skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “We've consulted with many of our external partners over the past year to better understand implicit speech that has historically been used to disparage, intimidate or exclude people based on protected characteristics like race or religion,” said Facebook VP of Content Policy Monika Bickert in a phone call with the press.

What gives is that the VP of Content Policy at a multi-billion dollar company has fallen victim to the rhetoric of a post-modernist black power cult. Abstractly, a business executive is leveraging their position of power to play activist for a political-social agenda rather than set policy shaped by a desire to build a neutral and open social platform. This is at best ethically shady and at worst an abuse of power. How this prevents the spread of misinformation and counters bubble-think, I fail to see.

On top of that, if you actually examine the rhetoric it's 100% inconsistent. Critical thinking has fallen by the wayside in favor of the virtuous critical race theory. Nobody is thinking anymore and we're literally electing to censor truths, ugly as they may be, in order to push a totalitarian narrative. This should piss you off, fundamentally, not only because it's certifiably a bad idea, but because it is working to unravel our sense of objectivity which is required in most disciplines outside of sociology. We've seen it before. History will not look kindly back upon the movement we're experiencing. It's rather unsettling to see it play out if you ask me.
Druid truly is still king in this space. The setup has become less onerous over time. It handles arbitrarily high cardinality and dimensionality with ease and its support for sketching algorithms leaves other similar systems (especially Prometheus) in the dust.
Here's a bigger picture of the cable:
https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2020-08/5f32fb9b2618b96b...

Thanks to article on sciencealert.com: https://www.sciencealert.com/a-broken-cable-smashed-a-huge-h...
This is an important area in which I feel development has been disappointing, mainly because the commercial value isn't there. There are a few off-grid mesh dongle products that have been released in the past few years. Unfortunately, they're all crazy expensive.

Examples:
https://gotenna.com/

https://beartooth.com/

https://www.gotoky.com/

https://fogo.io/

They all rely on your phone and themselves cost more than a whole low-end phone! I am really confused as to why meshing requires much additional hardware that isn't already in a phone.
The Node Experiment – Exploring Async Basics with Rust
French goverment was trying to apply rules which had a lot of grey area. Amazon decided it was too risky so shut down.
How to speed up your web application? (with A.I.)
> I never understood the fascination with typing optimization

Touch typing is about the combination of speed and accuracy. You're right that in these discussions people always talk about speed, but that hidden accuracy bonus is useful for everyone.
I was there :) I have memories of writing CGI apps, and it's not something I'd relish a return to.
We’re certainly not going to control it in the US with anything short of a vaccine. And that’s an extremely aggressive timeline even assuming that long term protective immunity is possible, that one of the current vaccine candidates is safe and effective, that we can make enough of it, and that people will take it.
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Yes, they are known as hate-facts.
What will make people switch anyway?

They don't care much about security (evident by the recent twitter hack). They don't care much about privacy. They don't care much about functionality.

Increasingly, I don't think people even care about the content or relationship/social aspect of the social media. My dad has like maximum number of friends on Facebook and I really doubt he actually engages with them. His feed is full of bullshit that he sometimes tell me about and is even self aware of a lot.

Why do you use facebook despite that?

He doesn't have an answer. I fear he is just addicted to scrolling when he has nothing to do.

He is also using Facebook and whatsapp because of peer pressure.

A weird phenomenon in india is how easily bullshit spreads on whatsapp. The reason is most people forward without even consuming the content. It's almost like they are getting rewarded for a completely different thing than the intended or well communicative purpose of the medium.
some bits "born for Servo" are integrated into Firefox, but that's far away from "post-Servo"
I know. I believe these things should be possible in theory. I rarely see them in practice. I attribute this to a unilateral lack of discipline.
Its warming to see the impact that early positive mentorship can have over the span of a lifetime.

I don't mean to say that without her brother she wouldn't have achieved great things. However, I think it's extraordinarily likely that he helped her find a passion that lead her all the way to the forefront of her field.
Loon flight systems create a network in the stratosphere similar to terrestrial based cell towers. The difference is on the ground, cell towers are fixed and transmit their signals to moving cell phones. With Loon’s solution, both the cell towers and the people are moving...
More here: https://loon.com
> maskless photolithography by using TI digital micromirror devices from projectors to reflect light into a microscope

I just looked this up. It's incredible that maskless photolithography is even possible. Are these devices used in any high volume processes for manufacturing PCBs, for example?
I have talked about the word neger ( Dutch variant of negro ) with all my known black acquaintances and also with some whom I didn't know before.

Nobody had any problems with the word neger. "Of course I am a neger they said, and you are a white guy. So what, just don't call me zwarte ( black ).".

