skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To clarify how I see it -

I don’t see it as a defense of existing social structures, I see it as a defense of freedom. Some existing social structures promote it, and so would others that don’t exist yet (some ideas: social network that proliferates good debates, tool that shows a politician’s vested interests, laws on transparency and symmetry, a new kind of univ focused on experience in the real world, etc)

To answer the question, how do I know if I’m just one of the convention minded? -

I don’t think you can know with certainty, so you should question yourself, but there are a few signs:

- if your ideas are nuanced and don’t quite fit on an axis, sign of a good thing
- if you read original sources, and reflect on your own experience to form theories, good sign
- if you have gotten deeper on opposing views, and can articulate them well, good sign
- if you notice most people in your social circle wouldn’t agree with some of your ideas, could be a good sign (conventionally minded folks are often conventionally minded to gain support of their immediate peers)
The key point was wrong wrt Wikipedia :-)

>a forum for free thought
>if it [isn't] policed by content moderators around a set of culture rules

The rules are mostly invisible to us because we are surrounded with, and submersed in, this very culture 24/7.

To get written up in Wikipedia one must first get published in a reliable source. This mostly means a journal or "books published by respected publishing houses" (full list: [1]). The publishing is the gatekeeper here; the wikipedia moderators are a secondary consideration.

This does indeed silence out a priori (i.e., censors) ideas that are culturally unpopular or frowned upon or just held by small number of individuals. To avoid muddling the argument with hot button issues, here's a very mild and barely objectionable example: picoLisp, a modern interpreted programming language with dynamic scoping. Having it written up, and then kept, in Wikipedia is an uphill struggle spanning years, and with sad reversals & losses. And that's with ideas that are only mildly unpopular.

Again, Wikipedia's utility is clear and recognized. Let's just not mix it up with a public square.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#What_c...
While reading the news you do not have to deal with yourself. Quite a relieve for most people I reckon.

On top of that, bad "news" sources are designed in such a way that you do get addicted (e.g. endless scrolling, getting notifications on new article while still reading one, clickbait and so on).
also featured here: https://hackaday.com/2020/07/24/tinypilot-provides-kvm-over-...
EC made sense historically solely because that was the only way the Constitution was getting ratified by small states and slave states. As it was, small states wanted to retain the Articles of Confederation approach (one vote per state); and slave states wanted to count the entirety of their population for the purposes of representation, without letting slaves vote. EC was what they hammered out as a compromise, because, on one hand, it threw the small states a bone by counting their senators, and on the other hand, neatly incorporated the already-agreed-upon Three Fifths Compromise from the House, while retaining the general principle of proportional representation.

But something being a compromise doesn't mean that it was sensible - only that it was the best they could do. Furthermore, that particular compromise was hammered out by a very different group of states, and in the context of a very different distribution of powers between the federal and the state governments. Today, we have a much more powerful federal government, we have no slavers to appease, and we have so many small states that, taken together, they can amend the Constitution (via convention) while representing less than 1/4 of the country's population. In this situation, EC becomes a tyranny of the minority, and the majority is not going to tolerate that forever.
My favorite book is "Python for Data Science For Dummies". It won't help you in a FAANG job interview but in my opinion is super helpful when you just want to get some insights out of data you have on hand.
Reposting a comment from another thread as it seems relevant, I was talking about Twitter but the same applies to news sites I think...

I definitely found myself wasting more time recently scrolling through Twitter e.g. in the evening or when compiling code. I actually quite like the site but I find there's more and more irrelevant stuff on my feed so I don't really like feel like I get as much value from it, yet the addictive nature of the feed still makes you refresh it.

I was aware I was doing this but didn't do anything about it until I was prompted by this article, which I think was posted on here recently: https://craigmod.com/essays/how_i_got_my_attention_back/. For me it really hit the nail on the head about wanting to reclaim your attention a bit, but that these companies have thousands of people working on systems to try and claim your attention for themselves, so it's no wonder it's hard.

I made a few small changes as a result of this:

- I used Screen Time on my iPhone to block all apps except essential ones (clock, calendar, notes, Philips Hue) for the first hour of my day

- I logged out of Twitter on my Firefox and instead logged into it in a container tab, which takes a few extra clicks to open

- I logged out of Twitter on my iPhone, so I have to log in to access it

- I didn't install Twitter on my new iPad

I've found these changes have made a big difference - I think particularly blocking apps in the morning. It feels like if you can "control" your attention a bit more in the first part of your day, that continues somewhat throughout the day, then adding in the slight hurdles to access the site throughout the day causes you to stop and think "do I really want to do this?" when your reflex to just open a new tab and type "tw<enter>" or to scroll while you're stood in a queue or whatever kicks in.

