skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can understand how some people see complete validity in Cleese's argument that those hurt by someone's words/behavior should "control their own emotions" rather than demand that the offending party be more considerate of their emotions, but I do not.

Black people should not have to "control their own emotions" when a non-Black person uses the N-word to get a cheap laugh, like, etc. at their expense.

Muslims should not have to "control their own emotions" when bullies taunt someone with the name Osama.

Women should not have to "control their own emotions" when they see evenly qualified, hard-working, and valuable (and often less qualified, hard-working, and valuable) male colleagues getting most of the kudos, visibility, raises, and promotions within their organizations and industries.

(Disclosure: I am a non-Black Muslim male who does not have the name Osama)

Emotions are things you feel deep down, and when those emotions are justified, they matter more to me than an inconsiderate asshole's ability to open their trap with no filter, or behave badly with no fear of consequences. I'm not saying offensive words/behavior should land people in jail, but I have no problem with corporations, journalists, social media, and private individuals imposing their own consequences.
Do those numbers get counted in the numbers we see due to Covid (on the news and elsewhere)? For example, the current US death count of 135K.
Not only are they jumbled, but they also change size/shape depending on the width of the window. A large button when full-screened becomes a small button when in a smaller window. A large button in a smaller window gets expanded to show all sub-options when maximized. There is no visual consistency for the same button.
Blocking content is absolutely pointless, and ironically increases demand. Circumventing controls and doing something you shouldn't is exciting.

Personally I don't have a problem with porn and I'd rather not see this used as a way to weasel in real id verification systems into websites which I think is the real motivation here.

Next it will require real id for comment forums to quell "hate speech", and then eventually to identify dissenters and other utopian pursuits.
> You don't have pogroms without previous animosity. Somebody saying something might spark the fire, but the wood has been there all along, soaked in gasoline.

That presumes the victimized communities have done anything to warrant violence. In the case of anti-jewish pogroms the inciting factor was often speech by newspapers and officials. How should we account for anti-semitic newspapers that made a good business of concocting lies about the crimes done by Jewish people in the community?

Consider the Kishinev pogrom where "the Bessarabetz paper insinuated that children had been murdered by the Jewish community for the purpose of using their blood in the preparation of matzo for Passover"[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kishinev_pogrom
I much enjoyed https://www.braveclojure.com/clojure-for-the-brave-and-true/
>Cornell this week that showed more than 75% of drivers are part-time anyway

10 drivers working 1 hour a week contribute less to the platform than 1 driver working 40 hours a week. The study should adjust for the amount of time drivers are on the platform and not just sheer number of drivers. Just counting drivers seems an obviously flawed approach designed to make the part time count seem high.
It is an amusing example of cynical exploitation on behalf of advertising agencies, leveraging the expected controversy on social media fueled by PC culture.
Interesting, thank you for the link. Funny thing that one argument used against it, is that nowhere in the World, Uber is paying Employee Benefits.
Firefox lets you set 'DNT: 1' if you don't want to be tracked, using the setting you describe, but does not have a setting to send 'DNT: 0', indicating that you are okay being tracked. As a result, there is ambiguity about whether lack of a header means nothing or means "tracking is ok". If browsers let you broadcast your willingness to be tracked, advertisers wouldn't be able to make the (bad faith) argument that it's ok to track just because someone didn't set the header.
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I don’t think the article is saying that “negative coverage” would necessarily be warranted, just that it would exist, and be negative.

I don’t think a hit piece would explain how some potentially controversial SST articles were either later qualified by the author, or, qualified by the author at the time of publishing.

> The reporter is unaware that the Internet Archive exists? The content is obviously still readily available, so the reporter is either stupid or disingenuous.

We would have to see what NY Times policy is on using The Internet Archive as a source. I don’t know, and, you didn’t go out of your way to find and share that information, so I think your conclusions are premature.

Honestly the article didn’t seem ugly to me.
It's a republican jobs program.
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Tangentially, a UK ISP managed to get DSL to work over wet string:

https://www.revk.uk/2017/12/its-official-adsl-works-over-wet...
It's a long joke about word etymology relating to how many times the Green and Pleasant Land has been conquered:

"Britain" relates to "Briton" which used to mean a Celtic native of the British isles. That is, the people who were there when the Romans showed up.

"English" comes from the Angles, one of the Germanic peoples who colonized Britain when the Romans left. Etymologically, being English and British means you're of a mixed parentage indeed, and rather proves the case that immigrants integrate quite well.

"Pork" and "beef" come from Norman French, "Norman" from the fact they were originally Vikings and French from the fact they settled in Normandy before expanding their holdings in 1066. Again, proof that modern Great Britain is a land of immigrants, strivers, and hopefuls from across the water, going back to time immemorial.
I wonder what people who have spent their adult life studying and implementing UI/UX think about it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this business appears to be... A template? Like a word template, but the fields are separated so they're harder to navigate.

