skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sorry i would claim otherwise. Nobody has been cancelled for expressing leftwing-or extreme leftwing- ideas

it may detract from your central point, but it also explanis why one side of the spectrum won't be willing to contribute to an armistice
Manjaro is much better, or Ubuntu. With Debian you'll be lucky to get acceleration support and constantly be searching for unofficial repos to install modern software.
Made platform that burns $ (4M users/month+powers top 6k site Covid dashboard)
- Rawgit clone with 4 million requests per month. (Rawgit is a CDN for GitHub raw files with proper content type headers so html/js/json/css renders properly

- Top 6k Alexa ranked site using it for their corona dashboard multiple MB JSON file.

- AWS bill around 100$/month and growing rapidly.

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- Foundation/government Covid response related funds (would love to hear whom to contact; based in The Netherlands)

- Intercept/inject; a cloudflare like captcha page with ad on it before we serve the real content

- Ask for donations?

- Contacted AWS for covid related credit

- Sell usage data? To whom? where do I find companies interested?

- Shut it down.

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Would rather not drive more traffic at this present time. Am willing verify with mods the legitimacy of this thread.
Except it's not. It includes high barriers for entry into the market, a single seller, pricing without competition, and other things. Microsoft was considered a monopoly not because of its marketshare, but because of its underlying practices.
I wonder if letting 30m "undocumented workers" pushed wages down?

Too bad the democratic party and their sycophants in big-tech hate working people.
It’s called being discovered. You want your tweets discovered so that you can have a sense of something earned by writing it.
K fixed.
This is exactly what I'm working on.

https://www.srchparty.com/
For me currently happiness is just the balance between feeding my "lizard brain" (instincts, cravings, laziness) and my rational brain (being productive, working, planning for the future). Whenever I go one way too far, I start feeling either depressed (procrastinating too much) or exhausted/burned out (working too much).
That she didn’t mention BLM is the “charge” and she’s found “guilty” of it?

That’s Great Cultural Revolution. That’s how it worked. I can’t even.
Eh. In my observation, people who whinge "PC speech is out of control!" are often really saying "I don't like being called out for saying whatever I like!".
That's also the time period of the invention of both cuneiform writing in Sumeria as well as "probably" separately, Egyptian hieroglyphs.
That's great if true. And he notes that there is likely a tremendous under-reporting of the true infection rate.

The "I got messed up and couldn't breathe for a month, and took up space in the ICU that could have been used for someone who had a heart attack" rate is substantially higher than the fatality rate.

He's almost 55 and if he has elder relatives he may be interested in suggesting effective changes to social and economic activity so the young-uns don't spread it to him.
> I have to say that the web in its early days never had this level of politically correct moderation or witch-hunting acts until […]

Let me tell you about Usenet, especially pre-Eternal September …
Ordinary people don't have the resources to run a newspaper ad, so it's not what I was referring to. I had things like your email and social media accounts in mind, where banning has consequences other than not being able to deliver hate speech.
No. In-air refueling is very much a, "now you have two problems" type of solution. The tanker bird is itself an airplane that needs to land and take off, and refuel from the ground airport system.

Also, if you can make the tanker bird a UAV, you can do the exact same with the original cargo plane anyway.
Pretty much. Closed source at it's core for people that can't be bothered with freedom and don't mind being lab rats.
> people have different interests. and not everybody wants to

> be an activist. in fact people should be encouraged to talk

> about different issues.

Yep. Just because the BLM protests and coronavirus are happening, doesn't mean the world stopped spinning. There will ALWAYS be another cause - groups of people will never stop being unhappy about something. It's your right to pick which hill you want to die on, i.e. which cause you want to fight for. We need diversity in causes, otherwise the others will be neglected.

The fact that she was on her maternity leave, i.e. not even representing the company at that time - is completely wild. You would think these activists would be able to show some sympathy to a woman who's hormones are probably going crazy.

What she is supposed to have said doesn't even appear to be opposed to what the BLM activists want - the media IS a big problem in all of this. They of all people should realize that the media has had a big hand in the public's positive and negative perception of their cause. But, that message is opposed to what The Verge believe - so I guess we understand the motive behind the witch hunt.

The Verge should be ashamed.
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I've been working on an open source alternative. It's dead simple to setup and run (including raft based clustering). It also integrates seamlessly with Instantsearch.js library.

Would love to hear your feedback on Typesense: https://github.com/typesense/typesense
A lot of serious social problems would be non-issues if only people could agree to disagree.
On the surface, your logic is "I think there are concepts which have been made taboo to discuss, and this is a good thing, therefore making topics taboo to discuss is a good thing." To be charitable, let's change this to mean "making _some_ topics taboo to discuss is a good thing."

