skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like it might be interesting, but the promotional language in the README suffers from reading as if it were targeted at the already-initiated. If you don't belong to whatever niche/subculture that inhabits the same space that this project does, it's not terribly illuminating about what this does or what it aims to do.
Tax-deductible yep :) sorry about that

I was in contact with these guys but nothing came of it so far ... I think they’re still working on it but I don’t know. Would be great to find out options. Thank you for your help.

Side note: lack of funding for open source is a common complaint it seems, but I was personally surprised it’s actually not trivial at all to give money open source ...
Yeah, it was even in Gothamist. So I'm sure it is also in NYPost and Daily News.
Dukes of Hazzard was my second-favorite TV show as a kid, (next to CHiPs.) It saddens me that the symbol was foisted on me and millions of other kids throughout history and not just from the TV show. Turns out there was never a time that that flag stood for anyone's "heritage." It always was a symbol of hate. I don't know why people would do that to children.

Now memories of my childhood are darkened, and millions of adults are confused and don't know why. Because people who are long dead thought it would be great fun to raise a generation of f3cking racist kids who would grow up and raise another generation of f2cking racists. It f8cking sucks to be in this situation.

Thanks for nothing, ancestors.
I'd rather there be no nazis, and if there are nazis, I'd rather they feel uncomfortable expressing that; and if they do feel comfortable expressing that, I want to be able to report them and have them banned.

It's absurd that one must have to deal with hateful political views in a game about racing cars.
> Wouldn't surprise me to see these people switch to one of the other, lesser-known variants to work around the ban.

That's exactly what Georgia did. In 1956 they added the Confederate Battle Flag to their state flag in support of white supremacy and segregation, and in 2003 switched it for the Confederate Stars and Bars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Georgia_(U.S._state)
> For example, in spite of the 2nd Amendment you have more legal right to an abortion in this country than you do a firearm.

Still staying away from value judgements, I don't think this claim is obviously true (both are regulated), so it's maybe not the greatest example of your point.
This is the Lost Cause revisionist history fallacy at work. It is an early analogue of the recent technique used by Pepes, the white power sign, Neo-Nazi '88' and '14' iconography, etc: giving an in-group meaning to an innocent number, phrase or image to give a superficial plausible deniability.

The Confederate flag is even more powerful because people have been convinced it has something to do with Southern (white) culture and Yankee oppression. Maybe they need a new symbol, that isn't intimitely tied to slavery.

https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/14-wor...
I think the author is taking the legalese too seriously and reading too far into the phrase “otherwise objectionable.”

This is just a standard abuse TOS. Yes, “otherwise objectionable” casts a wide net, but I think in the legal understanding of the sentence it’s supposed to refer to “similarly egregious things that a judge would agree were in this same relative severity of abusive content.”

A judge wouldn’t simply allow “otherwise objectionable” to mean “literally anything.”

I would also point out that if you host abusive/illegal content on your own PC your ISP can shut you down just the same.
Look, I'm not going to lie: I'm not the biggest fan of Facebook and the way it structured it's closed groups or how it allows posts to go 'viral'. I think there's a lot of negativity that comes from 'viral' posts.

But does anyone realistically think you could put Facebook in charge of moderating all content in the 500+ or so languages on there? With 3 billion users?

It would mean the end of all open communications platforms that we've seen since 2000s.
I've seen the replacement filter on a few forums, and it's _surprisingly_ effective. People just ... didn't bother working around it. No idea why, it seems like they would, but I guess they just couldn't be arsed.

Don't forget that the replacement filter is just for banned words. Toxic/abusive behavior would be covered by the usual manual moderation. Though I don't recall ever seeing someone banned for working around the filters on the rare instances that they did.

EDIT: This is in stark contrast to normal filters which just remove or blank out words. Those were _always_ worked around. For whatever reason people feel affronted by those kinds of filters, but the silly replacement filters were "fun".
If curious see also

2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19795262

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19788526
I would also just add that most promotion documents will tie in what's laid out on the career ladder. At larger companies promo documents have a template and often directly ask for evaluations on whatever's in the career ladder rubric.
The same set of skills? Let's just say the Government gets what they pay for.
The last day of 737 will come sometime soon too.
That scans like a bunch of right-wing word salad.