I still do browse Twitter and other time wasting sites a little bit, which I'm fine with, but I feel like I'm doing it more conciously - sometimes after a long day I'll think "I just fancy sitting on the sofa and reading the news and looking on Twitter" and I'm fine with that, as it's something I've chosen to do.

It's only been a few weeks so I don't want to speak too soon, but I'm feeling really happy with this approach so far, without having to go atomic and delete Twitter entirely as I do get some value from it.
Sam Newman& Martin Fowler When to Use Microservices
There is no such thing as “necessary use” and the GDPR does not specify that an organisation must restrict employee access to personal data to only those whose access is “strictly necessary” (the cookie law contains that phrase, but in a completely different context).

The only thing the GDPR says that would apply in this circumstance is this:

> processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data

As I stated above, the EU provides exactly 0 guidance on what “appropriate security” is, and no form of standard at all that it expects you to comply with. To make matters more confusing, an organisation is allowed to take their own budget into account, against the cost of security controls, when deciding what is “appropriate”.

You could ask the question, was twitter appropriately secure? You might come to the conclusion that they weren’t, because they were breached and any system that is breached must not be appropriately secure. That wouldn’t be an unreasonable conclusion, and as far as anybody knows that could very well be the standard that any data protection authority may decide to uphold at any time of their choosing. But then that would lead you to consider that there is no such thing as a system that can not be breached, so in that case there would be no such thing as a GDPR compliant service.
> BSD's go a great job supporting lots of architectures

Well its an OS, and by the definition the Software that has the most dependencies ISA wise, and it's kind of 'easy' to bring it to another architecture.

>No but I do have a codebase to maintain and the more architectures the more work!

Depends on your Software and your Language...sure can be more work, but supporting multiple OS's, Databases, Filesystems too.
> Social networks were never supposed to be important or serious in the same way as phone networks.

I would think Zuckerberg intended Facebook to be important and serious. You don’t make a billion dollars off of something that’s trivial and unimportant.... The users might view it that way, but that lack of appreciation is just what enables you to make billions off of them.
> And then someone uses it claiming, oh no, just because I used that name doesn't mean that it's meant to refer to Muslim or Arab people necessarily. Oh really? It was just a total coincidence? Come on, clearly not.

Suppose I use "Shaq" as a stand in for a generic basketball player. I'm obviously making reference to a specific famous basketball player who happens to be a black man, so is that racist and sexist? Asians can play basketball. Women can play basketball.

It's not chosen at random, it's chosen as an exemplar of the category. The original Karen (from /r/FuckYouKaren) was a real person named Karen.

> historically, it is sadly a stereotype that women's opinions are more petty and unimportant than men's. The use of the word "Karen" for someone with unimportant, ill-informed opinions is directly playing into an existing stereotype. And it is totally avoidable.

I don't think it is avoidable. If using a woman's name is sexist then so would using a man's name. Either way it would cause the reader to be more likely to picture the person with the contemptuous attitude as that gender. But so would not specifying one at all, which we know generally causes people to picture a male. So you have to make a choice one way or the other.

And if it's "fantastic" to select a female in the contexts where the subject is a meritorious student or engineer, sometimes it goes the other way too.
It's certainly an interesting framework for thinking about things, and some of the thoughts seem aligned with my ideas on this issues. The problem is that I think everybody, including and especially people who view themselves as independently-minded, is susceptible to conformism and a lack of ideological independence. It seems to me like a basic fact of our biology, or at least very ingrained in our culture, that we develop ideas based on identification and solidarity with groups we belong to. It's true of politicians, VC firm leaders, tech workers, economists, and even the most earnest scientists. The idea that there is a class of people who are "independently-minded" and therefore somehow more intellectually useful is flawed because people tend to have interesting, unique ideas in some areas and ideas which amount to little more than parroting a group belief in others.

Along these lines, the article argues that conformism is independent of rules (and it implies also independent of context), but I don't think it gives sufficient evidence for this point. It also doesn't agree with my experience; I was a bit of "goody-two-shoes" in K-12 (i.e. a passive conformist), but now my political outlook is niche, I try to think scientifically about the world, and I'd self-judge to be passive independently-minded person.

> Though the people who run Silicon Valley are almost all independent-minded

This reads as extremely overconfident, and in my judgement it is probably false. I think tech as an industry faces the same issues with group-think that any large-enough community is bound to face, and I don't think Silicon Valley is a pinnacle of enlightened, humanist society. The whole article to some extent reads like "if more people were more like Paul Graham, the world would be better". Obviously, that's the not the argument of the article (and to be fair, it's probably true the world would be better with more Paul Grahams), but its interesting I got an impression of that sentiment in an article about the dangers of conformism. And it's also interesting that it's not the first time I've read a very similar argument in recent weeks.

