skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The best antidote for bad ideas and conspiracy theories is transparency and public debate.

I've been on the internet for decades. I fully disagree with this. EDIT: Mass bannings, aka an "Exodus Event", was the solution to almost all major conspiracies I've witnessed.

1. When GameFAQs LUEsers gained conspiracy theories against the website and other reckless behavior, to the point of harming the website, the solution was to cut off LUE and prevent the public from viewing that message board.

2. I never visited SomethingAwful, but clearly the toxic subset of that community was banned and eventually moved to 4chan.

3. 4Chan's prominence in the late 00s / early 10s was clearly toxic and always was. 4chan was just focused on hitting "safe" targets, such as harassing Scientology / Scientologists. As soon as 4chan's toxic behavior was unleashed to more mainstream ideas, it was clear that the toxicity had to be stopped, and 4chan moderators stepped up their game.

4. 8Chan was created in response to the Gamergate conspiracies, as was some legitimate sites like Resetera (though they took the less conspiracy-minded side).

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For the most part, the bannings on 4Chan worked. We don't see Gamergaters pushing their silly conspiracy theories today, or other vile attacks on people. Furthermore, the doxing / swatting mostly stopped on that subject.

> This move will serve to push these movements underground to Tor or other uncensorable networks where they're even harder to monitor.

Yes, that's called an exodus. But as various websites gain prominence, they discover again-and-again that with prominence comes responsibility.

When you have a group of doxers and swatters visiting your website, you start to punish that subgroup. That's just what must happen. Yeah, its a temporary fix (doxers / swatters will move elsewhere), but at a minimum, it sends the message that such behavior won't be tolerated.

> It also sends a message to them that they're on to something (because if the QAnon conspiracy was real, the "deep state" would indeed try to snuff it out).

Tell me: when a child is misbehaving and thinks "Adults are out to get me", do you go more lenient on them?

EDIT: Adults are just like children: you have to punish bad behavior and reward good behavior. That's just the basis of building a modern society.
>Here is why the statement feels dangerous, it doesn't make arguments directly related to the group and can easily be expanded to: "But there's some very, very, very wrong stuff that happens when [people of color, poor people, lacking education, etc] move in. It shouldn't be that way."

When poor people move in they don't have the resources to tell everyone else what to do and they don't tend to pick fights with whoever is there first. When rich people move in they get the government to cater to them and local laws change, often to the point where what was previously normal behavior (burning brush, discharging guns within city limits) is no longer even legal. They often pick fights with the local businesses ("I don't like how that second generation pig farm I knowingly bought property adjacent to smells" or they complain about the environmental impact of some third generation junkyard not because it's not folowing the law but because they find it unsighl). Furthermore they co-opt locals with their money. People who genuinely hate all the other changes they bring bury their heads in the sand because the newcomers are spending more money at their business (or whatever) until it finally negatively affects them personally.

I would much, much, much rather have poor people move in than the white collar crowd because the former has bigger problems than me and the people around me Doing It Wrong(TM).
I'd contend that getting licence to practice law or medicine is neither quick nor easy. Tech definitely has a lower barrier to entry and has plenty of positions that are far less tedious than equivalent (in terms of pay and status) careers in law and medicine.
> I guess there are tons of sites on wordpress with 1-2 pages (like company site), which are in fact static but written in php and may use outdated plugin or something.

Depressingly true :D

Text-based machine learning is an interesting one. There are a few mature tools and techniques out there for doing Latent semantic analysis, which might be a relatively low-overhead way to detect unrelated content (though some sites will produce a lot of false positives due to the nature of the sites) I guess the question is how much processing / storage you want to expend for each site in crawling it and building a model for it, so you can evaluate what has changed and whether it's in keeping with the rest of the site.

... and then of course in an election year, when people post an obligatory "go vote" message, suddenly everybody's site is triggering the hack alert. But I guess that's unavoidable whatever you do.

