skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cancel culture is calling for firings or other loss of status due to expressing a political view or social view that does not conform to a large in-group with the ability to draw attention to an artifact (often taken out of context, with no due process) that undermines your reputation.

The other word for cancelling someone is bullying them.
That's true of, well, anything. A non-RDS / NoSQL datastore doesn't save you here!
It all depends on what you're interested in. I frequent this site, specific reddits, hardforums, imgur, and xda forums. Gamers with jobs was also a big one for me but I haven't been in a while.
Yeah, but you can actively discourage this through moderation (and/or curate content such that these posts get less attention).
Money really can buy happiness and recessions can take it away
Might be think of “machine with concrete” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5q-BH-tvxEg
OK - will do that. Thanks.
Been using the new Edge Browser since two weeks, mostly for testing our new web app. I must say i'm really impressed. The speed definitely is better than Firefox (which is my default). To give due credit, this is the best browser from Microsoft.
Still no version for Linux. A lot of Linux users are getting impatient waiting for Microsoft to release this app.
Yes. It is good. It is one closed sourced chromium fork i can recommend. It's developers are linux advocates too.

It has some opera browser features. It has also released part of it's source code.

At the end of the day,i am not using vivaldi because it is not open source. Brave browser is also nice imo(except crypto and tokens)
I found when using Ublock origin, when edge imported my extensions, it used the edge version, which has slightly different behaviour than the chrome store version. Install from chrome web store if you see inconsistent results
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According to Website Carbon Calculator:

> The internet consumes a lot of electricity. 416.2TWh per year to be precise. To give you some perspective, that’s more than the entire United Kingdom.

I'm not sure if that is the infrastructure of the internet plus the data-weight of the web...
Networked games touch on a number of general challenges with distributed computation:

1 Logical clocks used for synchronization. The clocks aren't literally synchronized, but the events taking place across multiple clocks(at least one per connection, and maybe more if concurrency within the client is accounted for) are all logged to an eventually-consistent timeline. How that consistency is enforced is where the trade-offs come in.

2. The closer the featureset resembles shared memory, the worse the experience is. Item duplication bugs were a common occurrence for so long because they express shared memory ownership in a fairly direct manifestation, and it takes a few roundtrips to verify ownership. Saying "I shot you", in contrast, is just sending a message, and can usually coexist with other messages.

3. Consensus algorithms that are governed by nominally human inputs and perceptions. Input manipulation and ESP tools are typical entry points for cheating. When we say "you cheated at this game", we're talking about an attack on consensus.

The thing that I think more could be done of is to ignore the notion of really playing "simultaneously", since we're already using logical clocks, and to focus instead on performance capture and reproduction with AI. The thing that we want out of the experience, generally, is better signal-to-noise, and that isn't had just by lowering the ping times and exhaustively tracking all the data, but by distilling player behavior into pertinent factors and then recreating them in approximation. We're already doing it, but our expectations force the reconstruction to stay close to real-time, which means consensus is constantly being disrupted by anomalous behaviors.

If we looked instead towards trying to create a bot that can accurately match each player's observed unique playstyle, it becomes easier to make "dream matches" that provide a rich signal for players of all types and skill levels. But current bots never throw that much effort into quality, hence their poor reputation as computer opponents persists.
I don't think overhead power lines heat up much in normal operation, given the economics involved. They will definitely expand/contact in line with ambient conditions however, and also must be flexible enough to sway in the wind without causing excessive abrasion between the cable and fibre.
Edit: the helical wrap would probably expand/contact more than the electrical cable, as it'd be "wider" overall.
I found someone selling them on AliExpress, though at a high price point: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000990317952.html

If you don't mind a different style (clam shell), you can get them for significantly less: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33025755888.html

I suspect both AliExpress listings are an order of magnitude more expensive than they can be purchased on Taobao, but then you have to A) find it on Taobao, and B) use a shipping agent in China to export it.

Found a US-based seller who has them for $3/each (min quantity 10): http://siliconkit.com/ocart/index.php?route=product/product&...

Ah, the model number is listed on the flashrom wiki: https://www.flashrom.org/Technology#SO8.2FSOIC8:_Small-Outli...

Edit: Here's the Taobao link: https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=576521466919
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They don't, but the spammers have become more sophisticated over time. They use Cyrillic letters that look like Latin letters, they hack old unused accounts (sometimes verified ones), they post the spam as a second-level answer, they use images instead of tweeting text, they have started adding noise and various transforms to the images to make them harder to automatically classify as spam, and they probably have many more tricks up their sleeves. Fighting against spam is hard.
It's nice work. I always thought it would be a pain to implement a Wireshark decoder but I was wrong!

