skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, that's your view on the gender pay gap. I disagree, but set that aside for a moment.

We were talking about whether it's appropriate to discuss one's opinion on the pay gap -- among other things -- at work, despite its being political. Seems like you're saying it is appropriate? Like, if a woman who reported to you came to you asking for more money to reach parity with a male colleague, I guess you'd say, "I am a hiring manager etc etc and the emperor has no clothes, here's why you make less"? If you think that's OK, then we're in agreement on this point that this is an acceptable topic for work.

As someone who has managed people myself, I think it would be highly relevant to my business function to know where my fellow managers stand on this issue.
I e recently arrived at the conclusion that we need semantic interfaces (think semantic web). Where things are naturally cross referential and indexing is useful beyond clever search hacks. With so much of our day to day lives being digital it would be UI 2.0 to finally break this barrier. It struck me like a brick wall how I released that my interactions with the “machine” are incredibly isolated from one another and despite advances in Machine learning it still doesn’t build a great predictive index locally that I can leverage for finding or surfacing my own precious content or natural suggestions for whom I may want to share a certain piece of knowledge with and that’s just a small example I can think of quickly

Some of the tech mentioned in this Twitter thread is pretty neat too. Maybe I should take a second look at Pharo

It’s my dream to work in some kind of next level browser/app that would leverage this kind of thinking. One day I hope
There was a company called LightSail Energy [1] that tried to (unsuccessfully) commercialize this technology. Does anyone know what happened to it? Some searches online show that they had some founder problems. IIRC, they had great investors, but unfortunately it didn't work out.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightSail_Energy
Have a listen to https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2019/05/24/camelcamelca... or browse the transcript at https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2019... (27 page PDF)

Relevant bits - they continuously poll for new prices but they have a lot of products to request. They batch as best they can but there are request rate limits they have to respect also:

> [00:11:04] JM: Let’s talk about the core the process that you have to do. So in order to build these price models for CamelCamelCamel, there is a repeated usage of this Amazon advertising API that gives you some data on the price. Tell me how that scraping infrastructure works.

> [00:11:27] DG: Sure. So essentially what we do is build a queue of – Or multiple queues of products. We split up things in different ways by the Amazon country. Because, of course, we support all of Europe and North America. Well, Canada and the United States. So we split that up.

> We also prioritize based on user interest. Since we have a finite number of API requests, we have to try to make the most of those. So whether a product is being actively tracked by a user or not, it gets higher priority. Then we use Amazon SQS to create these queues and then we just pop things off the queues and make API requests.
The way the staging area interacts with other commands is completely nonsensical (example: stash and then unstash, and you'll find you've changed which parts of your diff were staged). The commands are horrendously inconsistent and non-orthogonal: git checkout does zillions of different things, git remote needs -v to do anything useful, using "-" to refer to the previous branch works for some commands but not others...
Topsoil will become exponentially more expensive. I do not think this is sustainable.
Tip:

On Amazon, if you put an item in your basket then "save it for later" you will get notifications every time the price of that item or its availability changes.
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/09/03/mozillas-manifest...
That’s what it does at its best. At its worst it’s a tool to allow oppressive governments to conceal the truth and further their grip on power.
Who are you? The history of MySQL and MariaDB authentication protocols (2017)
You're mistake was thinking that being college educated leads to critical thinking.

On the contrary, college and the University system in general is largely a credentialing and signaling system now.

Very often, the public education system in the US at least removed much of the critical thinking for thinking in narratives.
Say what you want about HP, but they have open source Linux drivers for all of their printers

https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing

Everything works perfectly.
That makes sense, and that's what I figured -- as I mentioned.

Thanks.

It would be nice if I could sort by price/prime availability, and get prices for Amazon Pantry items.

But I haven't contributed to this and it's provided as a free service, so that's not a complaint, just an observation/suggestion.

What the site does already is fabulous and I do appreciate it!
It is against the amazon shopping api terms of service to offer price comparison. So they haven't probably for that reason.
Kind of makes sense, printing is not exactly a killer feature for macOS anymore--more like a tolerated necessity of office users--and any improvements would likely be needed in the proprietary UI layer, not the underlying CUPS codebase.
Instead of searching, try pasting in a link from the official Amazon AU site and see if that works better for you?
It's only a matter of time until certain unpopular religious expressions begin to be censored outright.

For those who aren't concerned about censorship; it must be nice to think that your views will never be controversial.
Not too mention The 1619 Project.
Well, for one S230 has nothing to do with this. You could revoke S230 today and they would be still completely free to do this... you'd just make it much more likely that not-for-profit and smaller venues like HN which allow users to share links to the NY post article couldn't stay in operation.
I see you’ve never heard of the country of India among many many others.