In case I seem overly harsh, I want to clarify it was a thought-provoking article I enjoyed reading.
The historically correct answer
His suit was dismissed by the government because having to defend themselves against the accusation would disclose state secrets. The right to sue only matters if you can meaningfully exercise it...

And your standards are ridiculous. If anyone anywhere was able to show you a story of the US trying to kill someone for committing ideological heresy then the very fact they could tell you the story is proof that Amrrica believes in ideological freedom? You see the contradiction surely...
I agree that within some groups like humanities departments, twitter and liberal companies the social justice movement is out of control. Just promoting a white male employee, or calling the police in a black person you see commiting a crime would make you fear for your job in some of those circles.

On the other side there was a member of Congress who called a female member of Congress a "fucking bitch" and also the president has said plenty of sexist and racist things recently without either person losing their job.

The fact that both of these can exist in the same country is the troubling thing to me. They not even remotely trying to understand each other.
Tiny businesses aren't disappearing because of zoning, it's the economy of scale and heavy taxation/regulation that made them (or the lower-margin ones) unviable in places where they used to be common (like big European cities).

One of the more memorable stories about a tiny waxing studio giving up here in Vienna was them being required to have employees working in rooms with windows only and the only big enough window was the storefront one.
>Wikipedia is vastly different from anything I’d normally recognise as news media

Agreed - Wikipedia is not news media.

Instead it's media fact & opinion aggregator and editor. It does function as media platform, with content provided by the media and only by the media. The editors' opinions are a secondary consideration; they are obliged by the rules to only ever derive content from the published reliable sources.

My "not much different from any other part of the media ecosystem" statement is connected with how the ideas & opinions flowing back and forth between Wikipedia and other medias (as shown in the citogenesis xkcd) - a process that's typical, even characteristic, of media.
That's just fear talking!
That’s not the point of defamation laws. If someone assaults you and you post a video on twitter, most first world countries will use that as evidence against the person who assaulted you. In Japan, it’s perfectly legal to record someone, but making the fact that the person is dangerous and not in police custody will get you in trouble, and the person who assaulted you will use the video against you. Defamation is generally globally defined to be false statements made with the intent to harm someone’s reputation. In Japan, full context, factual representations are treated as just about as bad as a false claim.
I'll bet there's a PM somewhere who had to fight like hell to keep those systems separate and is feeling pretty damn vindicated right now.
What’s strange is that this order only applies to journalists and legal observers. So if I’m just a peaceful protester, I can be arrested or be the subject of physical force without probable cause?
I also recommend The Congress (2013) movie which is based on the novel.
So if I called my very bi gf to be at my work's stairwell for a nooner just before the lunch rush the day after we were in a tiny dark park in (a certain sleepy South Bay SF town)* for 4 hours going at it... I guess take makes me a take-no-chances, passive sheeple welcoming of law-and-order-types. Bahhahah }xD

* Local cops actually made numerous good suggestions where couples could go because she broached it before I could. Lmaoooo. Hilarity ensued and then rotfl. For cops, they seemed really cool which was shocking outside of Little Italy/Northbeach SF.
Electromagnetic Field Time Machine
It was first released in 1986.

Distribution of software was different then.
I think defense contractors, pharmaceutical companies, oil & gas firms, and banks have too much political influence. Not that I’m in love with Facebook, I’m certainly not.
We have had clients that need it for content licensing requirements, it doesn't make sense to allow users to choose their region in a scenario where content is region dependent.

Of course, you can just get around this with a VPN.
It would be very easy to argue, unfortunately. Neither our legal system nor our political system favor the unprivileged in general, so why should the laws they produce and enforce?
This is a good point. It shows the problem with the whole article. I think many people don't view themselves as "conformist" no matter who they are. PG certainly doesn't view himself as conformist. Everyone likes to think they that are independent thinkers, but most people, by definition, aren't. If a person thinks they're an independent thinker, then they'll simply think that anyone who thinks like them are also independent thinkers. In reality, they're just conforming, but maybe in a way that's different than other conformists.

PG seems to be calling out "cancel culture" with this essay, but I think the people on both sides of that argument are conforming. The independent thinkers are busy with things that actually matter and aren't paying attention.

I can't think of many people that I would label truly independent thinkers. The first that comes to my mind is maybe Richard Stallman, but that's about it.
> you are probably a verilog/SV guy and not an experienced VHDL guy

Wrong on both counts.

Please, enlighten me, what's wrong with my code? Note that it's in VHDL-2008, and the async. reset is intentional.

