skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My growing sense is that this is less a straight-line progression and more a set of pendulum swings.

The pop music industry has seen at least three disruptions to its controlling gatekeepers since the 1950s (1956-60, ~2000 with Napster, and presently with Spotify and YouTube), but each time a dominant hegenomy re-emerges. I doubt this time will be different, though the brief renaissance will doubtless be appreciated.
Charles Perrow wrote of this in the mid-1980s:

After the critical period from about 1956 to 1960, when tastes were unfrozen, competition was intense, and demand soared, consolidation appeared. The number of firms stabilized at about forty. New corporate entries appeared, such as MGM and Warner Brothers, sensing, one supposes, the opportunity that vastly expanding sales indicated. Some independents grew large. The eight-firm concentration ratio also stabilized (though not yet the four-firm ratio). The market became sluggish, however, as the early stars died, were forced into retirement because of legal problems, or in the notable case of Elvis Presley, were drafted by an impinging environment. Near the end of this period the majors decided that the new sounds were not a fad and began to buy up the contracts of established artists and successfully picked and promoted new ones, notably The Beach Boys and Bob Dylan. A new generation (e.g., The Beatles) appeared from 1964 to 1969, and sales again soared.

But now the concentration ratios soared also. From 1962 to 1973, the four-firm ratio went from 25 to 51 percent; the eight-firm ratio from 46 to 81 percent, almost back to the pre-1955 levels. The number of different firms having hits declined from forty-six to only sixteen. Six of the eight giants were diversified conglomerates, some of which led in the earlier period; one was a new independent, the other a product of of mergers.

How did they do it? The major companies asserted “increasing central control over the creative process”[352] through deliberate creation and extensive promotion of new groups, long-range contracts for groups, and reduced autonomy for producers. In addition, legal and illegal promotion costs (drug payola to disc jockeys, for example) rose in the competitive race and now exceeded the resources of small independents. Finally, the majors “have also moved to regain a controlling position in record distribution by buying chains of retail stores.”[353] The diversity is still greater than it had been in the past, and may remain high, but it is ominous that the majors have all the segments covered. As an executive said, “Columbia Records will have a major entry into whatever new area is broached by the vagaries of public tastes.” But for a concentrated industry, the “vagaries of public tastes” are not economical; it is preferable to stabilize and consolidate them. This would be possible through further control over the creative process and marketing.

Charles Perrow, Complex organizations : a critical essay, 1972, 1985. pp. 186--187.

The dynamics, actors, and economics remind me strongly of the software / high-tech industry, though with much weaker coupling and different lock-in mechanics.
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FBCLID and UTM tags are their own kind of craziness. They shouldn't have been present in the first place.
So your Dad is moving from a working, type-safe advanced language he understood well to Javascript which he's learning at the same time? That sounds like a mistake tbh.
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I am dumb enough to understand this. Can someone tell me how money laundering is done in real estate?

Doesn’t the buyer have to deposit the money in a bank for the title company to transfer it? Or May be in cash transactions they don’t care as long as the buyer is ok with it. So the money is transferred outside the cpu Rey or through shell accounts and the asset changes hands?
U.S. States Face Biggest Cash Crisis Since the Great Depression
I just started watching the intro to linear algebra course this morning, so this is quite the coincidence! I'm really appreciating how visual the explanations are, I find it much easier to reason about these things geometrically.
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But if someone asked for a theme or period that wasn't pre-coded, it wouldn't work.
On itself it does not. In the context of thread where people claim exactly that and in the context of hacker news where that particular claim is frequent, it does.
Or the Great Bird of the Galaxy, about to break out.
Maybe that's just it? Meant to ruin the credibility of the party they pretend to be.
That just sounds like another formulation of the Surprise Exam paradox.[0] It falls down when you realise that “the four hundred and seventieth otherwise uninteresting number” is not a particularly interesting number, so there must be a problem with the problem statement.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexpected_hanging_paradox
see how I use layers here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZzxaNkQPCw&t=80
Came here to say this. If it's subject to DRM, you don't really own it. It's a limited license.

That said, as someone that has purchased a number of many-view licenses (clicked "buy") I feel that this distinction has always been clear. I didn't expect the money I spent to view something streamed from a server to afford the same kind of usage as a book that I bought in hard-copy 20 years ago. You're either renting for a [period of time] or purchasing unlimited views. I guess my cynicism in this regard paid off.

