skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s been awhile since I’ve looked at JavaScript like this, but I would guess that the thread lock would only exist so long as the read() call is running. That returns and then the write is initiated. It doesn’t look like there is a lock that exists throughout the update callback. If that’s missing, then if you had two threads/processes operating on the same table, you’d all but guarantee one of those update calls would be lost (in the best case scenario).

Or maybe there a different locking mechanism in place that my cursory look missed?
EU safety agency suspends Pakistani airlines' European authorisation
So to some degree this is true; people can generally come to a consensus that certain things like slavery or genocide are deeply and inherently evil and that any advocacy for these things is worthy of dismissal.

It's not always right, though. Millions of people were killed in the various wars that broke out when Catholic Europe tried to "cancel" the "abhorrent" ideas of the Protestant Reformation.

Perhaps you can think of this phenomenon as a type of social immune system. It turns out that actual immune systems aren't perfect. Allergies and autoimmune disorders exist. Immune systems will sometimes overreact to a pathogen, or react to something that's harmless but resembles a pathogen, or even attack vital organs that the body needs to survive.

I think you can probably infer the relevant metaphors from here. But to provide one particular example: during the 1950's, American culture decided to "cancel" the "abhorrent" idea of communism. Actual spies working for Stalin were discovered and put to death and there was a lot of scared talk about even more spies being afoot. At one point, a bunch of screenwriters with memberships in the American Communist Party were fired and blacklisted from their professions.

Ultimately, the climate of paranoia and fear resulted in personal ruin for more and more people as anticommunist demagogues went after as many of their perceived enemies as they could. There was a broad chilling effect; not only was it considered totally abhorrent and unthinkable to actually be any stripe of Marxist, but even saying, "hey, I think this is going a little too far" was enough to be branded a communist sympathizer. The only way anyone managed to criticize it was to write vague stories about literal witch hunts and pretend that they weren't allegorical.

Clearly, this system isn't perfect. But neither do the excesses of McCarthyism actually excuse Stalin or the now-thoroughly-documented actual infiltration of Soviet spies and assets in 1950's America. It is possible to see the evil in both.
Yes, it's not quite the same. One time update vs everyday bombarding with ads and popups and making it so that large percentage of WWW sites doesn't work with anything but Chrome.
Wait, so you want to limit other people’s free speech so that you can avoid the consequences of your own speech?
For someone claims to be pro LGBTQ, pro choice, and pro environmental issues, she sure recommends a lot of "quality" resources that certainly aren't pro any of those things.
Unless you are determined to scientifically answer the question "is it possible to never cook and still survive," I have to ask -- why? Canned chicken breast, I mean come on. You can buy fresh chicken breasts already sliced in thin strips; all you have to do with these is throw them in a hot pan, add some salt, and flip once. They will be ready in 5 minutes, not 30-70.
It's not only games that are doing this, and that was only part of my argument about the potential impact it has.
I don’t have evidence of this to show but friends in the airlines have told me stories of empty passenger planes flying just for freight, sometimes even with small items in the passenger cabin
Think of all the insanely stupid decisions that were actually made in the 1950’s. Things probably wouldn’t be that much different today if they went through with this one.
I think a lot of middle managers for working class jobs see the inability to separate work life from personal as a critical feature. The ability to peer into their employees' lives gives them new levels of power over the employer/employee relationship.

If the app did give the employees the tools to separate their lives, the employer would churn to another app.
If your stance is that people should need to log in to see content in order to have moderation, that's fine.

Moderation is absolutely censorship, and I should have every right to censor on a physical or digital platform that I own. If people behave in a manner I don't like in my physical business or on my private property, then I should have the right to remove them. If people behave in a way I don't like on my digital asset, I should have the right to remove them. Their use of my asset is predicated on my consent baring any other contractual details. If they don't like it, they are free to set up their own private enterprises with their own rules of conduct. Saying I am somehow liable for the content that remains is not reasonable. I shouldn't be liable for someone talking shit in my physical business, for a friend saying inflammatory things while in my private residence, for inflammatory conduct on a forum, or any other speech that is not my own unless I myself explicitly endorse that speech (with the exception of illegality that I know about). Me booting off person X while leaving person Y doesn't mean I inherently endorse person Y or agree with them.
True until the code blows up to extraordinary sizes because of lack of expressive features.

Rust code is incredibly easy to understand. Far, far easier than C++ in my opinion.
Like really... How could you get the link to download a browser if not using another browser? It's not like Ubuntu/Debian where you can use apt-get to download a browser, but then if you need Chrome, you need the browser too to accept EULA and download the package.
> This meant it became profitable (i.e., above the marginal costs of the flights) to fly passenger aircraft purely for the belly-hold freight.