The obvious danger comes from who gets to decide, and why? Recent cases seem to have been arrived at not as a natural good faith progression of society, but rather as a militant assertion by certain factions. Bringing up relevant policing statistics is off the table. Bringing up relevant psychological literature on gender population preferences is off the table. In many cases the notions of individualism and universalism are off the table.

The discussion regarding transgender individuals is a perfect example of an off limits conversation that has just been asserted as having been completely resolved. Understand, I am personally sympathetic to and defend most arguments made on behalf of transgender individuals, but to most advocates the discussion begins and ends with something like "trans women are women," which is an assertion that has convinced approximately 0 people to be sympathetic to the cause. In my own attempts to bring people around to the arguments on behalf of transgender people, I have only been successful when I'm willing to do all the necessary legwork to peel back the arguments, clarify the language conflicts, acknowledge any inconsistencies, etc, and only then have I had people emerge with a different opinion. But the prevailing conversation is instead "you're denying the existence of this marginalized group and exacerbating their risk of actual violence by discussing this." This is hardly a caricature of these conversations. And in the meantime, the person who has expressed their own, in many cases, perfectly reasonable objections to some of the tripwires and double standards that arise on the path to the sympathetic conclusion, they've very likely made a pariah of themselves.

So basically, your point is still entirely contingent on how, when, and why things move into the territory of taboo. There is a lot of danger in the game you advocate on behalf of.
I'm a participant on a political discussion forum that enforces strong civility norms (eg anti-snark), and it very much works. It's very popular these days to say that civility norms are a Trojan horse for enforcing conformity. But the breadth of viewpoints I've seen expressed there is 10x as high as anywhere else, and conversations are consistently polite, insightful, and intellectually honest. It turns out that filtering out stupidity and emotional incontinence leads to adult conversation.

More importantly, the norms make any given person feel safe acting like an adult, even if they'd otherwise be inclined not to. This is a big problem with much Internet discourse: putting thought and nuance into a comment and taking your interlocutor seriously is easily deflated with mockery and disdain for "tryhards" or "effortposting". The natural equilibrium is obviously going to be that even people inclined towards intellectual honesty end up in the mud flinging shit at others. Consistent, high-quality moderation around civility prevents the temperature from rising and allows you to actually learn something from every exchange. (It doesn't hurt that the filter effect of these norms mean that the average commenter ends up pretty intelligent: even when someone is wrong, I tend to learn something)

Tldr: the norms you're describing work very well IME
Does this really happen, or would it ever? Seems like a contrived scenario for employees to have enough access and knowledge to detect and defeat a userspace or kernel-resident solution that doesn’t want to be found. Plus, if you’re going that far, you’d want to make sure it wasn’t easily detectable by analyzing network traffic.

I’m sure such a thing is out there, but I doubt it’s being used by employers to spy on workers. More like governments spying on workers with access to sensitive IP.
They aren't much earlier; they got cases almost the same time as the US. They're just handling it way better. And it's not like Australia is a particularly well run country.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/australia/
> I hear regularly is that having a mandatory centralised and cryptographic ID system really expedites certain ID-related tasks.

Paper signatures and fax are both considered obsolete, the latter is basically never used. Cheques? Never seen them. Logging into any high-value service is done using the eID. If you use local services there's rarely any need for any site specific passwords, password managers, U2F, FIDO(2), GPG or similar identity technology. There's no need to send a pic of yourself to verify your identity anywhere, zero shit like that.

You know how PayPal, Stripe or similar payment processors felt/feel really cool and fast? Yeah, we barely felt that because banklinks have fulfilled that use case for the majority for a really long time now.

There aren't any other examples on the top of my head right now, but they're really not the only things. By now, there's basically an entire generation in Estonia that literally have zero idea how things were before, and are thus often shocked by what and how much is required from them in other countries.

> Are there companies like Jumio and Acuant in Estonia, or has the government rendered them pointless?

They're basically nonexistent.
How many sentence examples do you need to train one of these?

How much compute?
Charset and Collation
If you don't know where they are, it's probably because they don't want you to know where they are.

The fact is that nuanced discussion doesn't scale. It requires a small core of dedicated users that can't get drowned out by dross (e.g. rabid Twitter users that collectively gish gallop). Broadcasting the existence of any of these communities is an almost guaranteed path to destroying the essence of what makes them successful communities in the first place.
Sweet project, looking forward to where it goes next man!
interesting that you'd describe the society as soft in this circumstances. I agree. soft on perspective and vision. I've heard many describing social upheavals of recent years/decades as a waking up to fighting for ideals and values - the opposite of softness. I see the opposite.