What you are describing is machismo Americana, not men.
Well first off, is the email real? Even if it is real, do we know if Hunter Biden actually used "his influence"? What indications are there that Hunter Biden's supposed actions were critical to Shokin's firing anyway?

Several governments and other organizations were concerned because Shokin wasn't investigating Burisma properly, having laid the investigation he inherited from his predecessor dormant. The demand to fire him wasn't something that Joe Biden came up with himself out of the blue, and at the end of the day it was most likely to Burisma's detriment.

It's not an impeachable offense to threaten to withhold foreign aid for valid reasons that further the interests of the United States. It was (and should be) an impeachable offense to illegally withhold aid that was already meant to have been delivered, and to do so for personal gain.
The Onion is spot on, again. Cook is turning Apple into HP. So long, thanks for all the fish.
That’s the thing about pressure. A pressure vessel doesn’t care if it’s holding back enough gas to equal five cubic yards at 1 atmosphere, or 5 million cubic yards. It only cares that it’s at 3 bars or five.

You’re right, a vessel the size of a battery array is stupid. Because it’s all surface area and no volume, compared to a vessel the size of an aircraft, or a small stadium. You’d build one of these for an area of town, and the “size” that matters for stationary centralized equipment is not the displacement but the volume of material to make up the skin, the valves, the generator, and the piping to connect it all.
WTF using Fahrenheit in a scientific article??
OK, and where should we draw the line?

If LGBTQ benefits are an acceptable topic, is it acceptable to talk about same-sex marriage? Is it acceptable to advocate for pro-LGBTQ policies more broadly? If not, why not? It's all part of the same thing, no?

If H-1B visas are an acceptable topic, is it acceptable to advocate that our company should support the removal of a politician who is anti-immigrant? Again, it's all part of the same thing, no?

When I start thinking about it, a lot of these workplace issues are connected to broader issues...
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

If these platforms don't do anything then everyone talks about how misinformation is rampant on these platforms, how dangerous it is and that nothings being done about it. If they do, then everyone's worried about censorship or blamed to be politically motivated.

There could be simple legislation that defines what is and what isn't to be censored, then these platforms can adhere to that and check a compliance box and leave it at that.

Perhaps a better response would be, what do you think these platforms should do, really? Maybe we can crowdsource a good idea. And, while at it, also think how to thread the needle of keeping these platforms as less scammy etc. as possible, so that the people won't stop using the platforms.
For lack of economic need.

Exactly, and because of lack of economic need our experience with creating vaccines against coronaviruses is pretty minimal.

And yes, I agree that we'll get something, but people should be prepared for a few of the vaccines to fail, a few to be pretty mediocre (are they worth even getting) and a few that actually have some utility. The challenge is the ones in development are strung out along a pretty long timeline, so if we're lucky, one of the earliest ones works and we don't have to wait until late 2021 for something worthwhile.

And not only that, but people should expect something promising to be approved and then likely pulled off the market 6-9 months post-approval. It's just the nature of trying to accelerate a vaccine and then once approved, dosing tens of millions of people with it.
Just curious, but what constitutes evidence in this context?

And how do you deal with the other side of "unfair" behaviour, e.g. excessive flagging or downvoting for legitimate posts or comments. As far as I'm aware there isn't any evidence required to downvote or flag.
Sorry to say this but I have been seeing this 'rethinking of the Desktop' trend for a couple of years now. Every now and then someone comes up with a new 'concept', but I am yet to see a real product that is not just a reformulation with good looking UI, and whose functionalities cannot be achieved with good old Keyboard-driven workflows in GNU/Linux.
Yep, we use the integrated vault backend.

In our case, we use lets encrypt to get certificates for vault and then bootstrap a vault cluster with internal storage. Then you have vault and you can use terraform to configure a consul TLS backend.

And then there is a little hitch, because consul-template cannot easily create multiple files from a single vault API call, so you cannot use consul-template directly to create the necessary certificate files. We've written a small messy tool there. But once you have that, it's fairly straight forward to generate consul + nomad TLS certs for the trust and then you're set.
How (Not) to Build a Button
They definitely do worry about that. They have had close calls before and had to negotiate with amazon to keep things going.
The Mysterious Legend of Bourbaki: Le Mathématicien Reclus
Understanding how YouTube's algorithm works provides a more free and open web as it would be easier for anyone to use the algorithm to improve their views.