Why would I, as a customer, use this?
ISP -> VPN -> Tor can be a good idea depending on your threat model, but if you're not completely sure that you need to do so, it's best to avoid it.

ISP -> Tor -> VPN is generally extremely stupid, as tor is doing absolutely nothing for you if your VPN subscription is tied to your true identity. If, on the other hand, your VPN subscription is completely isolated from your true identity, then this can be a good way to bypass restrictions imposed by sites that block Tor. I'm not aware of tor-friendly VPN services, but I am aware of at least one tor-friendly VPS provider, which should be just as good given that your VPS subscription would not be tied to your true identity. Would not recommend using this method more than absolutely necessary, because although you can keep your true identity secret if you're very careful, it does become substantially easier to track you and ultimately unveil you by studying correlations (for one example, if your VPN is only active on the network while your home internet is connected to a Tor relay, over time you could be singled out as the most like source of that traffic).
> She has widely-held opinions like trans-women should be respected

Um no. She has admitted to being part of the known trans hate group GenderCritical.

Edit: not sure why I am getting downvoted. She uses talking points from the GenderCritial group when she writes and even mentions them by name and that group was banned by reddit for being a hate group.
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I believe this was the goal of some French Enlightenment philosophers like Denis Diderot[0] and others who worked on the Encyclopédie[1]. Definitely a worthwhile project. One problem you will have to find a solution to is how to adequately explain things that require tacit-knowledge (e.g. it's not enough just to know chemistry, you also have to know how to do it, which requires physical practice, not just book learning).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A9die
It’s actually the Japanese version of MapleStory that first had the “Gachapon ticket” in 2004, which gave random in game items and cost real money. (While it seems to have been ported to other versions later on, I can’t figure out when that happened). ZT Online is definitely closer to the modern loot box model. While they also didn’t have loot box unique items, they had the model where you used keys to open chests bought with real money. Additionally enemies didn’t drop items in the game, instead it was a combination of buying materials and smithing. This apparently made gambling with keys to get items directly very compelling in comparison. Opening a chest was also rigged in a way where a wheel span on items you could get, but the appearance rate of valuable items was more common than the rate at which you would actually land on them.

Here’s an article written on the game in 2007: https://forums.mmorpg.com/discussion/161383/the-dark-side-of...
well, there are lots of diseases that aren't comorbid with covid, and the author pointed to no spikes in deaths from those diseases.

Suicide is not responsible for any appreciable fraction of that 35%. The article doesn't mention suicide at all, and it would be so extraordinarily anomalous if suicides were suddenly on par with heart disease that that would be the only possible title of this article if they were.
GNU MPFR 4.1.0 Released
Personalized car search engine hits 100k user milestone
Show HN: Sourcestack – an “antiframework” for serverless TypeScript web apps
I feel pretty strongly that, assuming you care about the art and creating things then Valve is a blueprint of how exactly not to do it, hang on let me finish.

Building Steam was a genius business move, it has basically given them an insane amount of income for close to zero effort, I mean the client is insanely janky and has barely been updated from an actual experience point of view in over a decade but it doesn't matter because almost all PC gaming purchases are funneled through it.

Now what this should have done is allow the company to stop caring about profits and being able to relish in building true art to a true un-compromised vision. But something has seriously gone wrong here and the company has struggled to ship close to anything meaty in 16 years.

To put it in perspective lets look at auteur studios held in similar regard as Half-Life.

(I'm ignoring side releases, just focusing on mainline games)

- Half-Life: HL2 2004, HL:A 2020
- Kojima : MGS3 2004, MGS4 2008, MGS5 2014, Death Stranding (worth pointing out his studio was rebuilt from nothing for this too) 2020
- Rockstar : GTA:SA 2004, GTA4 2008, RDR 2010, GTA5 2013, RDR2 2019

If Valve hadn't had steam, the company would not still exist today with that output. If HL:A good, yes. But we put it next to Rockstars output in the same time and it's not even the same league.

Something has seriously gone wrong within Valve and I think the charitable way to frame it is "Oh they just care so much they only release when its perfect" but I'm not really buying that, I feel they have instead of being freed creatively by Steam they have been shacked by it.

Steve Jobs sales and marketing speech comes to mind [0], the people calling the shots are only focused on running a digital videogame Walmart, artists push and push get burned out by not shipping and leave. At the head of it I guess Gabe just doesn't have the passion or care enough about creating art to push for anything else.