One other approach that could have been taken: to add the desired protocols into the camera directly. I assume you're just adding a control channel and the video stream encapsulation would be minimal.
This channel is a treasure trove for answer to similar questions:

[1] Can lego break a steel axle?

[2] How much load can the smallest lego gear handle?

[3] Testing lego gear and pulley systems

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRn5waE0qfk

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjhOGoZ-bNI

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWgTRHH656Y
Ten Fun API’s for Developers – Ideas for Projects
This is certainly a romantic take on the matter but for once the liberal arts students are actually ahead of the curve since for many of them this reading is a part of their standard curriculum (followed by an exercise where some defend the practice and some condemn it): https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB95326824311657269
Step 1 for talking about "cancel culture": define the terms of reference.

This seems to have a sensible approach given that it refers to people who are not public figures being subject to misinterpreted incidents caused by outrage spreading on social media, resulting in them being fired by their employer.

> While the government is not entitled to punish political dissent, in most parts of America it is perfectly legal for your boss to fire you if they happen to dislike the person you voted for in the last election.

Indeed. At-will employment with zero notice periods and no process is ridiculous. That's at-whim employment.

> But there are no equivalent federal protections to prevent employees from being disadvantaged because of their political views.

This .. is much more fraught. And they know why:

> Clearly, for example, no member of an ethnic minority should have to endure racist taunts at their place of work. But this could also be addressed through carefully worded legislation. Seattle already offers exemptions for political conduct that would cause “substantial and material disruption of the property rights of the provider of a place of public accommodation.” Employers also have an affirmative obligation to protect employees from racist harassment.
This means noone in the EU can sell on Amazon or eBay.
Noone can use services like WebFlow and other hosting solutions. We'll see what future court decisions say about AWS hosted inside the EU.
Yes but HQ is in Nürnberg Germany, and so is the DPO:

https://www.suse.com/de-de/company/legal/

Its not about where some people work, it's what they do under witch legality, so a US citizen working in Germany or for German Customers "could" be a problem.
well this is one amazing article. The author just earned my mad respect. Just bumped up his book on my read list. I find it interesting to find out how the entire system is shaping up.
So what are we going to do about it?
Nothing. Absolutely nothing, that's what.

This happens all the time. People complain and complain, something comes out proving them right (or at least confirming their opinion) and all that happens is people relate. Politics, jobs, healthcare, interviewing practices, work conditions...

If programmers actually joined a union and organized themselves to make a db of companies with shitty interviewing techniques, bad business practices, etc. maybe something would change, but hey, complaining is easier, right?
The US never will.
it IS easy to find jobs or be a contractor, that's what the gig economy is about, that's what McJobs are about.

But those are shameful. They are a product of the free market, capitalist system with NO worker protections. This is why people end up working three jobs and still live under the poverty line, this is why people with degrees end up working at Starbucks.

Workers do not feel valued because they have been reduced to statistics, and the pandemic has made it blatantly obvious; ten MILLION people have lost their jobs in a span of weeks. The country will go into economic and social decline, while the 1% laughs all the way to the bank because the stock markets are doing just fine.
It's interesting that this gets an official blessing. It isn't something integrated with the Swift language, just a bit of code that could be a regular package.
It's an interesting coincidence that the "digital guru" Brad Parscale was demoted and another guy promoted at the end of the day. Hopefully it's not related, but the list of Twitter accounts compromised would be an oppo researchers dream (and there could be more accounts compromised that weren't publicly flagged).

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/15/politics/trump-campaign-manag...
We're happily running a small SaaS with 4 servers using a small provider near Frankfurt for less than 50 Euro/Month. In fact, this provider is massively cheaper than AWS for bare metal and we had no service problems so far. It's maybe not five nines, but the limit is really not the service provider ATM.
Right, the problem is that a small mob of people can have outsized control by putting pressure on individual employees. To that employee, it doesn't matter how big the mob is.

But in terms of ending cancel culture, if a small mob is all it takes, how effective can anything but employment law be? People calling on someone to be fired, after all, have free speech rights themselves; the best the law can do is limit the consequences of that speech.
This is wrong?

It doesn't matter where your servers are, if you offer a service to people in the EU and you store their personal data, you need to safeguard that data and comply with GDPR.

It's a law, so it can be enforced through mutual international treaties.

However, common sense prevails in the EU and especially with GDPR, so no one will go after you because you use Google Analytics and didn't give an option to opt-out. But if you start collecting personal addresses, emails and phones disguised as a charity doubling their contributions and then sell that information to callcenters abroad for tax scams and upload it to 4chan, then yes, EU's reach will be tested.

https://gdpr.eu/compliance-checklist-us-companies/

https://gdpr.eu/companies-outside-of-europe/
I could see a buffer for requests filling up too much so that it causes a no memory crash.