This is in NL.
That hardly a reason to sink deeper.
If you want an independent Mozilla, you should consider donating to them: https://donate.mozilla.org. Otherwise their only choice is to get money from Google and have their independence endangered.

I understood that Mozilla mostly does not fund Firefox development, but I am sure they would like to if they had enough resources.

By the way, they have 4 out of 4 stars rating at Charity Navigator: https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summar...
I've been using British/German keyboards with Polish Programmers layout(which is just general US layout with Polish accents) and I don't recall ever looking at the actual keys, as most special characters are not where they appear on the keys. Most Polish people learnt this way(well, at least in the early days) because most keyboards you could get on the market weren't in actual US layout but that's what the Polish layout was based on.
Isn't the peak in facebook demographics around 30?
> But you can't tell me that censoring talking about them won't have a backlash.

Yes, exactly my point. I find it very strange to fight a stereotype by acting in a way that could easily be casted into the said stereotype. If anything this will even make it stronger.
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Ask HN: A secure platform to share critical leaks
Many countries are facing oppressive powers right now. Corrupt governments monitor the population and sentence whistleblowers that challenge them.
What would be the best platform for citizens to share their documents without risk when their society is collapsing ?
Amazon doesn't compete on lower salaries, it competes on automation.

Amazon actually lobbies for higher salaries, it hurts the competitors who don't use as much automation and are not great at operational efficiency.

It's a myth the amazon pay low salaries. They they just optimise the heck out of everything.

It's pretty smart in many ways, as its great PR and destroys your competitors if its national law.
Svarte Piet is arguably a racist caricature, so I can see why it was banned. And no, it’s not just soot on his face, as some people like to claim.
The power aspect of it is not black at all.
The boomers are all over FB. And most of them are gullible to propaganda, vote and engage in polarizing discussions (not that any of those don't apply to millenials, but to a lesser extent)
Which would be exactly millenials.
I used to work for a Belarusian company (outside of Belarus). From what my ex-colleagues told me, they have very little contact with the people in Minsk. There's the occasional email or connected people on MS Teams. Not sure if that's caused by people protesting or internet shutdown/filtering for offices as well.

I also asked some Belarusian friends how they keep getting information from there. They said they have intermittent access to Telegram but it works better by using proxies. Some of the news channels on Telegram are managed by people outside the country who receive the information via text message. Not sure what type of block was in place (cellular data?).

Edit: Another Belarusian friend said he's able to communicate again with people back home after 3 days of quasi constant blackout.
Feelings are complex. Personally, at any given time, I have two or three of sideprojects, videogames and TV shows I could focus on, each. But when I procrastinate, I end up reading HN or some subreddit or something similar, instead of coding my side projects or playing a game I've been waiting to play for the past year.

I've traced that to feelings of guilt. I can't enjoy a videogame if I feel I'm only using it to escape and make my situation worse. I can probably enjoy a TV show a bit, for a while, until my brain realizes that it's just an escape mechanism and I get more stressed. But social media in general, offer you a bite-sized escape. There's nothing wrong in taking 2 minutes break to skim comments on a HN thread, or scroll through some funny pictures somewhere. 2 more minutes won't make a difference either. 2 more? And suddenly it's been 5 hours.

So in the end, I don't do the things I have to, and I also don't do the things I want to - all because negative emotions.

(Part of my solution to this problem was just blocking certain sites (like HN) on the router during work hours.)
Older men charged more for using Tinder's premium service
More non nonsensical half baked measures from the Zuck.
I don't think SQL would be better if it read like Mandarin.
That's very interesting and explains a number of things. 4MB writes seems pretty high though as a minimum write block size, I've googled but can't find details among the sea of pages trying to sell me SD cards, won't you by chance have a reference? Thanks!
Where would you draw the line? In my place it's more common for him to have a very massive black beard covering 3/4 of his face instead so you can almost only see the eyes, is that more acceptable?

Its root is in mythology rather than anything else.
Any reason you can’t get higher paid gigs online? I’m sure you could beat 9/h. If you can code 40/h should be a minimum then keep negotiating up as you do gigs.
Black Pete is a controversial subject for years by now. Given that “some” people might consider it racist, I’m not surprised that it’s no longer allowed on Facebook.

Also note the BLM movement that spread through our country as well, which I think will definitely impact the public opinion for about black pete.

Not saying I agree or disagree; not going to touch that dumpster fire with my opinions.
"Please donate and your voice in the future of Mozilla will be heard (and not the voice of Google)."

Are you saying that user donations are going to match or exceed the revenue Mozilla gets from their deal with Google?

If yes, then, to use your phrase, "This is ridiculous." It is not realistic.

Chrome cannot and will never be "99.9% monopoly" as that would make things too easy for the antitrust lawyers.

