skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an SF East Bay person:

I've spoken at length with my best friend, a doctor, and a neighbor, also a doctor -- both of whom believe it's not rational to shut down the economy for the risks of this pandemic, particularly w/r/t the demographics of those most at risk given the (relatively low) mortality rate. Neither are Trump/GOP supporters.

I've spoken at length with others.. not doctors.. who think it's not rational to open up at all, and that things need to be shut down further until progress is made.

My workplace recently sent out a survey and asked if we were ready to come back to the office, if there were those who were interested in volunteering for a Back to Office pilot project. My team all voted against, with "commuting on Bart" as the first and conclusive deal-breaker. I also don't want to sit in an office with a mask on all day. So, for now, WFH.

Of course, if I was subject to unemployment... I don't think I'd change my vote but I would have a different emotional response to the question.

(FWIW, I was let go from a contract gig during the first week of SIP, and was hired a week later by a company I'd been in process with for a few weeks).
Show HN: Who wants to be hired in a new avatar
Hello all,

I saw that many people have lost their job due to the current economic situation and I have seen many people posting status and updates on Twitter, Reddit and LinkedIn about their job search struggle. Even on who wants to be hired thread on HN, I saw more than 300 people seeking jobs.

I have been thinking very hard on how I can possibly help them find a job.

So I thought of building a platform where profiles of few randomly selected job seekers (2-10) is featured daily to help them find the job quickly.

My mission is to help 3000+ people find a job in 2020.

Here's the link: https://www.jobroz.com.
What I mentioned was least of TikTok's initial criticism.

It was known to be a safe haven for much worse type of people(X) because the app was predominantly used by teens in Asian countries where child protection online laws are nearly nonexistent.

Apart from turning a blind eye to it, along with moderation principles which made sure X got what they want, TikTok rose to market leader due to sheer number of Asian population.

TikTok (Musically) was an Asian first app unlike Instagram, high Smartphone/Internet penetration acted as a catalyst.

Only when they got prominence in western market, they started regulating the content for vulgarity.
I really dislike articles like these. I don't think the author is interested in having any kind of productive discussion or criticism.

There's a million reasons to hate Kubernetes, the author couldn't be bothered to venture beyond the lowest hanging fruit (yaml)?

If I could downvote this I would.
Sure, not all of the endowment is fungible, but it's $40 billion. Harvard is insanely rich by any measure.
https://nosystemd.org/
Agreed. The writing style is so full of bile that any actual point just drowns in it and makes the author seem petty and bitter about the world. Not a good read, even for those that agree with the author about unneeded complexity.
It's pretty Orwellian to take a phrase calling out the dangers of trading freedom for security ("Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety") and twist it into the exact opposite.
I explained why that’s not correct in a reply that was present at the time you made that comment. The fact that it’s monospace is due to CSS; whatever font family my browser picks, it will have to meet that criterion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23832927
You can see these on a daily basis by now. Just the other day, major Youtube channel blocked, Gsuite accounts suspended without warning (after a decade of forking over cash) and so on. The only warning you will ever need is this one: Don't trust the cloud, don't trust cloud providers and make sure your mission critical path is only tied to things that you can control or that you have a 'hot' spare standing by for. Otherwise sooner or later you will be bitten.
Hype train tickets are cheap to get on, but expensive to get off.
I think he/she made it clear it is needlessly replacing parts of the job.

The question is, should one feel any one way about that. I’d imagine it would be the most annoying thing on earth, so it’s a valid emotion being expressed.
I disagree. Saying you agree with free speech, such as the Harper's Letter which is about as milquetoast and generic as it gets, is viciously attacked on the left for being racist, anti-trans, the authors are scum, anyone who signs it should be fired, and on and on.

As a testament to the existence of cancel culture and the stifling of any opinion against the party line in the progressive media, I can't think of a more obvious example.

I remember when people used to proudly say, "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it". This is not the norm for progressive thinking in 2020.
There are no Netflix streams licensed for further broadcast. Sharing a stream with 80k people is just as illegal as torrenting it to 80k people. Copyright law doesn't differentiate between protocols.
> Completely disagree. And I think Joe Rogan's podcast is the perfect example of how the market is suggesting exactly what you replied to.

Dave Chapelle, too. Comedians are lying to you (mostly), they are regular people trying to figure shit out (often times with you listening at home).

This is why they are popular.
You don't need that. You can use humans to flag and verify logical fallacies. The computer can just be tasked with labeling.
Had a similar thing happen to me with Github a while back (pre-Microsoft acquisition).

Even as a paying customer for many years, my account was disabled – without even receiving an email warning. I only discovered when browsing issue histories where I knew I'd left detailed comments, and noticing my comments gone without even a note about deletion, leaving threads nonsensically fragmented.