Germans would not be any better off if they each got an extra 20k/year and their health care and housing costs were also 20k/year higher. This is the core flaw of GDP, well-known among economists since GDP was invented. It does not measure well being.
I thought it was the System Design interview, no? lol
> "We have made it technically impossible to see your messages."

That one's not actually a "promise"; it's either true and sufficient (although it's hard to imagine how if the software supports automatic updates), or a direct lie because they have not in fact made it impossible.
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I went back to the clip and while you are right, that was the question - im almost certain Manson heard "the kids at Columbine" and took it to mean Harris and Klebold and answered that question, not the one that was asked.
Using a lot of oracle software is like going to the worst california dmv.
> I learned to work 6 months/year and make a full year salary

Just post the affiliate link to your vitamins already...
On the other hand, other sorts of devs would probably not be entertained having to maintain a in-house database some unchained dev decided to introduce into the stack one day for "reasons." That tech debt will compound until it becomes more of a liability.. hopefully the product brings in enough money so that the in-house database can continue to be supported or removed.

This sort of stuff is what deters me from being a developer sometimes. Fuck the salary, get me out of here.
Yes, we've been adding more roles in the last few weeks. Sales is on the list. For more questions / suggestions reach out to hello <at> levels <dot> fyi. (I don't want to detract from the main thread)
What was the problem needing solving?
Good points! I'm also a manager and recognize more than a bit of myself in your answers. I wasn't passing blame on my past employers. As a reasonably senior engineering leader I was part of the machine.

In response to your points:

1. Definitely. But shouldn't your job ladder also cover those things? I don't want to promote anyone up to a high level if they can't mentor others, for example.

2. Definitely. Shouldn't a decent job ladder allow people to excel in certain areas while maintaining some sort of minimum acceptable level in others?

3. Definitely. But that's the problem I've experienced. A lack of a committee means that it's basically a matter of running it up the ladder and then your ability to be promoted hinges on your manager's ability to work the system.
I can certainly say that that's exactly the way I felt complaining about it. I felt like I was an asshole attacking him, and I don't think he liked me very much because of it. The whole thing was very uncomfortable. I didn't throw a fit. I tried to be very understanding and make suggestions.

If it's any consolation, it fell on to me to maintain this code after he moved on to something else, which is why I know so much about how it works.
Would be beautiful in EU with $20/mo unlimited LTE, and horrible in Canada with $50 for 5 gigs, overages at $30 per gig
Somehow I doubt that polygon.com is going is to provide any kind of truth about this movie. It's like asking PETA to review a shotgun.
If you use LAPACK there’s a chance that some Fortran code will be run at some point. For example OpenBLAS does it behind the scenes of you give it a matrix to diagonalise.
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If you tell yourself that the real world is irrelevant, it makes you more irrelevant in the real world.
I wouldnt go that far. How often do you hear product managers talk about 'scope creep', 'minimum viable product', 'launch first and fix bugs later'. The government's job is literally bug fixing and maintaining legacy code base. Big tech are not good a this, you can't rewrite social institutions via roadmap.
Agree - came here concerned Telia backbone routers had an issue...
> For example, in spite of the 2nd Amendment you have more legal right to an abortion in this country than you do a firearm

Unrestricted gun ownership seems to be at odds with the 2nd Amendment's "well-regulated militia".
I don't see why we shouldn't follow the site guideline: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize". I've changed the title and added "neglected disease", which is used in the opening sentence almost as an extension of the title.

Submitted title was "Help cure an African neglected disease"
Then it's a good thing people aren't toppling statues randomly.
If the author doesn’t provide any explanation of why this exists or what motivated them to create it, what am I supposed to assume?

They’ve called it a database. They have said explicitly “ You can use this as a backend for your ReST APIs.” But it doesn’t meet the table stakes for a database and encouraging folks to use it in a production environment is actively harmful.

I wish more folks were up front with the trade offs they make. I respect an OSS author a lot more when they are honest and upfront with what a thing is good at and where trade offs have been made.