Sounds like you want your web browser software exclusively controlled by a small group of people at Mozilla. Well, they are not volunteers; they want to get paid and Google/web advertising is their meal ticket. They are not going to work for "donations". You think you are fighting Chrome, but by supporting the status quo, you are just feeding it. The Chromium project was initiated at Google by hiring developers from Mozilla. Mozilla relies on Google turning a profit. That is what allows Mozilla developers to get paid.

Projects that survive on donations, like the BSD projects, are usually supported by voluteers who have jobs or do consulting outside of the project. Mozilla developers are not volunteers. Mozilla is a corporation with millions in revenue.

Assuming it could be done, making web browser source code easier for more people to work with and compile does not exclude anyone. It has the opposite effect. It includes more people in the creation of user-agents. Firefox currently takes hours to compile. This is why you are not compiling anything, even if you wanted to. As such, the project is hardly "for everyone". Only a small number of people can actually make use of it.
In the Netherlands there have been big discussions and protests for and against one of our national holidays called "sinterklaas" (a second Christmas) Where there is a figure called "Zwarte piet" a blackface character that will bring the kids candy's, "pepernoten" and chocolate when they where nice that year.

When the news broke out that FB would start removing these kind of images from there platform both sides of the discussion mostly reacted here in the Netherlands that removing it completely is not the way to go. So i'm wondering how this news is received everywhere else in the world? Here is was the headline of most newspapers and our national television news yesterday.
> And here is exactly why it's a stupid idea, different countries have different culture and history.

Even culture can negatively affect certain groups. Apparently the Zwarte Piet thing is negatively affecting and causing some racism.

There's the entirely ridiculous "Kick Out Zwarte Piet" group, whose behaviour initially made me against whatever they wanted to happen. There's also some practicalities. Normally kids wouldn't recognize the people playing "Sinterklaas" or "Zwarte Piet". The initial proposed alternatives were bad.

Still, saying "culture" as the only reason for being against something? It's not good enough!

I'm Dutch btw.
It's especially dumb because the character is a positive reference to blacks. How will it help anybody if we remove all black people from our traditions and history?
Read 3/4 star reviews, they are usually good indicator of quality.

There are few type of those, and you are looking for someone who knows what they are talking about and talk about shortcomings of a given product. They are usually pro's that have some experience with given category of a product. So they know what they want.

If you find one like that its ease to judge what features you need vs features pros need.

Usually, 1 stars are by entitled complainers (unless product is cheap knockoff) and 5 stars are by people that don't know what they are talking about or brought reviews.
The law decides fair. It's not subjective.
What storage do you use for the web services, given that SD cards are unreliable? Do you have one disk per node or let them share one disk over the network or something like that?
Hilarious story as it sounded like the salesperson really followed his/her script quite religiously, which is quite unfortunate. I’d expect account managers to listen more than to talk but in general, most do not.
Jony Ives and others like him saved Apple, not Jobs. Jobs was still making silly decisions that his team had to subvert or redirect in order to build the new, successful era of Apple.
Pendulum calendar for: date, time, weather
This feels like the sort of thing economists would latch on to: when in doubt, either create an auction to find out more about preferences, or make it a betting market to get a decent estimation.

It's also something I've read about recently, that we frequently make decisions implicitly based on probabilities and expected values, only we very rarely make these numbers explicit. If we did, we might act more rationally.

I like the idea of this a lot. I have trouble seeing how I would "get better" at predicting stuff solely through this, but perhaps forcing myself to think it through would be sufficient.
Just because there are jews in media does not mean that “Jews control the media.” You are casually stepping into a history of discrimination that has continuously led back to genocide, each time beginning as just these sort of indignant observations.
> It's almost like they are getting rewarded for a completely different thing than the intended or well communicative purpose of the medium.

I suspect they find the engagement sufficient. They forward and someone comments. The dinging of the phone itself is exciting.
It's always stock grants. Only crappy companies give their employees option grants these days. FAANG doesn't do it, as well as the second tier of tech companies (Oracle, Adobe, etc.).

And they will make you rich. Someone who works for these companies at a non-junior level for more than 5-10 years and is reasonable about expenses can quite easily become a millionaire if they work in their offices in developed countries. 5 years for senior positions, 10 years for regular positions.
> Watching Mozilla leadership drive Mozilla into the ground over the last 8-10 years has been like watching a bus accident in slow motion. FirefoxOS anyone?

FirefoxOS gets a lot of hate, but I honestly thought it was a pretty good idea. The problem was that it was terribly executed.

