skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Marilyn Manson famously told Michael Moore in 2002’s Bowling for Columbine that, rather than saying anything to Harris and Klebold, if given the chance, he would instead opt to listen to them, because “that’s what no one did.”

Wrong. The quote wasn't about talking to the perpetrators. Moore was asking Manson what he would tell the victim's parents, the community, the other kids at the school, and he said he would listen instead.

It then cuts to Moore interviewing two surviving kids from the school.
Here is the link to the full technical paper: https://research.checkpoint.com/2020/apache-guacamole-rce/
> in response to a copyright claim from one of the children’s parents

So they didn't remove it because of their own demands for censorship, they removed it because the DMCA required them to.
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Pay based on location & candidate, I have been doing it this way for years, it works and is the most fair and proper method. That doesn't mean you lowball people or that you don't pay fair wages or that you overpay, it simply means that you are taking into consideration the local economy and cost of living differences in areas. It is an unrealistic notion to say everyone gets the same pay regardless of location. Basic economics tells you this is not a sustainable model.

Buffer and Gitlab are pretty open about their methodologies, where they use pay bands for a position and then the do a location & experience adjustment. Essentially this is how I have done it in the past (typically as the team gets larger), you set pay bands per country per position, then do location & experience based adjustments. You can see how gitlab does it if you check out one of their open positions there is a salary calculator and it shows you the basics (they even show how options work). That said, you shouldn't rule someone out just because their pay request exceeds your defined band/location/experience calculation if their experience/expertise justifies their ask. To me the banding is there to set a starting point and make things open and transparent to the best of your abilities without publishing peoples individual pay rates.
You are forgetting about Paw Patrol, there is no excuse to try to cancel an innocent (and very popular) show for preschool kids just because one of the characters is a puppy dressed as a cop.

That was the kind of article you would've expected from The Onion, not the New York Times.

I get it, people are desperate to do something for the cause or to prove they belong to the "good side", but this is insane.
Cyc got hyped for while in the early 90s. It became apparent, however, that rule-based wasn't going to play as big a role as ML in the future of AI research. It still exists, but the company is really secretive, and hasn't released anything viable in years.

[edit: I wasn't alive back then, so most of what I know comes from the Wikipedia article and a recent HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21781597 . My view of Cyc probably comes across as slightly negative. Their (Cycorp) view seems to have evolved since then, and they seem to be creating some really interesting stuff.]
'We chose two different remote access solutions, so in the event of one failing, we would have redundancy and an alternative to enable work to continue,” says Fischbein, “One of the solutions was based on open-source Apache Guacamole'

I suspect you are right that it's just a story telling prop, but they did address why it might be practical for them to have such a solution in place.
> "That's an argument for banning swastikas, not banning anyone who displays a swastika."

If you don't ban the person displaying the swastika, how can you possibly enforce banning swastikas? There must be a consequence for displaying the offending symbol, otherwise the rule is toothless.

You remove the swastika, and the person just replaces it. What then? Just keep removing it and hoping the Nazi/edgelord/'troll' will get tired of replacing the swastika? Trying to win a battle of attrition with a bad-faith actor is not an effective way to enforce rules.

> "remember the moral panic we just went through when 4chan trolls convinced people that the OK hand sign was a "one-sided version ofna White Power" sign and got people fired from their jobs for making the sign."

"Remember when 4chan 'trolls' said the OK hand sign was a white power sign and then white supremacists started using the OK hand sign as a white power sign?" --- There, I fixed it for you.
From this article I got the impression from Europe not America.
The confederate flag maybe?

We get to pick each time. "Well, we banned the confederate flag, better prevent white people from listening to rap" isn't the sort of thing that happens. Each adjustment to social norms is an independent choice that our society gets to make.
>Tech companies have a defined purpose, and they’re a vehicle for achieving that purpose. Google wants to organize the world’s information, and turning a gigantic profit while doing so is one of their operating constraints...

>But the U.S. government doesn’t have a defined purpose, just a long list of functions, and those functions aren’t regularly interrogated. It’s uncomfortable for modern Americans to ask what the ultimate goal of the government is.

Aside from the fact that this an "apples to oranges" comparison, I dont think the author is aware of the Preamble to the Constitution.

>"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
You'd have to describe where in Texas you're referring to and what you mean by infrastructure, because Austin is embarrassingly bad when it comes to public transit and general walkability and Houston faces similar growing pains due to being incredibly underfunded and our state government being a shitshow.
> However, things do change, and it's not always for the better. There are worrying trends of growing authoritarianism worldwide, and I think now is a good time to consider how censorship could be used against us.