Now if you're a big Valve fan what I'm saying might annoy you, but really think for a second. What have you as a Valve fan been denied because the people in the company care more about running a store than making art. What games exist in the reality where Valve never made steam.

[0] : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4VBqTViEx4
I don't think of that as "weaseling out of" at all. If anything, I've been arguing that the single primary thing that nullifies Uber's "they're all just contractors!!" argument is that drivers have no involvement in setting the price. If drivers can set the price though, and actually put in fair bids that they believe are necessary to pay their costs and make an acceptable profit, then it does become much more of a true marketplace and the "all drivers are employees" argument holds a lot less water IMO.
> This is very incomplete advice for the given threat scenario of "fearful of government persecution".

That is in the list of things the article is saying it is not for.
Author here. I created sourcestack as an alternative to AWS Amplify for creating full-stack serverless web apps. Amplify is a great tool, but as it's a high-abstraction framework that hides infrastructure behind libraries and code generation tools, I frequently end up fighting against it when it doesn't meet my requirements.

In my opinion this is the essential and insidious problem of frameworks - they make certain things easy, but they require you to cede too much control and you end up constrained by their assumptions and locked in to their roadmaps.

sourcestack takes a template based, low-abstraction approach that surfaces all infrastructure and common logic as source code within the workspace, giving you complete control over all aspects of your application. It aims to provide a batteries-included, forkable foundation for a web app that encourages adaptation and a deeper understanding of cloud infrastructure. I'm hoping that others might find it useful and perhaps be inspired to create forks or similar templates for other technologies.
If it's an objective C exception, you can catch those with an objective c wrapper function. Ive done that before in my Swift projects.
You mean this one? [1]

> "Uber and Lyft covered the costs of the study [...] The study was priced as cost-plus, which covered the costs of the research plus overhead to the university. In total, study costs came to $120,000. [...] Driver earnings for all of our analyses came directly from Lyft and Uber. "

Yeah, real convincing.

[1] https://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a...
How so? I don't understand this analogy at all. UI/UX design changes frequently involves changing the appearance and possibly location and even functionality of familiar things. If we changed the lettering in a phonebook, or even merely on the cover, to be, say, klingon font, we shouldn't expect the typical user to reach for that phonebook, yet essentially what the GP is suggesting is that it's sufficient for a user to understand the "phonebook concept" and users can learn the implementation details trivially based on that.
There are ethical problems quite close to home.

For instance you work for an organization that doesn't properly take stewardship of the resources it has and it turns into disaster.

You work for Company A which has customers B and C. B is a more important customer of A, so you work on B's project instead of A's project. Now "C" asks you why his project is late: the triangular conflict is a much better situation than 'we are floundering' but if you tell C about it you will get you in trouble with both A and C.

In that case, C might ask you to quit working for A and go work for them but you have a contract that says you're not going to walk off with a customer.

Problems like that can sneak up on you long after you're involved with a "gig" and feel like you have enough chips in the pot that you get "frog boiled" into making a mistake. See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_injury
I always wonder why repl driven development is not as popular as it (in my opinion) deserves to be? Am I missing something here?
The ribbon was one of the worst things to ever hit Office. I remember it was met with universal horror when it first came out, but they were fully committed (apparently not having done ANY user testing) and insisted people would get used to it and prefer it because: we paid someone a ton of money who told us it's better.

Like many others, I STILL to this day have to google to figure out where things are with the ribbon interface, probably the least intuitive interface I've ever used.
I really wanted to like Quibi. I enjoyed the Most Dangerous Game romp, I really loved the daily updates from the BBC, and overall the idea of content specifically made for ~10 minute sprints work perfectly for me.

The rest of the content though... Pretty bad, at least to me. One daily show isn't enough to keep me around.

Anyone know of a solid, ~15 minute daily news report similar to what the BBC was offering on Quibi? Preferably something with a worldwide scope. I'd happily pay a fraction of Quibi's monthly fee for just that show.
> The crash happened because of a server side change that triggered roughly the Objective-C equivalent of a null pointer exception.

> Objective-C is an old unsafe language.

This was a safe crash, not an unsafe one. Swift can and would crash the same way.
This is quite a fun and interesting story. They don't have much to go on that working on this ring did inspire the One Ring story. I'm not much of a Tolkienologist, but I believe he kept diaries and notes, is there any hard proof that this helped inspire the ring in the stories?
I wonder how much of this ends up being from gender-based socialization. Maybe this individual got just the right balance of encouragement and luck in her upbringing to build a healthy balance of self-confidence in her abilities and self-doubt to encourage her to keep learning.

