skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This post is a poorly disguised argument that racist speech does not create hostile environments for non-racists, and misapplies one aspect of Section 230 while ignoring another that counters their own argument.

Section 230 explicit grants Google, and publishers, the authority to restrict speech when it is offensive:

> (A) any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected

Racism is offensive content under these terms. If the publishers do not exercise their Section 230 rights to deny service to racist content and the racists that post it, Google will exercise their Section 230 rights to deny service — to restrict their 'banner ad' dialect^ of speech — to racist content and the sites that contain it.

To cut off the usual replies that try to invoke 'free speech' and 'but what about an unrelated example that doesn't include hate speech':

Racism is hate speech, and hate speech is not a form of protected speech. The only slippery slope to be considered here is 'what is considered hate speech?'. Racism is, unquestionably, hate speech. There is no slippery slope for racist speech. It's already at the bottom of the pit.

If this article were about content other than hate speech, it would be interesting. As it stands, it's just 'we shouldn't demonize racism' in the usual 'first amendment' style of overcoat.

Dissecting the article in specific, I find:

> Google threatened to demonetize The Federalist news outlet on the grounds that readers were leaving “racist” comments that advertisers didn’t want to be associated with.

Google threatened to withdraw service from a news outlet over racist user comments.

> The Federalist was targeted only because of its readers’ comments

Google was reacting only to the racist comments and not to the content published by the site operators themselves.

> the alternatives were to either ban comments altogether, moderate/censor them, or make them more difficult to access

Google identifies several technical solutions, but then we have here this most interesting appendix from "The Sociable" itself:

> — all of which discourage real engagement

This phrase suffix attempts to frame "take action against racist comments" as "unrestricted speech is the only 'real' form of engagement". This is false. Racist comments discourages real engagement. Discouraging racist comments discourages racist engagement. Racist engagement is not "real" engagement. It's just racist engagement.

> This means that publishers have to make their sites Google-friendly

"The Sociable" would like to remind you that the issue here is that Google is hostile to "racist comments" — yet, somehow, it's not interesting to them that a major news outlet, The Federalist, was found to have such a degree of racism in their user comments that Google bothered to react at all.

^ Hieroglyphics and GIFs both prove that images are a form of speech. So, then, are banner advertisements.
I don't get why this comment is downvoted. This is the only reasonable thing to do from the energy standpoint.
Nvidia does publicize benchmarks in its marketing, but many people (correctly) are skeptical of benchmarks published by the same company that makes the product. The number of CUDA cores and other hardware resources is a number that feels a bit more objective, even though it is hard to understand the direct implications on performance.

Apple is a good example of a company that just doesn't really talk too much about the low-level details of their chips. People buy their products anyway.
That depends on the alternative, doesn’t it? I think there is a place for biofuels, even if it is just replacing fossil jet fuel powering airliners
> It's a little bit like scyscrapers in Dubai, which look like someone in the 90s read sci-fi from the 60s, rather than futuristic it looks retro and nostalgic, missing the entire point.

Keep in mind this game is loosely based on a 90s role playing game. Sure they probably have a lot of leeway in art direction but there’s probably some faithfulness to the original setting they want to keep (which is a little bit like skyscrapers in Dubai[0]).

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0274/0781/products/NightCi...
The last ex-Amazonian I interviewed managed to express his discomfort with Amazon without "badmouthing" anything or anyone. I was impressed with his diplomacy. We hired him.
I don't know of any authoritative histories yet, I'm just an outsider to the energy industry that follows closely.

The US media is in shambles, and few people care about the grid, so it doesn't get much reporting here. And for the lobbying efforts that it took to convince the utilities to back nuclear were kind of shady: the utilities had to be promised that they would get paid by rate payers for the construction projects even as construction costs ballooned and even if the construction projects failed. This is not the type of screwing of customers that one wants done very publicly. But no US utility is going to take on the immense risk for tiny reward of paying for a nuclear plant without such a ridiculous guarantee. At least not until there are several successes and utilities can start to trust the industry again after all the financial disasters from construction mismanagement in the 1970s. In South Carolina the law was called the Base Load Review Act [1]. Something similar was passed in Georgia but I'm having trouble finding it now.

Here's Lindsay Graham using the term "nuclear renaissance" [2]. Here's a 2017 article talking about how the VC Summer plant in Georgia was to be part of it [3].

In the UK this took the form of an explicit name of "nuclear renaissance" in government communication [4].

I see it commonly used to describe the efforts of many to rebuild nuclear starting in the 2000s, but I don't think that Wikipedia page does much good about actually describing the very real lobbying efforts that went on in the US and UK to make it happen, despite (in retrospect well-founded) qualms by many involved in the energy industry.