Very true. For example, there are definitely places where antisemitism is becoming more and more socially acceptable.
Presumably the advice is to limit refined carbohydrates rather than the natural ones in fruit and vegetables.
https://www.stophateforprofit.org/participating-businesses
Another reason that Internet ads don't completely supplant traditional mass marketing, is because a lot advertising is about creating a cultural consensus around a product. Beer is the classic example.

Corona wants to create the image that it's the beer for cool, relaxed dudes. We all know that there's nothing inherent to Corona that makes it the beer for cool, relaxed dudes. But through mass advertising they've created a widely shared cultural connotation for that brand. If I show up to a party with a six-pack of Corona, I'm projecting a clear message to everyone there that I'm a cool, relaxed dude. (Or at least style myself that way.) If I was going for sophisticated, adventure-lover I might show up with Dos Equis instead. And most everyone in America would understand.

For this type of marketing, hyper-targeted advertising defeats the purpose. You don't just want to reach the target customers. You want everyone in the broader culture to understand what your brand stands for. It's why mass reach advertising, like Super Bowl commercials or Times Square billboards command such hefty premiums. I watch a beer commercial at Super Bowl half time, and not only do I know that I've seen that commercial. but I know everybody else will too.
Reminder that the Confederate battle flag was in use for less than five years and solely as an icon of a conflict that was very much about the (rather racist) keeping of chattel slaves.

Before trotting out the "it's a symbol of heritage" line, ask yourself exactly what that heritage is.
The original poster wasn't suggesting unlimited stimulus, the opposite actually, and the person replying to them regarding how federal money is doled out is not terribly far from the mark. If they want to spend the money, they find the money, inflation be damned. It seems way too early to handwring over moral hazards and costs/sustainability of stimulus benefits, when TX and FL are closing back down after their failed experiment.
My point is that what is considered "racist propaganda" is extremely context sensitive. Germany banned the Nazi flag to avoid the exact ambiguity that has occurred in our country, but we need to accept that this ambiguity has occurred here in the States. Most people who use the flag don't use it to be racist. That changes the situation when compared to Germany.
Because the US Gov has had a 60 year ideological assault on its validity and functioning (Goldwater was the first major presenting symptom), leading to practical results of dysfunction.

This is best illustrated by Reagan's phrase:

> “In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem"

That is to say, if you wage an idea war on the idea of government, you'll have a government which doesn't work.
This one always seemed odd considering the Finnish military had particularly strong reasons to drop the symbol having ended up both fighting for and owing reparations to the Allies, and without any lingering affection for their alliance of convenience with Germany or sympathy with Nazi thought. If the Air Force didn't like the symbols the Defence Force switched to in 1945, substituting the Tursaansydän for the original swastika would have been an easy change to make...
There are many high-performing machine translation toolkits that use PyTorch these days:

- OpenNMT-py (OpenNMT, but Python!)

- fairseq

- JoeyNMT

In addition, you can also try

- tensor2tensor (Tensorflow)

- Sockeye (MXNet / Gluon)
> They'll never reach 1% of the way there

> Closer to 0% of human knowledge gets recorded

> Wikipedia has already begun to stagnate badly

Anything more concrete you can link to for further reading on this? I understand the difficulty in quantifying such claims and measures but I'd appreciate reading something that attempts to do so objectively.
Unfortunately no part of the internet is a public venue. There is no internet street corner, no "common carrier" internet phone company, no internet post office. Everything you do is subject to the whims of shareholder value. If tomorrow enough people decided left-handed people are the scum of the earth to affect Youtube's bottom line you'd start seeing left-handed videos demonetized. If enough people decided left-handed people don't deserve a voice to make a racket with their hosting providers and registars you'd see left-handed communities purged from the internet with no legal recourse whatsoever. In the real world that's only happened to Nazis and terrorists but I suspect we'll see it expanding as people realize the power an angry mob can wield.

