skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure this is true. Many tech companies I've worked for in the past have had a lot of trouble operating in China. Some don't even try.

The NBA on the other hand. I love Steve Kerr. He tweets daily about Trump and how he abuses human rights, but ask him about HK and he gets quite really quick. If a man that rich is afraid to say something - thats a tremendous amount of power. I just don't see this type influence on the tech industry.
Zulip is fantastic, and any steps we can take to free ourselves from the walled gardens is a good one, IMO.
well, that might be true, if we measure social media in money
I purposely visit YouTube with Firefox in Private mode so I do not accidentally teach the algorithm that I am interested in how to fix garbage disposals.
Which businesses are monopolies? Slack surely isn't. If there's a market for faster chat clients because that's what people want then looks like a business opportunity?

FWIW all of slack competitors are also electron (rocket.chat et all), so it seems like you possibly know something that other engineers don't and might have a competitive advantage!
I started my career in 2008. Millennials had to go where the jobs where, and they weren't in low COL areas. Hopefully covid opens up the market for far more remote work. I'm remote now, finally, but in a high COL area, which feels especially dumb now that I'm locked inside.
Benchmade fanboy here.

I went down a rabbit hole about EDC in WA state. There is a grey area that carrying a pocket knife requires a concealed weapons permit.

Most folding knives have a pocket clip, but as far as I have found, it's unclear if that in an of itself would qualify as not concealing the weapon.

https://www.akti.org/state-knife-laws/washington/
Knowing that absolute security is a myth, it makes more sense to assume all the systems are insecure and proceed from there, placing only the appropriate level of trust in any system.
Until there are consequences for unnecessarily escalating violence cops will continue to to do it because the more violent the situation the more the law favors them.

People who care about this issue have been analyzing police use of force for decades. You can find people saying basically what I just said above going at least as far back as the 1990s. The problem is well known.
Don't let them get the best of you!
> deadset against prescribing stimulant medication to children

I've seen it first hand. Child is beautiful and active and happy and sad and angry and living and the Mother just can't handle it and BAM - drugs.

Child grows up, becomes a teenager. Prescription drugs stop. Teenage moves to Methamphetamine, start cooking. Eventually is busted and jailed.

The connection, for me, is clear.

I feel very very lucky that I grew up before the ADHD diagnosis was a thing as I could have easily been that child.
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How do you plan on telling Trump, who had a sizable Twitter following before he was elected, then leveraged social media to grow his political fanbase, that all of the sudden on Jan 1, he can't use Twitter?

You are trying to close Pandora's Box.
For sure I agree, but you get what you pay for?

I appreciate it more when people are willing to do the work.
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It’s amusing that Cannon got fired for anti-semitism, which he wasn’t actually guilty of, and not racism for saying white people are less, and are closer to animals.
I'd like to see an experiment where the united states stops killing people at the border, just letting people in prison die from COVID, and attacking peaceful protestors with military equipment. See how that works? Let us not forget the founding of the country was based on genocide and slavery.

We ally with regressive states like Saudi Arabia and formerly places like nuclear apartheid South Africa. Only protests and rebellions move the needle on how shitty the government is here.
> It can be extremely demoralising for co-workers in all kinds of roles when they see that kind of recognition being given to someone who they feel don't deserve it.

This is why wages are secret. Everyone is convinced they deserve to be in the top half of earners.
i have no idea what you are talking about. folks are being held accountable, you said they weren't. are you saying that it's not happening fast enough for your liking? you were straight up wrong.
The NC election is the closest example we have in recent years to an election where fraud (would have) overturned the legitimate results of the election. I say closest because it's not at all clear that the results were enough to overturned what would have been the legitimate result: the stated margin of victory is about 900 votes, and about that many ballots are thought to have been affected.

I will freely admit that mail-in votes are far more likely--about 10×--to be involved in fraud than in-person voting. However, I will also point out that both cases of fraud are quite rare, and far less of an issue in practice than problems such as voter intimidation, voter access, and ballot design, which are known to have afflicted even the largest races in the country (the 2000 presidential election being perhaps the most famous race to have its results altered as a result of poor ballot design).
And I heard as well that stamp collectors and coin collectors societies worked in the same way, bulletins, regional, all-country, exchanges etc.
The president had made official communications first, and perhaps only via Twitter and has claimed it is an official channel for the president. There have been a few times people have found out about being fired or policies announced via Twitter with very little follow up to the people on the ground.

For example, if Trump's account had tweet something akin to "all us borders and ports are closed" it would be expected for all border agents to immediately close ports of entry, as similar happened during the original travel ban.
Given the fact that no sitting federal representative was tweeted from (i.e. Pres, VP, congress person etc.)