That's not the usual definition of "profitable". As you say, they're turning a gross profit (if we treat aircraft leasing costs etc. as fixed, which over a short timeframe they are), but it's not enough to cover their fixed costs, so grandparent is correct that they are not (net) profitable.
Water quality is important, but wouldn’t it be better if the energy intensive nitrates could be extracted and used again rather than converted back to nitrogen?
Like the book or like BEAM?
That's like the worst Republican kind of excuse. Privatize speech to handful of giant corporations, and let them control it while avoiding any direct constitutional issues. It should be as offensive as private prisons. We aren't depriving you of your due process rights, just selling your prison sentence to the highest bidder.
I think if that were true there would not be enough controversy in the field to write an article like this.

I know the Old Testament reasonably well and I think the majority of the researchers the article quotes deny a literal reading of it in one way or another.
The elections of the future are scary to think about. Nobody with any digital record that is public will be able to run for office. If somebody can be fired for a photo of them in blackface 10 years ago, they sure won't be able to get elected to public office in 30 years time after another 30 years of tweets, photos, and opinions. This is why I deleted all social media, and use online accounts in different non-real names. I don't want anything linked to me, because I can't trust what the mob will do with it.
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Thomas Sowell on Charter Schools and Their Enemies [video]
Thanks for the background, i think its invaluable.

I dont think its obvious.

Reverting back to the Moderators dilemma would put the onus of liability back on police and the law where these things csn be dealt with properly and fairly (so far as the legal system is our definition of fair.)

Since we can both submit to the fact that neither the moderators dilemma nor what we have today is very ideal, what would you suggest?

Fwiw my contention is likely that I simply think that falling back on the extreme that is the dilemma is the only option that actually has some consistency to it. I do not however ignore the fact that it comes at great cost. I guess im just willing to bear those costs more than the next guy.

Further disclosure, i think information wants to be free and that anything that prevents me from sharing 1's and 0's (whatever they form) along the pipes i pay for is problematic.
Sure, if you're complaining that cooperations have too much power, I agree. The problem is, most people that argue against PC culture are pro-capitalist conservatives. This women said she's a registered Libertarian.

They want to have their cake and eat it too. They want private property, but they don't want businesses to decide how they do business?
How Bitcoin Is Like Ham Radio
The word "slave" has not become divorced from its original context. I don't think that argument passes the smell test there.
I think whoever advised the shah of Khwarazm to execute the envoy of Genghis Khan has to go down as the worst political adviser in history. Genghis and the Mongol Army practically wiped out the entire country in retaliation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_conquest_of_Khwarezmi...
While I fully agree with the first paragraph, I question the second.

The risk to humans in automated flight is mainly in takeoff and landing. I can readily imagine making safe UAV tanker drones which take off and land on airstrips far from human habitation, such that the occasional mistake, while expensive, costs no human life.

What I can't imagine is the economics of this ever working out.
I think I may just have a tainted perspective on this. I’ve worked in digital forensics/incident response for >10 years, so I have an appreciating for the level in which businesses need to protect themselves, and I’ve grown a fondness in never seeing my personal data end up under a litigation hold. It’s the same reason why I’m a strong believer in making sure to have different email accounts for work, personal, different side projects, etc.

Compartmentalizing is a valuable Op-Sec practice.
I'm not sure that really fits.

Her anger is the problem.

She was going to work with Deloitte, where she will represent her organization in front of clients that regularly sign off on invoices that resemble less a major purchase and more the GDP of a small country.

Imagine that you have a business.

Would you hire such an angry, callous, and impulsive person to represent you in front of clients?

Unless the name of your business starts with "B" and ends with "ank of America", the answer is probably "no".

Folks on the right are saying that she called for stabbing conservatives.

I don't think that's true.

She was using metaphor -- comparing being stabbed to having a paper cut -- and just did it exceedingly poorly.

The metaphor doesn't become clear unless you watch until the end of the video, and I don't know a lot of people, conservative or liberal, that are all that interested in watching the entirety of a video where they are being offered a complementary stabbing, just so that they can get the punchline.

If you post a video of you start off by repeating, over and over, "I am going to $VERB you", then don't be surprised when people interpret your message as, "I am going to $VERB you".

Finally: imagine that we flip her political orientation, and that she recored an angry video where she used a metaphor in which she talks about shooting BLM supporters.

She would likely be in jail.

There is a political difference in how both threats and actual violence are treated in the United States, and it favors the Left.
I made fourteen requests over sixteen days to delete my amazon.com account.