Meanwhile, a ton of men are insecure and scared, but they're treated as "the default choice," so in many cases they may not receive that formative boost of self-confidence. Thus, we get grown men convinced that they don't belong in their own careers.
What's with the pollyanna stuff on HN around this obvious failure? There isn't one thing going well here, but I keep seeing HN comments acting like writing it off is some kind of moral crime. It was a bad idea and it's failing. Could they turn it around, sure I suppose, anything is possible. But right now it's not looking so hot. It's not a big deal to say that.
I find it really interesting how a social network can shape your thoughts.

Back in the day, I was an avid SlashDot reader, I even participated in the Sony Rootkit fiasco (I got my 10 minutes of Internet fame for compiling a list https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/398332-neowins-official-s... ) .

At the end of that time, I remember briefly looking into Digg and been nauseated about it, looking into Reddit and just finding it weird (no story summaries?) and looking at HackerNews comments and thinking what a bunch of capitalists wannabe they were (I think with time the discourse in HackerNews has become more "leftist" leaning towards Open Source, freedom, and similar thoughts).

I ended up coming more and more to HackerNews as the quality of the discourse in Slashdot went down, and because the quality of the discourse here in HackerNews became better. I also got into the "startup culture" around that time, so I am sure my perceptions changed.

For some reason I also got more and more into reddit at that time, specific subreddits (mainly about my country while I was an expat, but also about US Politics which I find pretty entertaining to follow).

One thing I have been seeing in HackerNews in the last years is that the "comment effort" has decreased. You see more people writing single line comments like "or so he said" that do not really contribute anything. Although the moderation team make their best to maintain a good amount to SNR in the site, I think something like a reminder each time you are commenting with the main guidelines (be civil, strongest plausible interpretation, good-fate, etc) would help as more an more new people join.
While I much prefer the subscription model myself, there's no way I would have been able to get my parents to pay for a wow subscription as a kid and now as an adult I see the problems with that model as well( grindy content, time gating etc). No solution is perfect, the problem is optimizing for profit instead of fun which is to be expected.
Oracle Java cannot be packaged or used in any but personal setup, and there’s no need for it these days when OpenJDK is the official Java implementation.
I think your book analogy would be much more accurate if the hypothetical forger were to print and bind their own hard copy of the book, and then pass it off as an original printing.

Plenty of people are perfectly fine with buying replications of artwork, books, etc., when they know this is the case. Our human nature to place a much higher value on original items is probably more of an emotional response than a logical one.
This isn't really changing anything. LibreOffice is under the GPL. It's just a marketing attempt to get large organizations to realize that they should contribute back to the ecosystem if they rely on LibreOffice.
You have to be technically competent enough to know how to dynamically load a framework, though.
I can only claim secular documentation for the former. :)
This is such a fluff piece. Taken the community by storm? Noob's maybe.
I could see the benefits if they integrated their current approach with what they used to do previously — fill out your CV and list your preferences, get a curated list of relevant openings. At that point however, they're directly competing with LinkedIn, Stack Overflow Jobs etc.
Isn't Facebook the place that forces engineers to write code in a open bullpen environment? How can high quality code be written in a madhouse?
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The Cause of Your Workplace Headaches
I dont know what people think the result this will be, but I can tell you what will not happen, they will not just magically make all the drivers full time employee's

one or more these things will happen if this stands

1. Hours will be limited to part time only

2. Rates for rides will explode, which will likely cause a reduction in revenue probably to the point to mass layoffs

3. Drivers will have to sign Exclusivity and not be allowed to work for any other RideShare service

4. Drivers will have to work a set schedule, set by uber

I am not saying any of these are necessary bad but it seems to me that many of the people "fighting for employee status" seem to think that a change in that status means everything about the service stays the same but now they get vacation, paid sick time and health insurance.

That is very very unlikely to be the result
Actually I'd say that it's not any better than pay-to-win, and could actually be worse.

At least with pay-to-win you know that it's a sham and that it's only the amount of money that you spend which influences how good you are at the game (more or less).

With cosmetics and appearances it's much more stealthy since you're still a good player if you win, but there is peer pressure to pay for a skin so you can keep up with the latest fashions. You could easily spend more and more money this way before realising what a sham it is, and all you'd have to show for it is maybe a full digital wardrobe of stuff you never wear. (With no way to sell that to recoup even some of the costs).
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Yes, but 1. it’s hard to inject that as the crash happens very early at launch and 2. Objective-C exceptions of this type are not intended to be caught.
This framing where any action that takes virus seriously is talked about as "fear" is quite manipulative political action too. Let's not pretend the "whether we judge it right or wrong" somehow removes it.

So is attributing overloaded hospitals to "lots of staff in quarantine" given how it looked like in Italy or Spain or New York.
Ubuntu provides Java the same way as Debian does, enabling applications to run with any compatible Java implementation. There is one version which gets pulled by default, but you can totally switch to a different one.