I think they probably have a different authorization method. One that might be wholly separate from the ones of regular or blue check mark users.

Likely monitored by the NSA or something like that.
There is a Zulip CLI client - https://github.com/zulip/zulip-terminal .
As a counter-argument, maybe the thing people are willing to pay for is the insights of a single individual (like https://www.gwern.net/ which makes a decent chunk of money from patreon), not the entire organization (such as a news paper?)

There's always going to be people who're interested in insightful, well researched articles and opinions. Isn't a part of the problem connecting these people, to the actual individuals doing posting in a more transparent way than a news-paper?

Having this as the default would pose problems of it's own, and make some of the deeper journalism requiring months/years to complete more difficult though.
What stands out to me is how empty Twitter is without all those widgets that exist only to juice engagement. The new much older Twitter-inspired default Mastodon layout is how I wish Twitter still was with sidebar widgets serving function instead of investors.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/06/mastodon-2.9/

I don't want a whole column devoted to pushing the latest horrors of the world on me and a bunch of people I don't know or have any interest in following. And that's with ads blocked.
From Snopes, which generously labels this as "mixture" (because it is also dominated by partisan ideologues)

>Some 605,000 undocumented immigrants who live in California were granted driver’s licenses in 2015...took effect on January 2, 2015...(DMV) expects a total of about 1.4 million people will get their license under the law by late 2017.

And here's the fun part

>That announcement renewed interest in another California law, the “New Motor Voter Act,” which was passed in October 2015. The combination of these two acts, one allowing undocumented residents to obtain driver’s licenses, the other automatically registering citizens to vote when obtaining driver’s licenses, sparked fears (which have been periodically resurrected for more than a decade) that California was allowing undocumented residents to vote.

Oh, but don't worry, because as you also indirectly point out:

>The law requires that applicants under the Motor Voter Act attest that they meet all voter registration requirements, but critics maintain that the law “lacks the necessary safeguards to keep noncitizens off the voter rolls.”

Which is a winded way of saying these illegal immigrants are bound by their honor to opt out of voter registration and/or not go out and use their IDs [and default registration] to vote.

So despite the downvotes, I'm not the one who has fallen victim to propaganda here. And the same incentive responsible for this kind of blatantly incorrect citogenesis gives cause to people to risk illegally voting against a man who has been painted by this same media as a literal far right white supremacist. And what risk is there, when media and fact check outlets create citations which allow politicians to claim that this isn't a problem, while potentially benefiting from it?

Also I don't appreciate that you've conflated legal and illegal immigration, though in both cases there is clearly potential for abuse. Under Cuomo a similar motor voter law was passed by the way. The Wapo "study" is intentionally myopic.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/california-motor-voter-act...
What is the problem here exactly? Youtube recommends based on the stuff you watch...
>Having survived multiple events where my survival was in serious question

Out of curiosity, what were these events?
"Dispensing product"
If only that group of people was tech-savvy, and could find some other medium or platform to facilitate their discussions.
ah the shit sandwich, I trust you're joking ;)
It has a long history of evidence supporting it.

https://cos.gatech.edu/facultyres/Diversity_Studies/Bertrand...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2915460/
I think local credit unions are a bit different than banks. I don't think JP Morgan or whatever would probably give that same consideration.

But I do take your point that banks don't necessarily want to immediately boot everybody out, foreclose, and crash the market at a time when potentially not a lot of people are buying.

Do bear in mind that the Fed has injected a shit-ton of cash into the market right now, and there actually would be more buyers than you think - it's just that they would be rental companies looking for more assets to snap up at firesale prices.
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None of my criticism is regarding how Oracle has been managing Java at a technical level. I thought that would be clear from the context, but I am strictly concerned with the increasingly dark patterns in the licensing model; I had Oracle's Java 8 on one of my computers, and it worked fine, but then a few months ago I got a notification that I needed to update to a newer version. After it was done updating, I was presented with an ultimatum: accept the new licensing terms (no commercial use without paying) or uninstall the software. I chose to uninstall, and vowed to never touch Java again when I personally have the discretion. Yes, I know I can install OpenJDK, but given Oracle's past and present behavior, how can anyone be assured they won't attempt to extinguish OpenJDK, even in the near future? Oracle seems to be boiling the frog slowly, and it probably won't be long before it becomes impractical to use non-proprietary Java anywhere.

Edit: There was no warning that installing the latest "update" to Java would trigger an ultimatum screen, and no way to revert the installation. And as far as I know, there is now no way to download Java from Oracle without accepting the new license terms. It's pretty obvious what Oracle's endgame strategy is.
The hacker could have done something subtle to possibly game all those Wall Street AI bots they've surely plugged into the Twitter firehose by now. No one would have been the wiser. Instead we got Obama demanding Bitcoins which is so outrageously obvious that we now might finally stand a chance of loosening those pursestrings so we can do more to improve infrastructural weaknesses. Good show.
A group of us in the Julia open source community have been trying to migrate to Zulip [1] from Slack. There's a lot of resistance from some community members, but those of us who made the switch are quite happy.