I followed up and re-submitted almost every day. Each time I was told to wait 24-48 hrs and someone would contact me to complete the process, and I would follow up 24 hours later to repeat the process over again when nobody contacted me.

When I finally gave up, Something like a week of 1+ hour/day chats, I deleted all of the information I had control over (address, CC’s, etc) to “anonymize” it at the very least. I then had a very juvenile idea to change my preferred first name to “FUCK” and lastname to “AMAZON” and made one last request.

Customer support deleted my account within the hour, no multi-step process, no “customer support specialist will contact you in 24-48hrs”, just an immediate deletion. Finally!!!

I’ve also learned a good lesson — delete any new online account after you create it, before conducting business. if it isn’t easy to do, then don’t use the service. Otherwise, create another. Most sites are just a button, or a chat request, but Amazon was very ridiculous, (equal to airbnb, which required me to send a photograph of myself and my DL, and then replied to say I have to wait another 90 days and do it again?!)
And worthless for most of us English speakers...
That’s WHY I’m opposed to it: because it doesn’t work. It just annoys people but it doesn’t actually work.
I had the same thought, especially nowadays when you can just type `docker run --name mydb postgres` and wait like 3 minutes.
Apartment managers see credit score below X and reject an applicant. If they were to make their own decisions, it would be a legal liability. If they reject based on credit score and other non-protected criteria, they can't be sued.
I hope that it's grounds for a class action given how abhorrent of a practice it is, but I bet as long as there's relevant language in your employment contract, it's kosher.
There are two problems with this. The first is that it's impossible to know what the consequences of a lockdown are, because in all likelihood, many people would be staying home and losing jobs without a "lockdown" because people would still be afraid to go anywhere.

The second problem is that the consequences that we're seeing in the USA aren't exactly the "consequences of a lockdown", they're the consequences of a half-ass lockdown that didn't decrease the numbers like they did in other countries. Both because of non-compliance of people and state/local government, and because of a broken healthcare system. You can't really blame that on the lockdown.
The thing I bemoan the loss of is general politeness.

Somehow folks have gotten the idea that it's ok to scream "Fuck You!!" at the top of their lungs in public or on social media if the victim is perceived to somehow be mildly racist for instance. And the entire cancel mob is impolite and unmannered. No charity, no nuance, no stopping to think or consider what is being said. Just rabid mouth frothing.

And really racism itself is impolite. It makes others feel bad for no good reason. It's anti social. So is sexism. It's extreme impoliteness and dis-consideration of others.

Ya, we get it, we should have the legal freedom to be impolite. But good people just shouldn't do it. For most any reason. We can always invent excuses why we should be disrespectful to others.

It seems the media really got on this trend early with a lot of right wing folks starting with Rush Limbaugh and progressing to Glenn Beck and Nancy Grace making an audience out of shouting and saying rude things in an attempt to be edgy. The current crop of protesters out screaming obscenities at police officers and the general public seem to have taken this to it's (hopefully) final conclusion. It's like a scene from "Idiocracy" really. And the current president is right in there, he's made an election platform out of impoliteness.

I've been listing to a lot of free audio books from the late 1800 and early 1900's. The amount of general politeness and manners exhibited from people was amazing. So different. It's too much for the current era, but I'd be ok if we went back to a little respect and courtesy of others in general no matter what someone thought or did or believed and this became custom once again.
That people didn’t suddenly become competent in the last 200 years? Humans haven’t really changed anatomically for many tens of thousands of years
I remember reading something by Calacanis 15 years ago or so and being baffled how his superficial drivel was considered insightful.

These people all got status through one lucky project at the right time. After that, their popularity became self-reinforcing.

It's about as far from meritocracy as can be.
More like, reading text printed in white directly on the blazing surface of the sun. ;)

You might find some interested parties in academia. I happen to have met a postgraduate once whose entire thesis was in the form of annotations. Apparently it's a big deal in lit academia, maybe you could become their Arxiv. Maybe when it comes time to market you could cold email a bunch of grad students.
I think posting what interests you makes sense; there are just a lot of us out there who are tired of reading hero worship of that guy.
This is what we get when we connect everyone's minds to filters which amplify the most most viral and most vicious soundbites and rewards people based on how much blind rage they can induce in others.

If you avoid twitter and facebook and anyone that interacts too much with those things, you'll see a lot less of this stuff and probably be a lot happier.
I like the formulation of freedom of speech from Article 19 of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."

Note the "receive and impart"; it implies that people who want to receive speech of a particular worldview are entitled access to it even if a well-meaning majority think that it's bad for them.