It’s a bit unclear to me wether that was your point or not.
I’d say the line should drawn on the presentation. If we have hundreds of people on the streets wearing blackface and and red lipstick, that’s not okay. However if he’s presented as this bearded fellow, i see no problem.
Are you sure about that? Your wording sounds a little disparaging of her achievements. According to her wikipedia entry she was actually discouraged by her family to pursue a scientific career.
Holland was a colonial power - are you actually claiming Black Peter is all Dutch culture and has absolutely nothing to do with black servitude ???.
This sounds like a political system for people that actually works for people not against them.
No mention of battery life yet - and unfortunately for me that's pretty important. I daily drive a Linux laptop that gets 9 hours (but with a good amount of tweaking), and the day we get 13 hours or more is the day I become a complete advocate for Linux on the go.
> Grafana truly is best in class

Really? Recently we've been playing with Chronograf with InfluxDB and most people find it a lot nicer to work with than Grafana (specifically because it makes discoverability a lot nicer)
I didn't tried too hard, but, I couldn't get faster than 110-120 with standard QWERTY finger placement. I assume you had to use a few tricks to get faster than that which I never tried.
> Also, to get the original character, press space (or double press them to double type them).

If you don't like this behavior then then I can recommend using a modified US-International layout where those keys are only dead if AltGr is held down [1].
Alternatively, you can use a version where AltGr acts as the modifier [2].

The latter is what I use since I only need it for Swedish special characters (åäö) which I get by typing AltGr+W, AltGr+Q, and AltGr+P.

[1] https://github.com/thomasfaingnaert/win-us-intl-altgr

[2] https://github.com/umanovskis/win-kbd-usint-nodead
The article details that the positive part was her brother Richard Feynman (i love reading / watching him), while her mother is said to have been discouraging.
Just reading the abstract is enough to realize that this article is just a huge pile of garbages.

What I'm thinking is that it is a student of a third world university that was forced to publish whatever bullshit to get his PhD title.

What is more annoying is that such stupid content could be considered as is by idiot politicians or ecologists to support any point against digital.
I didn't close the tab outright, but I agree that the author should be more forthcoming about what exactly they are talking about.

The whole "weekly review" thing just absolutely lacks context. Like, are they talking about the "weekly review" in the GTD methodology? Or in something like Scrum? Or something else entirely?
Mozilla understands that very well. Otherwise userChrome.css wouldn't exist. They just made it so that it's abundantly clear that if you screw up your userChrome.css, it's your fault, not Mozilla's.
You being serious ???.
Big lips ... gold earings ... it the offensive "coon" caricature.
And what about the black women from Suriname who for years enjoyed volunteering for the role?

They are turned away by the organizing committee ... tada, because they are black.
Fundamentally, whether you use Firefox or not, having an organisation that has user's interests at heart, and is not a major global corp, developing a major browser, is something we all need. It ensures that the evolution of the web is in a sensible direction. Mozilla has been an important input in WebAssembly, for example. Thus, Mozilla's problems are all of our problems.

Mozilla has two major problems though. Firstly, it largely relies on what is eventually advertising revenue, in a time when users are increasingly using ad-blockers etc and privacy laws reduce the value of targeted ads. Secondly, it has little traction on mobile, where iOS basically just has Safari because of Apple's rules, and Android comes with Chrome very much set as the default (and few people change it).

I don't really buy that COVID has made much difference. I think that, ultimately, the two problems above are the issues, and I'm not sure what can be done about them.

Even if Firefox were replaced with a shiny-new brilliant FLOSS browser, we still need an organisation behind it that drives web standards in the right direction (and I think they do need to have a major browser to do that as effectively as Mozilla has), and it still needs the funding to do it, so would still face the same issues as Mozilla, even if it weren't Mozilla.

Someone should be taking Google and Apple to task over bindling their browser and not enabling proper choice on a fair basis, as the EU did to MS (and actually MS has stopped offering a fair choice of browser too, where you choose a default and it is installed, rather than have a default you have to change, that they keep changong back in updates).
But the law can be unfair, and can even be made more fair, and for that, you need discussion.
It's so catchy! Perhaps: "16093.44 meters high" by "0.2286 meter nails"...
telekomix usually provides dial up access if the internet is cut. its not much but enough to provide at least a communication channel. with dial up modems no longer in circulation it gets harder every time. the numbers get fax bombed over the whole country.
I read "Surely your joking Mr. Feynman" a few years ago, but to this day I somehow never knew he had a sister that was an accomplished scientist.
Thanks for this insight!
I guess they are claiming that Black Peter has nothing to do with minstrel shows, that are the reason why blackface is problematic in the USA (and it shouldn't really be anywhere else, in my opinion).
I think it'd be a fairly difficult breakdown to represent usefully, given four elements (H, He, O, C) make up 99.4% of all matter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_the_chemical_elem...
This is interesting. It'll ban some forms of Morris Dancing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Morris

https://www.facebook.com/silurianbordermorrismen/