When I don’t see that, I assume that either the author doesn’t know/care (red flag) or they can’t be bothered (annoying).
Could you please point to what I've reworded that you believe is misleading or misconstrued, I will happily edit my comment and fix it - I have more or less directly quoted within context. I have omitted stuff because I didn't feel the need to include the whole privacy policy in a comment (which is why I linked it) but nothing I felt was misleading. If there is a critical point you feel I should include, let me know and I will add it.

As for this not being enough information to identify someone, it really is. Lets assume you use Google's DNS and no google tools, block all trackers, etc. (which the vast majority of people do not do). Lets say the authorities grab your computer, and somehow have access to Google DNS data (CLOUD Act) and want to see what you did online. They can already filter down DNS queries to 1000 people (and thats assuming all 1000 people use google dns, which again they do not). They can figure out what software performed queries based on EDNS data. Timestamps further filter down the dataset if you have a general idea of a person's schedule. With ECS they can further narrow down by service provider. All of sudden those 1000 autonomous ids have been significantly narrowed down using just general techniques, if you're targeting a person you will almost certainly be able to use the rest of the data to tie an ID to machine. If you use other google services or even just visit sites with google analytics that ID is even easier to compromise. Every piece of data collected is a piece of data that can be used to identify you, that's the price of convenience.

EDIT: Would like to mention even the act of an machine going offline, which will occur if an authority confiscates your machine will narrow down IDs as now you only have to look for IDs that stopped communicating with Google's DNS at time of confiscation.
I disagree. They believe in what they are saying. They mad fun of Al Gore about Global warming and eventually apologized to him for being wrong:

https://youtu.be/Y-dvejuss6s

Al gore on the apology:
https://youtu.be/sG-Cp1y0UO8
Why? What don't you like?
In what ways are they dysfunctional (I can bet that in the majority of cases, the cause of dysfunction are not under the control of the local gov)
To be honest, it's not really to the 'segregated' level. It's not like one building for foreigner and the other for Japanese.

Officially, it's illegal to deny rental based on nationality. In reality, you don't want to live in an apartment if the owner doesn't want you there anyway, even though you could push for it in the court.
A preponderance of religions and philosophies that advocate changing the way one thinks does not mean that most people subscribe to them. Most people are insanely dogmatic including self-described Buddhists (such as those on Myanmar that are cruel to Rohingya), Jews (that abuse Palestinians), Christians (I don't need to describe their flaws), and Muslims. There are tenets of each faith that advocate viewing the world in a more open and relaxed manner. Almost all adherents of these religions and philosophies ignore those parts.
Thanks for sharing, for young heathy people this could in theory be a very good opportunity to travel if your wfh full time. Also nice airtables!
good thought. Started this two weeks ago. Have to look into privacy policy and add that. will add some contact info. Thanks for the feedback.
Yup, this is true. Someone else's banner just shows up instead of the "boycotting" brand.
> ...avoid things that other people control, because then you must serve as their slave.

A good mantra for self-hosted FOSS as well, come to think of it.
The point of my argument is that the government can save money by keeping a company from folding. Having a bad return of a couple hundred million is better than a loss to society of larger proportions. My point is to avoid the whole, a penny wise and a pound foolish, thing.
Not being bullied by anyone and I've got enough money. Which was sort of my point. Tech workers are generally speaking financially secure enough to actually use their negotiating capital for something that's important to them.

Money is the lowest form of compensation, it doesn't really matter once you have enough to put food on the table and pay rent. Self-realisation is more important and a lot of people in particular at tech companies haven't fully realised yet how much influence they could have if they're smart about it.
Would like to see some research about that to back up your point.
Your argument makes no sense. It's a complete non-sequitur unless you want the federal government to enact laws that enable them to micro manage every form of communication.