There are no major fights for real progress... there's an enduring status-quo and the battlegrounds are empty and occasionally we entertain ourselves with token crisis or token fights that fizzle out as quickly as they appear - the duration of a tiktok video.
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There are so-so approximations of it, like the guardian vpn/firewall: https://guardianapp.com/
I remember giant take-it-or-leave-it permission warnings for apps back on 2.1 when I had my Nexus One. Updates that changed permissions would just give you the whole list again with no hint as to what had changed, it was awesome in its user-hostility.
I'm almost inspired enough to create an open source "killer" of these background programs. "Bossware" is one of the most infuriating things I've seen wrt employment in a little while.
There have been no code audits.
Are you implying that if I stand up a small public forum or message board for some niche interest using my own assets that I am unable to boot people off it or moderate in any way without being deemed a publisher and being liable for content?
The association between a symbol and its meaning is arbitrary. No rational basis necessary, historical or otherwise.

If they assert that the confederate battle flag is a symbol of their heritage, then it is.

Are you going to respect that?
I think it's pretty plain this has to do with politics.

It's group-bullying of Facebook. But Zuck's right-- Facebook has a huge audience, and they will keep using the platform. If some advertisers don't want to pay, their competitors will.

I hate bullying. I hope Facebook profits out of all this.
Painting with SVG
Computer optimized noise barriers are a thing, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_baffle#Highway_noise_bar...

Common freeway walls are cast concrete preforms, so it's easy to make them have a particular geometry.

In terms of protecting the surrounding community from the noise, the wall tops actually have a lot more impact than the wall geometry itself due to edge diffraction.
An explanation from LinkedIn:

https://twitter.com/eberger45/status/1278843576638570496

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@DonCubed
. Appreciate you raising this. We've traced this to a code path that only does an equality check between the clipboard contents and the currently typed content in a text box. We don't store or transmit the clipboard contents.

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An example of this is in a library we have open sourced, and you can find the fix here [https://github.com/linkedin/Hakawai/ (https://github.com/linkedin/Hakawai/pull/161/files/3881de368...). We will follow up once the fix is live in our app.

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Oh look, another response to "we want to express ourselves without losing our jobs" of "have you actually read the first amendment?".

I see this response on HN almost daily now. For the millionth time: PC culture goes beyond the constitution's definition of freedom of speech. This is a cultural discussion. This is a discussion about how much power we have given to private companies (like social media giants and media production companies) over our lives.

I don't care that the first amendment protects me from government censorship, if my livelihood, the reputation of me and my family, and my future job prospects, can all be destroyed in an instant because of some outrage mob on Twitter. Why are people apologising because a few people on Twitter told them to? Why are people being fired because they made a tweet that wasn't supportive enough (or supportive in the right way) of the "correct" social causes?

Call it freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to have an opinion. Whatever. But don't try and avoid the problem by pointing to the constitution as if that suddenly makes this all okay because "at least it's not the government".
Free bathrooms is a good selling point.

Parisian friends said during their first push into France, they appreciated that they could buy something and do homework there for a few hours without getting pressured to leave.
You might feel that way, but that isn't correct.

Over the years, the airlines _have_ reduced seat pitch, and as you can see from the 747 illustration, added an additional seat in the middle section as well.
We were using Google Custom Search. So Algolia is a big upgrade.
Yes, but in the past your wrongs stayed as local or tribal knowledge. You said the "N-Word"? You dealt with it locally and then moved on, hopefully grow up and become a better person.

Now, you tweet the "N-Word" when you're 16, but raise millions of dollars for a great foundation years later. You get canceled. This just isn't cool. I was an ass hat at 16, but I also didn't have twitter, most of my mistakes aren't still out there.

We need to recognize that people aren't who they were, we need to allow people to change, grow, and move past their past. This is why I love liberals move to reduce prison sentences for non-violent offenders and conservatives push-back on cancel culture for historical stupidity.

Granted, there are some videos that surface where people should be fired. I get there's some egregious shit out there, but overall, I'd rather see courtrooms determine that than social media.
The management at Intel itself are also highly paranoid. They have been using "bossware" for over a decade before COVID. It's just known as a paranoid company.

Although, probably a lot of large corps aren't too different.
Oh please!

Just the mere perception of quality will increase your satisfaction levels. The perception of lack of quality will reduce you satisfaction levels.

Thus I still maintain that your "perfect" $18 burger is only marginally better than McDonald's midrange burger. The fact that you actually spend time on making that burger more appetising - is proof that the low cost foods are getting better and better.

While focusing on my analogy, you literally prove my overall point.