I really don't understand why people think this makes the web less free and open. Somebody voicing their opinion about a video to a third party doesnt block the video.
Both are important. Censoring something important without knowing whether it's true or not is pretty worrisome. If it does turn out to be true then it's much worse. If it turns out to be false, the censor got lucky or knows something we don't.

One thing I'm wondering is how can they censor it without getting either some evidence that it's fake or at least a clear denial? (Biden's campaign released a statement refuting it, but that's not the same as Biden himself publicly denying the claims.)

Thin evidence (someone found some damaging-looking emails) can be dismissed with thin counter-evidence (a denial). But it can't be dismissed with nothing.
Check the fork.

https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoron...
Let's Write a Brainfuck Compiler
I use a cheap pillow speaker connected into my iPhone dock

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m...
Multilingual Jekyll on GitHub Pages
So for example, you're saying that in workplaces where women are in the minority, they are better off in a place where they're not allowed to advocate for their own rights (inside and outside the workplace)?

Wouldn't they be better off in a workplace where they could, you know, ask for the things that they think would make them better off?
How about let me read what I want and mind your own business? What makes you think you're smarter than the average joe and in position to dictate anything to him at all?
A Samuel Adams quote posted by Naval today on twitter I’ve been thinking about:

> If you love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom — go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

Feeling hungry for change, what will our generation trade in exchange for our inheritance?
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I don’t think it’s this simple, because the “don’t do anything” case is actually “use engagement-maximizing algorithms to actively spread misinformation as fast as possible.”
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Nope. Evan Rachel Wood from behind on a cyberbike. Priceless! :)
German tech giant Software AG down after ransomware attack
I'm not sure if this is some attempt to sound cool and mysterious, but if so making vague comments that do not contribute to the discussion here is not the way to go about it.

Aside from the current Lowtax domestic abuse / being digitally tarred and feathered business, there were the Aaatrek and Shmorky incidents, that guy who shot a couple of people over pumpkin vandalism, and so on. Literally no one would be surprised if there was more weird stuff going on behind the scenes. If you have some information (and proof) you should just post it.
3TB of clips from exposed home security cameras posted online
Attempting to figure out how a hidden system works is a keystone of hacker culture.
Huh, didn't know about this. Can you please give me your source on this ? Should be a fun read.
They describe rc4 as secure, which it hasn't been considered for years, so I'm not sure how seriously to take this site
This looks really good! Since these don't plug into the ear canal, they won't muffle the ambient sounds right? I get scolded on the reg for not responding to (physical) calls when wearing my earphones.
Do you have any plans for something on men's fashion side too?
Getting rid of the algorithms that actively distribute certain types of misinformation as widely as possible would probably mostly solve the issue while maintaining the broadest definition of “free speech.”

But since that’s their entire business model, it’s unlikely to happen.
There’s healthy level of valid pain point you’re citing (custom terraform module, unnecessary long change cycles).

And still, LC/NC isn’t convincing here.
Deployment is one piece. Day 2 ops another.

Deployment: shouldn’t be over complex for devs.
K8s declarative design is actually supportive of this.
Any team which creates undue complexity here is incompetent or has wrong leadership in place.

Day 2 ops is another beast. You get errors, things break, unexpected happens. You can minimize that by architecting a healing, resilient sub-system. But never eliminate it entirely. Expert humans need to step in when it breaks. Not dumb users.

Need of ops team doesn’t go away. And if this team exists, LCNC is not a fit.

If you have to abstract something, do it darn good. If you can’t, don’t step in my way.
The part where a sloppily fabricated email was put onto a bogus laptop (probably by foreign intelligence agents), and then “coincidentally” made its way right back to Rudy Giuliani (who was at the time neck deep in the effort to extort a foreign leader into announcing a fake investigation into the same non-scandal, for which the President has already been impeached). Giuliani passed the emails via Steve Bannon (Trump’s former campaign manager and “Chief Strategist”, since indicted for mail fraud and money laundering) to a hack “journalist” (former Hannity producer) at the NY Post who did zero fact checking, because no credible journalist or news organization would ever touch such a flimsy story. Someone in the chain made a PDF of these fake emails a year ago but then sat on it, before releasing it in the last 3 weeks before an election, without releasing enough forensic evidence for any third party to do even the most basic check.

The computer repair guy’s story is just comically implausible. https://www.thedailybeast.com/man-who-reportedly-gave-hunter...

You want a real corruption scandal? How about the $10 million bribe paid to the Trump campaign by a state-owned Egyptian bank right before the 2016 election (and immediately after candidate Trump met privately with President Sisi). Which the DOJ never finished investigating because Trump-appointed officials instructed them not to. https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/14/politics/trump-campaign-donat...
This seems like really nice software.