It's a bit fascinating that media which attempts to censor this content seems to have worse problems with it than media which doesn't. There's nothing illegal about sending Nazi content through the mail but the mail isn't utterly swamped with Nazi newsletters but places like video games seem to fight an endless battle to keep half their users from turning racist.
The manner in which GDP per capita goes up is not helpful: rapid inflation of health care and housing costs. GDP per capita is not increasing over a short term in Germany and Austria but everyone has a home and health care.
This is to be expected for a country and empire in massive decline. The US should be compared to countries like Brazil and Argentina, not European nations and Canada. That would be a much more apt, apples to apples, comparison at this point. The US was an outlier in the western hemisphere in terms of prosperity. Argentina, at one point, was too. It seems to me that western hemisphere countries (maybe to a lesser extent Canada) have similar problems: vast inequality, massive corruption (including legal corruption in the US), racial tensions, immense poverty, etc. Some like the US and Argentina managed to be massively wealthy at points but were unable to solve their underlying, foundational problems. If we are to look anywhere for our future, it would be a country like Argentina, that was once one of the richest nations in the world but no longer is. That seems to be the inevitable future in the US also due to its intractable political system, anti-intellectualism culture, the lack of empathy or compassion in the culture, the rising cost of all necessities, the falling life expectancy, massive racism, horrific legal (as opposed to justice) system, etc.

In the US, you can't always get what you need (healthcare, decent job, etc.), but if you try sometimes, you might just get what you want (a big screen TV, iPhone, etc.).
Just to emphasize this:

https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-skylib/commit/9948d5538b...

It's possible to `exec` bazel and have it work, with some trickery.
It's clear why this should be the case. Government is a low accountability sector (voting is an exceedingly feeble control mechanism compared to market feedback) so it will accumulate bureaucratic dead wood over time. The same thing happens in big companies but the market provides an eventual mechanism to replace them.
> It's the interaction between the features.

Precisely, and this is one area where go fails completely. The features don't interact well at all!

Tuple returns are everywhere, but there are no tools to operate on them without manually splitting the halves, checking conditionally if one of them exists, and returning something different based on each possibility. Cue the noise of subtly-different variants of `if res, err := nil; err != nil` in every function.

Imports were just paths to repositories. Everything was assumed to just pull from the tip of the branch, and this was considered to be just fine because nobody should ever break backwards compatibility. They've spent years trying to dig themselves out from under this one.

Everything should have a default zero value. Including pointers. So now we go back to having to do manual `nil` checking for anything that might receive a nil. But thanks to the magic of interfaces, if you call a function that returns a nil interface pointer, it will directly fail a nil comparison check! This is completely bonkers.

Go has implicit implementation of interfaces which makes exhaustive checking of case statements impossible. So you type-switch and hope nobody adds a new interface implementation. So you helpfully get strong typing everywhere except for the places you're most likely to actually mess something up.

Go genuinely feels like a language where multiple people each had their pet idea of some feature to add, but nobody ever came together to work on how to actually make those features work in concert with one-another. That anyone could feel the opposite is absolutely incomprehensible to me.
I beg to differ. Without this pandemic and current US president the odds of us seeing the BLM movement would be nil considering the consistently slow burn that we've had over the past decades.

Now that the swing has been so great in one direction more people will vote and more people will care. I don't like it but that's how it's working. People who are tired and apathetic lack the impetus to enact meaningful change.
Except that it’s not a public space and the harm is far less than a beating. A hosting company can have terms of service just like any other business and the only real restrictions are legally-protected classes, and even that has context.

Think of it like going to a coffee shop: they can’t kick you out for being Catholic or male but they can ask you to leave if you are harassing other people, not following public health codes, etc.
Full stop, it's not. There are also zero citations to numerous numbers used in the essay... It might not be totally shit, but it sure smells like it.
Why would this be a good idea? It sounds like a "punishment."
That's completely understandable. I'm talking about how to view the statues and flags and things that people are still defending.
I think we need the equivalent of the Good Samaritan law for the CFAA for this.
It's also not the flag of the Confederacy (as in the nation). No one uses that. What everyone uses is the Confederate Battle Flag, which is specifically the flag of the army of secessionists. There's no rational argument that it represents Southern culture.
That's not even true. The confederacy also stood for the cause of self-determination, and the right of a state to remove itself from the union that it had voluntarily entered.
There are definitely people who have been bamboozled into recognizing it as a symbol of abstract southern pride - but the connection remains. Regional pride can be a valuable thing. But "Southern Pride" should not just exist among white southerners. It should include the whole south, and using a symbol of the enslavement of black people doesn't exactly bring black southerners along for the ride of southern pride.
Just a guess: Better management has a lot to do with it, and not just at the executive level, but the 3+ layers of middle management below.
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OK, we humans don't know each other, so visible status markers are very important. Status is super important to us, even if we deny it is (anyone who says so already has high status).

When you display low status markers like lentils, one of two things must be true: you're high status enough to display low status symbols and obviously nobody would think less of you for it, or you're actually low status. If you're actually low status, you're displaying your low status to the world. This is humiliating. It feels horrible and we humans avoid it like we avoid being burned to death in fires.