When I tried to login, I was only faced with a generic "activity that looked malicious" message – but no hint of what that might have been. Once I complained, I was restored quickly – but if I'd been on extended vacation, or perhaps even passed away, there'd have remained giant holes, indefinitely, in projects I'd contributed to.

Was anything I legitimately did as myself suspect? (They couldn't say.) Was some third party trying to get access – or did they even briefly succeed, perhaps with some compromised credential somewhere? (That was my fear – but they couldn't say & there was no evidence of compromise in what I could see.)

After several angry emails about how they shouldn't accuse a longtime paying account in good standing of 'malicious activity' – creating fear of an account compromise of unknown extent – they finally said no, it wasn't unauthorized access (or attempts thereof) but some comment (unspecified in age/topic) that a filter deemed similar to other malicious comments.

I'd paid them ~$600 over the previous 5 years, and still had an active subscription with working billing details. My account was nearly a decade old with a wide variety of contributions & comments. But still, an automated system with no apparent human review disappeared my account, without even generating a notification.
Oh sure, it was Memorial Day, not the mass groupings of people who were protesting for BLM.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/rich-noyes/2019/11/12/i...

96% Negative Spin from the main 3 networks.

>Silent on Economic Success: Despite record highs in the stock market and a fifty-year low in the unemployment rate, the President’s handling of the economy was given a stingy 4 minutes, 6 seconds of airtime during these six weeks, or less than one percent of all Trump administration news (645 minutes).
I might be misremembering but I thought her appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast was cited by some as her making a fool of herself while trying to answer an honestly curious question by Joe (and I'm pretty sure she's been on since and will almost certainly be making a visit again soon as she's "news hot" right now which is the best time for an interview).

As for the future of media, I wonder if long-form podcasting where the conversation goes far beyond sound bites and delves deep into the explanations for why the interviewees believe what they believe (and what their sources for believing that are) could legitimately be the near-future of media. Rogan invites on plenty of people with whom he's not ideologically aligned and they have civil, intelligent discussions... in short, an exchange of ideas in a public forum.
Grant will be missed. I was definitely influenced by him at an early age. He gave me a glimpse of what being a roboticist and engineer looked like. And that was enough to propel my career forward.
Without the other side, you have no idea whether their support is in order or not. Being such a large organization leaves millions of possibilities. Is this user even a paid account?

Going back to the OP's post, if you leave a vendor for a single 1-sided account of a negative experience, you'll never deal with another company again.
NYC Has Its First Day in Months with No Covid-19 Deaths
From the article, I didn't get a clear sense of what the author means by the "greatest teaching techniques". These are the points that form the narrative structure:

- Physical presence - Reading the room, seeing their faces

- Physical space - Less distactions

- Humor

- Diversity and inclusion

These aren't techniques, they're characteristics of the teaching environment, modes of interaction, demographics.

The first two points seem relevant, that certain techniques of interaction that a teacher develops over a career may be dependent on shared physical space, social dynamics, and personal communication, that are unsuitable for (or impossible with) online teaching.

If we take the Socratic method to mean a general approach of "leading students, through questions, to do their own thinking about a specific objective" - I'd agree that there's little to no limitations imposed by the technologies used for online teaching/learning.

The take-away for me is that educators are learning to adapt and perhaps invent teaching techniques that are effective in this new environment of online/virtual shared presence and space.
Your work and its meaning
A hotel is a great application for robots since the rooms could be designed for their capabilities.
> It seems few today are still able to engage with ideas directly...

Who has the TIME? I mean, you have to filter what you choose to think about and engage on. The world doesn't need to pause and refute every stupid opinion someone trots out.
I tried to find something valuable in this post, but this is just a few paragraphs of rant.
Aren’t there times when an ad hominem attack is fitting?

If I have a documented history of a certain type of bad behavior and turn around to say I’m a victim of exactly that same sort of behavior. If I write a screed about my victimhood it does lie in the background that my own behavior likely seeded the negativity I received in return.

In that sense this goes beyond “ad hominem attack”. The accusation is more accurately that Bari Weiss is a bad faith actor in a system of mutual journalistic integrity, accusing her current colleagues of being bad faith actors. I don’t know if her colleagues are bad faith actors are not but Weiss does seem to be a case of “the pot calling the kettle black” or whataboutism which should be taken seriously rather than dismissed as ad hominem.
> I'm at work and not allowed to read active patents.

Is that related to legal issues (as in, if you don't read patents, there's less chance that you'll end up being prosecuted if you accidentally implement something similar)?
Written Board Meetings
Apparently it wasn't the least of everyone's concerns, since it was the only thing the original commenter mentioned.
this is already mentioned in the article.
One of the advantages of the Commodore 64 was its crappy BASIC dialect. To do anything with graphics or sound, you had to pretty much learn assembly. I'm pretty sure that whoever decided to stick Commodore BASIC v2 in that thing had no idea they were creating an entire generation of assembly programmers.
Writing from Ireland, >20 cases a day (as of writing).
The lockdown here was a huge success.