But even that seems preventable.
The FBI Is Secretly Using Sabre for Global Travel Surveillance
Just wanted to add we would be a better society if we had infact been firing people for using the n word in the 50's.
Yep, that's exactly it, thanks!
In light of the recent Twitter hacking, many are reconsidering the potential and dangerous consequences that a proprietary, centralised, and ultimately fragile platform can result in. Yet people stay because there is seemingly no alternative. Twitter would love to keep it that way.

The Fediverse isn't a platform, or service, or company. It's an interconnected and decentralised network. And it's growing. You've likely heard little or none about it, precisely because it's not a product, nor is there a reason (ads & data hoarding) to lure you in. Its freedom, and its your own prerogative to learn, join, express, and thrive freely.

So take a chance. Be the future. Join the Fediverse!
If a legal solution were unacceptable, the free market solution would be https://findsomethingnew.org ?
> Just wanted to add we would be a better society if we had infact been firing people for using the n word in the 50's.

1000‰, without a shadow of a doubt.
Which is ironic given that the core is now from Google.
Sounds like the outro for Bonjour Tristesse - The end of the world.
But surely, you'd concede it's far less useful. No international email, social media. No access to foreign websites: IP addresses are personal data [0].

Possibly, service delivery is feasible if you set up a warehouse in both locations to freight forward, but any vendor without the means to operate in each country.

While I expect my EU pals will say "but of course we will never apply the law that way," if this was the intent of the legislation, the legislation looks an awful lot like a nationalist tariff.

[0]https://www.alstonprivacy.com/ecj-declares-ip-addresses-pers...
Yeaaaah, I’m skeptical. Especially since they seem to dance around what Snorkel actually does at pretty much every opportunity.
While I agree 100% with your response in general, Twitter are suggesting this is an inside job (the "social engineering" line looks like a cover for "someone has been paid for internal access"). If that's true, then someone is definitely getting fired today, and a whole lot more than fired to follow!
If you are coding it up yourself I would just host it on any old hardware laying around.

The upgrade path I would use is to grab what ever old gaming pc that the founder already owns. Once everything is up and working, money is coming in, you have customers, then start considering upgrading to an actually dedicated server with redundant power supply and ups. Once that is starting to get old or the company management software has outgrown such setup you have enough data to know what kind of demands you want to apply to a cloud company in terms of reliability, scaling, support and legal.
I've been looking for a good calculus book. I was curious if this worked well, and I found:

1) It costs $300 for a paper copy
2) There are no previous. I have no idea if it's actually illustrated

I'm looking for something which is intuitive, and illustrated. A lot of pictures, good example, and perhaps less math and text (in this case, assuming the educator will be talking through most of this, and the learner doing things together).
Hawking my own (incomplete) contribution to Pickle security/analysis https://github.com/moreati/pickle-fuzz#rehabilitating-python...
Citation needed? Linux users pining for Microsoft products is a rarity. Why would they go for a closed-source browser when they can go with the open-source, non-google Chromium (same engine) or Firefox?
Overheard banter on this topic at work a few weeks ago: "yeah 'coz everyone's sitting at home farting in the sofa every evening since the f*ing corona happened instead of going about their spare time as usual".
I also do generative art, although mine is not based on the game of life and incorporates some non generative elements. In fact I spend too much time making art and not enough completing the website to showcase it. Digital allows for a wider spectrum of art than can be achieved by brush and canvas alone, although admittedly you can create things no one likes either with great ease.
EU court ruling throws transatlantic digital commerce into disarray over privacy
> Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.

Well, that's clearly accurate.

> So interesting to see “Progressive” Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe...

So I guess you're taking issue with this being about the squad? There is some plausible denial there, since three of them were born in the US. Which congresswomen do you think he was referring to?

And yes, they and I didn't quote his editorializing on whatever unmentionable countries he's referring to, I suppose, because there's no real substance to it. What's your take?
European Police Hacked Secret Phone Network, Used AI for Major Bust
Communication Technique: It's Done
We're all developers on our team, not designers. We cant seem to make it look nice. We were hoping Stripe was using a doc auto-generation system that we might have missed (we've surveyed everything and nothing looks Stripe-good!) I have geek-envy.
My mind just exploded. Would you have to breach a threshold to jump to the next state?
Dover’s Mid-Delaware Imaging Hit by Ransomware, Warns of Possible Data Breach
Using a slur does does not "require malintent by definition". Slurs can be used as terms of endearment, within jokes, etc.
Yeah, they'd need to bring in a specialist to repair the fiber optics as well, that's a specialist job.