Changing options language to "Rent" vs. "Buy Unlimited Views" might make that more clear.
In that case, my proposal would be that hospital customers should be able to opt into a program that allows them to buy a thumb drive from the hospital that has their records in an encrypted file, with images exported into an open lossless standard such as PNG. What size thumb drive would most patients individual records fit onto?
Dragon's Lair was a big earner too, it used some different technology in the form of a laser disc player which made for stunning graphics at the time. What made it especially good at earning was it cost money to continue playing even if you didn't die.

I did some looking into DK and it was capable of charging 5 coins per play.
It definitely was a different time.

Here is a link to an operating manual, which includes schematics and parts list.

https://www.arcade-museum.com/manuals-videogames/D/dk-tkg4u....
Google for "what a gay day" and, if you are entertained by such stories, read all about Larry Grayson, the prime time game show host in my childhood and the most incredibly awesome man who slogged his way into showbiz through two decades of gruelling nearly empty houses in Yorkshire miners / working men's clubs where he, among other acts, put on full drag.

I don't believe that the present time is actually more open and safe for different folk. When I grew up nobody but nobody would dare to speak of anyone's sexuality let alone make a point of it and assaulting up a homosexual man would land you on hospital when the neighbours reacted in horror at the effective attack on the man's mother (I confess to typing on gay men living with their mothers but I didn't know one exception until moving to London in the late 80s. Mining towns in Yorkshire were probably the safest place to be gay ever. You wouldn't be "out" only because nobody's private lives were on display. The untold horror of the Thatcher breaking of the National Union of Miners is the fractures through communities unravelled the most intricate social support web and exposed the most vulnerable people to possibly the most heightened emotional communal period in post war England. The miner's union was also a huge contributor to the widows most likely to have their gay sons looking after them and the collapse in union finances forced many ill prepared and not still young gay men to seek better economic possibility. Sending ca 40 yr old highly protected parochial gay men who would do anything for their mums or the mere idea of their mothers, into late 80s cities in search of suitable work, was just the most terrible consequence.
> I would say the business person is way more important than suggested (caveat, I’m a VC investor with a business background)

Then please don't add an opinion when you admit your bias is literally towards self preservation., VC is a plague that twists and corrupts products and takes power away from founders. This is what business does, VC is just a more direct way to screw people over.

> A lot of time the business person on the team brings two things - 1) translates the tech into “business person speak” which is actually important for raising money AND getting customers excited and 2) they bring a completely different set of relationships that can help commercialize the product.

1) The fact that things need to be translated into "business person speak" should say all we need to know about how useless these business people are.
2) stop viewing everything through the lens of how to commercialize and commodify it. Capitalists trying to put a dollar sign on everything in the world is sickening, especially when per point 1, they have no idea what they are talking about and need things distilled for them to even do their "job".

> Also important are translating the business speak back to the startup - how do fund raising processes work? What do all these documents actually mean? Why do these terms in the contracts with customers matter?

this is a completely unnecessary step only needed because the business people had to be coddled in 1). The documents don't mean anything, the contracts will never be read by the customer, you know it and take full advantage.

> This all matters and a single person on the team playing that roll at an early stage can impact things. Just make sure it’s a business person with lots of relationships and experience doing similar things... “business” is general, so make sure it’s the right kind.

It's laughable you think that your "angel" investor savior complex makes you and other VC charlatans these God like people saving some startup when you really just rape them for equity, ownership, and the ideas.
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I am no expert, but it seems that keyword here is "motivation" and motivation can be tricky. Learning has two dimensions in my personal view. Desire to know and habit to learn. Desire to learn new things has emotional motivation and is complex system dependent on social validation or abstract pleasure. I am more in camp of abstract pleasure my self.
> SESTA-FOSTA caused Craigslist to close their personals sections

I would argue this was an explicitly political move. Craigslist is primarily funded by paid job ads... personal isn't a profit center for them. (So, it's unlikely to apply to a more general eyeball-need like Google/Facebook.) And they were using the threat of doing so as a reason SESTA-FOSTA should be blocked. "Missed connections" is both still alive, and heck, "general" has some very suggestive offers in it in my region. I hardly believe SESTA-FOSTA has murdered the ability to post personals online.

Which is to say, the shuttering of websites such as yours if this should come to pass is a self-fulfilling prophecy: You're threatening to do it because you don't want the law to change. That doesn't mean the risk of liability is unreasonable because you intend to follow through with that threat. It doesn't mean plenty of others aren't willing to operate websites with normal levels of liability found in... every other type of business.

As to your questions, Section 230 allows platforms to moderate content without facing any liability for the content that remains. The issue is that the decisionmaking they're allowed to employ here is completely unregulated and completely opaque... and tied very much to that revenue generation: Again, adult content sees a block because advertisers don't like it, and crazy political theories thrive because it pushes engagement.