> I also recommend you read on VHDLs 9-valued logic and why it was designed this way

My main issue with VHDL is not the IEEE 1164 std_(u)logic, although it really doesn't help that this de-facto standard type for bitvectors and numbers (via the signed/unsigned types) is just a second-class citizen in the language – as opposed to bit and integer, which are fully supported syntactically and semantically, but which have serious shortcomings.
I used to think that "female" was just a slightly offensive synonym for "woman", but in a world where transgender people exist, it seems useful to be able to distinguish between "male/female" (someone's biological makeup)", and "man/woman" (someone's gender identity).

And in the context of dating and sexuality, it might well be the biological differences that are relevant.
The only thing that works for me is what worked for his dad - don't read it. Make sure you read around at times when it's relevant - before you vote for example - but don't torture yourself with news that (a) isn't actionable and (b) isn't relevant to you. I've steadily weaned myself off social networks, and am now doing the same for news sites. I've started reading more books (I prefer physical books because I find even having an electronic device in my hand like an old Kindle triggers a desire to check email etc.), I'm calmer, and more focused on what's around me like nature and my family. It's not been easy, particularly given that I sit in front of a computer all day for work, but it's worth finding ways to resist the triggers, which can be as simple as taking a deep breath, closing a tab, then repeat until you have no tabs left...
> In effect, social media users are just acting as speechwriters for the companies' political views.

Well, since you brought it up, which speeches of yours did you take this comment from, and who are you writing those speeches for? Whose agenda do your words subtly lend support to?
And if you are building anything other than toy systems then please, for the love of the FSM, use structured logging!

If I could get my hands on the developers who wrote all the snowflake log formats I had to deal with on a daily basis back when I was doing support and ops …
TECHNIQUE: use the proprietary HTTP Request headers available through CDN/Cloud providers like Cloudflare Workers' cf-country [1], Amazon CloudFront's CloudFront-Viewer-Country [2], and Google App Engine's X-Appengine-Country/-Region/-City/... [3] to get client Geolocation data.

[1] https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/reference/apis/req...

[2] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/Develope...

[3] https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/go/referenc...
Oh please. People are not being abducted off the street by the US government never to be seen again, they are being arrested. They are not being tortured or sent to a reeducation camp. They get a phone call and access to a lawyer before being tried in court.

For all the faults of the US, let's not cast these current policing actions as equivalent to what is going on in HK.
My ten-step plan for working with engineers
Garmin has a lot of market share in small piston / hobby flying planes, but they're also big in small to mid size private jets and turboprops. More and more are using the Garmin G1000 and G3000 cockpit or older models upgrading from traditional instruments to the G600. In those cases it's not uncommon to use Garmin Pilot + Jeppesen for the good integration with the onboard systems when loading flightplans etc.

So this outage could be painful for some corporate flight departments and air taxi companies as well. Luckily you can also print the charts without that much trouble and fly like the old days.
The illusion of left/right is driven by which hemisphere you are on.
On northern hemisphere the sun moves from left to right and the morning being brighter than afternoon.
So top/left would be on average the brightest source.
Do investors inside the community neccessarily care any more than ones outside it? It brings to mind the stupid xenophobia of thinking being oppressed by "their people" is better than having open elections where an immigrant can run.
Marketing/PR isn't power. The ability to market isn't concentrated in the hands of a few companies.

Meanwhile Twitter can block a trend on a whim. That's very different. That is direct, intentional manipulation of the conversation in the new (private) public square.
Your service correctly returned the following data about my IP:

"client": {
"conn_speed": "broadband",
"conn_type": "wifi",
"proxy_description": "vpn",
"proxy_type": "hosting"

Is this what Fastly is thinking about my IP?
If someone else is always confused by the use of acronyms, "JD" here is for "Jack Dorsey" (twitter co-founder and CEO).
I still seek this hit, but I do it in abstract knowledge like learning more about audio engineering (discovering the harmonic series for the first time or building an intuition for how FFT works is pretty neat). Then I get the hit, I learn neat stuff that may or may not be immediately useful, and I shut out the day-to-day noise.

Ditto, really, for how I engage with the industry. I'm looking at long-term principles like the fundamentals of distributed systems and not getting hung up on chasing certifications for Bob's New Cloud Platform. The details change slightly over time, but the principles remain the same.
In HN people often flag submissions to keep the identity and content more coherent and to reduce flame. (e.g. flagging advertisements, political and culture war submissions)

Perhaps it's the passive ones that flag submissions, but downvoting comments occurs by more aggressive conventional ones? I'd love to see statistics.
It could work on a power line, but I'd seriously recommend against it for a beginner project. Anything over 50V requires proper safety procedures.
Should I block credit cards i have connected with Garmin Pay?
There is only one city in the US that doesn't have zoning, but they still have other forms of regulation that effectively serve the same purpose. It is essentially impossible to get mixed use zoning in the vast majority of the US.