The topics model is fantastic, having proper markdown and LaTeX support is also killer.

The development team for Zulip is also really responsive and friendly. Coming from Slack, it was a breath of fresh air to be able to make an issue on their GitHub issue tracker and have fast, friendly thoughtful replies and quick action.

[1] https://julialang.zulipchat.com/#recent_topics if you wanna check it out
A humane society wouldn't require us to shutter our emotions behind closed doors. It wouldn't treat life events such as bereavement or a change in circumstance as if they're merely caused by a chemical imbalance. If my friend or my fiancee dies then I'm damn well going to feel sad. I might cry in public sometimes. To suggest that there is something wrong with me for doing that is massively inhumane. And it's at the core of how brain-damaged society is in the US.
or its extremely lucrative while people stuck in the 80s aren't even considering tapping into those other markets in a self-limiting philosophy.

I mean, that's exactly what is going on.

Hollywood and big tech accessing all trade routes available as formerly marxist parts of the world turn out to be pretty good at market based economies and rival the size of the always-capitalist markets, with growth potential for much more.

If some other thing needs to happen, the executive branch and Congress better say so because it obviously doesn't matter, and there is an art to dealing with China, just like there is an art to dealing with any market. Anyone thinking otherwise was never really playing the game to begin with, they are stuck in an antiquated protectionist business model in their local market.

It doesn't really matter how anyone feels about that, what I described is what's happening.
For macOS I would probably use the official drives that Fujifilm released — less hacky, for sure —, but it does not look like Canon released something similar.

You should probably ping the guys at PetaPixel[1] to get it out there, as I am sure a lot of people would benefit from this.

[1] https://petapixel.com/contact/
I think the great irony of the arguments I see surrounding the tyranny of the majority is that often in rural areas or with rural politicians you'll see them employ this argument. Something like 'we need to protect our way of life from city folk' or 'we're not bothering anyone and want to be left alone'.

But then those same rural politicians will then make the opposite argument against other minority populations (such as people whom are LGBT or among race lines) and that we shouldn't let a small minority control our state or that who cares what they think. They switch rapidly from 'tyranny of the majority is bad' to 'tyranny of the minority is bad'.
No, I was straight up right. Look at my edit:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/16/nick-cannon...
>BTC does have to be turned into fiat. But I can only assume, based on how rarely people who conduct ransomware scams and the like seem to get caught, that bitcoin laundering is a solved problem.

Furthermore, professional black hats tend to have business expenses that can be paid in bitcoin so they don't even need to convert all of it.
Two things can be true at the same time.
> leave the diagnosis to professionals

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23821855
A couple of the early people really having their money doubled would probably do wonders for spreading the scam as fast as possible.
I'm sure the feeling is reciprocated.

Taiwan is being bullied 24/7 by China. They even have Chinese military jets doing "military exercises" in the Taiwan fly zones.

https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/voa-news-china/chi...
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Good argument, but the naming is wrong.

It is NOT orthodox privilege, but the complete opposite we are dealing with today.

Let's remind ourselves what orthodox means:
"Following or conforming to the traditional or generally accepted rules or beliefs of a religion, philosophy, or practice."

Well nowadays the non-traditional views are trending, and shutting down the traditional views. So the "orthodox privilege" actually belongs to the NON-ORTHODOX folks who like to push their opinions to everyone else, and have the backing of major media, and academia behind them.

That is the reason why freedom of speech is dying in society today, and is being replaced with conformance, and silence. This is dangerous, and bad for democracy. Democracies require an open, respectful sharing of people's views. When those views are persecuted, the people are cancelled, the companies are boycotted, we have a problem. That problem is UN-ORTHODOX PRIVILEGE.
Your comment, "there's nothing wrong with my brain," doesn't clearly define what you mean by "wrong." From a biological standpoint, there is nothing wrong with misery. You can be miserable from birth to death, but as long as you pass on your genes your miserable self is "fit" from an evolutionary perspective.

Personally I would absolutely consider persistent misery, or experiencing extreme sadness over minor things, to be a clear proof that there is something wrong with my brain. Whether I treat that with therapy or medication, I think that is very much worth treating, and definitely not worth simply accepting.
This like when the younger sibling keeps punching big brother behind moms back. Eventually big brother snaps and hits the younger brother back and younger brother goes and cries to mom. It's hard to be sympathetic when radical individuals are trying to hurt officers in an effort to force their moral agenda on us.
What are the "influences" though?