We're not talking about "oh no, Facebook might be liable for one post they decided not to remove". We're talking about an entire decisionmaking regime that is built around their revenue. Why on earth shouldn't they be liable for that? If Facebook at any point reviewed QAnon posts, decided "nah, that doesn't violate our policies", and let them continue... again, we wouldn't be going after Facebook for the user-generated content, but Facebook's explicit decisions about how to handle that content. Where the intent comes into the scenario.

And yeah, that absolutely means we need to remove the liability shield. Because at least until we can dig into the case and order access to emails and records, seeing what posts are left up is all we have. And sure, I'd love to come at this another way too: Require the search, recommendation, and ranking algorithms of major tech platforms to be publicly shared and all moderation decisions subject to human appeal. Another avenue to that appeal though, is that people must be empowered to take a company to court over those moderation issues when their appeals internally are exhausted, which rolls back to removing liability protection.
That's a fine point, but I was just told someone DIDN'T speak for them.
Myki https://myki.com/ for Personal, it has no master password and has 2FA built-in

And Lastpass for Teams
That's true, but it's either vague ("don't be an ass") or it's primarily a thing to have to get the moderators on the same page, not something the community needs, isn't it?

In my opinion, if the rules include value judgements, they're superfluous as rules, because accuser, accused and judge can easily come to vastly different results. If you try to get beyond that and formalize it, you end up with books, and by that time you've transformed your community into a rule-book-writing community.
And if it's not remarkable, then that is in itself remarkable.
Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan about interesting and uninteresting numbers, Hardy remarked that the number 1729 of the taxicab he had ridden seemed "rather a dull one", and Ramanujan immediately answered that it is interesting, being the smallest number that is the sum of two cubes in two different ways.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox
Yes the problem is giving the impression of a formal process and all that entails (i.e. fairness). If you want an informal process then the code of conduct should be informal: "Be nice, don't be a jerk".
I've been an SRE in a company which is not a FAANG and I'm now an SRE at Google.

While there is more structure at Google, it's basically the same job :)

The implementation varies between companies, and I understand this is what these articles try to capture. My point is that as an individual contributor in an organization where "SRE" is really a thing, I believe that the role is often quite well defined.
"Enforcement action" is a strong word. Basically they were intentionally breaching the GDPR for years, got caught, and the only penalty is "don't do it again, or hide it better".
The ability to broadly revoke these rights without any cause is different here, though. I don't think you can equate the two in the same way for this reason. You needed to take action against an individual before for a reason in order to prevent them from using the thing they purchased. In the streaming / heavy DRM case, no cause is required and no recourse is provided to the individual. You're just out of luck.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep3tsI-MWIw
Er, the article isn't about e-sports, it's about the tabletop Scrabble tournament scene.
...but slack is async. Calls are for realtime. If their company tried to use slack to mean syncronous communication, that seems like the root problem.
An SRE with no authority to do anything is just an overpaid totally frustrated paperweight. They have to be able to change things on both sides of the 'fence' if they can only do one or the other or neither then their role is not an SRE no matter what sorts of titles you give them.

Any org I go into that says 'we want an SRE because google has one' I can not help myself I blurt out 'you are not google. what works for them will not work for you, you need to find your own way of doing this that fits your org. Trying to mimic google without the understanding of why they way they are will damage your org'
I read it as #1. Usually when they reference a quarter they mean the change is from the previous quarter.
Citing Wikipedia [1]

> The use of violence or of the threat of violence in the pursuit of political, religious, ideological or social objectives

One could argue these are all political. In the end, you can deduce anything to being political.

Or this definition by Alex P. Schmid from 1988:

> "Terrorism is an anxiety-inspiring method of repeated violent action, employed by (semi-)clandestine individual, group, or state actors, for idiosyncratic, criminal, or political reasons, whereby—in contrast to assassination—the direct targets of violence are not the main targets. The immediate human victims of violence are generally chosen randomly (targets of opportunity) or selectively (representative or symbolic targets) from a target population, and serve as message generators. Threat- and violence-based communication processes between terrorist (organization), (imperiled) victims, and main targets are used to manipulate the main target (audience(s), turning it into a target of terror, a target of demands, or a target of attention, depending on whether intimidation, coercion, or propaganda is primarily sought".

Source and more scholar definitions see [2].

For in-depth criteria I can recommend Alex P. Schmid's "Revised Academic Consensus Definition of Terrorism" from 2011 [3] as it is what scholars at Leiden University use.