[1] "... constitutionality of the 2007 state law that allowed SCE&G to recoup construction costs from ratepayers while construction took place." https://www.thestate.com/news/local/crime/article174561111.h...

[2] https://www.postandcourier.com/aikenstandard/news/sen-lindse...

[3] https://www.axios.com/santee-cooper-sce-g-pause-work-on-14b-...

[4] https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/leading-the-way-the-u...
I was under the impression that Gibson's Neuromancer defined the genre, but I'm not very knowledgeable about Cyberpunk so I might be wrong.
End of an era for JS developers. It's been an incredibly useful library. The amount of projects I've used Moment.JS on... And I'll be somewhat glad to never use it again. Javascript really needs a better native Date/Time API.
I'm guessing the comment text turned a shade of gray, which happens when the count goes negative. Though it's back to the normal shade currently, meaning it's back above negative territory.
Tangential question, but what has happened to the guile conversion? Is it something that the Emacs project aims to upstream?

There's some info on https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacs but no definitive, recent "current state" section.
Ask HN: How are modern servers designed?
Hi HN,

I have been working as a linux sysadmin for a couple of months. Most of the systems I support day by day are VMs running on SLES 11 and everything was fine by me, I just agreed on how things should work until I started to follow all these "new" buzzword technologies like containers, kubernetes, serverless, etc.

Now I'm thinking about to propose to my employer to build more modern systems as this seems to be the future that everyone will end up in. But I do not have enough knowledge about these things, and I do not know how "modern systems" should look and work.

Please, if you have experience in this area, help me get out of the darkness by explaining how everything works, or by recommending some sources where I can get such knowledge.

Thank you.
But engineers are not. There are jurisdictions that this could be framed as discriminatory. Not in the US, but other markets.
Fossil fueled power plants are cheap, quick to build, and has plenty of private companies that compete for the contracts. The cost per MWh has almost been cut in half for natural gas in the last 10 years, while nuclear is struggling to reduce costs (if at all).

The cheapest possible energy gird currently available is to use wind as much as the weather allows it since it has currently the lowest cost per produced MWh, and natural gas for everything else. Solar is also starting to reach similar cost per MWh as natural gas when weather allows it.

We might see a renewal in nuclear if natural gas (and other fossil fuels) were taxed to the point of being economical unattractive. Without that I don't expect something that cost twice as much to compete in a market with a fungible commodity.
This is public knowledge, and the prefixes are even used for identity verification at banks.

If you got your SSN at an age other than ~0, you may get flagged as a mis-match when e.g. applying for a new bank account, and it will require a human override to get past.
Shoot! is a common substitute for other, more abrasive expletives (Shit! Fuck!). I'd much rather have the former in a business/service name!

Interestingly, the Android package name is indeed com.shitismoke.app
Frankly, because I just shit on Facebook in a public place around the hiring topic. These are all sensitive subjects.

And it would REALLY be shitty if some hack blogger posted the context-destroying "FooCo refusing to hire Facebook employees because of ethics concern"
Show HN: A Bookmarklet to Download Zoom Recordings
If you're hiring someone, it seems reasonable to ask about someone's ethical considerations to make sure they're in line with your company's. You're going to put a certain amount of trust in them. I, too, would be skeptical of hiring someone who didn't even recognize the tension of working for Uber or Facebook and both the good and bad things they have put into the world. I'm also not sure I'd draw such as hard line as OP, but I get where the line of questioning comes from.

I have worked for companies that do things I disagree with. I've thought about it and come to terms with it, even as I have expressed my disagreements when I believed it made sense to do so. I'd be happy to hire someone in a similar situation, because it shows they at least are aware that their work has ethical considerations.
With all due respect: I think this thinking comes from a massive place of privilege. With the sea of unemployed entry level developers who would kill for a job with FAANG, getting into Facebook for the chance to earn that kind of money and work with such experienced people would probably be a dream come true for many of them. I have even met so many people with years of experience that are on the outside of the FAANG wall looking in with jealousy and longing. You can only act this entitled when you have met your needs career wise. It just seems wrong to cause trouble to others because they may have had this only chance to join the elite FAANG crowd and now they pay for it because of people with your line of thinking.
I had no idea.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6308116?hl=en

Is this the replacement for google play music?
IBM promises 1000-qubit quantum computer–a milestone–by 2023
Looks like this is the reason why that person was banned.

https://web.archive.org/web/20191223200601/https://christine...

This post pretends to be a security report, but it does not help anybody (there are no users who would be protected by disclosing this "vulnerability"), it is just disruption of people work, and nothing more.