I'd be interested to find out what the top ten "hack types" are - I'd guess that directing people to adult sites using adult images probably isn't the most common, but would definitely be in that list, so I could see why that might be useful. That said, I think a big vector for that kind of content would be via advertising networks, which would probably blacklist an uptime monitoring site anyway.

Sounds like an interesting adventure though. Good luck with it!
Is it bird friendly?
You need to search for the filenames and direct links. I have an old comment here linking to a different archive that has the original direct links on the page with the serials.

(Adobe is certainly trying to make it hard to find, which I'm not surprised about.)
It's public lobbying. Public lobbying by companies is less common than lobbying aimed at legislators, but it does happen; see Lyft's recent Prop 22 messaging, for instance.
Yeah, I agree. I'm not an academic, but I could not find the data on which towns were surveyed in 5 minutes looking at the source paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01944363.2020.1...
Sheesh, some of the towns/areas listed are really expensive under normal conditions!
I don't know people who have done this but I know people that are impacted by people that have (e.g. small towns along the Hudson river being inundated by people fleeing NYC).
No? Can you provide examples? On a fundamental level, Node is effectively exactly the same as it was in the v4 days etc.

I also don't see how it could be possible to find the line between Node itself and frameworks ambiguous - unless the framework itself is invoking your JS files, in which case I would recommend moving to something lighter (i.e. something more designed for composition - where you call it, rather than it calling you)
I think it does matter whether true or made up. Otherwise, why not present it as a thought experiment?
You could say the thing about risk tolerance. Many, many more people gamble and play the lottery than start a business. Yet I think it'd be pretty hard to deny that the willing to take risks is almost always a pre-condition to outsized success.
Agree with the other comment, cite this overwhelming academic literature.
All I can say is, good luck.

I discourage everyone from doing a PhD, but it sounds like you've made your mind up.

Be very careful with your choice of advisor and department, and if it isn't working, be ready to walk away--sounds like you have a career to go back to.
Interesting article, I love this quote:

> If you ever want proof of Solzhenitsyn’s assertion that “the line separating good and evil passes… right through every human heart”, consider that one man is directly responsible for both UTF-8 and the Go programming language.
What tools do you use?
I think bongo cat needs a MIDI interpreter
Because if your conclusion relies on the actual result of the experiment then having it as a thought experiment only leaves you open to biases.
By using other information to narrow the pool of possible people.
Clicking around I got to their IT Compliance page
https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/business-ops/it-compliance...

The link to a BCP plan is 404
https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/business-ops/gitlab-busine...
Isn't VAT supposed to be a Value Added Tax? Shouldn't the driver's expenses be deducted?

Is personal labor service really subject to VAT? That's horrifically regressive, crippling the lowest paid laborers with VAT on top of income tax, instead of taxing the profit captured by the enterprise.
On Using MLIR for Verona
Well, it's a scientist in a different field. More importantly, it's by a scientists that doesn't engage with the technical arguments made by those actually in the field, so it's unclear what exactly the label "scientist" brings.

If a physicist criticises recommendations by epidemiologist without reference to the theory of how diseases spread, should you count that as disagreement from the consensus of how to fight infectious diseases?
I can't stop hitting the space key
And interestingly, Yarn 2 actually goes quite a long way off what a lot of Node users wanted from it originally (at least we have no interest in moving to it).

If you just use "yarn" as you'd think of it, you are probably still using Yarn 1, so I guess it's being thought of as a different parallel project
The most expensive display of status that I see around my friends is having a new car. I have a 12 year old beautiful BMW that was created just after the design refresh. It's expensive to maintain, but far not as much as buying a new car. My friends are trying to pressure me to upgrade it to a newer one, but I see that just as money going out of the window that goes to compound investment right now.

