want to cave to, and to what extent, and no matter how good of a job you try to do, a lot of people will really really hate you.

This is even more apparent when you see that Reddit has been taking action against a lot more subreddits recently, some of which are listed in the article, and many of which clearly have little to do with the president. The attitude of some of these communities may be abhorrent, but they are still communities, and people do not react well to their communities being deleted, whether a company had the legal authority to, or was justified in doing so, or not.

It's very tough and I wish that we didn't have to go through these things to begin with, and could have more federated and decentralized platforms, or at least more client-side filtering inside of centralization curation. I can always dream.
>trustworthiness

Maybe, but i would not trust anyone of them.

Hint? Iraq has Chemical weapons, and the UAE is our friend, oh and the best one trump says he is high IQ, bidden is low IQ ;)
Support your local store by shopping there and they will be around tomorrow. Even if you get a little less for your money you get a greater experience than buying everything online. Plus you support local jobs and communities.
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Well I'm completely fine with them offering that, there are lots of things that location tracking is useful for. I just want them to make things optionally available with the permissions granted being proportional to the task. If you want traffic warnings then that's great, but you still shouldn't need it turned on to store your home address.
Sorry, what? Are you really saying that Nazis, racists, and men who beat women have an ideology worth discussing? Seriously?
I moved with my girlfriend from our apartment in Amsterdam to her family holiday home on an island in South-Eastern Europe. We save a decent amount of cash (our rent+utilities was 2000€ alone) and live an amazing life here.

Definitely considering to find remote-only positions in the future. Currently my company allows me to wait out COVID anywhere within roughly the same timezone.
The game had to be rewritten because Microsoft is a C++ shop and game consoles SDKs don't support Java, and it was definitely easier to port the game to C++ than to create Java AOT compilers for game consoles.
I just finished reading _The Ghost Map_, the story of John Snow's study of London's cholera epidemic. There's a good section of the book about his studious study of ether and chloroform. Good book, highly recommended in our current pandemic timeline.
"it must be run" is not in the US constitution. That's the point I was disputng. The OPs comment is just as valid, and stronger, without this small hyperbolic statement.

Your comment about what oversight means, is separate and also not legal or factual. It's partisan comment that adds nothing.
Make the terminal full screen then run Goyo for a distraction free experience. It adds margins on right and left like in Word to center the text, except in vim there isn't a toolbar on top or gray space on the sides.
If black people (or perhaps more specifically, subreddits focused on issues pertinent to black communities) were banned on reddit, but they had a much smaller website where they could discuss issues, would it be an outcome that supported their free speech?
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Definitely!

- First of all, a PCB that I design and make myself would cost me way more than $50, counting my time

- $50 is nothing for a person with a fulltime job

- I have a family and busy life. Would love to make my own, but just don't have the time for all of that.
what's an SLI?
We are experiencing an issue with Cloud Networking in us-east1-c and us-east1-d, beginning on Monday, 2020-06-29 07:54 US/Pacific, affecting multiple Google Cloud Services.

Services in us-east1-d have been restored. Services in us-east1-c are still being restored. No ETA as of now.

Impact is due to power failure. A more detailed analysis will be available at a later time.

Our engineering team is working on recovery of impacted services.

We will provide an update by Monday, 2020-06-29 10:30 US/Pacific with current details.

We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption.

Diagnosis: Some services in us-east1-c and us-east1-d are failing, customers impacted by this incident would likely experience a total unavailability of zonal services hosted in us-east1-c or us-east1-d. It is possible for customers to experience service interruption in none, one, or both zones.

Workaround: Other zones in the region are not impacted. If possible, migrating workloads would mitigate impact. If workloads are unable to be migrated, there is no workaround at this time.
Yeah me too. "Judging Books by Their Covers" = story about how committees sometimes select book that haven't even been written yet (just based on the book cover images)!
I think it's about user expectations. As a user, when I'm browsing the web, I expect to be reading primarily text, with a hyperlink here and there, maybe some images. If I need to interact with the web site, I expect to see text input fields, a "submit" button of some sort, etc. When I click on a link and browse to another web page, I expect to see something similar: Hypertext, images, maybe a form field or two. I don't expect to have a peripheral attached to my computer get its firmware updated.

The APIs listed in the article are so far outside what I would expect to be a HTML browser's business. It's ridiculous. If I want to do any of these, I'll install an application to do them.

Installing an application is a nice speed bump. It's a deliberate action that the user has to take and think about. When I hand over my root password to my installer, or when my operating system asks me, "Do you really want to install this application?" it gives me the opportunity to pause and reflect on what I'm doing here. Who is the company behind this application? What access to my life am I giving it? Am I OK with running this application on my personal computer? Sometimes, after reflection, I hit cancel and get rid of the installer.