People actively breaking things cannot be just ignored, they should be banned.
I know for a fact you can buy Polish stocks, including CDPR, on DEGIRO. It should be available through Interactive Brokers as well.

As an aside, I'd advise you avoid brokers who advertise like bookies.
> i got downvoted. I'd like to know what I can improve on,

I didn't downvote you but I suspect it's because you compared working in the military favorably to working for FB.
I've been using Groovy extensively to script and automate inside of Jenkins, and hoo boy it's actually kinda nice.

My absolute favorite thing is being able to do something like:

someIntegerCollection = someStringCollection*.toInteger()

I also find the use of closures for things like collection filtering to be quite nice:

canadianUsers = someUserCollection.findAll { user ->
user.countryCode = "CA"
}

The equivalent in Python is a little more cumbersome and overly verbose:

canadianUsers = [user for user in someUserCollection if user.countrycode = "CA"]

I'll still be writing things in Python whenever I can, but when I do write in Groovy there's a lot of nice stuff I get to have.
yeah i wouldn't want them saving my data about my medical history
I definitely think there's a bit of "sliding scale of accountability" that makes sense. I won't begrudge someone who worked for Amazon in the warehouse because it paid slightly better than Walmart or Home Depot down the road. But the higher up you are in an organization the more control you (presumably) have and so, in my mind, the more "culpable" you are for that organization's actions. That can still be difficult to suss out though, especially in an interview. A lot of hiring managers won't like to hear you "bad mouth" your former employer so even when people do feel their prior employer wasn't quite ethical I doubt they'd come out and say it. It's much more likely they'd dance around it if they address it at all.

I also think even highly ethical people tend to be overly optimistic about how much change they can bring about within an organization. Changing the ethics of a massive organization isn't nearly as easy as overhauling operations or implementing a new tech stack - and neither of those things are easy either!

Tim Bray comes to mind. I have no doubt that quitting was the very last arrow in his quiver to bring meaningful change at the company. He's a very intelligent guy, highly respected in his field, and has an entire career to prove he's a capable and creative problem solver. Imagine all of the other things he tried to do before he quit? And he made a noisy exit but I'm sure there are others who haven't and felt the same way. Even at facebook, too.
> nobody thought they were going to CS school
> to enable the exploitation of less lucky others.

When you were in university, the students who did think so were the ones who wanted to work on Wall St. A decade later, they all wanted to be the next Steve Jobs.
Yeah, we had several days in Seattle where the forecast was 70s and sunny yet it stayed 58F all day and night.
And if I got your dumb question in an interview I'd walk out. It's obviously a politicised, hostile workplace.
This is THE reason I have stuck with iTunes Match and not bought into Apple Music. I have a hard time believing that Apple Music--as a product and team within Apple--cares about music I've ripped and uploaded, and will persist it properly over time.

In contrast, handling that job correctly is the entire purpose of iTunes Match. Even if it is essentially abandonware within Apple, as long as it keeps working I will use it.
There was no detectable point of view in the comment you're replying to, other than that what a person does should be compatible with their own belief system. It's hard to see that as oppression.
Filtering for opinionated developers who proritize their political views and arbitrary moral compass over company policies sure sounds like an interesting strategy when it comes to handling sensitive PII.
Sizing Up Twitter Users (2019)
Frankly, I'm satisfied enough with my Pebble 2 that I'm not sure I care whether anyone makes a new one. I just hope I don't end up in a situation where it breaks and I can't get a replacement.
In principle, I agree with you. In practice, the discussions end up devolving too rapidly here. For what it's worth, I did upvote your submission and intended to read and engage in the discussion. But mostly saw things I didn't want to engage in or saw (essentially) my points made by others.
Maybe I'm wrong on the COVID thing, but it can't be denied Apple has access to privileged AppStore information much like Amazon does on its store.
I think this is actually the norm amongst Christians. It just seems like the minority because by nature these folks aren't talking about it.
Readable Pointers
Sheer incompetence has much more to do with our inability to build nuclear than the anti-nuke greens or onerous regulations do. Read about the comedy of errors that was Westinghouse's plans to build reactors in the US and their descent into bankruptcy.

“The cause of this latest problem seems to have nothing to do with nuclear power and everything to do with incompetent business practices, particularly Toshiba’s construction contractor,” Conca wrote.

https://www.triplepundit.com/story/2017/westinghouse-bankrup...
This is a refresh of the old Cyberpunk 2020 franchise. They maintained much of the style, which was created in the 80's, so it appears cliché to your eye.
To be fair, how many people can say otherwise? That you’re working for something more than money? Creatives? And people with “fk you” money? It’s ridiculously hard to go against the establishments and most people fail doing so.
> it is very difficult to overlook the main job of the military: kill people.