My grandmother would never eat beans & rice because she was born Cajun, and she was taught that to be Cajun was shameful and low status. Due to their cultural backwardness, lack of education, their cuisine was things they found in the swamp. They were somewhat rehabilitated by the food revival in the 90s, but when she was a girl it was bad and she avoided displaying those status markers in public.
There is something inherently different between "the government is sending you to prison for doing that" and "a private entity will prevent you from using their service for doing that", yes, even if that service is Facebook or Twitter.
Going off raw numbers is a silly strawman.

Parler claims to be a free speech platform, but their new content policies are stricter - no offensive usernames, no porn, etc.
I didn't realize the tool was called "guacamole". Now the headline makes more sense.
Janitor: Well, looks like thangs are gettin' all PC again.

Friend: Well how long d'you think this will last?

Janitor: Lasted about six years last time. We got at least [checks his watch] 5.9 years to go.

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In the United States, I think we're living in an era of remarkably _little_ censorship; compare Hays Code-era Hollywood to today (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Production_Code)

Tim Wu's "The Master Switch" (https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empire...) touches on censorship in the context of information systems.

Almost nobody considers how much the "censorship" discussion lags behind what media conglomerates were willing to broadcast to begin with, see Wu's comparisons between media standards in the States vs. the British Broadcasting Company's.
Yes, but we're not talking about that here. Not being allowed to play a game you bought is a kind of punishment.

Will they also ban anyone who posts and Hindu swastika? Or the face of Che Guevara? Or anything related to ancient Rome? Or anything related to the Ottomans? And I could keep going and going and going.
The counterexample to your claim is New York's Central Park, which has been funded by private donors since 1980.
Except that the US Government is answerable to the people. "Big Tech" isn't answerable to anyone.
https://lmgtfy.com/?q=why+do+people+hate+facebook
> Even with its core loyal employees Facebook can’t compete if they don’t retain skilled workers.

There is an abundance of skilled workers who don’t care about this boycott. I personally know quite a few skilled devs who think Zuckerberg taking a stand is a reason to work for Facebook.
Disclosure: I've had an architect title for nearly a decade.

I actually don't think half a day is nearly enough. BUT I also don't think that this needs to happen every week. Sometimes, there are periods of exploration and discovery - whether it be with new technology, new approaches within the company, or coming up with some more grand long-term vision to align the tech org towards.

However, when you're out of discovery mode, you need to be in the weeds writing prolific code, feeling the impact (good or bad) of your decisions and course correcting as you go. Moreover, you need to see how other people are feeling about your decisions. At the end of the day, you're working in service of them, helping a team, teams, or the overall tech org to be successful, which in turn will (hopefully) help make the business successful. Often times when I hear disparaging stories about architects, they aren't fulfilling that tenet - either because they don't have the skill to do so or they believe everyone else just needs to keep up with their brilliance.

I've been in too many situations where once the "architecture" was done, the project was to be tossed to some engineers while I work full time on something else. Unless you have some awesome leads that are in lock step with the architect, then that is a recipe for disaster.

The last thing I'll say is that everyone writing code is an architect. You're inevitably making decisions about the way things will be built, no matter how small. Virtually all software has an architecture - but too often it's incidental architecture rather than intentional architecture. Make conscious decisions about your code, reflect on those decisions, and keep an open mind - whether you're just starting out or have decades of experience.
Do they? Places like Mississippi that are lagging behind on metrics aren't particularly known for their social welfare or infrastructure.
Yes and no. Yes, the supreme court is the ultimate interpreter of the constitution, and could theoretically decide that the 1st amendment does not cover hate speech. But there's so much precedent around this that it is profoundly unlikely.

If there really was the will to do it, it would be by passing a constitutional amendment. If you aren't familiar, there is a process by which the constitution can be modified, and this can be done to completely rewrite or contradict the current text. But it's a very difficult hurdle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_amendments_to_the_Unit...
I’ve always seen that considered to be “paid search-branded”, which is tracked but is tracked and treated separately (for the reason you said).
Leishmaniasis occurs in Africa, but also in many other places. The ceramic record in pre-Colombian Central and South America includes depictions of people suffering from severe Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis, while Middle Eastern and British “explorers” into India supposedly came across villages completely wiped out by Visceral Leishmaniasis. It’s even speculated that Machu Picchu was built where it was because it was above the elevation where Leishmaniasis occurs. I’m all for curing it because 2 of the 3 forms are hideously dangerous (Cutaneous Leishmaniasis less so), but it’s disingenuous to call it an African disease.