But looking at the US numbers it seems that you got the worse outcome of lockdown/no-lockdown. Economical hit, plus number of cases are back on the rise due to people not isolating properly.

One could argue that for US lockdown was a mistake. Or at least very costly move to delay/prepare for peak infections.
This was published in 2018
Nice projection my dude.

It's a lamentation of the introduction of complexity into a formerly-simple set of APIs.
I'll bite: why?
It's very appropriate to call someone out on their actions if they are completely inconsistent with what they are claiming to value whenever it stops being useful to them. This isn't a scoring panel for high school speech and debate class.
The word "claim" seems unduly negative. Why not use "report"? For example "Astronomers report merger ..." Also, the title also seems to imply that the two black holes are within a third black hole; wtf? I suggest as title "Astronomers report merger of two black holes as the pair orbited a third black hole".

Of course this is far from the title and focus of the paper, which is about the EM counterpart...
That's what the 7 day return period is for.
I’ve watched this with interest over the years as readership drops to a smaller group that spends more. I believe NYT is still profitable despite lower circulation.

I could guess that this lower circulation is, at least partly, the result of readers who don’t appreciate a false reality being reported as truth. I’m not sure how to measure this. It’s based on my own technique of when I encounter someone speaking false reality I try to understand and come to some common understanding. Sometimes I have it wrong. But if I don’t have a standing relationship with someone who frequently doesn’t operate in reality, I just ignore or unsubscribe. I assume they carry on.

In NYT’s case they carry on and have even more subscribers who like this version of reality. So it’s a bit of a spiral. I’m already surprised how long they’ve lasted.
SPA Doesn’t Need a Router
To all those who harp on Tesla's statements being false - you completely missed the point: full use of the Streisand Effect for free advertising.
Sweden's excess deaths look no worse than any other country [1].

[1] https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/04/16/tracking...
They have 1,600 journalists last year that were sent to 150 countries [1]. What other organization is doing anything like that effort to gather facts around the world?

Who is doing more collective discovery (and making it accessible to the public at a price an average person can afford)? I can only think of a handful of organizations that are serious candidates (Reuters? The BBC? Wikipedia?).

Weird puff pieces, drama on the editorial pages (what else would there be?), declining standards, you could find the same complaints any year since the first newspaper. I can't take them too seriously until I see an alternative that does the work of collective discovery.

[1] https://www.nytco.com/journalism/journalists-on-the-ground/
Almost like with etcd, it started simple, but got expanded into a huge incomprehensible monster by the original developers. Politically and business-wise, systemd is a clear win for Lennaert and his clique, as well as the whole Redhat/IBM.

But I am sure that future historians will view the impact of systemd on computing as largely negative.
So you want to address those fundamental behavorial pitfalls by coming up with a new system that places you in the small group of rich and in-control?

If some individuals are incapable of seeing the world around them as anything other than losers vs. winners and want to have a way of measuring worth that makes them rank higher, I couldn’t care less—as long as they don’t try impose it on others.

From empirical observation, holding cryptocurrency does not suddenly make people more altruistic, knowledgeable, ethical or anything else positive. It triggers the usual patterns of behavior associated with power and wealth (first of which being “do everything you can to maintain those”).

Of course, most of those currently in possession of significant capital will not have much trouble converting it to any new form that comes along. People who would get hurt are the middle class—folks who do not rule the world, but have things to lose. So, most people.
I'm just repeating it as I remember it after nearly 40 years. :-)

Back in the day, there wasn't Google, Wikipedia, Snopes, etc. or I would have looked it up back then.
any idea if these materials were in German or in English?
Setting up and managing keys, spinning up new repos, etc. would suck up an inordinate amount of time. This was especially true when I worked at consultancies. Blocking developer work with “Sorry gotta wait on Todd to add you to the server and set you up on Git,” when Todd would avoid it like the plague because it sucked would lose a lot of time.

If you averaged the time out, it may not have hit the five hour per week mark, but it combined with other time savers (linking Git directly with the issue tracker for example instead of having to figure out how to cross reference them) easily did/does.
How many of the original committers still work at Google? I think it's clear that the author means to point out that the originators have left Google.
It's mostly a rant about someone not accepting that extra performance can come at the cost of complexity.