Regarding the criterium is it always political, see #9:

> 9. While showing similarities with methods employed by organized crime as well as those found in war crimes, terrorist violence is predominantly political – usually in its motivation but nearly always in its societal repercussions;

(Its too large to quote all 12 criteria; again, please see [3] (no HTTPS))

Sometimes, the goal of ransomware is political, but its disguised as if goal is financial. This provides cover for e.g. a state actor.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definition_of_terrorism

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definition_of_terrorism#Schola...

[3] http://www.terrorismanalysts.com/pt/index.php/pot/article/vi...
I replaced an NVidia 1060 with a 5700XT and also feel it’s been a major improvement on Linux. Ubuntu mostly handles the NVidia driver installation and upgrades, but only mostly. Having the card supported in the kernel is excellent.

That, and Proton in Steam have made it possible to play some old favorite games as well as new titles with impressive performance.

I will say that real-time ray tracing has me at least considering one of those new cards...
I pushed my wedding back to 2021 already, at this point we're probably just going to cut our losses and invest in a house or something. The fact that so many Americans are willing to pick up a gun and lay down their life for this country, but wouldn't wear a simple mask for that very same country is shameful.
> That's a bug when trying to apply a coherent standard, but it's a feature when using the document as cover for arbitrary mob action.

I hate to break it to you, but bad actors will use any available tool they can to gain power and do harm. If there's no Code of Conduct, some bad actor will take advantage of the ambiguity to do things they know make other people uncomfortable, just because they can. If there's an overly broad Code of Conduct, or one which doesn't protect the rights of the "accused" (either in how it's written or how it's enforced), then other bad actors will take advantage of it to exert power.

That's why laws have to be written "defensively", like code exposed to the open internet. You have to try to anticipate exploits by bad actors ahead of time; and fix the ones you didn't spot as they're exploited.
I use a wrapper[1] for the CLI version of 1Password. I spend most of my day staring at terminal windows, and it is where I prefer to work, so a CLI password manager was the natural choice.

As for why I replaced pass(1) with it, I now have a team that I need to share passwords with, and 1Password offers a perfect user experience for everyone. I will probably move to a self-hosted solution at some point, but for now, 1Password is perfect — we do use the Enterprise edition though, so your experience may be different.

[1] https://git.sr.ht/~jamesponddotco/dotfiles/tree/master/.loca...
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It can be the role of SREs to build and provide the infrastructure improving the reliability of rollouts, allowing the rest of the company to build reliable products without compromising the velocity.
Private property requires that a private individual stake a claim to it. Private property is mutually exclusive of a state. The state [typically] is the primary violator of private property by enforcement of some shared mode.
Why do you think that it's important? Basically any kind of long term signal recording will turn up a multitude of patterns and signals with unclear source, some easier to explain than others. Seismometry has many of them, but this seems far too niche for any general textbook to care about.
From the googles:

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=4242839e-373c....

https://pastebin.com/GTfxANd4
Supposing your thesis to be true, the fact that you have to make that distinction only supports the claim I made. The foundation’s efforts are one key thing that distracts the movement from what I would assume to be the foundational goal of preserving black lives (specifically by seeing that they are no longer exposed to the direct, acute threats that tend to occur when interacting with police.)

It seems then we are not in disagreement over substantive matters, but over minor questions such as phrasing.
I don't think that fits here.
I spend on average 20k+ a year on media from the Apple iTunes Store, that number is dwarfed when I’m gaming.

Guess I’ll just start scraping the media for free via tunnels and VPNs.
One of the things I find useful is when the project includes a list of active contributors along with their general responsibilities. If the project is relatively small yet includes multiple "full time" moderators I know that it's not a project worth my time. At the extreme end I've come across projects where moderators outnumber active developers.
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When the bar are languages like F#, Haskell, Elm, Reason... How can JS be considered good? All languages have warts, but JS is a language full of them, ambiguity is the name of the game, mutating everything is encouraged and global mutable state is everywhere.
Very little has changed for JS outside of syntax, the core is still rotten.
It's a shame that Gerrit doesn't get more TLC. Now that GitHub is owned by Microsoft, it would be a good way for Google to combat the ongoing centralization of open source.

Fundamentally, the Gerrit changes model is superior than the pull-request model. I also really like how Gerrit stores all its information in git repos, comments, settings and everything else.

The issue is everything that surrounds it. Talking from somebody who maintains an instance for a customer. The UI has all sorts of UX problems and takes a while to get into. The notification system is super noisy by default, we had to build a system on top and it's still not as good as GitHub's (which is also bad in its own respect).