30 years ago you weren't necessary, as low cost food wasn't nearly as good as today. Now - you have to exist to justify that premium.
> The way to avoid these witch hunts is to avoid starting them, not to make the first step and then complain when others follow suit. She could have taken the kid aside and asked him why he made that sign, he probably would have replied he got it off the 'net or from his friends who made him think it was 'cool'. She then could have told him why it is not cool, i.e. that him making that sign would be interpreted by some as him being a supporter of a nefarious ideology. By singling him out to run laps after he low key photo-bombed the team picture by making the "Ok" symbol on one of his thighs she more or less handed that kid's mother all the ammunition she needed to follow in pursuit.

I don't get this - it was clearly a summary of events. The only detail you really have to go on is "after". How you can assume all of this somehow went down without any talking-to or explanation is beyond me. Even so, the admin would probably have said the same at the time.
Look at those downvotes. The reactionary is strong here.
This seems like a fair point, and it makes me sad. I guess to the second part of my question: How would you build a community (or set of communities and identity systems) at scale that doesn't suffer from this? Such that you could point someone to it without destroying it.
What caused the 1918 pandemic to become significantly more deadly in its second wave was the war inadvertedly forcing healthy asymptomatic carriers to stay in place, instead of preferentially spread their strain of the virus, while sending symptomatic carriers of the virus to hospitals which acted as conduits for transmission:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#Transmission_and_m...
Everything you say is true, but being melodramatic when asked to solve some irrelevant algorithmic problem is not a red flag. It could be he has been busy doing real work in the last ten years and not researching solved problems that are generally encapsulated in well tested existing modules.

Lack of respect for your team and not collaborating are real red flags. Soft skills are very important and not at all related to not being able to solve an obscure problem in an interview.

It's also pure bliss when you do whatever you like when you like with no overall architectural leadership putting constraints on your solutions. This, in my experience, has lead to whole firms going bust when reality strikes.
So oil and gas companies will subcontract to companies which use NumPy and sell their own systems to oil and gas companies.

Or would it be better to force any company using NumPy to stop using it if their goods or services turn out to be resold to oil and gas companies?
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Also interesting question:

How many 5000+ employee companies do have redundant system? How may have only a single highly proprietary system without any fallback?
It convinced me that he had a rational reason for his decision, and that the Times should not be pushing to dox him. That doesn’t mean that I would have taken the same decisions, but I respect his reasoning and his reasons. And he had an excellent website, so I hope he prevails.
Supporting slavery being unutterable is a perfect example of the benefits of cancel culture.
> "Culture cancels abhorrent ideas"

-In the age of religion, being an atheist was considered an "abhorrent" idea as was tolerance of other religious beliefs. The culture of the day tried hard to cancel it and things done to silence heretics were quite terrible.

-During the US civil right's movement of the '60s, the idea that all people deserved equal treatment, regardless of skin color, was considered an "abhorrent" idea. The culture of the day tried hard to cancel it; MLK was widely disliked at the time of his death.

Your words hit the nail squarely on the head but, unfortunately, drives it straight through the argument you were trying to defend. "Culture cancels abhorrent ideas" but it was only through looking at "abhorrent" ideas that progress was made.
Worth noting. Tomorrow (3 July), Bandcamp is waiving their revenue share on all sales. More info here: https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-covid-19-fundra...
except the article says it's not.
Well yes, if you did some analysis of which opinions people have lost their jobs over, and which causes must you support openly if you don't want to be seen as backwards, or which things have people apologised for saying after posting a Tweet, then I'm sure it would be clear that one side dominates societal discourse far more than the other.
South Park is wonderful because it gives the finger to all people who judge media based on whether it gets things "right" or "wrong"
Slavery was also something that wasn't considered bad by most around where you live. Thankfully, people not around where you live disagreed. "Universally" is just a weasel word.

It was started as something racist and still remains incredibly racist to pretty much everyone else, despite doe-eyed claims from southerners who want people to believe that a 5 year long pro-slavery rebellion represents the history and pride of the South.
I read about the history of this incident, all for the first time today, through someone linking me to the Twitter back-and-forth between @TaylorLorenz and @bhorowitz. https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1278506515679322112?...

Reading the original expose, https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/5/20995453/away-luggage-ceo... ; Korey's message in stepping down, https://twitter.com/sallyshin/status/1203007359762649088 ; the NYT piece about her return (just a name change, folks, she was never really stepping down at all!), https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/business/steph-korey-away... ; to this second "stepping down" announcement.

In my opinion, Korey's behavior in the original expose was unacceptable, never mind toxic for the brand, so I find Ben's behavior immature. He's crying wolf with his claim that this is cancel culture and just a Twitter war.