While I could argue with all the points that he's making, my main counterpoint is this: junior devs don't care that their http/2 server uses way more "complex" code then their http/1 server, it's just a flag away (or in most cases, automatic). Senior devs worth their salt also don't care, if I design an application that is going to run on kubernetes I now know it will run in the big cloud providers and on premise without major changes. It forces you to accept that your app will die and needs to be able to run from a cold start without any issues. I can't count the number of machines I've encountered over the years that couldn't be rebooted because the maintainers monkeypatched the crap out of it while running EoL distributions, libraries and web servers.

And now I've realized I've become a geek yelling at the cloud as well.
You may not realize you're inciting a flame war. If you google for this there's no shortage of arguments going back 10 years and continuing to this day
> It is a free product.

I for one pay for GitHub. I've never had a ticket that wasn't answered in under a day, but I'd be almightily annoyed with them if I submitted a ticked like this and didn't have a response within hours.
ad-hominem and hearsay.

>There were a lot of bad ones

Sounds like he had a point, then. Also, apparently HN would rather read your rather salty gossip, than comment on the article on its own merits. Nice!
You can phrase it cynically, but that stuff isn't inherently bad. Or at least, it's not worse than anything else people aimlessly browse on the internet. Mostly, it's just fun.
You don't think the entire op-ed that consists of "send in the military to slaughter tens of thousands of people protesting institutional racism" is racist?
Musical.ly is not an American product. Just because it was incorporated in US does not mean the team and co-founders are from US.
> This might be the most ironic and most dangerous effect of this "right think" regime:

How it is ironic? It's the explicit intention.
A long time ago I knew a guy who kept his head above water after he lost his job in the dotcom crisis doing scientific editing. He worked through an agency, but I don't know the name.
Perhaps, but I've already responded to you addressing this, in this thread. The public's ignorance must be considered; being "technically correct" isn't good enough if the "technically correct" statement is being made by somebody who has every reason to believe it will be misunderstood.
By moving up the stack a bit (managing computation, rather than storage) we can provide consistency using techniques other than just using the guarantees provided by the storage itself. This isn't a new observation (Dryad/DryadLINQ made it wrt MapReduce/Hadoop, among other examples I'm sure) but that is where the trade-off lies.

If you instead implement low-latency systems where each step along a dataflow involves a round-trip through replicated highly available storage, Spanner if you like or even just Kafka, then 100% you might reasonably conclude that eventual consistency is the right call. This is roughly the situation that microservice implementors currently find themselves in. I don't think it is a great situation to be in, personally.

The value proposition with something like Materialize (and there are other options) is that you can get consistency and performance if you can express your computation as something more structured than imperative code that writes to and reads from storage. In our case, the "something" is SQL.

Hope that helps!
Should bile and bitterness and pettiness never ever be expressed in written form?
I was watching a BBC2 show doing a historical re-enactment of building a castle and was reminded that bioweapons have been used for most of recorded history. From putting rot/poop on an arrowhead or a musket ball, to throwing a dead animal in a well.

Not defending the practice, more saying we've been assholes to each other forever.
Note that "hostile work environment" is a legal term related to a pattern of behavior taken to intimidate someone based on a protected trait (e.g., age, sex, religion, race, disability, etc.).

Notedly, political viewpoints are not a protected trait.
There is a mix of metric and non-metric products, with panel products having more than lumber. Occasionally you even run into other weird measuring systems such as in traditional Japanese beams.
North America seems very stuck in imperial measures when it comes to lumber specifically, likely due to entrenched skills and thinking in carpentry. Even PET (precision end trimmed) products designed for cookie-cutter construction are in inches (eg 140 and 5/8").
There is even resistance by old guys against metric threading on machines since all the old tooling and warehouse stock is imperial!
Since hackernews is mostly junior devs or senior principle architects (formerly junior devs), I expect there's a lot of stockholm syndrome going on in these comments.

Better get out of here before they notice us.
The percentage of tests with a positive result has increased, which indicates an increase in the true number of cases.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states
>It is truly shameful that I continue to be “no-platformed” by the thought police

I don't know all the facts about this situation, but the author is not writing with substance.
I didn't realize it was a touchy subject. That's my bad. I'll do some research on this.
This is hardly the first instance of these large cloud providers screwing over their customers in terrible ways. The number of these stories on HN alone over the year must number in the 100's if not more. The 'other side' has had a decade or more to get their house in order and has not managed to do so. Support typically is so abysmal that if you need it at all you are screwed. Forking over 1000's of $ / month does not seem to make much difference.

The safe default seems to me to believe these stories at face value unless evidence to the contrary has been provided.
I don't think there's anything wrong with this. The same criticism could (and probably was) leveraged against the guy who quit Amazon in protest, and much of HN (rightly, IMO) cheered him for leaving a prestigious post because he felt his employer violated his strongly held convictions.

It's fine to take issue with her convictions directly, but spinning the narrative with respect to her leaving her post at all seems disingenuous and ad hominem IMO.