This whole contemplative speed bump goes away when rando web site written by rando developer, getting paid by collecting who-knows-what can suddenly do a Bluetooth scan or talk USB to one of my devices, merely by my issuing a GET request.
> The idea behind Chernoff faces (or using faces for data visualization) seems good: we humans are very good at distinguishing faces

Except that:

1. We humans are actually _ABYSMAL_ at distinguishing faces (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-race_effect)

2. The ability to differentiate between two things and the ability to translate attributes into metrics are fundamentally so different from each other that any possible truth to the idea instantly becomes wildly irrelevant. https://eagereyes.org/criticism/chernoff-faces
What's such a kit composed of?
Huh?

That map colored black people dark like their skin, and encoded misery as unhappy faces.

The result accurately showed happy white people and unhappy black people. How is it racist to acknowledge the racially biased distribution of suffering?
Have you compared outgoing traffic from the same apps on Android and iOS, and found a difference?
I've made several trips to visit my parents while working, even redirecting mail once. But I still have an apartment in the bay area. I'm sure my family would be happy if I moved in for awhile. But I like my apartment, and I would expect that officially moving out of the bay area would come with a salary cut, I don't think it would save me that much money.
> IKEA has a new standup desk called IDÅSEN: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/idasen-desk-sit-stand-black-dar... […] If you are on the market for a standup desk with good value, pay $100 more and buy IDÅSEN instead of the Berkant desk mentioned in the Tindie campaign.

Given the prices it gets at, why not just go for a non-ikea desk e.g. a basic Jarvis is actually cheaper than that.
Whether you agree with the move or not, it's funny how Reddit's stance has changed over time. Under the old ownership, 2012:

"At reddit we care deeply about not imposing ours or anyone elses’ opinions on how people use the reddit platform. We are adamant about not limiting the ability to use the reddit platform even when we do not ourselves agree with or condone a specific use. We have very few rules here on reddit; no spamming, no cheating, no personal info, nothing illegal, and no interfering the site's functions."
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geekbench is no where near a good measure of performance. Give the phoronix test suite a run and then let's talk.
There's no shame in moving back in with your parents, as long as they and you get along, and as long as you keep making something of yourself. I lived with my parents for seven and a half years after getting my bachelor's degree. The first two and half of those years I did music freelance, after which I landed my current full-time job in IT (but I've kept up the music too). I saved up a bunch and then a few months ago, shortly before turning 31, I bought a house.

I'd like to boast that it was very careful and farsighted financial planning on my part, but it really wasn't. I'm just good enough at appreciating the living moment that I didn't feel the same urge to move out that my peers felt.
Apple's moat is the same moat Google, Amazon and every other big company has - their lobbying efforts to keep the governments in their current state of ignorance and incompetence.

Remember that anti-competitive agreement between the the big tech companies to not compete with each other for employees aka fucking illegal? Remember how many people went to prison for that? Right, 0. These companies are all fine dining together and high fiving each other for their agreement to not compete with one another all the way to the bank.

When a small competitor arises, they just throw a few billion to squash them aka acquire and laugh all the way to the bank some more.

I wouldn't be surprised if this blog is going to get a corporate sponsor sometime soon - it's been such a good boy, making pretend these companies are actually competing.
lol, the left in a nutshell.
And to this day people keep complaining about the modding capabilities of Bedrock.
Appears to be fronted by Cloudflare (as of 1593450845). Curious to see how long that lasts in the current tumultuous environment.
I'll counter that I went to SUNY Stony Brook and have not felt that I was shut out of any interviewing at any company because of it. At this point, my degree from 14 years ago is not nearly as important as the connections I've made with co-workers since.
Hyperbole isn't exactly a new phenomenon nor is it limited to English.
Am I the only one who finds stratechery abstruse and hard to follow?
Funny, I'd come away with the opposite opinion upon seeing a library book with so much use.

Personally, I'd be happier to see a thriving library and a well-loved book still going strong than see it with perfect, uncracked book-bindings.
I did and I was left satisfied.

I wanted to see their viewpoint on at the time "the hot topic" and confirm my suspicions that I truly don't consider their viewpoint rational or valid. It's like they start from a conclusion and work backwards to excuse it.
I have no solution to that. The thing that consistently makes me sad is when people attribute the decisions of a government to all its citizens. There are 7b people on this planet, at least 2 of them cannot influence their governments in a meaningful way.
In my mind flagging is the right behavior for what amounts to ideology spamming.
Is there a "real" definition of hate speech? It seems like a hard to define rule. I also hate Trump but am allowed to say any horrible thing I want to about him, but if I were to same the same things about Hilary (I also hated her as a politician) it would be hate speech.