[EDIT] Also note "freedom to hold opinions without interference" which stands in stark opposition to the commonly repeated bad idea that "freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences".
It seems like I can only open the app if I get a message and tap the notification.
I think, if anything, deleting the blog only raised the stakes. It definitely increased the publicity of the blog and the interest of the general audience to read his writing, which is still readily available through Internet Archive, and NYT can link it in their article. Far from becoming an irrelevancy. Also the more drama, the more interest NYT will have to publish a piece on it. So, his explanation that no blog = no story does not convince me. This is why I think that his action had a different goal, if he was rational in it. (Well, I think, his real goal was to make it maximally public, and make his followers and bystanders to go mobbing against NYT, or something like that.)
Skype used to rock before they were acquired
What did you expect? The author is Mike Pence.
But to be fair, the Second temple wasn't that impressive until Herod expanded it in the 1st century bc.
IMO, the vast majority of HN is neoliberal in the traditional sense. Which we can oversimplify as "Liberal goals, Conservative means". In other words they wish to guide corporations and markets towards goals that traditionally would be provided by big government.

UBI is the ultimate neoliberal mechanism. Provide money directly to people to let the market work rather than a massive bureaucracy. Carbon taxes are also very neoliberal for a similar reason.

In fact, I think carbon taxes are the true neo-liberal litmus test. A socialist doesn't trust the market so thinks that heavy regulation is better than a carbon tax. Conservatives either disagree with the goal of the carbon tax or are just allergic to taxes in general. If you're pro-carbon tax you're probably ideologically somewhat neoliberal.

Politically neoliberalism was supposed to be this great compromise ground between liberals and conservatives that gave them both what they want.

In reality, it got totally co-opted by conservatives and corporate interests. It's way too easy to pay lip service to the "liberal goals" while concentrating on the "conservative means". Even somebody who truly has liberal goals in mind is only acting through the conservative means.

Ironically it's the conservatives who abandoned this compromise position first with the Tea Party and Trump.

Now neoliberalism is just a swear word that means "corporate shill".
Windows Telemetry service elevation of privilege
I used to work at a company that hired temps off Craigslist to do fairly sensitive healthcare work. The economics and extreme seasonality made that the only viable approach. Software like this was absolutely critical to limiting what people could do and preventing things like identity theft etc. Strong deterrent effect too- during orientation they would show people exactly what they could see. Not great in a general work environment with FTEs but these tools have legitimate uses.
Poorly phrased.

I'd rather see a courtroom or some structured independent body that is given time to review all evidence and hear both sides determine guilt than mass public opinion. What I see is mob justice not real justice.

I don't want courts to have to get involved before someone can be fired. I like that they are there to protect against illegal firings but not before hand.
> Choosing to take a stand strikes me as different than being pressured and judged for not taking one

Fantastic point. And I would hope those in favor of democracy can accept it. If you choose to support a political party publicly, you can reasonably expect people to engage with you about it. But nobody should be able to coerce you to support any particular party or candidate.

What we are seeing now, is not the freedom to choose a particular stance or cause. We are seeing the mob react with force to a lack of opinion.

You must have an opinion. And it must be the right one.
Another boring take that loves to claim social change and strong opinions as limiting to free speech
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_man,_one_vote#Historical_b...

"Alabama's state legislature resisted redistricting from 1910 to 1972 (when forced by federal court order). As a result, rural residents retained a wildly disproportionate amount of power in a time when other areas of the state became urbanized and industrialized, attracting greater populations. Such urban areas were under-represented in the state legislature and underserved; their residents had difficulty getting needed funding for infrastructure and services. They paid far more in taxes to the state than they received in benefits in relation to the population."
You don't get a second wave if the first wave doesn't end
This is legally speaking, nonsense. Us law doesn't differentiate between publishers and platforms with regard to content liability.

Everyone is liable for first party content, but not for third party content.
Well Edge is using Microsoft's PlayReady DRM as opposed to Google's WideVine DRM. I assume PlayReady has better HW support.
Yes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Active_Management_Tech...

Plus the laptop "anti-theft" BIOSes that phone home whose name I cannot recall.
happiness should not be a goal. the way evolution has wired us, we will work for a long time to achieve something that we think is going to make us happy only to move to the next thing after only experiencing a glimpse of happiness.

you have a choice to mindlessly chase what you think is going to make you happy or simply enjoying your current life situation by totally accepting it. you don’t need anything besides basic things to make you happy. happy is your natural state and we inflict pain and suffering upon us continually. stop doing it - break the cycle.
Yes, that is the case. Autocorrect strikes again.
No, it’s a very important and basic question: what does it mean to treat someone’s gender identity irrespective of their genital status. I don’t know the answers, this isn’t one of my main issues that I follow, but it’s pretty clear the question makes sense.