What are some examples of positive impressions of CCP that people possess now, but not before the tech companies started working with China?

It seems in US at least, more people are hating China. More people protest against CCP.

If China is actually trying to exert influence, their exertion seems to be quite counter-productive.
Unrelated question - I went to chat.zulip.com in the browser and signed up. Scrolling through the messages (pixel xl2) is incredibly laggy.

If I were to build a similar UI on some project, what's a good way to ensure good scrolling performance on the web?
I have a shorter algorithm.

1) Don't.
I’d figured it was mostly cheap companies driving the broadly terrible performance of modern software for often fairly small benefits to speed and dev cost, but it turns out there’s a much stronger contingent of software developers with not just a tolerance for business-driven trade-offs, but a strongly enabling attitude toward the whole thing, apparently not seeing what they’re doing the same way I do at all. Adding this information, observed software quality makes a lot more sense to me now.
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> I don't go to Youtube for news / information

In general it seems that social media regarding news and politics is almost always toxic and should be avoided.

Twitter in particular is entirely awful because the format prohibits any intelligent discourse.
That was sensationalism, per usual. Bit of water in the access tunnel, no seed damage.
> Why are you poo pooing federation when Urbit is a federation of Stars?

Because I own my own identity, and can move it to another star quite seamlessly without losing my ID and all connections I've made. And I'm not a second class citizen in the system because of that.

With Federated protocols I can create my own instance, sure. Then I do own my identity, at the cost of all the administrative overhead and being a second class participant. Spam and abuse are an unsolved problem at the core of the legacy Internet and all these federated protocols can't do anything about it.

If I own an instance I have to deal with it (spam and other abuse) myself, and constantly fight the fact that other people think I might be a potential abuser myself, which puts people on minor-instances at a disadvantage.

So natural economic and social forces constantly push the system to centralize and that's exactly what we're seeing with everything on the Internet.
People are underestimating the impact a Twitter hack would have on the world. Imagine if instead of doing an overt hack, a malicious actor instead use the POTUS account to tweet something extremely controversial, such as a racial slur. The fallout would be immense, and can single-handedly swing an election.

The hacking of Hillary Clinton's email, is only the tip of the iceberg. We are at the dawn of weaponized-cyberhacks as a way of subverting political systems.
If you think the government is making an argument in good faith here, I have a bridge to sell you.

EDIT: Responding below: I'm unable to parse your intention, but that's what people typically say when they want to agree but still support the thrust of USG policy.
Hmm, that sounds like something was going wrong, threads don't just spawn, you have to create them, and a thread with a single comment kind of defeats the purpose.

Oh, were you editing the subject every time you commented, maybe? That's not indicated, you only edit the subject when you want to create a new thread. In our use case, threads were relatively infrequent and specific to a topic, e.g. "middle name database migration", and that's where the discussion for that happened.
This is what I loved about working at Netflix. We didn't have performance reviews. It was assumed that your performance was good to excellent, otherwise you wouldn't be working there anymore. You had a constant feedback loop with your manager on performance, but nothing was ever formal.

Raises were completely divorced from any performance assessment. You were paid whatever they thought the max was for your skillset, based on a bunch of data they had on what people at other companies got paid for similar work.

What we did have was 360 reviews once a year. It was basically a small survey you could fill out about anyone in the company, which they and their manager would see. You could evaluate your boss, your VP, or people who worked for you, or anyone else you worked with anywhere in the company. It was expected that managers do a 360 review for all of their reports, but beyond that you could do as few or as many as you wanted to. It was basically a start/stop/continue kind of thing.

It was such a refreshing change from the stack ranking at eBay, which forced good people to get shitty reviews just so they could "fit the bell curve". And as you said, it incentivized you to not praise coworkers and some people even actively sabotaged their coworkers to get a better rank.
Barr didn't seem too concerned about foreign influence when it came to a national security advisor lying to the government about cash payments from Turkey and illegal coordination with Russia.
There’s a small part of my brain that wonders what the vacuum effect of twitter suddenly disappearing would even look like. Partly terrified but infinitely curious to poke that hypothetical techno-philosophical bear.
You will still find those types in Roseburg, Medford, parts of Clackamas county (I'm looking at you, Damascus), etc, where they refuse to pay for things like local libraries. Ask them why Coos Bay is full of drugs and see what sort of look you get from them.
There's a review in here somewhere... https://www.youtube.com/user/mhanlen1
Well, cities can be loud without cars. H.L. Mencken said that the pre-automobile days were loader than Baltimore, for deliveries (e.g. of food to stores) used wagons with steel-rimmed wheels going over cobblestones.