It's a pity that Scratch seems to innovate at a very slow pace - Snap is far ahead of Scratch.

If you are interested in teaching kids to program I can highly recommend Construct 3 and also Code Combat.
Eh, I don't think it's going to have the impact you think it will.

The major criticism for S230 is that social media companies are rampant with fake news, and not doing enough to combat misinformation. If anything, it gives FB and Twitter a defense against an accusation of spreading political misinformation.
That’s an odd headline in the face of Twitter and Facebook censoring the sharing of a story from a major paper presenting evidence directly contradicting the denials by a presidential candidate about the graft his family was allegedly involved in. A presidential candidate that had dropped out of his last presidential bid when found to be lying about his history and plagiarizing [0].

Then rationalizing the move by casting doubt on the legality of how source material was obtained when it held to no such standard for the same candidate’s political opposition (i.e. stories on DT’s tax returns)

I like to think that people see the censorship as a scandal in its own right rather than nodding along with the gaslighting for political expediency.

[0] https://time.com/5636715/biden-1988-presidential-campaign/
If you oppose all human processes in which it is possible to make a mistake, then you oppose all human processes.
> What panel of certified physicians is YouTube using to identify what information is correct vs. incorrect?

The cheapest content moderators possible, of course. Outsourced through contract agencies in foreign countries to keep costs down. I doubt anybody with a medical degree would take the job. Here's an article about the life of YouTube, Facebook and Twitter content moderators in Manila:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/07/25/social-...

"At the end of a shift, my mind is so exhausted that I can’t even think,” said a Twitter moderator in Manila. He said he occasionally dreamed about being the victim of a suicide bombing or a car accident, his brain recycling images that he reviewed during his shift. “To do this job, you have to be a strong person and know yourself very well." The moderators worked for Facebook, Facebook-owned Instagram, Google-owned YouTube, Twitter and the Twitter-owned video-streaming platform Periscope, as well as other such apps, all through intermediaries such as Accenture and Cognizant.
Man flying in a jetpack has been spotted again in the skies over Los Angeles
> And, while at it, also think how to thread the needle of keeping these platforms as less scammy etc. as possible, so that the people won't stop using the platforms.

Why should anyone care about these platforms' engagement metrics? What about these platforms necessitates their survival?

The assumption that Youtube is an unalloyed good for the world is a very controversial one.
Have you seen brow.sh, for the text-mode browser?
No other major retailer has anything close to as many skus as amazon. And for any of the sites that do have a lot of products via 3rd party sellers, most of those products are much higher priced (they are probably being drop shipped from Amazon) and those prices don't change much.

So I think ccc would lose a lot of its usefulness.
I've wondered if it might be strategic, if there is any truth to it, to withhold proof and get the opposition busy denying it entirely... then present the proof and shoot their credibility completely and cause a bigger backlash.
So would WHO have recommended censor of videos in mid January from people claiming C19 could be spread human-to-human?

https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152?s=20
Some old games worth playing, in no particular order:

- Prince of Persia

- The Lost Vikings

- The Incredible Machine

- Commander Keen series

- Descent

- Magic carpet

- SimCity 2000

- Tyrian 2000

- Worms

- Lemmings
CCC is 12 years old so they must have had the same problems as you had.
Second this!

CloudFlare Access allows this, using the cloudflared daemon, which acts as a reverse proxy. It essentially means the endpoint can be closed off to incoming connections from the internet, and you don't need to maintain various firewall whitelist (and hope they don't go out of sync)

Is something like this on the roadmap for Boundary?
For reference, great comments in the thread last time he was spotted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24341535
pricegrabber.com ?
But I do price comparisons in my head, so am I breaking their terms just by being human?
> but less profitable

If we gave Facebook the choice of stopping stealing from people like this, or getting shut down, they'd do this in a second.

In a sane society, Facebook would have been shut down years ago, after the 2016 election.
> but recent developments like Brexit and the rise of identity politics

I'm glad you posted, since events have clarified recently.

It's generally agreed that Brexit is a good thing for Britain long-term, and that the migrant crisis is a disaster for the EU.
Youtube's content moderation team also has a terrible track record.

One of my favorite science channels, Cody's Lab, gets banned all the time because he has educational videos on making explosives. The guy is so family friendly he doesn't even swear in his videos.
40 Milliseconds of latency that just would not go away
People like them. They wouldn't survive if they didn't.
Idea try filter out those products that bump first their price and then drop it to get those gigantic percentage drops eg this https://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/product/B0816S8DM7?active=pri...