Not really. Its stated job is to keep other people from killing you.

It's unfortunate and unjust that in many cases this devolves into pre-emptive killing. But for most sovereign nations, there's really no alternative to having a military.
> There's no such thing as a company doing ethical work,

A "Company" is the sum of the collective actions of its employees, board, and management. If that collective does things which are unethical—for example supporting repressive regimes—then that is unethical.

While some companies are borderline, there is zero doubt in my mind that Facebook is unethical.
Looking back, it wasn't a time when there seemed to be a big ideological axe to grind, and Clinton was pretty hesitant to get involved in anything abroad that could affect the economy. They were just trying to avoid getting criticized for letting another genocide happen under their noses in the former Yugoslavia.

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

Seems plausible that it might have been just as banal as the army claims it was.
I'm honestly confused. Doesn't the Buzzfeed article publish her full name and excerpts from her LinkedIn profile? Protecting the author's private info is a hard reason to swallow when they literally reveal the author's full name and LinkedIn profile.
The advice you'll hear most often, these days, is to start with Doom emacs. Spacemacs is another option, you'll have to do some digging around to figure out why one vs. the other; all I know is that the energy around 'vim keybindings for emacs' has shifted to Doom.

The advantage of using one of those over something like prelude + evil, is that the whole community tends to use the vim bindings, so all the supplementary material is oriented toward that sort of input, and your chances of getting questions answered goes way up.
I want to know if there's nicer solutions to the way in which I solved the problem of pointer-reading-fatigue. I'd love to hear war stories and techniques.
There always seem to be so many assumptions in these safety claims. I'm not really for or against fission power but I don't like to feel like I'm being conned by sales literature masquerading as science. Questions that seem unanswered by NuScale revolve around their subterranean cooling pool. The ultimate safety claims require this thing to be full of water, so the obvious question is: what if it springs a leak? What if the pool drains around the containment structure in such a way that the hydrostatic pressure of its own lost coolant forces it out of the ground, like an empty swimming pool in a flood? Speaking of which, what about floods? Also their safety claims rely on vacuums and anoxic environments, but this is Earth so what happens during oxygen intrusion?

Fission people spent the entire 1990s hyping pebble bed reactors but ultimately they had these problems. The safety of a PBR lies in having an inert atmosphere. During an air or water intrusion event the whole this will burn, explode, and melt. Again, Earth is absolutely filthy with oxygen so this is a legitimate concern.
INT_MAX is from C and so not the best answer in C++, the ideal candidate would use std::numeric_limits<int>::max(), or choose C instead of C++ in the first place :)
No one offers free LTS (or, rather, what you call "free LTS" is very different from a real LTS service, which is always paid, and you might not be getting what you think you are). The "LTS release" you get for free are builds of OpenJDK Updates. Try to open an issue on, say, Nashorn against a "free" LTS 11 and see if it gets addressed. It won't be -- unless you actually pay for a real LTS -- because Nashorn has been removed from the mainline and there's nothing to backport. Same for CMS or any other package or component that's been removed.

If you're using one of those "free LTS" distributions you should know that you're using a JDK that's not fully maintained. The only JDK version that's fully maintained completely free is the current version. To be fully safe and run maintained software you can either use the current version for free or use an old version and pay someone for LTS.

Maintaining a JDK is a lot of work. There are a couple of hundred full-time developers working on OpenJDK tip and maintaining the current release; there are ~10 full-time engineers (probably less) from all companies combined maintaining both OpenJDK 8u and 11u. For real support for an old version you must pay.

(I work on OpenJDK at Oracle)
Sitting on billions of dollars in stock in a publicly traded company isn't really all that different from having a swimming pool full of gold coins. The day-to-day functioning of that company is not going to be affected if the billionaire sells shares to pay taxes rather than giving the shares to their children. An initial investment in a company is virtuous but once you have billions keeping that money in the family isn't really virtuous given that the alternative is contributing to the society that made the initial investment possible.
Please make your substantive points thoughtfully and avoid personal attacks.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Then why would an apartment require you to carry it and list them as the interested party? What would they care if it just protects you against drunk partners at your place that get injured?
Ooohhh sooo fancy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r58EkDtePxo
Yeah really can't behind this idea software engineers are in any way "working class". Kind of an affront in my book.
Watch: Half-Life Alyx running in an open source AR HMD (kinda sorta)
I wonder, with all the material refined from extracted base material (be it oil for plastic or ore for alloys) .. how much could we live by simply reusing discarded lots (old cars in the case of metals, similar for plastics)