Of course, that aside, cables generally don't need repair that much / often if they aren't in areas with extreme weather. And if they are, medium-power lines can go underground (as can the fiber optics).
> But what they are asking is for Pinker to not appear to speak in their name.

No, they don't. The petitioners demand that Pinker should be taken out of the distinguished lecturers list regardless of his academic merit, which no one has any doubt it is well deserved.

The reason? Because the petitioners feel he doesn't show enough enthusiasm supporting their own pet political views. The evidence? A pair of tweets posted in 2014 and 2015. Therefore, he must be punished for his crimes and made an example to everyone who dares not support their political pressure group.

Make no mistake: this sort of fascist stunt to silence each and every "reactionary", whether they oppose their political views or simply doesn't further their agenda, poses a very dangerous threat to any democracy. They might not color-coordinate their shirts yet, but they're running plays from Italy's and Germany's inter-war period.
> Nobody in the US government is going to scream in rage over the violation of your privacy.

by the US government. Plenty of people are screaming in rage about China, for example.
More like someone who had never really considered freezing my sperm but I'm 35 and I could possibly be talked into it, and while I'd like to think I'm above something as trivial as the company's name / brand image Im sure affects my decision making.
def even_numbers(limit):
return [num for num in range(0, limit, 2)]

It’s unfortunate they chose this specific example because it doesn’t really show the power of list comprehensions. This example could be written as

return list(range(0, limit, 2))

Or even simply

return range(0, limit, 2)

If one doesn’t need a mutable list.
Presumably the process for that is much more involved and fewer people have the power to do it. And if it requires the approval of two higher up people to do then that lowers the risk even further.
You can configure Firefox to do native Windows authentication in an O366 enterprise environment. I have done this on my corporate laptop, and it lets me use Firefox as my primary browser for any corporate / SSO site.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Integrated_...
How out of touch with the world must you be to put out such statements...
I'm also curious about wave glider technologies.

https://www.liquid-robotics.com/wave-glider/how-it-works/

It uses an under water "kite" to harvest the wave energy for propulsion.

I imagine using these for ocean cleanup. Like scooping up all the great plastic gyre debris (or whatever we're calling the floating plastic).

Remember those river clean up barges? Make ocean faring versions. Use the wave glider tech for navigation and station keeping.
> Step 1 for talking about "cancel culture": define the terms of reference.

Part of the problem is that it is quite hard to do so, or rather it is very error prone.

Something similar happens with the right to repair movement, it both cases it is very easy to mischaracterize both the problem and proposed solutions.

For me cancel culture is how easily mobs are created online calling for action on inconsistent criteria. But it is quite easy to identify this phenomenon with the propensity of corporation to listen to these mobs.
Noone in the EU now can sell on Amazon or eBay.
IANAL (in any jurisdiction, let alone a common law one), but someone fired for upsetting twitter would seem to be a case of "termination at will", while someone fired for harassing their coworkers would seem to be a case of "termination for cause".
You can still keep information.
Purifying water with the help of wood, bacteria and the sun
I wonder did the Great Scrambler Charlie read this post.
Proper encryption takes time, just XOR it, XOR it all he always says :)

Great job and realy well written post.
Also, with UBI, if people don't need to work multiple shifts to pay rent near their workplaces, there will be demand to develop those areas.
unknown reasons

People who don't want to have a bunch of kids, don't. Does it have to be more complicated than that? Unless everyone makes this decision (which seems unlikely to me although that could just be because I have ten nieces and nephews) it's basically a self-correcting "problem". People who don't reproduce are replaced in the next generation by the offspring of people who do reproduce.
anyone figure out how to do multi-label classification w/ snorkel? It seems like it's current formulation only supports single-label, ie softmax.

I find in practice, especially w/ user-interaction, system most problems are not single-label, but multi-label. Also, in the single-label setting it's often necessary to define an negative "OTEHR" class which is very difficult to define w/ snorkel in my experience.
I would just like to add, on American soil.
> EU consumer rules cover goods and services that have been bought in the EU. However, if you buy from a non-EU online trader who has specifically targeted EU consumers you should also be covered by EU rules, but you may find it difficult to assert your rights with a trader who is based outside the EU.

IANAL, but it seems to me like PINE is not "specifically targeting EU consumers".

Nonetheless, such a short warranty period is rather embarrassing for a niche product sought for mainly by folks disappointed with mainstream products' profit-oriented fragile design and poor support cycle. Heck, it even has "postmarket" in its name :P

Source: https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/shopping/sho...

More information: https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/shopping/gua...
So you really believe that everyone can become rich if they just put in the hard work? That's such a naive view that I don't even know where to start to debate it.