Also in the US I listen to Dave Ramsey callers, and there are lots of people whose car is worth more than their whole net worth, which is totally unjustifiable in my view.
While it doesn't mentioned mixed percentages, it does state the all-female teams in the very next sentence.
> At least the trash is in a know location, it doesn't spill everywhere.

Please do a little more research and thought before posting such things. There is no "trash can", it IS SPILLING EVERYWHERE. We even have a QAnon supporter most likely headed to Congress. People are dead because of these hate-filled groups. Shutting them down saves lives, not only in the US but throughout the world.

You can't just "leave these groups alone" because the last thing they will ever do is keep to themselves. Hate groups only want two things: to spread their hate and to get rid of the people they hate. To let them be is to support their agenda, and in doing so, people die.
Zur Theorie des Radiometers – von Edith Einstein (1922)
The way to see it is to realise that the eigenvalues are the roots of the characteristic polynomial (which is not hard to prove). But by the fundamental theorem of algebra, every complex polynomial has a root (it does actually have n roots, where nxn is the dimension of the matrix, but those roots can all be the same). This also shows why the theorem is, in general, false if you restrict yourself to real numbers.

(I also think that the counterexample exhibited "counts" in the way that it's intuitively very clear why it can't have a real eigenvector. The R^2 plane can be easily visualised, as opposed to C^2, and the matrix exhibited acts as a rotation of R^2, so of course there can't be an eigenvector. As you said, once you allow complex numbers, that's not true anymore, but at that point the visual intuition breaks down somewhat.)
I don't understand what's wrong with doing a job completely instead of giving up halfway through.
...except Telegram X, their alternative Android client.

> IMHO the only good argument against Telegram is that direct messages don't use end-to-end encryption by default.

I'd add two more:

1. End-to-end encryption being device-specific. Example: if you start a secret chat from your phone, you can't view it on your other devices. Other end-to-end encrypted solutions don't have this drawback.

2. End-to-end encryption being available only in one-to-one communications. Take this with a grain of salt, but I don't think it's available at all in group chats and channels.
> Lots of hard workers out there.

I disagree with this. Never underestimate how many people just don't show up or try at all.

Look at average screen time for Americans as a data point. It's a ridiculous 12 hours a day of media usage. Just think about that. People are basically staring at their phones/tvs for 12 out of the 16 waking hours.

As I get older I realize more often than not most successful people are not special, but simply were normally people that didn't screw up badly, showed up to work every day, and took better opportunities that were available. They graduated college with reasonable degrees, they didn't stay in bad jobs, or in dead-end cities. Eventually if you do that you will get a break, land at a successful company, get a big promotion, ect.
In what way is the comment misleading? While "Telegram" might refer to "the Telegram app" or "the Telegram service", when talking about open-source, it nearly always refers to the service. Of the two, the source of the central server is arguably much more important, since it's possible to at least track if the app tries to exfiltrate any data.
I know that the company I used to work for held on to a modest block for years after it went out of business. (IIRC it was a /20 of IPv4. It has since been recovered by RIPE.)
recently finished a master’s degree in security and intelligence in, and sponsored by, the European Union

I do care about where my taxes end up.
Hot desking for a day or two a week where 25% or more of that time is face to face meetings it wouldn't be a big deal to me. I get wanting "my space," but that would be my remote desk.

Hot desking as a day to day thing sounds awful and dehumanizing.
Wow, I'm surprised at the amount of sales-related software that is used.
minimum wage should be set at the state level, or even lower
Hewlett Foundation Reveals Top Ideas in Cyber Design Competition
This is part of a larger whole. At the same time as this, a competitor company is asserting that employees of WhiteHat Jr have been falsely posing as children taking its courses.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppx1BF54Ep0

* https://inc42.com/buzz/whitehat-jr-alleged-of-impersonating-...
So I see 1Password ordered first in the list and I wonder how many of the other services actually are having their credentials managed through it by a whole team, and not simply managed by individuals holding superpowers outside a 1Password vault.
> My main "issue" right now is if i should just leave it and let it be useful at the current level [...]. Or [...] making it more "application" like rather than just a small one-page hack.