That would get laughed out of the SCOTUS in an instant.
That's actually very well played. You know that companies want to hit pause because of lower sales and less consumer confidence, so you give them an easy out that will look like a moral stance, and you wisely limit the duration so that nobody feels too committed and can return to business as usual if Covid-19-related slow downs come to an end by the end of July.
The balance of firearm control to abortion control can still be viewed in accordance to whatever “promotes the general welfare” means. If I may extend compiler terminology to the legal code, there is a distinction here between the declarative preamble which defines the purpose of the USA and the procedural amendments which defines functions like freely available firearms for militias, banning private slavery and defining presidential lines of succession.
Yikes, personal attacks will get you banned here. Please make your substantive points without any of that. If you know more than others, don't attack them—share some of what you know. Even if they don't learn from it, the rest of us will, and then you'll have made a positive contribution instead of a destructive one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: we've had to warn you many times over the years, and it looks like you've continued to break the rules (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23298011, which I would certainly have replied to if I'd seen it). Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the spirit of this site more to heart? It's really not ok to attack others like this on HN.
How to be sad? Convince yourself that your fundamental human needs are not okay, that they only affect you because you are not strong or virtuous enough.
These are very interesting discussions. I don’t know how I managed to miss them when I submitted...
No speech on private platforms is protected. 99% of Americans just don't know how the constitution works.
This is pretty laughable in the context of modern startups, where a small group of VCs choose the winners in advance and no one else really has a chance to compete until many years later when the "winners" run out of VC money. But even disregarding this recent development it's not like government is immune to the influences of a shifting society - otherwise we'd all still be living in monarchies.
TikTok first, then LinkedIn, then what?
Heh, maybe the EU could recognize Sealand and suddenly the 12 mile zone would work the other way... It would also save them having to re-make a lot of flags.
I don't think "taking underground" is the right metaphor, but it intensifies polarization, and makes these people feel persecuted. It's not that they care about the flag that much for most of them. It's that suddenly, it's not even allowed anymore and they don't agree with that. Frankly, I couldn't care less about the confederate flag, but the thought process here is very relatable.

And then these people vote. People who feel (rightly or wrongly) persecuted tend to lash out, whether it's by breaking statues or electing far-sides candidates.
Not effective, need to suppress social media if we want a stable society.
People keep throwing around words like "heritage", "southern identity" and "culture", but are most often very hard pressed indeed to explain what exactly is the identity or culture that is best represented by what's at the very least a flag of sedition/treason (even if we leave out the racist overtones).

I mean, it's not like I'm wholly unsympathetic to failed secessionist states and their symbols/paraphernalia. People still use the flag of Biafra where I'm from, after all. But those that do are self-aware enough to acknowledge/be upfront about the values they hold and the message they pass when they use it (it certainly helps that Biafra attempted to secede in response to ethnic tensions/discrimination, not because it wanted amongst other things the right to keep slaves).
Hey folks, Joel here (creator of Quik + browserless.io). Quik came about as an attempt to stop spending time on IE support... but still support it when you have to. A vast amount of my "frustration" time as a developer was getting VM's to run IE to even test the site, let alone do the required repairs. Huge time-sink.

Anyways, happy to answer questions or talk more about it. Pretty fun/novel way of solving this problem!
If you're a multi-billion dollar company with a "government relations" team, it is better to ask for forgiveness than permission.

If you're a random internet weirdo who uses a public interface in an unexpected way, you face decades in prison. [1]

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704312104575299...
Well it sounds like the Jester acted like the Greek Chorus. I guess that’s what good satire is, that fourth wall being broken by a character, or the chorus explaining the current state of affairs.
You've been able to buy Ice Lake laptops since late last year. So I'm not sure if this is supposed to be a "gotcha", because it's not a good one.
>perfectly reasonable for them to cut off your access to their service, as long as it's within the legal bounds of the ToS. I don't think companies should be directly regulated/penalized for banning users.

I don't believe you really meant what you said there. Private companies aren't allowed to ban users because of their race. Do you want them to have that freedom and allow segregation? Or perhaps you only accept that because it's already the law and you would have opposed civil rights laws had you been around before they were introduced?
My response to that is to assert that most of the negative impact of the opiate crisis is due to the fact that people become addicted to them and are then unable to obtain them through legal means, which effectively forces them into criminal activity.

I'm certainly not saying opiate addiction is a neutral/good thing, but I don't think it would cause the societal harm that we see today with them being tightly regulated.

Potential case in point: illegal methamphetamine usage/addiction is a huge issue today in the US. I qualify that as "illegal", because meth is available by prescription under the trade name Desoxyn. Many drugs with similar effects are likewise available and much more commonly prescribed - but I'm not aware of anyone calling for them to be banned. If anything, I suspect in that case the overall societal impact is positive: I know I would be much less effective as a developer if I were to lose access to ADHD medication.