Both, perhaps (ie. fork it)?
You're allowed to smoke in your own house, but you're not allowed to have large gatherings in your own house.
I'm not making any moral judgement. I'm just explaining where that money is coming from, and that it's not "free". Also, issuing a refund would still likely incur fees with the processor. They may dodge fees if they are within the window to void the transaction instead. Depends on their processor and contract.
Interesting DOS Programs
Of the three main types of micro/diy renewable energy solar is the least dependent on geographic features as you say. Wind requires high ground in a preferably high wind corridor (try using google maps drive around dodge city Kansas). Micro hydro requires a stream or spring with high head and a lot of flow.

I spent a lot of time researching land in my area to find either of these and they just don’t come available very often. Certain areas are well suited for one or the other obviously, Kansa for wind, Appalachia for micro hydro. But with solar you can put it any damn place.

A fourth way is burning agricultural waste or wood (net zero carbon emissions) to run a steam turbine to generate electricity. I don’t know if anyone really does this in practice. It takes quite a lot of fuel (and storing the fuel) to generate meaning full power continuously. Plus high pressure steam is dangerous.
I'm not sure I'd equate "low status" with "working on something silly or insignificant" (real or perceived). These things seem unrelated.

It's entirely possible to be low status and working on something incredibly important. E.g., driving a lorry to collect rubbish and recycling: nobody thinks of that as a high status job but imagine what happens if people stop doing it, and see if you can then still convince yourself that it's not an important job. It's also possible to do such a job for your entire working life and never taste "success". In fact, I would imagine that's possibly the default case. This in turn suggests that "low status" is an incredibly poor predictor of success.

Also, look at how rife poverty is across the globe. Poor people tend to be "low status", and many of them stay that way for their entire lives. Talking about their status as a "predictor of success" seems incredibly tone-deaf to me.

Overall this comment seems ridiculously ill thought out, to the point where I'm wondering how it's ended up here on the front page. To the person who wrote it: please, for your own benefit as much as anybody else's, step outside your bubble, because staying there is breaking your ability to think clearly.
And then drone on and on about the reason people aren't more successful is because they don't take more risks.
You should probably learn English regardless of what GMail does. Do not underestimate the value of speaking a common language.
AS pradn stated, there was as well "shopping turism" going to Chile. Actually I just did a cursory search, and there was something posted an hour ago [0] about this.

[0] https://www.infobae.com/economia/2020/10/23/compras-en-chile...
> Whatever happened to the concept of trying to keep politics and business separate?

Er, what lead you to believe that was a thing?! Who, precisely, did you think was paying all those Washington (and Brussels, and so on) lobbyists?
What's staggering to me is that with the new Voyager discoveries lately it feels like we're a bunch of stellar savages who just managed to release a buoy far enough into the ocean to feel the currents.

Let alone recognize another savage on a different continent who might be doing the same experiment.
That or you can become a mid-level manager...
Very true. But in response to the question, "Are there a significant number of folks who are leaving because of the current situation?" my personal experience is yes. (Not a study, just an anecdote, of course.)
Why you should adopt Extreme Programming?
They were just taking the opportunity to make their work more hype worthy. Typical marketing garbage.
That's a staggering amount of SaaS usage. Would be interested to see what the spend in total.
Thanks for catching that. I created a merge request to remove the .html extension from the URL. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/merge_request...

You can see the BCP here: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/business-ops/gitlab-busine...
And we both know you're lying.
Why surprised? Sales is what's driving those big $ enterprise contracts
Yes, so how is giving internet trash cans like QAnon huge amounts of exposure and thus free advertisement supposed to help?
She's also controversial (to say the least) for her smear campaign against Albert Camus, who didn't publicly endorse hers and her boyfriend Sartre's pro-Soviet politics.
FWIW Junior level jobs are by far the hardest jobs to get. They are the fewest openings, with the most applicants. And tech companies basically all use the same leetcode white boarding interviews that aren't representative of actually working. My unsolicited advice would be: Continue working on improving, apply to jobs where-ever you can, try to get experience somewhere (work with a professor, make your own startup, go on fiverr, anything).
Happy birthday mate! :) hope you will find success soon, whatever it may mean to you.
Title would be more accurate if it said something like "Gitlab: Business Operations - Tech Stack". I was confused for a moment why stuff like Rails and Vue.js weren't mentioned until I realized it's strictly about Business Operations.
"I believe it remains one of the seminal works in SF, and holds up pretty well today."

I enjoyed tremendously _A Deepness in the Sky_ and continue to find the ideas interesting and thought-provoking - especially the localizer networks, etc.

Based on that I read _Fire Upon the Deep_ and found it very enjoyable and interesting throughout, but then deeply disappointing at the end. I was expecting explanations and resolutions of the deep background events and actors that were shaping the story and none were given.
Maybe he means that frameworks like Express have become more modular over time, which might confuse people where that line between node and framework functionality is.
https://blog.coeo.com/a-cheat-sheet-for-isolation-levels-in-...
The standard technique is deciding which isolation level you want to use for your queries.
Total annihilation is possible for the first time ever if Trump remains. Seriously. That's why scientific American, NY times and many others for the first time in history took sides.
Clickbait for sure
Many things are simple if you can forego income.
Where would you put the recent work of Steven Wolfram? Crank?

PS. Undergrad Physics so that means I only have a vague understanding of anything post 1940s.
Have you tried webcomponents?
Hmm, I agree with your first observation. But that always just made me want to be one of the people who are successful but don’t work very hard.
What about just pure chance? To be born in to the right family, in the right country, to be in the correct field, to have the right idea at the right time. Perhaps the correct path is just luck.

We are all rolling the dice here. Just be yourself and do what you find interesting. If it pays off great, if it doesn't that is okay too.
> The best antidote for bad ideas and conspiracy theories is transparency and public debate.

This is only true when people participating in the debate operate in good faith and are able and willing to genuinely consider other ideas. Conspiracy theories often have more to do with faith than facts, there are no ideas to debate, so giving them room to breath becomes an opportunity for believers to proselytize. Traditionally, this has been somewhere between funny and annoying, but this is different.

> Flat earthers? 9/11 truthers? Who's next?

Well that's the thing, as far as I know, the big tech companies clamping down on QAnon haven't gone after flat earthers or 9/11 truthers because those believers haven't been connected to multiple violent crimes. Flat Earth "thought leaders" aren't telling believers that elected officials are cult members who kill children, urging them to action. So to your statement, "It's also not clear where this is supposed to end?" I'd say that the response to QAnon is a demonstration of the end -- it is the destination reached when one starts with more benign conspiracy theories.
Static versus Dynamic Web Sites
The sense of entitlement in statements like 'there first', 'previously normal behavior', 'co-opt locals', and 'bury their heads in the sand because the newcomers are spending' is palpable. Sorry that you assumed everything was always going to stay the way you happened to like it just because people didn't have other options, but not sorry.
As a (former) long-time GIMP hater, they actually fixed a lot of my biggest complaints with it a year or two ago. Definitely still far short of Photoshop in terms of a lot of features, but the UI doesn't make me want to stab myself anymore
Calling all developers fed up with images
Hi, I'm working on a site aimed at developers that aims to try and make working with images easier. I'm in the early testing phases and I'm looking for a few early testers. No hidden tricks or cost to you, I'm just looking for feedback
I've been using pdfstudio from Qoppa[1] for a while. It's been a good replacement for AcrobatPro for me.

1. https://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio/
PandaSQL allows you to do SQL on Pandas dataframes.[0]

[0] https://github.com/yhat/pandasql
The dark forest theory lives!